Do you like your country (in general)?

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Small is beautiful! I live in Denmark, - born and raised. Things could move a bit faster here. Our social system is not quite well these days, but all in all I like my country. The towns are small, and the sea and the forest can be reached within half an hour, even from the middle of Copenhagen, and most of it can be reached by bicycle. Thats great.

In general, yes, I love my country. It's the president I can't stand.

Yes. Thats one of the reasons I moved here. I love anywhere with enough space to think.

The land is fine.

The people..., no. Young and free, riiiight.

There is actually a lot of fun and amazing things in the states, but I'd prefer to travel abroad and find something different just to refresh myself a little bit.

Do I like the USA? Sometimes. Are there things I hate about it? Yep.

I lived in a 3 countries, 4 if you count a 4 to 5 months stint while I was preparing to what was supposed to be my last country move. Now I live in Canada, I do like it, but I'm moving again, like Jensen said "small is beautiful", so I'm planning to move to a house in the countryside, close to a village, but not in it. I want to be able to bike to do most things and have a more peaceful life overall.

What can you say about Finland?

+ No corruption.
+ The best school system in the world.
+ No natural disasters.
+ Politically stable, predictable.

– Suicidal mentality.
– Remote. All interesting places in the world are far away. (Not within driving distance anyway because the country is practically an island and you must take a boat to get somewhere else than Russia or northern Sweden.)

It seems to be 4-2, so I guess I can answer in the affirmative.

Its ok, I guess.
meh.

Living in a foreign country I realize that I should appreciate some of the good things that I took for granted when I lived in my country.

I love Scotland and It's a beautiful country, but it's just too damn cold. It's the middle of April and it's still freezing! Living next to the sea doesn't help either! I would love to move abroad and just come back and visit from time to time.

I'm fond of the Netherlands, but I should add that I don't really have anything I can compare it to, as I've only ever travelled abroad to Berlin (which is a lot like my native Amsterdam, only bigger and cleaner/better organized).

I dislike that politics in the Netherlands tends to be lackluster and painstakingly slow in making decisions, I also dislike that quirky and eccentric people are generally not appreciated that much, except in Amsterdam and some other places in the Randstad (usually cities with large concentrations of students).

I dislike the decadence that has strangely taken over in the last 20-15 years or so, and doesn't seem to have stopped following the financial crises, and the rift that seems to be growing between middle/upper class and working class. Not many people seem to be willing to share what little wealth they have with those who have it worse than they, even if it would be in the interest of economical healing.

I don't like the polemical rhetoric that has reared its head on the subject of multiculturalism, perhaps because it directly concerns me, being mixed race. I dislike that multiculturalism itself is sometimes treated as the problem in the public debate, and not has something that may have problems but is something positive in itself.

At this very moment, the mud is still good here in Holland, but I am thinking about eventually emigrating to parts unknown.