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US -> Australia here; left for personal reasons. I would probably still be in the US otherwise. I miss the memory of the US sometimes, and the people I left behind. Also New Haven pizza.
US -> Scotland here; will probably return to US for the pizza.
Athens Greece. I have stayed here, but the country has left.
I was born in Wales and live currently in England. These are two different countries of the four that form the UK. My personal impression is that within the UK these are not seen so much as different countries but more as different administrative areas within the one country, and from without the UK you'd generally be lucky to find someone who is aware that Wales is a country and the UK is not. Technically I should v…
Maybe it is better to say "I was born in Wales (GB-WLS) and live currently in England (GB-ENG). There are two different ISO 3166-2 subdivisions of the four that form the ISO 3166-1 entity GB."
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Nice country, I did the whole coast a few years ago.
I was only once there, as a tourist, but was attacked physically just because my car had a registration from one of Croatian neighboring countries.
The people who attacked you are morons, and unfortunately we have a share of those too. :(
I always have a hard time answering the question "Where are you from?" I was born in a country that doesn't give out citizenship (A middle eastern nation). My father, too, was born there. In fact, I need a visa to go visit my own birth country (where my parents still live). I inherited Indian citizenship through my father and his family (I've never lived there), and potentially British citizenship through my mother (…
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why?
I am from Brazil. Extremely violence ridden, I had guns pointed at me in more than once instance, and I witnessed firefights from my bedroom more than once too, in different cities (one firefight was even in a expensive "safe" neighbourhood, what happened is that a dumb guy tried to steal the car of a celebrity private security) Also, really bad environment to do business, we frequently get scored very low on "ease t…
Moved here because my wife is a Vermonter. I've lived in Vermont for almost two decades now and unless I really start disliking snow I'll probably stay here for the rest of my life. Not exactly a hotbed of technology though.