Dan, I don't mind everyone sharing how things used to be, but... If you had a choice, would you still live in Australia? Or is New Zealand, or Great Britain a place that offers a better quality of life? (If you move, can I have your three dogs? I promise to feed them well and take them out for a run in the park every day).
If I didn't have my kids (41 & 42 now) I'd have moved to NZ years ago. Not because it has a better quality of life, I doesn't, but because the country is so beautiful. And there is no fucking way known I would give up my two totally adorable dogs, Dash and Lochie. I'd rather die (I'm dead serious) than desert them. Only dead cunts, like my and your government, leave their best mates for dead.
On your recommendation, I will do my best to visit that region of South Island. I have been to only a few corners of this planet, some of which have great appeal. In trying to think of what draws me, they are all rather diverse in climate and environs. In each place, there's a certain sense of community, local color and warmth that bids me return as soon as I am able. In the best of these places you even feel at home on your very first visit. If we are not merely visitors but decide to make some other land our home, we would do well to consider the political climate as well. I have family in Mexico. They are aware of the violence and chaos in the northern states, but so far things are tranquil in their home far to the south. I honestly don't know if it would be wise for me to move there, even though they seem out of harm's way. If I didn't have to worry about that, I think I could find my place in some little Mexican town and contribute toward the betterment of what is already a good way of life. Many Americans would not adapt well to the simpler way of life imposed by lower income and some would be unwilling to learn Spanish. Those things are not issues for me. I hear good things about Costa Rica, but don't have family ties like I do with Mexico. Maybe after marriage to a local girl, adding in-laws and children, I would no longer be a stranger in a strange land.
I wanna move to europe because my mom's side of the family which is hispanic faces alot of hard times at the hands of americans
and I know this isn't all americans, but those groups on facebook, Press 1 for english, for spanish move back to your country Like really is pressing one button really going to ruin your day? talk about a way to make yourself look even lazier to the rest of the world
lilhippiechick, There are places where hispanics are honored as an essential part of the original fabric of American society. The USA is a big place, attitudes vary. I can't guarantee that you would be greeted with love in every corner of Europe. But it's a big place too... Saami reindeer herders roaming the snowy hills of Finland are not like olive farmers from the sunny hills of Andalusia, Greece is so different from Ireland...
There is no such thing as "free" anything. It's provided at the price of HORRENDOUS taxation rates. Drs and nurses, etc, don't work for free. They have to be paid SOMEHOW. The fact that you don't SEE how it's done doesn't change the fact that it IS done. A big chunk of it comes from $5 a gallon tax on gasoline. Which I wish WE had, because it'd straighten out a lot of problems, if the $ were spent wisely, like in sealing the border and making 20 million illegals, decendeants of illegals, and "amnesty beneficees" go back and fix their own probs (mostly caused by overpopulation, caused by STUPID religious beliefs.) Sterilze all the women of childbearing age, and continue to do so for 20 years, then let 10% (by lottery) have ONE kid, before being sterilized. In a few generations, you'd have no more people than your resources can support. It's a 30 minute, $200 thing these days. Sterilizing men gains you nothine, because 1 man can knock up 100 women. If it's a perceived problem, then do the vasectomies TOO. Another $300 each. No biggie.
I'm looking at Chile,Uruquay, Panama. There's no country that's as free with the right to defend yourself to the best of your abiity as the US, tho(ie, guns) However,I have invented something that may well change all that. Once I've made a pile of $ with it, I'll publish a book about how to make these silent, rapidfire, effective weapons yourself, cheaply, easily, with simple tools and readily available materials. It's the noise, expense of firearms that make it hard for the common man (most countries) to be able to effectively resist tyranny and criminals. If he could practice cheaply, without everyone KNOWING that he possessed the means to resist, that would change things a lot.