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PartyPooper Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-25-05 11:47 PM
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If you could, would you move to a foreign country? If so, where?
For me, I would move to the UK, Canada, Australia, or France.

I'm getting to be too old to move. But, if I was younger...I definitely would!

What about you?

:D

:hi:
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Longgrain Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-25-05 11:49 PM
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1. Not a foreign country...
But I have my eyes on Hawaii...
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PartyPooper Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-25-05 11:54 PM
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5. That's a great place to live. I was fortunate enough to have lived there
as a 16-year old dude / surfer. And, I've returned several times since. :-)

Actually, I was conceived at Pearl Harbor (after World War II).

Aloha!

:party:

:D

:hi:
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Longgrain Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-26-05 12:02 AM
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10. Cool!
I'm trying to write a book that takes place in Hawaii, yet I've never been there...:shrug:

I need to do a lot of research on that one...
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BelleCarolinaPeridot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-25-05 11:50 PM
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2. I would move back to Germany .
Lived there for 3 years .
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Huckebein the Raven Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-25-05 11:50 PM
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3. For me it would be
Edited on Fri Feb-25-05 11:50 PM by Dark_Leftist
1.) Our lovely neighbors to the north, Canada
2.) France
3.) UK
4.) New Zealand or Australia (maybe...I don't know while Howard is in power)
5.) Italy
6.) Spain
7.) somewhere in S.America like Argentina or Brazil
8.) Japan
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Lone Pawn Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-25-05 11:50 PM
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4. Going to China for the summer with $300.
I plan on finding employment and leaving with the exact same amount of money I set off with. If I survive then I'll probably move back for a year or two after I graduate.
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Jamastiene Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-25-05 11:57 PM
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6. California
I'm from the south so California has always been talked about like it is a foreign country and it looks like a great place to me. Haha. Sincerely, if I could afford it, I would.

Otherwise, England seems halfway okay or where is that place where drugs are legal? Is it Holland or Switzerland or where? Whichever one has legalized drugs. That is the one.
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mike_c Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-26-05 12:00 AM
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8. ya'll come out west, we'll keep the hot tub simmering for you....
Former Georgia boy here, now thoroughly left coast. The west is best.
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Jamastiene Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-26-05 12:11 AM
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14. Sounds sweet
I think I would like it there in California. I need to do research on the perfect spot. I already heard Modesto would be a little more on the conservative side for me. Is it?
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mike_c Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-26-05 12:13 AM
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15. do not go there....
Mendocino county or north/east.
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Jamastiene Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-26-05 12:34 AM
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22. What should I expect the average
rent prices to be? Just a general average.
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mike_c Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-26-05 01:00 AM
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27. I dunno-- I pay $750 a month, but I've got such a sweet deal...
...that I can't motivate myself to buy a house. Depends on what you want. I live in a great two bedroom house, built from virgin redwood in 1904, in a quiet little town about eight miles from the Pacific coast, way up behind the redwood curtain. You can find rents that are seriously good deals, and you can find outrageous rip offs, and everything in between.

Find yourself a Rand-MacNally atlas of the U.S. Flip back and forth between anywhere on the east coast and Northern California. You'll know whether it's right for you. I wouldn't live anywhere else, and I've lived in or visited much of the U.S.
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Merrick Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-26-05 01:38 AM
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30. I live in Long beach and pay $550 a month
its a studio, but near downtown and the ocean. its also an old building, but comparatively speaking, its a damn good deal.
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PartyPooper Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-26-05 12:00 AM
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9. LOL!
I am not the one to answer your question.

But, I'm sure there is a country somewhere for you!

:D

:hi:
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MrModerate Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-26-05 12:00 AM
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7. The problem with moving to another country . . .
Is that then you become subject to American foreign policy.

Think about it.
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BelleCarolinaPeridot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-26-05 12:38 AM
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24. Further elaborate .
Because what you said is so true .
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MrModerate Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-26-05 01:50 AM
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33. Just that Schimpanski thinks he has a free hand . . .
to do whatever he wants overseas. The "War on Terror" is a pretext for the most radical acts on any country he targets. Carpet bombing downtown Damascus? Well, they had it coming. Nukes over Tehran? Sure! Or, closer to my heart, is Romania feeling its oats and messing with business deals cut with American firms? Maybe we need a few aircraft carriers relocated to the Black Sea for a little demonstration of our will. Etc., etc.

