USA vs Canada vs Australia vs New Zealand vs UK

SharpshooterTom

If you ever considered emigrating and you were forced to choose between one of these five countries to live in for the rest of your life, which would one you choose?

Whichever has the most prohibitive gun laws.

SharpshooterTom

Deleted User wrote: »

Whichever has the most prohibitive gun laws.

Canada has quite high gun ownership relative to the UK and Ireland. Australia and New Zealand have toughened up their gun laws over the past 30 years following massacres.

Dr. Bre

I thought this was a tables ladders and chairs match..

odyssey06

For me it would be just as important where in the country as which country... especially US and Canada given their size and diversity. It would come down to city, state or province.

Guy:Incognito

Am I rich or do I have to work?

Water John

Loved NZ. 2nd preference Canada. Quality of life and the people living there, enough opportunity to live.

Ardillaun

Biggest drawback with Canada is the weather.

Doylers

Ardillaun wrote: »

Biggest drawback with Canada is the weather.

How so? Summer this year was off to a slow start but in mid/late june itgot nice and hot, always 25+ hitting mid 30s a few times.

Winter wasnt that cold at all, no joke, I found London colder when I was home for chirstmas lol

Just depends on where you go, Toronto and Vancouver dont have it bad, Montreal gets bad winters so does London Ontatio becuase they are in the snowbelt south of Toronto.

Quality of housing is mega here though, massive + for me

SharpshooterTom

Ardillaun wrote: »

Biggest drawback with Canada is the weather.

They have hotter summers than both Ireland and the UK.

Vancouver's winters are no colder than here.

73bc61lyohr0mu

New Zealand is class. Lived there for 3 years. Plus you can drive a decent sized car without being fleeced..

rainybillwill

Australia weather is great
NZ is a lot like ireland but with crap houses everyone moves to Australia
Canada has crap weather cause of the winters
USA is dangerous

Potential-Monke

Canada. I would have originally picked the US, but having worked with 'Mericans for the last 2 years I've come to realise their employments laws and rights are terrible! Plus as a redhead I'd get on well in Canada (allegedly). The UK is too close to here, and it's the UK, so wouldn't go there. Everything in Australia wants to kill you, so that's out, and don't know enough about NZ to make a call on it.

Ficheall

Assuming I get to pick where in the country...
1. Canada
2. UK
3. NZ
4. US
5. Oz

SharpshooterTom

Potential-Monke wrote: »

The UK is too close to here, and it's the UK, so wouldn't go there.

What does that mean?

Mad_maxx

Ardillaun wrote: »

Biggest drawback with Canada is the weather.

Biggest drawback with new Zealand are new Zealanders

Mad_maxx

rainybillwill wrote: »

Australia weather is great
NZ is a lot like ireland but with crap houses everyone moves to Australia
Canada has crap weather cause of the winters
USA is dangerous

I lived in new Zealand back in the day, still a mystery to me how so many people view it as similar to Ireland

Potential-Monke

ThomasFlynn wrote: »

What does that mean?

With everything going on right now, re: Brexit. Why would anyone want to move there now?

Bet you were hoping for some anti-UK comment?

SharpshooterTom

Potential-Monke wrote: »

With everything going on right now, re: Brexit. Why would anyone want to move there now?

Bet you were hoping for some anti-UK comment?

No I wasn't hoping for one, there's pro and anti comments about all of the countries listed so far, that's the whole point of the thread, to discuss what you like and don't like.

whisky_galore

UK crap weather.
US Trumpites and clueless Irish Americans.
NZ nice scenery, otherwise kind of bland and unexciting.

Either Oz or Canada for me. Oz probably by a nose.

biko

Why is it only Western countries on the list?

odyssey06

biko wrote: »

Why is it only Western countries on the list?

I am guessing it is due to English language and they seem to be most popular emigration destinations from Ireland.

US - too many guns, prohibitively expensive healthcare, terrible employee rights.
UK - far too many xenophobic, little-Englander, Brexit-supporting cúnts, totally ignorant with regards to its own history.*
Aus - too much sun and too many creatures that can kill you!

So it would probably be either Canada or NZ for me, which just seem saner and more laid back than their bigger neighbours. At a push I'd choose Canada, just because it's closer to home. Wherever I went I would have to be at least reasonably close to a big city though, particularly for Canada as I wouldn't want to be out in the middle of nowhere, miles from civilisation.

