Gregory2Smith1
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ah! CS has a point,germany's beer is 2nd to none,but the food is awful
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What country in Europe would you most like to live in and why?
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Albion Rob
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Italy - love the food and love their 'matchday experience'.
Could just imagine myself strolling round the piazzas of Verona with my wife and my little girl.
Could just imagine myself strolling round the piazzas of Verona with my wife and my little girl.
Anywhere that has roasted pork knuckle as standard is alright by me!
For me, Germany - mainly for the reason above, but also the football, culture, people and beer. I can also speak ok German.
Honourable mentions to:
France, especially the area around Pau towards the Pyrenees, or the Camargue and the area around Avignon.
Spain. For the weather and beaches. Somewhere near Seville please.
DumLum
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That's Denmark then.
daveinprague
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Ive lived in Holland (Den Haag) for quite a few years and loved it. Im a smoker, so I was bound to love it. Lived in Belgium (Brussels) for a while, loved the food. Lived in Germany for a couple of years (Frankfurt), Found Frankfurt a bit boring as its a banking center and empty at weekends. Koln a good night out. Czech Republic (Prague) Beautiful city, Crap food, cheap beer, and beautiful women (a very high percentage!)... Prague edges it...if only it was a bit warmer.
France has it all. Space, decent standard of living, skiing, hot weather in the south. Mind you, I quite like different aspects of most of West Europe - Germany, Spain, Italy, Switzerland and especially Scandinavia all have great reasons to live there, as does this country.
Thank God for the European Union, where I can move around, and to all intents and purposes, work and live where I want.
Thank God for the European Union, where I can move around, and to all intents and purposes, work and live where I want.
I agree with all of this bar Switzerland. It does not strike me as a particularly interesting place to live. Nice scenery I agree, some great ski-resorts as well. But to live, it seems a bit dull to me.
Quite.
You can also amuse yourself watching the food in the supermakets change with the season.
daveinprague
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Pork knuckle here is fecking enormous...Ended up binning half of it.
Trufflehound
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I did once harbour plans to move to Italy - great food, great wine, great climate, hsitory, etc. But I decided I wouldn't be able to stand the frustration of all the corruption and the backhanders necessary to get even the smallest things done.
Have thought about moving to Porto as I love the place to visit. Have not really looked into the corruption aspect, but I'm sure it is there too - like anywhere in Southern Europe.
Have also considered Slovenia, but that's a bit nippy in winter.
To avoid corruption (or at least, have less of it), you need to stay in the north. Scandinavia and Eastern Europe are out, because lovely as they are in summer, they are just too damn cold and dark (in Scandinavia's case) for me in winter.
That only leaves a handful of choices - all of which have the same attributes, good beer, not corrupt (whoops, that's Belgium out as well then), and not tooo cold in winter. I think I'll stay in the Netherlands for now thanks....
Have thought about moving to Porto as I love the place to visit. Have not really looked into the corruption aspect, but I'm sure it is there too - like anywhere in Southern Europe.
Have also considered Slovenia, but that's a bit nippy in winter.
To avoid corruption (or at least, have less of it), you need to stay in the north. Scandinavia and Eastern Europe are out, because lovely as they are in summer, they are just too damn cold and dark (in Scandinavia's case) for me in winter.
That only leaves a handful of choices - all of which have the same attributes, good beer, not corrupt (whoops, that's Belgium out as well then), and not tooo cold in winter. I think I'll stay in the Netherlands for now thanks....
turienzo's lovechild
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most of these are on the basis of money being no issue
-Belgium......I could quaff on their world class beers for hours, the food is decent, the people all seemed really nice
-Sweden....women are amazing, the swedes that i've met have always seemed really cool
-Germany.........good football, good beer, nice people
-Belgium......I could quaff on their world class beers for hours, the food is decent, the people all seemed really nice
-Sweden....women are amazing, the swedes that i've met have always seemed really cool
-Germany.........good football, good beer, nice people
Gritt23
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Monaco. Never been there, but if I'm ever living there, it's because I've become, seriously, filthy rich! 
turienzo's lovechild
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Monaco. Never been there, but if I'm ever living there, it's because I've become, seriously, filthy rich!
i was going to say monaco for that reason.........however i went there and it was a bit DULL
but then if you're rich as f*** you can probably find your own entertainment (coke, champagne, prostitutes)
has anyone here ever been to SAN MARINO? i've always wondered what it was like
Gritt23
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As I said, I've never been, and I don't know you, let alone your financial constraints, but I'm guessing you didn't have the money to enjoy teh place to it's full. Flash restaurants, and huge yachts are a much happier places to spend your time, and if I was living in Monaco, I'm guessing I could afford to live like that. Yes please!!
turienzo's lovechild
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oh without a doubt (although the non-flash restaurants were still pretty good!).....but everything seemed to shut down fairly early
so you'd need to make your own entertainment, and as you were rich as f***, that should come pretty easy
loads of celebrities to chill with as well (NOT YOU COULTHARD!!!!!!), and you could pop down to see AS Monaco in action
so you'd need to make your own entertainment, and as you were rich as f***, that should come pretty easy
loads of celebrities to chill with as well (NOT YOU COULTHARD!!!!!!), and you could pop down to see AS Monaco in action
TheBlueAndWhiteStrips
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I lived in Germany and enjoyed living there. I have family in Denmark and love it there,good food, beautiful women and great beer. But if I had to choose it would be Italy, love the food,beautiful women,football, and it has beautiful cities.
cheeseroll
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I loved living in Germany but still went on holiday to Greece and regularly to Amsterdam.....why is Greece not an option?