In the US proper, the constraints on such activities are substantial. (I don't think he's going to nuke San Francisco, as much as he'd like to). Right now he has to round us up one by one as enemy combatants. No fun if you get fingered, but not the same thing as getting a Tomahawk in your back yard.
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Huckebein the Raven Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-26-05 12:46 AM
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26. you have a good point
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radwriter0555 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-26-05 10:01 AM
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57. No, we become FREED from ANY American policy. I'm moving to France
in June and will enjoy being able to say I left in protest of the bush/US deeds and policies.
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MrModerate Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-26-05 11:37 AM
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61. Unfortunately, the Bush foreign policy extends past the borders . . .
Of the US. Tomahawk missles don't give jack about national boundaries, and neither does Schimpanski.

My point was that now you'll be in the category of "furriner" -- or at least in a country of furriners -- about which Bush might think he has to "do something."

He might decide that France isn't "with us," and so must be "agin us."
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ladeuxiemevoiture Donating Member (668 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-26-05 12:07 AM
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11. Loaded question!
:D But I guess if we are talking about perfect conditions, like, I'll be able to work, and I can come back if I want, etc., then France or Canada.

I've never been to Egypt or Sri Lanka, but I've had friends from those countries (well, okay, I've had friends from many countries, but I'm thinking of people in particular), and I've always wondered if there is something about those societies which made my friends so likable. It would be fun to find out. Though I'm aware that they are probably more closed societies than I'm accustomed to, but again, we're talking perfect conditions.
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donheld Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-26-05 04:35 AM
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43. Well as long as your still here
Welcome to DU :hi:
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ladeuxiemevoiture Donating Member (668 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-26-05 12:55 PM
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66. Thanks!
:hi:
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Floogeldy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-26-05 12:07 AM
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12. Canada/Nova Scotia
I love barren, cold conditions. Don't know why.
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Allenberg Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-26-05 12:08 AM
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13. I wouldn't mind moving back to the United States.
:D
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FloridaPat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-26-05 12:25 AM
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16. Yes. Haven;t decided yet. Somewhere with a tropical climate.
I like Mexico and Dominican Republic so far. New Zealand and Australia would be nice too. France also.
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Dookus Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-26-05 12:26 AM
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17. Yeah
Edited on Sat Feb-26-05 12:26 AM by Dookus
been considering it a lot actually.

In order:

Netherlands
AustraliaCanada
New Zealand
Costa Rica
Mexico
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bobthedrummer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-26-05 12:28 AM
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18. I'm staying here, but I would like to visit China and Israel.
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Liberal In Texas Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-26-05 12:29 AM
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19. UK - especially London...the city and country of my wife.
In a second.

If I could figure out the money, jobs, etc.

It's mostly money, which brought her here in the first place.


Second choice:

Any place in the Caribbean.
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RagingInMiami Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-26-05 12:31 AM
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20. Italy
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Flaxbee Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-26-05 12:34 AM
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23. Italy or Finland
I looove Helsinki, it is a neat city. But too cold for about 6-7 months of the year. Perfection would be halftime in Helsinki and then the other half of the year in southern Italy. Wow.

Or, Costa Rica.
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SmileyBoy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-26-05 12:32 AM
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21. Yes. Either Canada, the UK, Australia or New Zealand.
Basically any place where they speak English.
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TahitiNut Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-26-05 12:44 AM
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25. Assuming it could be anywhere I wanted ... French Polynesia, of course.
Alternatively, the south of France, northwestern Italy, or Northern New Zealand. Wherever it'd be, I'd want scuba diving nearby.
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zann725 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-26-05 01:02 AM
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28. Canada, Holland, or Scotland/Wales
Preferably somewhere with Euro-dollars...SOON!
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enigmatic Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-26-05 01:09 AM
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29. I already did!
I moved to Canada in 2001 and it's the best move I've ever made; I'll never go back to the US..
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leftchick Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-26-05 09:43 AM
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56. I would love to move to Canada..
Tell me about your experience. How difficult. Did you need a lot of money. Where in Canada? etc. Thanks for the information. I Am SERIOUS!
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lenidog Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-26-05 01:44 AM
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31. I might spend some of my time elsewhere
I would never permanently move. In the end I am an American and not a Canadian, Irishman, Australian etc. I love being an American eventhough the place is fucked up and running to another country would be admitting defeat and missing out on a great fight.
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PittPoliSci Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-26-05 01:44 AM
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32. ireland
booming economy, plus lots of family there.
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Historic NY Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-26-05 02:29 AM
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36. Me too
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CornField Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-26-05 06:11 AM
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52. Another one
My great-grandmother hopped on a boat in Ireland and came here. I've forever felt a pull to return there.
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3lefts Donating Member (103 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-26-05 02:19 AM
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34. Wyoming
- Sal
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donheld Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-26-05 04:32 AM
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42. Though Wyoming is foreign, it is not a country
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3lefts Donating Member (103 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-26-05 04:45 AM
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46. Thanks Don, however...
It was just a goof. I was making a reference to Dog Day Afternoon.
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xmas74 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-26-05 02:27 AM
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35. I would just like to live in a blue state!
Forget about another country.
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Jamastiene Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-26-05 02:55 AM
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37. I hear ya
A blue state is what I posted as my answer.
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xmas74 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-26-05 03:33 AM
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38. I have had job opportunities, relatives to stay with
until housing was found, daycare set up, etc. Then I have to go in front of the judge (child custody). I have been in front of one three times now and all three times I have been turned down. Why? Because the sperm donor might want to have a relationship with his daughter sometime in the future (it hasn't happened yet).
Sometimes, I really hate Missouri!
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Jamastiene Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-26-05 04:17 AM
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39. It just kills me
how they give lousy fathers so many rights and ignore the real caregivers, which are usually the mothers. In the blue states they have it better it seems and some people don't get it why we may be quite so frustrated.
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xmas74 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-26-05 04:25 AM
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40. It makes you sick
most of the time to even think about it.
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Jamastiene Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-26-05 04:39 AM
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45. I hope our day
will come. Who knows what will happen? I sure wish I knew. I'd invest in the right companies and move to anywhere but here. I've heard the saying that such and such town is a nice place to be from, and I have to say, where I live is a nice place to be from, about 1000 miles from.
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xmas74 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-26-05 04:56 AM
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47. I have noticed that
no matter where I go, there will still be people that I disagree with. At least in a blue state, I can be around a majority of people who agree with me, for a change!
I don't know-I think that small town life gets me down sometimes. But the opportunities in the larger towns around here are no better.

