If I'm honest I'd have to say Mexico, but it's like people that still love an abusive parent - you can't justify it on rational grounds at all. Moving there this year or early next year (wouldn't do it if I had children).
Funny, Japan would actually be probably the last developed country I would live in - hierarchical, obsessed with protocol, live to work, and have a non-alphabetic language. Nice food, though.
Maybe Chile - nice grapes, nice accent, good wine, relatively developed.
In Europe, it would be Scotland - friendly people, I love the accent, great scenery.
I think it's very hard to give an opinion without having lived there first - maybe if I lived in, say, Luxembourg or Paraguay or Svizzera Italiana or Algeria I would fall in love with the place, maybe I'd loathe it from the word go - I have no idea.
EnglishLulu wrote:
I also quite like the idea of living in Morocco or somewhere in North Africa, somewhere Arabic speaking, with Moorish/Islamic architecture and stuff. I quite like the idea of living in a riad/riyad one of those old houses with a central courtyard and lots of pretty tiles and ornate plasterwork and woodwork. I don't know how practical that would be, though, because I don't know what I would do for work in a country like that.
I totally agree, plus I like the (no doubt hugely Westernised) North African food I've tried, and I've met very nice North Africans, but yeah, the job would be a problem, and I haven't visited the place, much less have any idea of what living there would be like. As neither a Muslim nor a European expat, I suspect it would be very isolating.
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07 Mar 2009, 7:24 am
