if you had to be reborn in another country, what would it be?

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Pr0d1gy

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Since I already live in the USA, and have to pick something else....I'd go with Uruguay. It's beautiful, nice homes, clean food and water, easy access to hot Brazilian women, and I can legally smoke bud (which I do not do here because it is illegal).
 

mmntech

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Probably the US or New Zealand. If I move to Kiwi land, I can start a business protecting livestock from former ATOT members.
 

Northern Lawn

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If California separated from the Rest of America, I'd move to LA and open a home delivery service for medical marijuana.
 

BurnItDwn

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Norway would be my top pick. Ideally a coastal/island town like Kristiansund which is where my maternal grandma's side of the family came from around 100 years ago. (she's gone to visit her cousins and other relatives several times with her most recent trip being around 4 or 5 years ago.)

Also, I wouldn't have to go to a specialty store to find Gjetost.
 
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New Zealand seems ideal. Beautiful vistas, mild climate, high literacy, secular, ease of doing business, high liberty and civil rights, high life expectancy, low population density - all the good stuff. Also, they play cricket and football and I'm familiar with those.
 

bononos

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"Double dumbass on you!"

Religion in Finland http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finland#Religion
Year 2011
Evangelical Lutheran Church of Finland 77.3%
Finnish Orthodox Church 1.1%
Other 1.5%
No religious affiliation 20.1%

There are restrictions on abortion. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abortion_in_Finland

You're still wrong on a whole list of things of other things you listed in your original post. On the 2 items you posted here:-
Most are Lutheran but they are only nominal christians and is more of a cultural marker. Finland is also one of the least religious or churchgoing people in Europe. I'm pretty sure their attendance rates is in the low single digit% like France.
There are restrictions on abortions but it is not 'more anti-abortion than US' as you stated in your OP. Finnish girls can abort for not only medical reasons but socio-psychological ones like being too young/old/poor/busy and it is performed for free in hospitals - vs the difficulty of finding an killer doc and places that perform the procedure in US.

The general theme of your OP makes it sound like Finland is a far right country when it is actually quite far to the left. You are correct in your insinuations about 'multiculturalism' since Finland does have very few non-white minorities.
 

roguerower

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Norway, Sweden, Switzerland, New Zealand.

Ski, BASE jump, shoot, etc.

This all assumes that I somewhat miraculously enjoy doing the same things I do now.
 

ichy

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Switzerland is very nice, damned expensive though. Also the weather sucks in the winter, endless gray skies can be pretty depressing.