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Boojatta Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-30-10 08:44 PM
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Poll question: If you were to leave the USA forever, what country would be your preferred destination?
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Blue_Tires Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-30-10 10:46 PM
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1. downtown...you know; just like the song...
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rurallib Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-30-10 10:50 PM
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2. Shangri-La - yes, indeed.
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MiddleFingerMom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-30-10 10:57 PM
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3. The only sign of Tourette's Syndrome that I exhibit...
.
...is this: Though I haven't played the game for decades, out of nowhere I
will suddenly and enthusiastically cry, "Kamchatka to Irkutsk, ROLL TWO!!!"
.
Then I roll over and go to sleep... leaving my partner to spend a post-coital
sleepless night wondering what the hell that was all about.
.
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BlueJazz Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-30-10 11:00 PM
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4. In a more advanced country that has lower Health Costs...Like Mexico or Cuba
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mix Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-30-10 11:04 PM
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5. Morocco
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Kaleva Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-30-10 11:16 PM
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6. Croatia
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Tuesday Afternoon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-30-10 11:23 PM
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7. Valhalla or Elysium
Edited on Sat Jan-30-10 11:24 PM by Tuesday Afternoon
Valhalla


Elysium


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Boojatta Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-30-10 11:33 PM
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8. Elysium is mentioned in Beethoven's ninth symphony.
So I'll just consider that to be another vote for the Blue Danube. ;)
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Libertas1776 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-30-10 11:40 PM
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9. Spaceball City
So I could meet and have a chat with the venerble President Skroob. :)
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Deep13 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-31-10 01:38 AM
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10. This royal throne of kings, this sceptred isle,...
This earth of majesty, this seat of Mars,
This other Eden, demi-paradise,
This fortress built by Nature for herself
Against infection and the hand of war,
This happy breed of men, this little world,
This precious stone set in the silver sea,
Which serves it in the office of a wall
Or as a moat defensive to a house,
Against the envy of less happier lands,--
This blessed plot, this earth, this realm, this England.

Shakespeare, King Richard II
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JustABozoOnThisBus Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-31-10 09:49 AM
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11. Kafiristan, if I would be King (nt)
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femmocrat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-31-10 06:29 PM
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12. Canada -- for the health care. n/t
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pink-o Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-31-10 06:51 PM
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13. If I were to leave the USA with unlimited funds to live wherever I wanted, I assume you mean.
Easy answer: Rome, Italy.

LOVE it. Love it. Love it. Rick Steves is the object of my stomach-knotting jealousy, getting paid to hang out in Italy. I was just there again in October, 2009, and it never gets old. So I"ll hoist a glass of Soave, scarf another Gelato and cuddle up to Massimo, or Fabio, or Marco...
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GreenPartyVoter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-31-10 07:05 PM
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14. Ireland
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Sanity Claws Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-31-10 11:23 PM
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16. Atlantis
I like swimming
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krispos42 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-01-10 02:53 AM
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18. Try reading "Opening Atlantis" by Harry Turtledove
Alternative history novel. I just started it yesterday; part of a 3-book series. The English just discovered "Atlantis", a continent that consists of the eastern 3rd of the US and Canada that broke away from the rest of the North American continent several million years ago.

It's a three-book series. Should be interesting.
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jobycom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-01-10 02:20 AM
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17. Choice Six would be scary. something something Stephen something King....
Yeah, I want to live in a country inspired by Stephen King. :scared:
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krispos42 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-01-10 03:01 AM
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19. Bangalore, India.
I'd get a job teaching Indian call-center employees how to speak like an American.

Saw it in Tom Friedamen's film about globalization.


"I know it's spelled "B U T T E R" but it's pronounced 'budder', dammit! Now say it! Say it! Say it!"




They'd love me there. I can just feel it.
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Skittles Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-01-10 06:11 AM
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21. OMG, don't get me started
really, do not
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Skittles Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-01-10 06:10 AM
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20. England
spent time there as a child and it always feels like home to me
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