Britain - They all want to emigrate.

[MikeH]

Oh, I don't know. I'd say the French won the 100 years war pretty handily.

He did say forces of the British Empire. 100 Years war ended about 150 years before anything you could call the British Empire was formed.

[Dinner]

Good Point. Though, in fairness, I'd contend that the Angevin Empire (for lack of a better name) either directly controlled or had vassalized virtually all parts of what would later be called Great Britain (and even the United Kingdom of Great Britain & Ireland).



I'll give you that some official vassals were damn disloyal though and even fought their official feudal lord (Scotland comes to mind).

[C0ckney]

I'll admit most of it is as a tourist or as an American soldier stationed in other countries though often for months on end and sometimes up to a year. Also, for travels in Latin America at least, I speak Spanish so it was not "Do you speak English?" at ever higher volumes.

As for fewer opportunities... It depends on your education and skill set but even in the worst of Britain there are many more opportunities then in most 3rd world countries. Especially if one is entrepreneurial in spirit as well developed capital markets and venture capital supplies form the basis of most of the economic superiority of the 1st world over the 3rd world.

fair enough dude. i just realised that i came across a bit touchy there, didn't mean to be

i did just write a very long answer to your question, but i think a proper explanation contains a little more personal information than i'm comfortable with sharing publicly, so i'll pm you later.

[bc1871]

Charles Ewart made his name in history by capturing the Eagle of the 45th Regiment during the charge of the Union Brigade at Waterloo. Ewart was no spring chicken. At the time of the battle he was 46 years old and had served in the army for 26 years. He was a superb horseman, immensely strong and powerful and a giant of a man. At a time when the average height of a soldier was about 5’6”/5’7”, Ewart stood 6’4”. He is described in one book as being “of Herculean strength and of consummate skill as a swordsman”.



Ewart slashed right and left at a dozen men guarding the Eagle. After an epic hand to hand struggle in which he killed three Frenchmen, he seized the Eagle and was ordered to take it to the rear by General Ponsonby. Rewarded with a commission for capturing the Eagle, he left the army in 1821 with a pension of £100 per annum. Died in Lancashire in 1846. The Eagle is still in possession of the Ewart’s Regiment and is displayed at Edinburgh Castle. Ewart’s tomb is located on the Esplanade in front of the Castle.

[BeBMan]

WHat's up with this no pic ****!!?!?!!??

[Dinner]

Rio is too dangerous for my liking, and the contrast in that issue might be too big for you coming from a first world country. The south is safer, more developed and has more of a european feel. In some ways similar to Uruguay and Argentina.

But then with over 12 million inhabitants, you should be able to get a good job in Rio

I have never traveled in South America, the closest was 2.5 months in Panama which, sadly, isn't even on the same continent, but I've spoken with many expat south Americans who moved to the US and with several Americans who moved to South America to experience what life was like there. Universally they have told me Chile, Argentina, and Uruguay are the most developed countries on the continent which feel the most 1st world though I have heard the extreme south of Brazil is economically almost up to the same standard and both culturally and ethnically the most European part of Brazil. The ethnic thing probably doesn't matter to most of us though the cultural part very well might help lessen the culture shock people feel when moving to a different country.

[Dinner]

I should probably clarify. In Spanish I can give directs and take direction, I can read a menu and know what it says, I can order my food, I can probably even read most manuals and understand what they say though I will no doubt translate it into English to understand it and then try to translate it back into Spanish. I cannot speak to fancy Spanish of the court and most Spanish speakers probably laugh at me for speaking as a child but I can make myself know. I took only three years of Spanish but I grew up on the US-Mexican border so I had lots of practice. My mother's family is part French and I took two years of French language study but I'm afraid I am hopeless at more then the most simple French. Never the less this makes me more language competent then 90% of Americans and I can say that I speak English at the highest university level even if I am, like most American English speakers of my age, some what dependent on spell checkers and other such devices.

[Heresson]

Canada > UK > Australia

Then I'll be moving there

I know about Durham, 1840, 1867... I don't like USA, I know both english and french, and I like Terrance and Philipp. I'm practically Canadian, right?

[C0ckney]

yeah i mean when i say i have learnt portuguese i don't mean i'm fluent. i can read and write fairly well (i've been translating short books from english to portuguese) and i could read a brasilian newspaper (although it would be more like the equivelent of the daily star than the finanical times ). i can hold a simple conversation but i think you can only get to a certain level until you are surrounded by a language and forced into speaking it all the time.

[notyoueither]

Then I'll be moving there

I know about Durham, 1840, 1867... I don't like USA, I know both english and french, and I like Terrance and Philipp. I'm practically Canadian, right?

You've got the frogs covered, but how do you feel about beaver?

[Provost Harrison]

* > Toronto, but Canada is more than Toronto.

Montreal > London; Canadian weather > English weather; NHL >>>>>>> anything UK plays

We also don't talk like pansies, sip tea, play cricket, and have Welsh people

Argentinians?

[Drake Tungsten]

You've got the frogs covered, but how do you feel about beaver?

That's irrelevant. Asher hates beavers and he's ten times the Canadian you are.

[Asher]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8670003.stm

'World's biggest' beaver dam discovered in Canadian park

An ecologist in Canada has located a huge beaver dam stretching 850m (2,788ft) using pictures filmed from outer space.
Jean Thie said he found the dam - the size of eight football pitches - using Google Earth and NASA satellite technology while researching the rate of melting permafrost in the country's far north in 2007.
Using past images and park aerial photography, he estimated that the beavers started building it in the 1970s.

[BeBMan]

Beaver Slavery

[C0ckney]

i once saw a film with a very similar title, although i can't remember it featuring much wildlife...