Ask HN: If you were 20 again, what country would you choose? • Hacker News Board

Re: Ask HN: If you were 20 again, what country would you choose?

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Post by hackerboos » Thu, Oct 09, 2014, 9:04 AM UTC

joeclark77 wrote: post #18

vithlani wrote: post #17

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Very succinctly put.

What I think is even more interesting is what's going to happen to Japan. They're reproducing even less than Europeans, but instead of being overrun by hostile immigrants, they're trying to create robots to replace the future generations that will never be born. That's going to be a weird place to visit in 50 years...

Japan will eventually be forced to accept immigration as it needs the tax revenue to pay for it's aging population.

Either that or put taxes through the roof.

Re: Ask HN: If you were 20 again, what country would you choose?

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Post by joeclark77 » Thu, Oct 09, 2014, 10:09 PM UTC

hackerboos wrote: post #28

joeclark77 wrote: post #9

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That's like boarding the Titanic when it's already sinking. Europe won't even exist in 50 years. The demographics are brutal and inevitable: young Europeans are not marrying, or marrying late, not having children, or having only one or two children, and having them late. They're rapidly being replaced by immigrants who have no interest in assimilating to the culture or adopting the language, but are having lots of ch…

> Europe won't even exist in 50 years. The demographics are brutal and inevitable: young Europeans are not marrying, or marrying late, not having children, or having only one or two children, and having them late. They're rapidly being replaced by immigrants who have no interest in assimilating to the culture or adopting the language, but are having lots of children. Hyperbole and xenophobia in one comment.

You cannot squeeze water from a stone. If Europeans will not have children or transmit their cultures to immigrants, Europe will cease to exist. No amount of politically correct wishful thinking is going to change that.

Re: Ask HN: If you were 20 again, what country would you choose?

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Post by hpenedones » Thu, Oct 16, 2014, 5:05 PM UTC

xtester wrote: post #11

hpenedones wrote: post #7

Switzerland definitely ranks very high in all your factors. It's one of the safest countries for investors, has a growing startup scene, has two of the top engineering schools in Europe/World (ETHZ, Zurich and EPFL, Lausanne), has the highest rate of Nobel prizes per capita, very solid educational and healthcare systems, amazing quality of life (Zurich, Geneva, etc, often rank as the top cities in the world), and las…

Agree, Switzerland seems definitely one of the top countries in the world which keeps itself intentionally under the radar. As Taleb put it, in addition to all the obvious benefits, Switzerland seems to be an antifragile country. In any case, as far as I know Switzerland makes it pretty hard for people to immigrate there. Do you happen to live there? What would you say would be the most effective way to immigrate the…

It's easy for members of the European Union as there are/were bi-lateral agreements. For other nationalities I think it's harder, as there are some quotas. You basically need to find a job first, but it's doable.