USA vs Canada vs Australia vs New Zealand vs UK

SharpshooterTom · 08-08-2019 07:09PM #1

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?

08-08-2019 07:11PM

Whichever has the most prohibitive gun laws.

SharpshooterTom · 08-08-2019 07:57PM

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 · 08-08-2019 07:58PM

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

odyssey06 · 08-08-2019 07:59PM

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 · 08-08-2019 08:00PM

Am I rich or do I have to work?

Water John · 08-08-2019 08:01PM

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

Ardillaun · 08-08-2019 08:04PM

Biggest drawback with Canada is the weather.

Doylers · 08-08-2019 08:07PM

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 · 08-08-2019 08:07PM

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 · 08-08-2019 08:09PM

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

rainybillwill · 08-08-2019 08:13PM

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 · 08-08-2019 08:16PM

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 · 08-08-2019 08:25PM

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

SharpshooterTom · 08-08-2019 08:26PM

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 · 08-08-2019 08:30PM

Ardillaun wrote: »

Biggest drawback with Canada is the weather.

Biggest drawback with new Zealand are new Zealanders

Mad_maxx · 08-08-2019 08:31PM

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 · 08-08-2019 08:45PM

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 · 08-08-2019 08:47PM

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 · 08-08-2019 09:38PM

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 · 08-08-2019 09:45PM

Why is it only Western countries on the list?

odyssey06 · 08-08-2019 09:51PM

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.

08-08-2019 10:11PM

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 · 08-08-2019 10:11PM

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 · 08-08-2019 10:30PM

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 · 08-08-2019 10:51PM

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 · 08-08-2019 10:58PM

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 · 08-08-2019 10:58PM

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 · 10-08-2019 04:41PM

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 · 10-08-2019 04:42PM

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 · 10-08-2019 09:58PM

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

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