Where do you live, and would you recommend it?

[Wernazuma III]

Originally posted by El Awrence
Buenos Aires, Argentina. And yes, I'd recommend it to anyone foreign (for a holiday at least).

You're really desperately looking for $ at the moment over there, aren't you?


Anyway:

I live in Graz, Austria.

Pros: Not too big (~250000), but you get almost everything; Pretty good University; nice girls, or so I've been told by visitors; cultural activity is good, although the density of good programs obviously can't hold up with big cities; Graz is a city with lots of green areas; no natural disasters whatsoever, not even the floodings which raid throughout Europe

Cons: The minds of people are a bit provincial; they can be nitpicking or simply xenophobic, but this holds true for all Austria and is not really a threat; the weather in winter is controled by fog and "headache-weather"


Overall, I think it's a good place to dwell.

[Imran Siddiqui]

I live in Arkansas,

I can recommend not living there because Clinton came from there .

[Provost Harrison]

Hey, Clinton went to my university, in fact, the same college

[Imran Siddiqui]

No wonder you can't get a job .

[Provost Harrison]

He was just a Rhodes scholar for a year. Apparently he would never have got in otherwise Not got the brains Imran

[Dauphin]

I live in Kent, "The Garden of England" and to quote Dicken's Mr Jingles: "Kent, sir - everybody knows Kent - apples, cherries, hops and women"


Check out http://www.kenttourism.co.uk for more info.

[Provost Harrison]

And we all know about Trevor McDonald and 'The Kent Countryside'

[Asher]

Country: Canada
Recommended: No

City: Calgary
Recommended: Yes

Contradictory? Somewhat. Calgary is great, despite Canada's ****tiness in general.

[Pekka]

Finland.

If you like cold and dark, come here! Though summer is nice here, never gets dark.
Low crime.

You will find nothing to do here. Nothing. Very very expensive. No, you can't get a job in here, no one can. If you get it, they won't pay you.
If you get injured, you get treatment, free health care for everyone, so make sure you get injured at least once.
If you like people, don't come here, you won't be able to strike a conversation with anyone. If you're new to the place, forget it, you're a loner, no social skills here.

So I won't recommend this place for anyone. Execpt for artists, who want to feel that pain to be creative. They can go to Lappland, where it's -40C, dark, and 50 kilometers to next person, and likes to wrestle wolves. On the other hand many great books has been written in jail, so why bother.

[Provost Harrison]

Is Finland really that exciting?

[Datajack Franit]

Now I feel really positive about getting a degree and teach in a foreign country, thanks Pekka

[Buck Birdseed]

1) York. The only reason I can imagine anyone would want to live here (unless you're after a fair-sized town with low crime and relatively safe surroundings) is if you're after History. Few places are so horribly over-historical compared to current importance as York. Yes folks, it's been a celtic farm. It's been a roman fortress. Constantine the Great was crowned emperor here. It's been the viking capital of northern britain. It has the largest ****ing mediaeval cathedral in england. It was beseiged in the War of the Roses. It was an important city for many centuries. It even was a bloody railway centre. And a military base during WW2. And what is it today? Nothing but a faux-mediaeval romanticist set of city walls, boring nightlife and astouding amounts of ****ty high-street shopping. And one of the top universities in britain, ironically opened in 19-bloody-63 and not before, which is why I came here.

Oh, and the Merchant Adventurers Hall is nice.

2) Stockholm. Ahh! Venice of the North, Beauty on Water! Record-shopping capital of Europe! City of a million beautiful walks, of a thousand scenic vistas and a hundred islands. Compared to it's relatively small size it has one of the largest, most diverse and most cosmopolitan city centres in the world. I love you, Stockholm! I wanna go home!

[Dauphin]

Originally posted by Buck Birdseed
2) Stockholm. Ahh! Venice of the North,

Well Brugge, St Petersburg and Birmingham make that claim too.

[Datajack Franit]

I thought it was Amsterdam

[Buck Birdseed]

Stockholm is aikin to Venice in the sense of being surrounded by water, there are no canals anywhere. No, Stockholm really has it's own characteristic shape unlike any other city I've ever been to, with a big lake to the west, the sea to the east, and a very short "river" (of around 200 metres in length and more than that in width) joining the two, around a smallish island, which is the place where the city used to be (it's now the Old Town).