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01-26-2007, 09:07 AM
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Join Date: Nov 2001
Posts: 2,099
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Living in Europe - where?
If you were to live someplace in Europe - where would you and why?
I have this urge to make a change! I can't right now but maybe one day...
Darby
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01-26-2007, 09:15 AM
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Join Date: Sep 2006
Posts: 357
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PARIS!!
It's a beautiful city!! I've been there three times, its romantic & just a place to fall in love with!!
The french accent is lovely & it's just a meltingpot of different cultures.
I'd love to name my future daughter Paris, but you know-the other Paris kinda ruined that name..
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01-26-2007, 09:16 AM
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Join Date: Dec 2004
Posts: 7,115
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Maybe Spain. Or London. Or Italy. Hmm, it's hard to decide!
Yeah I like the name Paris too, thanks a lot Paris Hilton  I guess you could always name your son Paris, it is a boy's name too (like Paris in the Trojan War myth).
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01-26-2007, 09:33 AM
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Join Date: Dec 2004
Posts: 25,082
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Italy or Spain would be my top choices. Germany would be nice too.
I'd be ambivalent and scared about England or France... maybe because I have lived in England and spent summers living in France.
I'd choose Italy or Spain because I can get by in the language, there's work in my field, my EU citizenship would work for me there, and I really enjoy the lifestyle, culture, sense of style, way of eating, drinking, the music, etc. etc. etc. and the weather is pretty decent.
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01-26-2007, 09:36 AM
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Join Date: Apr 2003
Posts: 10,699
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Amsterdam, Florence, Paris, Rome, Nice.
I would love to live in any of those beautiful cities and think that I would thrive on the architectural beauty, diversity, culture, food, landscape, people, etc...
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01-26-2007, 09:38 AM
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Join Date: Dec 2000
Posts: 10,243
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Italy. I just love Italy. and I love the language and I would be able to put my four years of Italian to use.
I really enjoyed the time I spent in Spain as a teenage exchange student but I think I want to be closer to the mediterranean and Italy stole my heart years ago.
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01-26-2007, 09:45 AM
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Join Date: Jun 2003
Posts: 6,398
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Spain
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01-26-2007, 10:00 AM
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Join Date: Sep 2006
Posts: 586
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London, Sheffield, or Cardiff. If I were to live anywhere in Europe it would have to be the UK.
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01-26-2007, 10:16 AM
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Join Date: Apr 2006
Posts: 10,088
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I would love to go someday! My mother watched a lot of programming from the UK when I was younger and I always found it so fascinating. And if I can get to Narnia through my hotel wardrobe, all the better LMAO
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01-26-2007, 01:17 PM
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Join Date: Dec 2000
Posts: 2,248
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It's funny that someone posted this because I'm debating moving overseas. I had some major changes in my personal life (it happened today, but I have toyed with the idea in the past) and I don't have a reason to stay here any more. I don't know if I could do it financially or realistically since my family is here and I don't know if I'd feel comfortable being that far away from them. But right now, I'm thinking that living in London (a city that I absolutely adore) wouldn't be so bad.
I have no idea how to even research getting a job overseas....any thoughts??
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01-26-2007, 01:30 PM
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Join Date: Sep 2000
Posts: 6,751
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I really liked Budapest when I visited there. It was very easy to get around and the apartments looked awesome. There was a energetic and multicultural flavor that you get from bigger cities but to me it wasn't that large at all.
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01-26-2007, 02:19 PM
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Join Date: Mar 2001
Posts: 13,874
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I think I'd like the UK and it would be a fairly easy adjustment as far as lanuage and work.
Otherwise I'd probably go with Sweden or Estonia, since I have family in both counties. I don't speak Swedish but I do Estonian. Sweden would probably be better from a quality of life stanpoint ( they're good on family benefits and support) but Estonia is a rapidly growing and changing nation that has a lot more western influences than the other Baltic areas.
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01-26-2007, 02:43 PM
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Join Date: Apr 2003
Posts: 10,699
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Scandinavia is beautiful and I would live in any number of the progressive and gorgeous cities in that part of the world. Not sure about diversity, but depending on the circumstances, I might not care (if I had sufficient resources to travel, and lived with someone I loved).
I would also live in various cities in Japan, Korea, China and perhaps the Phillipines.
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"Great minds discuss ideas; Average minds discuss events; Small minds discuss people."
"I think that somehow, we learn who we really are and then we live with that decision." - Eleanor Roosevelt (both quotes)
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01-26-2007, 02:47 PM
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Join Date: Jun 2006
Posts: 931
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Actually I'm living in Germany right now. Its pretty cool. It's beautiful. I love the experience of being exposed to the culture and all. I just wish I spoke the language. Also its nice to be able to travel all over Europe for cheap (fly with Ryanair).
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01-26-2007, 02:54 PM
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Join Date: Mar 2006
Posts: 2,954
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Either England or France. I have a ton of family in the former and used to work in the latter.
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01-26-2007, 02:56 PM
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Join Date: May 2003
Posts: 9,271
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amsterdam
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01-26-2007, 03:40 PM
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Join Date: Feb 2006
Posts: 539
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Denmark (great people). Or maybe Finland, for the nice, long winters.
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01-26-2007, 03:46 PM
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Join Date: May 2003
Posts: 9,271
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denmark
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01-26-2007, 03:48 PM
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Join Date: Nov 2003
Posts: 9,216
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When we went to London, I was pretty much ready to buy an apartment right then and there, and THEN start looking for a job. It just felt like such a good fit.
Germany and Austria are lovely too, but I don't speak the language, so that might be an issue. I had better luck in Italy and France. And I don't want to take anything away from the, but they didn't feel nearly as comfortable, if you know what I mean.
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01-26-2007, 03:49 PM
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Join Date: Mar 2006
Posts: 114
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Croatia - lived there as an exchange student for a year before college. Lovely people, wonderful beaches, historic and simply beautiful - plus the incredible food. The rest of Europe is close, there is great skiing nearby but not a whole lot of English speakers. Croatian is not impossible but hard to master - after a year I could get my point across, read elementary things and speak like a child  I would go back in a heartbeat! If you have an opportunity to go overseas and nothing is holding you back I would highly recommend it!
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