*Although I would consider Scotland when (not if) it gains its independence.

biko

odyssey06 wrote: »

I am guessing it is due to English language and they seem to be most popular emigration destinations from Ireland.

Ah, yes this is true
https://www.cso.ie/multiquicktables/quickTables.aspx?id=pea18_2
Mad, I would have thought Dubai would be on there too.

For me, out of those - Australia.

Ferajacka

On a map of the world, is Australia on the the left hand side or the right hand side?
The answer to this will be a key factor to how I vote.

Woke Hogan

A million times Canada, followed by New Zealand. Americans, British people and Aussies tend not to be very bright in my personal experience and wear their hearts on their sleeves. Like in Dublin. Whereas Canadians and Kiwis tend to be slightly more intellectually curious and less prone to maudlin bursts of caterwauling.

Ficheall

Ficheall wrote: »

Assuming I get to pick where in the country...
1. Canada
2. UK
3. NZ
4. US
5. Oz

We are allowed go to Scotland, right?

Tony EH

I like a pint, so that rules out Canada. Fucking boring form what I've heard, despite the people being super nice.

The US is just too infuriating and if I went there, it would be New York and that costs money. A lot of it.

The UK (well England) is just bloody strange these days and it was strange enough when I lived there.

Oz, I just don't think I could live there, but most Aussies I've met have been fine.

So, maybe New Zealand?

SharpshooterTom

Tony EH wrote: »

The UK (well England) is just bloody strange these days and it was strange enough when I lived there.

What was strange about it?

Tangatagamadda Chaddabinga Bonga Bungo

ThomasFlynn wrote: »

If you ever considered emigrating and you were forced to choose between one of these five countries to live in for the rest of your life, which would one you choose?

Germany or Italy.

Gael23

Jif is still called Jif in Australia and NZ, that’s a winner for me.

ILoveYourVibes

Australia Or the USA.

greencap

snow
spiders
mentalists

UK


can always get a budget flight for some sunshine.

banie01

Why only Anglophone countries?
Would quite happily move to a non Anglophone country and have spent a few years previously living in one.

ILoveYourVibes

banie01 wrote: »

Why only Anglophone countries?
Would quite happily move to a non Anglophone country and have spent a few years previously living in one.

Canadais also francophone.

weemcd

New Zealand is the answer.

banie01

ILoveYourVibes wrote: »

Canadais also francophone.

Semantics really
But yep, part of it certainly is.

Mantis Toboggan

Florida would be my dream place to live.

emmabo25

New Zealand, beautiful scenery, and I love the accent!

Bobblehats

Ardillaun

ThomasFlynn wrote: »

They have hotter summers than both Ireland and the UK.

Vancouver's winters are no colder than here.

I’m talking about Canada beyond Vancouver and Southern Ontario, i.e. nearly all of it. In the rest of Canada we have serious winters. I spent one year in Vancouver and found the winter rain and cloudy skies highly demoralizing after Calgary’s sunshine.

Ardillaun

Mantis Toboggan wrote: »

Florida would be my dream place to live.

I need hills. Florida is too flat and swampy for my taste.

Mad_maxx

emmabo25 wrote: »

New Zealand, beautiful scenery, and I love the accent!

Are you deaf?

Easily New Zealand.

emmabo25

Mad_maxx wrote: »

Are you deaf?

We all have our quirks

poisonated

Probably U.S

Cookie_Monster

We made that decision 8 years ago, NZ was easily the best candidate overall and haven't looked back since.

janfebmar

A great choice, and thank God for ourselves and the British for developing those countries so well in centuries gone by, and laying the foundation stones and legal system etc, so we can have such places now for our emigrants of today.

arybvtcw0eolkf

Deleted User wrote: »

Whichever has the most prohibitive gun laws.

Switzerland has one of the worlds highest private gun ownership but one of the worlds lowest crime rates, they just don't have a culture of murdering masses of people for the craic.

Richard Hillman

Definitely not the USA. Too much crime and gangs.

No to Australia, too many things that can kill you.

Canada doesnt seem too bad but they seem to be on a similar warpath as Sweden and Germany to self destruction. Death by PC.

The UK is grim in most parts. There seems to be a handful of small towns in the south that seem reasonable. London isn't British anymore and the increasing levels of gangs makes the place sound quite scary outside of the tourist areas.

New Zealand seems like a southern hemisphere version of Ireland. I'll take them by default.

Doylers

For anyone living in NZ, how do you find coming back visiting ? In terms of costs and time?