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 didn’t find this, thanks found the people to be very friendly and helpfu. I’ve also been to many European countries.

Scandinavia. I don't mind high taxes when you can see and experience the benefits. Also, I'm Scottish, the weather would be an improvement.

Just my observation @ValentineValentineV one occasion. The only Swiss person I know agrees they are a miserable bunch 😬

For all those saying Switzerland .While it is an absolutely beautiful country ,I would say it is more suited to the older generation.My son who is a German speaker has been studying there for the last four years and he absolutely hates it .Socialising when is arises costs an arm and a leg .Going out for a pizza and a beer will set you back Euro 100 . He is regularly alone at weekends as most of his colleagues head home for the weekend to their families .He has never been invited to stay with any of them despite us hosting couple of times .Very disheartening for a young and very friendly young man .He cannot to finish there this year.

I didn’t find the prices to be that high, I’ve seen lots of places where a pizza and beer would be about £30/£35.

I mean to be fair, people have also mentioned Italy a lot- and one even Hungary 😬

Respectfully, you’re wrong.

I don’t want to derail the thread by making it about the reasons people voted for Brexit, but it hasn’t made immigration worse and the UK received more people under the Dublin Agreement than we ever returned to Europe. I think people have this idea that we were batting people back to Europe left, right and centre. The figures are publically available; that just wasn’t the case.

The nice bits around Basel remind me of the nice green bits in SE England, only much much cleaner. Not much of a sales pitch for the under 40s, really: "Come to Switzerland, it's like the Chilterns but without all the litter".

Australia

Ireland.

Sweden or Switzerland.

I like snow.

I can’t bear the darkness of Sweden though.

Given RR is going to hammer you with tax, I’d say Dubai. Earn some money then come back home once a different government is in.

Switzerland

I wished I moved to the US at 25. I did it 10 years later. If I’d done it at 25 I’d be a citizen by now (not in the currently precarious position of expat!) I don’t know what the future holds but I really hope I can stay living here and I’m not driven out by visa issues.

Singapore

What do you like about it? Whereabouts?

By the age of 25, I had lived in Ireland, Scotland, Sweden, Hong Kong, USA and aged 28 moved to Australia for a couple of years before settling in England for 25 years. We might start travelling again soon. I love living in England, if I didn’t I’d move.

Everything really. My friends, DP, my coworkers, my apartment and living 2 minutes from Central Park, the fact it’s impossible to run out of things to do, the diversity of the country and that I can hop on a 2-hour domestic flight in the depths of winter and be on a beach in 30 degree weather, how positive and ‘can do’ most people are, the fact I’m earning double what I was earning in London for the same role, the ‘unlimited annual leave’ model of my workplace allowing me to take 8 weeks of paid leave per year. I could go on.

I would be devastated if I had to leave, but I have to accept it’s a possibility in these precarious times.

By 25 I’d already lived near Barcelona and loved it.

I would have liked to live in Paris or Amsterdam in my 20’s. I could have got a job in my industry in either place but ended up in Scotland instead! Had a good time there though.