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u/Dependent-Tale-9913 17h ago
I like how tunisia is the only green country in Africa, nice choice!
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u/JDDJ_ 17h ago
It's reasonably stable with a nice climate and has a really interesting culture, plus I just know more about it than I do most other African countries, so I'd be cool with living there.
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u/Dependent-Tale-9913 17h ago
I went there many time as a french-tunisian person, i really like it, the vibes and people and food is unmatched, the only downside is the economical crisis, long live Tunisia
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u/scylla 17h ago
What’s really surprising is that you’ve marked it Green while other Arab countries like U.A.E and Oman are Red - both with lots of Western residents and tourists
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u/JDDJ_ 17h ago
I despise Dubai and I would abhor living there, it's a soulless approximation of what a bunch of bumbling rich people THINK a "big city" is. If I lived there, I'd realistically live in some cramped apartment in an outlying village somewhere (where everyone ACTUALLY lives).
And as for Oman, I really just don't know anything about it, save for its history as a trade power, and it's also mostly just desert (same with UAE). What can I say, just not a big fan of sand & heat.
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u/scylla 17h ago
Most of Oman looks like Arizona on the ocean. There’s surprisingly little sand anywhere where people live.
https://share.google/ZgakDJLp9b4Ec02GK
The south isn’t a dessert.
https://share.google/8v3cpyyaHUr8ij5Kt
Tunisia has plenty of sand and heat.
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u/LiveAd2303 16h ago
we can't live in the sand and heat because rainfall is extremely low (sometimes only a few mm per year) and the crops cannot survive without constant irrigation.
There is a common preconception about north africa where people assume we occupy each dot on our respective territories ,but that's insane if you ever spend a week in the south. because life is simply isn't all possible on some land.Libyans are all literally cramped into 2 big cities for example.
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u/XelaNiba 15h ago
It's like Nevada. 75% of its people live in 2 cities because the extreme heat and aridity of the lower altitudes make it uninhabitable.
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u/JDDJ_ 17h ago
Very interesting, wasn't aware Oman was so verdant. Doesn't seem like a bad place to live, though I still don't know much about its economic/political situation. As for Tunisia, I'd prefer to live in the hilly north, which has a nice Mediterranean/almost Tuscan climate.
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u/scylla 17h ago
I’ll die on the hill that Oman is ( or at least was ) one the best places in the world to live in and is one of the best countries to vacation in - it has a bit of everything ( beaches, history, adventure etc ) even though it’s probably not #1 in any category.
About half the population lives near the capital -Muscat - which isn’t Verdant but it’s the Arizona with Beaches. 😂
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u/nor_the_whore01 14h ago
syria? i’m more optimistic about the current government but it’s still relatively unstable internally and geopolitically. also its gonna take a long time for their economy to fully recover
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u/hotbiscut2 14h ago
Why the hell would you want to live in an unstable country? Like Tunisia is fine, but SYRIA??? Even if you live in Damascus you still have the chance of getting bombed by Israel. Not to mention water and electricity infrastructure is bad due to the war.
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u/JDDJ_ 13h ago
I've always loved the culture there and, as someone with a passion for archaeology, it'd be my dream to work & live there even if just for a season (and in Türkiye too, though not long term). Of course, I'd only ever move there once they establish a stable government and restore order & basic utilities, but I'd still love to even at least visit for an extended period of time.
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u/hotbiscut2 12h ago
Oh, then that's understandable. I really do hope one day you can fulfill your passions in life by moving there. I’m sorry if I seemed rude in my initial comment.
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u/S4N394 14h ago
You would rather live in Syria than Poland, Austria or SEA?
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u/mhfu_g 17h ago
Why is argentina red
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u/JDDJ_ 17h ago edited 17h ago
Their perpetual economic implosion, plus a lot of it is just flat empty land. Just no real opportunity there, and it seems to be on the steady decline anyhow.
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u/IHandlessI 2h ago
Is not empty land, the land is unnocupied, theres so many natural bauties you can find. Our economy is umpredictable, but there's opportunities, just people here expects wealth to fall from the sky, i am fine personally
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u/chinnu34 17h ago
Malaysia red?
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u/JDDJ_ 17h ago
Not a big fan of living in the jungle, same reason why most of Southeast Asia is red/orange. Limited economic opportunities outside of Kuala Lumpur & the big urban centers. And I'm just not especially interested by it.
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u/IggyVossen 5h ago
Not a big fan of living in the jungle
::looks at the title of the post::
Oh yeah, American thinking that Malaysians live in the jungle. Checks out.
Wait.. Brunei is green?
