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Re: Ask HN: Best Place to Live in 2050?

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post #6

Probably a scandinavian country, Sweden seems like a good bet with a decent social system and well maintained infrastructure.

I wouldn't bet on Sweden in 2050, they're heading for a demographic collapse.

What makes you think so? Their projections seem to disagree: https://www.scb.se/en/finding-statistics/statistics-by-subje...

Re: Ask HN: Best Place to Live in 2050?

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Any place that have good governance as for now should be a good place to start with. You would want low crime rate, good public service, good hospitals etc. Note that I sat good _public_ *** because money can practically buy all those but I doubt everyone on HN has the money as of year 2050.

If you are anticipating climate change and societal collapse the more reason to go for a strong central government (as well as a strong standing army). There is not a lot of choices out there.

Re: Ask HN: Best Place to Live in 2050?

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post #22

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Currywurst and Lindt chocolate

Not sure if that's a joke or reference i don't get but Currywurst is not Swiss (and honestly i haven't seen it here very often either) and Lindt is basically only the "cheap export stuff" you would be surprised how much better chocolate can get ;)

There is a Lindt factory in Zurich and there are plenty stands selling wurst and currywurst in Zurich

Re: Ask HN: Best Place to Live in 2050?

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Due to climate change, Germany will become Spain (and Spain will become north of Africa) by 2050. So, perhaps the north of Sweden would suit better.

> Due to climate change, Germany will become Spain (and Spain will become north of Africa) by 2050. Where do you people get that nonsense from?

I admit I was a bit sensationalistic. But I wouldn't call it "nonsense". Just check the way the average temperatures have changed in Southern and Northern Europe and you'll see that, indeed, they have increased. Of course, this doesn't mean anything in itself (I'm no scientist!) but hey, we are here talking about the year 2050... 100% of us have no clue of what the world will look like in that year; hence here we are, beting.

Re: Ask HN: Best Place to Live in 2050?

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post #17

As long as we are not talking WW3, Russia is hands down best place to be, it could easily stay cohesive with a lower standard of living, has been switching to internal supply chains for a decade now, has swaths of empty land and population not foreign to a concept of living off land, but most importantly it is under populated. Low population density - check Good defense - check Cultural and societal background necess…

Free hectare of land in the East - check

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_on_the_Far_Eastern_Hectare

Re: Ask HN: Best Place to Live in 2050?

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post #41

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I wouldn't bet on Sweden in 2050, they're heading for a demographic collapse.

What makes you think so? Their projections seem to disagree: https://www.scb.se/en/finding-statistics/statistics-by-subje...

Demographic collapse refers to population structure (number of people of each age), not total population. To take an exaggerated example to show the problem: imagine one 25 year old and 10 million 80 year olds. That society is obviously going to have huge problems. Most Western populations are trending that way (obviously much less exaggerated)
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