If you were 25 with a decent education, which country would you choose to live in ?

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Allowing for brexit of course

I agree, but chucking ‘chaos = the States’ in there was deadpan gold. 🤣

Same and same. No regrets, would do it again.

Failing that, either Toronto or Cape Town (not Canada or SA, those places, specifically).

My late teen DDs would both agree with you, and they are likely to have EU citizenship by the time they are 25.

Yeah, but mildly depressing dormitory towns (I worked in one last year) and a hellish commute over the border at rush hours. Might as well live in the British provinces and commute to London! If I was going to work in Switzerland I'd want to live there eventually. Possibly not too exciting for twentysomethings though.

I don't even think it's slightly higher than other EU countries, it's about average. It peaked in 1990 and since then it's gone down dramatically. Same with alcohol consumption, Finns are towards the bottom within the EU. Swiss people drink more for example, and obviously Irish and British people too.

Switzerland is boring. Orson Welles was right.

Poland. I wish I wasn't too old to move there.

Just came back to my thread...why was the first answer deleted, i didn't see anything wrong with it?

Germany maybe, albeit somewhere quirky like Berlin. My oldest has just been there and quite fancies the idea of moving there at some point, and I wouldn't discourage them.

Dc fancies Berlin or Denmark/Finland. Though not sure if they could work in these places since Brexit.

Finland has a very high suicide rate and many have problems with alcohol. The problem with alcohol means that it is only available in state-owned shops.

All of this about Italy still holds true. DS has moved there for work, and although he loves it in general, he hates anything which involves having to deal with a civil servant or government official. Nothing about the systems works at all, horrendously inefficient. Much worse than the U.K. Trains are good though, so long as they’re not on strike!

Italy.

We'd better hope that Starmer eventually caves and allows the youth mobility scheme- for all our kids.

This one, the UK, there’s no place like home

Ireland

The Netherlands

me too!

They would need a work visa so would need to be fluent in the language. Does that narrow down the choices?

I would be in the next flight to Dubai if I didn't have any DC.

Australia definitely leave here this country finished to busy helping everyone else except the British people

Only trouble is, you'd better be able to swim well.

Yes, it’s terribly dull. I wouldn’t last six months.

I moved to the UK when I was 25. I still think it was a good decision, and living in London for a decade was great, though I left the UK again after Brexit. I’ve also lived in France, the US, Ireland and the UAE.

I was going to say Australia or New Zealand, as probably the most likely of the english speaking democracies to ride out the global shit show of autocrats with expansionist aims, but I think I'd go for a small polynesian island instead, which hopefully no one at all would want to invade.

Australia