American aspies, what country do you want to move to?

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Said in the title. Do you want to move to a different country?

Not really, but visit would be fun.

Either Jordan, Qatar, Kuwait, or the UAE....

I would like to move to another country I think, I don't know which one exactly though. Maybe a Nordic country or England?

Greece. Its hot all year long own there.

I've always dreamed of living in another country, even if it was just for a couple of years. It seems like it would be such an adventure.

My first choice is Sweden for multiple factors. I own a Pit Bull mix, I would be able take her with me. They also have an extremely high quality of life, they're stickler for rules, they have an introverted culture that revolves around socializing in bars, its pretty much heaven for people with outdoorsy hobbies, they like Americans (like... a lot), and I hear Swedish is one the easier languages to learn for English speakers (though it is a pain to practice because everyone wants to speak English with you). I also really like that other European countries are easily accessible, making vacations cheap and easy. If I didn't have my dog, I would also consider other countries like Norway, Denmark, or even Germany.

I've also thought about Canada, which is like a more progressive US. Vancouver has a very similar culture to my own, as we're both located in the Cascadia bioregion. I feel compared to other countries, Canada would much more easier to adapt to, but that also takes the fun out of it.

...With my present legal past , I can't even tourist-visit Austraila or Canada , apparently..." Less picky " countries may be open , and I guess?? that includes the entire European Unio-n...the UK/France/(for a friend I have there) Denmark , perhaps...........

Not an American but I hope to leave this country some day. Maybe go live somewhere in Europe or New Zealand.

Wherever there's really great skiing.

It would be a pleasure.

The pleasure would be mine. I hear your country is absolutely magnificent. NZ right?

Yes, this funny little country of several islands with about 6 million people. Interestingly, NZ was the last country in the entire world to be populated by humans - the first arrivals were feats of navigation by Polynesian explorers who settled here circa the 13th century AD and became the indigenous Maori population. European settlement began in the 19th century. New Zealand did a lot of things differently from the get-go, establishing a treaty between the first arrivals and the second wave as a constitutional document. It was adhered to imperfectly, though more successfully than any other country in the world (we learned from previous failures in other pioneer cultures) and so Maori retained their own culture and language and rights as treaty partners and have been given back most of the land that was wrongfully taken in the early days. Where I live is the biggest city and the most multicultural (20% Asian, about 30% Maori (I think) and the rest "Pakeha", which is the Maori word for white people, in relative harmony..

It's very different from Australia though in my various trips and travels to the USA there is a lot of confusion, some think that New Zealand and Australia are the same country! I was often asked in Texas if I lived in the Australian outback!

That is so cool. I had never known the history of NZ at all. I will have to learn more about it. I have a good friend whose daughter went to NZ a couple years ago as an exchange student. She LOVED it. I have seen pictures of the mountains and beaches and they are breathtaking. And of course one of my favorite movies of all time is Whale Rider. I think that little Keisha Castle Hughes and that movie put NZ on the map for a lot of us geographically and globally challenged people. It was an incredibly beautiful movie and she is a beautiful girl, young woman now.

I can see how parts of Texas would remind you of the Australian Outback. That is funny.

But it's amazing how people don't know about others. When I lived in Hawaii, I had kids in my class ask if we have sky scrapers on the Mainland. (That is what, in Hawaii, we call the US lower 48- the part of the US not including Alaska and Hawaii). As a kid I thought that was hilarious but I understood because on the Mainland some kids thought that everyone in Hawaii lives in a grass hut. I don't know if I ever saw anyone live in a grass hut the whole time I lived there.

I'm not american but I would like to move to either New Zealand, Canada or one of the southern states like Florida.