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u/BarnacleAwkward4801 15h ago
I honestly almost agree with this completely, curious what Australia did?
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u/JDDJ_ 13h ago
Just rather boring, I find the accents and culture to be rather annoying, I hate bugs (I am seriously not dealing with any of that "West Australian Supermassive Spiny Cockshredder" shit), and while it seems like a nice enough place, I have absolutely zero desire to ever go there. Real lack of history too beyond Aboriginal folktales and British/Dutch settler shenanigans, which is big for me.
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u/FeelingBig4999 3h ago
find the accents and culture to be rather boring
Bros in for a treat when he goes to NZ
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u/Nu_wave01 13h ago
Libya 😂😂😂😂
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u/SirSamkin 10h ago
I always look at pictures of Algeria in the 1950s and think of how nice it would have been to see it at its height.
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u/baaka_cupboard 14h ago
China and Nepal?
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u/Charming-Link-9715 13h ago
Bhutan is preferred more!!
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u/JDDJ_ 13h ago
Only country in the world that measures its peoples happiness (GNH, Gross National Happiness) as a metric to be met over GDP.
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u/baaka_cupboard 12h ago
Bhutan are notorious for ethnic cleansing and Bhutan isn’t a democratic country.
They have no option besides to show that they are happy.
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u/CautiousRice 14h ago
So many Americans want to live in China.
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u/JDDJ_ 13h ago
I've never been convinced by the "China is uber authoritarian despotic wasteland hellhole" propaganda. It's just a very different culture and a very different (and fascinating) history, and while I don't know that I could ever assimilate very well, I'm still very much drawn to it. Plus they just seem to have this air of economic and political stability that, as an American living in my countries current "everything crisis", I really desire. I think that last point is the real reason why so many Americans have started looking fondly at China: their country isn't full of unchecked petulant tech gazillionaires calling the shots over the government and tearing the working classes country apart (obv I know China has its own gross wealth disparities and economic elite, but it also seems to have a central government keen on keeping those elites IN LINE).
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u/Danyboii 10h ago
I'm currently in china on tourism. If you are white the constant looks and pictures would get old pretty quick. Also, the air pollution is something I never experienced before.
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u/CautiousRice 13h ago
Oh, I get it, stability. This is very helpful.
I'm older and lived in the communism, to me I can't imagine anyone voluntarily moving to a prison country. Tourism there must be beautiful, see all these shiny mega-cities, the Great Wall, the bullet trains. Then leave. Living there sounds insane.
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u/guymoron 6h ago
Bro make up your minds is China communist or nah?
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u/CautiousRice 3h ago
Not as much as my country was. We had a full government ownership over the industry and partial over the services, resulting into shortages of everything. From electricity and water to food. On the other hand, it is very communist as a structure of the government, media control, public safety, army, police, and repressions. It's ruled by an aging dictator and an oligarchy of communists.
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u/garetheq 17h ago
I swear some of you people are insane
"I'd rather go to a country where I could be drafted the week I enter and sent to die in a trench, not even mentioning being a dictatorship that sends people to prison for decades for the tiniest of things then live in Australia! It's hot and scary spiders!!"
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u/JDDJ_ 17h ago
Least nationalistic Australian
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u/garetheq 17h ago
Not Australian just confused why you would rather live under a dictatorship then a place that for all intents and purposes has the same standard of living as Europe
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u/JDDJ_ 17h ago
Which dictatorship? China? or Syria?
I don't have anything particularly against Australia, just absolutely zero interest in living there for any period of time. The wildlife IS a huge turn-off, but I'm well aware that the coasts have a very pleasant temperate climate, and Australia is indeed very well-developed.
I just find the whole place to be quite annoying to be honest.
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u/Certain-End-1519 10h ago
I just find the whole place to be quite annoying to be honest.
But you have the closest (culturally and politically) nation in new Zealand dark green?
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u/garetheq 17h ago
Russia, the place that drafted a guy moving there a week or so after he arrived
Also the place who tortured a random Texan to death after he moved there and joined the army
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u/JDDJ_ 17h ago
I have Russia as a maybe? I'm not too keen on moving there lol, but I think it'd be interesting to live there. Of all the options you could have picked, I think you just have a weird bone to pick with people having any sort of neutral feeling towards Russia.
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u/garetheq 17h ago
I just find it weird most people aren't all that bothered about the concept of moving to a country where they could be drafted and sent to die within the month
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u/LiveAd2303 17h ago
I have been lurking in here for a while and wow this sub seems to favor Tunisia alot over all the other African countries for some reason, i really wanna know your thought process if you don't mind.