If you could live anywhere........

English is spoken in Canada. Canada has also crossed my mind. It's simply easier to get a business licence in Minnesota than in Canada. Plus, I can live out in the country, and grow my weed. And, I don't need any Government red tape to move there.

 

My cous got back from 'Whistler' in Canada and hes a photographer, i've just seen all his slides from there from the winter and some of them are awesome.

The landscapes and the clouds and light were phenomenal!

I also hear a lot of good things about Canada, good communities, low crime, and good tolerance of weed too I hear, sounds ok to me!

 

Anywhere but the US.

She is the worst case example of the West, and her prospects are very bleak. That nation will erupt into violence. She has far too many deep seated social problems, ranging from racism to socio-economic disparity. She lacks the camaraderie found in the Australian spirit, where wholesale looting in the US is a social norm in times of American natural disasters. The recent Florida hurricane a case in point. Many of the people were armed at their wreckage, fearful of looters stealing what little was left behind. I have also seen on the news where they've had highways packed with people fleeing and then there's roads leading in teaming with looters, this was the case with the Californian fires. What sort of nation is that! She is ripe to implode.

re the end of cheap oil and the peak*

The Americans and their obsessive demands to retain their consumerist society simply don't get the facts. They believe (too many of them do) that they can retain all their cars, their large houses, their rampacious material consumerism that effects their 4% of the world population consuming 25% of the global resources. Not to mention their erroneous belief paradigm that this can go on forever into some sort of "Buck Rogers future", by nothing less than silver bullet techo-fixes. Evidenced in their wanton desire to believe in hybrids, electric cars and the touted "hydrogen economy". All pure lies, plain and simple.

There will be no way that party can go on and what a party it is for them. As an Australian with a culturally cynical take on almost everything, I do not buy into the American charm and their Amway sales pitches. I call a spade a spade. Their American way of life is simply unsustainable. The suburbia, the city and all that goes with it can not run without the input of cheap oil.

It should also be obvious, certainly so to non-Americans, that the American people, a people spoiled on outrageous materialism, will not only reject the ominous warnings of oil peak, but they will throw themselves into a rage at any denial of their American way of life. Thus perish the thought that they'll entertain a "power down" to reduce the effects of their squandering of global resource usage. This is why they will sieze on the absurdity of a "hydrogen economy", because it means in essence that nothing, at a social and spiritual level, needs to change.

Put simply, they are culturally incapable of change to the vast level that is required. Yes, a cynical view of the American psyche perhaps, but I believe my appraisal is brutally honest. Thus her path is clear, a war for resources and given there's the building of a now evident petrochemical geopolitical power block, then war is the obvious conclusion. Such is evidenced with the war on Iraq as a means to keep OPEC under the petrodollar as the US feared they would break with US dominance and refinance to the Euro Dollar. This makes the whole globe in effect a very dangerous place to be, certainly so as we slide into the years 2010 to 2020. The US I firmly believe will do whatever it takes to retain her American way of life. It's simply insanity.

Now given one can not control such events and their fallout, then one must make shrewd decisions insofar as to the geographical hotspots of the world and in accordance be as far as possible from them.

I see Tasmania as the furthest one can get away as an Australian citizen, from the madness of the Northern Hemisphere.

I'm very fortunate to live in Australia, even in scope to the very serious continental drought problem, that will worsen as the decades advance. That pales to the American near 2900 million people that will swell by 45% or so by 2050. A land bordered to the Mexico third world, rolled up into a sociopathic consumerist culture, coupled with millions of guns and an angry people. Good luck to them, that's a horror house! I wouldn't hold much hope out in the US attempting to buy a rural block to see out the transition, she will suffer a prolific bandit culture. Rape, robbery and murder will be their transition. Too many people and very hard to find a place to be safe in that.

 

whoa!! some excellent points there man, very well put.


I hope people dont react too brutally to that cos you're just giving your point of view. I think you said you're piece very eliquently and you certainly have my upmost respect.

 

Or it could be the fact that American nation is quite insular in the sense that the vast majority of Americans have never been outside America and don't know fuck all of what goes on outside of America in world news. It's quiet funny because your average Arab in the middle east from "less developed" countries probably knows more about what's going on in the world. For a so called highly developed western country it's actually quiet backward when you think about it. You have the American government sending everyone into a state of fear so they'll stay in America and spend their money and not go outside the country. I have digital tv and have American news channels, I see the type of rubbish they get for news, all right-wing bullshit. Even right wing papers in Europe don't print as much obvious lies and bullshit as the American news channels "report" for want of a better word. American patriotism is extremely naieve and I think its a shame that America has gone to the shit and is now run by corporations and feels the need to start all these wars in the name of peace. It's a pity cos I think Americans in general are getting a bad name over it. The entire Arab world hates them because of Iraq, Afghanistan and their constant support of the Israelis in the killing of innocent palestinian women and children and Europeans are begining to dislike them more and more aswell. Hmmm went on a bit of a rant there........

 

if vermont was its own country i'd move there...alas i'd never live in the states, so i'd have to say new zealand.

 

lol thsi has almsot turned into 'the worlds view on america'

i concur with msotly all those points, as would most australians.

ahh well

i guess thats the definition of being conservative in the end isnt it? all the bulshit they ruined the world with in the 50's about communism has jsut tunred them into a neo-nazi country, with a friendly plastic petrol smeling overcoat.

despite how evil and immoral it would be, destroying america would be the best way to preserve our world. before they destroy it, AND themselves.

oh well i know plenty of really nice smart americans. theyre usually the ones who get out of the countr tho

 

If I could live anywhere my heart desires...


it would be none other than where I'm living right now...
nothing better than the carribean..
cheap drugs..great parties..by the beach..under the wonderful rays of the sun and the smashing waves of the sea...
couldn't get any better...
paradise..that's what it is...paradise...

Now if I had to choose what decade I would want to live in...
well in that case...

probably mid 70's..or 80's..

 

Anywhere without a monarchy. Royalty is the very symbol of stagnation and oppresion.

 

Never Never Land

 

the alps for the great snowbaording man what i would give to ride those mountians

 

probably on hawaii's north shore. like right on one of those houses that all the pro surfers live in, so i could roll outta bed grab the bong, get mad bombed, roll into my shorts and go out and surf, then roll back into the shack, grub, smoke, surf.... repeat for the next 30 years, until i die cause the damn coral there is soooo dangerous to surf.

 

somewhere around San Francisco

 

wherever, where my love would be

 

lol and what is the Bush administration and the American system in general??

 

Jamaica, on acres of my own beachfront property, in a mansion, with lots of pot.

 

Care to elaborate. Or are you going to stick with your empty assertions and baseless facts???

Pretty piss-poor argument IMO....sadly short of any real facts.

But then I can only shake my head at the US.....

 

i would love to live in either germany or amsterdam id want to live in amsterdam even if there werent the coffee shops. it just seems like a great city.

 

theres no place like home theres no place like home
ive been tryin but i think i need an air ticket or something to get out of this place