What other country would you consider?
May 18th 2009, 6:05 am
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Re: What other country would you consider?
Not sure what you mean by counter productive?As a nation i find France so diverse with mountains, great beaches,pleasant landscape,great regional diversity with regards to food, dialect etc.
Also a somewhat enhanced awareness of beauty and sensuality and on the other side quick to stand up and defend what is considered worth defending perhaps a throw back from the revolution?And how quirky can Paris at night be?Must admit for a bit of an edge(?) still love London.
Besides Portugal a country i have had a very long attatchment for(but the North)I too would place Germany high up as have some others on this site.
Just not sure which part as have always liked Hamburg(apart from weather)but all recent time has been in the South..(Tubingen,Stuttgart)
Outside of Europe CapeTown,South Africa,Malaysia,are two that stand out ,and a little lower down Laos and one place never been to but have looked at living in is Panama.
Also a somewhat enhanced awareness of beauty and sensuality and on the other side quick to stand up and defend what is considered worth defending perhaps a throw back from the revolution?And how quirky can Paris at night be?Must admit for a bit of an edge(?) still love London.
Besides Portugal a country i have had a very long attatchment for(but the North)I too would place Germany high up as have some others on this site.
Just not sure which part as have always liked Hamburg(apart from weather)but all recent time has been in the South..(Tubingen,Stuttgart)
Outside of Europe CapeTown,South Africa,Malaysia,are two that stand out ,and a little lower down Laos and one place never been to but have looked at living in is Panama.
May 18th 2009, 6:07 am
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Re: What other country would you consider?
The NDP is represented in State and local government. With just with one quick google here is an article re and I quote "Germanys MAIN Neo-Nazi Party"
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/new...cle6024672.ece
The number of right-wing crimes, which ranged from assault and arson to displaying banned symbols, rose 28 per cent in 2008 compared with the previous year, while a survey last month indicated that almost one in 20 boys aged 15 were members of a right-wing group. Earlier this week the interior ministry banned a neo-Nazi youth organisation, Heimattreue Deutsche Jugend - German Youth Faithful to the Homeland - which organised military-style camps to teach children racial ideology.
May 18th 2009, 6:09 am
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Re: What other country would you consider?
Sigh, yes some may be banned but that is not the argumment the fact of the matter is they exist and have support.
The NDP is represented in State and local government. With just with one quick google here is an article re and I quote "Germanys MAIN Neo-Nazi Party"
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/new...cle6024672.ece
The NDP is represented in State and local government. With just with one quick google here is an article re and I quote "Germanys MAIN Neo-Nazi Party"
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/new...cle6024672.ece
They exist everywhere. Even in Australia.
How does if affect your quality of life?
May 18th 2009, 8:41 am
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May 18th 2009, 12:04 pm
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Re: What other country would you consider?
I was thinking the same. I always wonder why somebody would want to live in my home country.
May 18th 2009, 12:09 pm
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Re: What other country would you consider?
Don't get me wrong, it is a stunning country and the rural beauty as well as its rural inhabitants are wonderful. However it is a country and culture entrenched in its bureaucracy beyond any other country I have had the pleasure of living in. They also have a very different outlook on employment. I studied history at uni on a 1 year gap period during my UK degree in France. Everyone in my class (all French of course) assumed I wanted to be a history teacher, as that was all that was open to them. My half-sister who has lived in France since she was 4 and considers herself French has a masters degree in psychology and recently decided she wanted to become a social worker. She cannot do this unless she studies another 3 years at uni in social working. That is an example of how stuffed their employment structure is and lends itself to many other issues, namely unemployment, for which France has always had an abnormally high level compared to the rest of Europe who have a more relaxed attitude towards careers. Don't get me started on their tendencies to strike!
A lot of French will fully agree also with this.
Education is of a high standard and is often very challenging and highly stressful for those involved.
But this reflects the standard of professionalism one comes across (in my experience) in France.
So many more broader educated people (not just in the narrow area of their expertise)but in cultural pursuits,the arts,music,politics and with an ability to discuss often with a lot of knowledge these subjects in great detail
Found Australia complete opposite with people placed into positions beyond their ability.Young just out of Uni placed into managerial positions and expected to learn on the job what they failed to learn during their studies and with a complete or near enough lack of emotional intelligence with a rather small world picture giving all the appearances of coming of the graduate mass assembly line.
This is often reflected in the standard of professionalism displayed among more experienced(older)with a pretty ordinary standard at best and inefficient or worse whom seldom appeared to have ever been challenged.
France does and has for ages suffered a high unemployment.Rates of payment are high but decline the longer one is jobless until one is left to live on the Minimun Revenue which is a fixed amount and difficult to get by on if in the big cities.
Hence one sees a quite large number of homeless on the streets and in the Metro.
The French show little interest in going down the Anglo Saxon path of lower wages with perhaps more jobs.
And Spain has a higher rate of unemployed but France is up there.
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May 18th 2009, 1:51 pm
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Re: What other country would you consider?
New Zealand for sure, reckon we'll end up there after a few years in Oz. I remember thinking how much it was Aussies that were whinge kings and not poms as they like to spout, most Kiwi's would agree, only downside to NZ is that it's a bit sedate for a young family IMO. Has the geographical diversity of Oz bit in the size of the UK ( this is obviously not to be taken literaly). Fantastic place just give me a few years!
May 18th 2009, 11:44 pm
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Re: What other country would you consider?
Oh - the best way to speak German is to demand things not ask nicely. I noted this when trying to order bread in a bakery. Speak German shyly or too meek they will look at you weirdly. Go in, bang your fist on the table and yell 'give me that bread' gets a response. It might seem rude in the UK but trust me, that's how Germans shop!
May 19th 2009, 1:07 am
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Re: What other country would you consider?
German isn't too hard to pick up. And it helps when you have to speak it. Then it helps break down barriers when you try to speak it - a German gives you a very funny look then blurts out 'I speak perfect English Ja Just tell me in English'.
Oh - the best way to speak German is to demand things not ask nicely. I noted this when trying to order bread in a bakery. Speak German shyly or too meek they will look at you weirdly. Go in, bang your fist on the table and yell 'give me that bread' gets a response. It might seem rude in the UK but trust me, that's how Germans shop!
Oh - the best way to speak German is to demand things not ask nicely. I noted this when trying to order bread in a bakery. Speak German shyly or too meek they will look at you weirdly. Go in, bang your fist on the table and yell 'give me that bread' gets a response. It might seem rude in the UK but trust me, that's how Germans shop!
May 19th 2009, 1:19 am
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Re: What other country would you consider?
German isn't too hard to pick up. And it helps when you have to speak it. Then it helps break down barriers when you try to speak it - a German gives you a very funny look then blurts out 'I speak perfect English Ja Just tell me in English'.
Oh - the best way to speak German is to demand things not ask nicely. I noted this when trying to order bread in a bakery. Speak German shyly or too meek they will look at you weirdly. Go in, bang your fist on the table and yell 'give me that bread' gets a response. It might seem rude in the UK but trust me, that's how Germans shop!
Oh - the best way to speak German is to demand things not ask nicely. I noted this when trying to order bread in a bakery. Speak German shyly or too meek they will look at you weirdly. Go in, bang your fist on the table and yell 'give me that bread' gets a response. It might seem rude in the UK but trust me, that's how Germans shop!
May 19th 2009, 1:56 am
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Re: What other country would you consider?
I think I might live in the Crown Casino. They have separate laws to the rest of Victoria so they are like another country.
May 19th 2009, 2:54 am
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