Someday, I think that MO will change back. They are really angry with the new gov and many are now angry with pres. Once it changes, things will be much better for me.
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Jamastiene Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-26-05 05:09 AM
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49. NC
never changes unfortunately. I agree with you about the difference in having the majority on the same page with you. It makes sense. You could be the square peg in a 60/40 situation or the round peg in a 60/40 situation and it would be an entirely different ball game. Where I live it is like 90/10 and I'm the squarest peg of the 10%. Out of the 10%, who claim to be liberal, I'm it a lot of the time.
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xmas74 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-26-05 06:24 AM
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55. Right now, liberal
is a dirty word in my state. Remember,we are the home of Ashcroft.
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donheld Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-26-05 04:30 AM
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41. New Zealand is very tempting.
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Shredr Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-26-05 04:38 AM
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44. I've considered moving to the Netherlands or Denmark
Gay marriage is legal, plus the mainly liberal politics make it appealing. I also find both countries extremely beautiful and since I love traveling throughout Europe, either one would make a good home base.
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leftofthedial Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-26-05 05:09 AM
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48. Portugal
Netherlands
Czech Republic
Italy
Spain
Canada
New Zealand
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cornermouse Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-26-05 05:44 AM
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50. Somewhere with a tropical climate, I think.
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d_b Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-26-05 06:09 AM
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51. New England.
Currently in Alaska.
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Behind the Aegis Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-26-05 06:14 AM
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53. YES!
I would love to go to The Netherlands, The British Isles, Greece, or Spain! Oh...yeah...or Canada!
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NewHampshireDem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-26-05 06:21 AM
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54. NZ .... I have my Expression of Interest all filled out
But my wife put the brakes on it. :(
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jonnyblitz Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-26-05 10:04 AM
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58. amsterdam, netherlands nt
Edited on Sat Feb-26-05 10:05 AM by jonnyblitz
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MrModerate Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-26-05 11:40 AM
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64. Way cool. I spent a month there . . .
One week last year. Great art, great architecture, GREAT biking paths just out of town, and -- of course -- great cafes.

Not "eat cafes," the other kind.
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jonnyblitz Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-26-05 01:04 PM
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67. my sister used to live there. i spent about 2 months there
last year. :thumbsup:
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Spider Jerusalem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-26-05 10:04 AM
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59. Yes, I would.
Somewhere in Northern Europe...UK, Ireland, Netherlands, maybe Denmark or Germany.
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steve2470 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-26-05 10:09 AM
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60. Australia: a cross between the UK and the USA and more
liberal than here.
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Stop_the_War Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-26-05 11:39 AM
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62. My list:
Edited on Sat Feb-26-05 11:41 AM by Stop_the_War
Canada
France
Spain
Germany
Netherlands
Brazil
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terrya Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-26-05 11:40 AM
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63. For me, Canada is where the love is
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TyeDye75 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-26-05 11:44 AM
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65. If I wanted partial culture shock
I would move to a America (a blue state)...probably Mass or NY

If I wanted complete culture shock I would move to Tokyo .
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yellowdogintexas Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-26-05 05:17 PM
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68. I could enjoy living in Spain I think
or Mexico if it was coastal


would love to live in England for a while too..long enough to see all the cool stuff I have read about all my life.

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