Would you rather live in India, China or Mexico?

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alfa147x

alfa147x

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BoomerD said:
Please do. Thank you for your cooperation. :p

All three choices seem like excellent locations for nuclear glassing. We could eliminate something like 75% of the world's population with China & India, and Mexico...hell, they have oil. :p

If I had to choose between one of the three...I'd have to choose Mexico so I could sneak back into the US with less hassles.
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wiredspider

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I've only been to China, so I would pick that, many parts are modernized and stuff is relatively cheap. If I can sneak back into the US, then Mexico.
 
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dighn

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Life as an upper-class (white collar worker or better) in a big city in China isn't bad at all. Of course if you are one of the peons it's horrible.

Not sure what I'd choose though cuz I hardly know anything about life in India and Mexico aside from how crappy they look on TV.
 
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Dr. Detroit

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Mexico:

good weather, cheep booze, awesome fishing, fabulous beaches, cool anthropological sites


India & China just way too polluted for me.
 
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Bl0cks

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China - so I can sneak over to Japan

Reminds me of a quote from Top Gear when they went to Japan.

Jeremy: That is just a fish... lightly killed and then put in a bag. The marvellous thing is that Richard Hammond won't be able to enjoy any of this, because he won't eat anything unless it's come from a burger van on the A38.
Richard: Mate, it's all fish.
James: Yeah, it's good for you.
Richard: Don't like fish.
James: Well, you've come to the wrong country.
 
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blamb425

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China. I'm Vietnamese-American, so the culture in China wouldn't be too much of a change from what my parents and their families celebrate culturally. Plus, the food in China is better than in India or Mexico.
 
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esun

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Realistically, I would go with China. I figure many of the big engineering firms must have offices there, so finding work would likely be no problem. I love Chinese food (although I also love Indian and Mexican food, but not as much as Chinese food). The political issues are of course a concern, but they are in India and Mexico as well (perhaps not as much ideologically but certainly practically).
 
Zebo

Zebo

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Mexico! Especially once the Whites there finish kicking all the indigenous out to USA once and for all.
 
DrPizza

DrPizza

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The OP brought up the issue of not being able to speak Mandarin for not living in China. Do you know what country has more English speakers than any other country? China.
I can't speak Spanish very well either & have noticed that even among the Mexicans living in the US, very few can speak English or are even trying. Thus, I choose either India or China. I figure I can get a job teaching English. If I were in Mexico, I'd have to sneak over the US border to get a job.
 
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JJChicken

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DrPizza said:
The OP brought up the issue of not being able to speak Mandarin for not living in China. Do you know what country has more English speakers than any other country? China.
I can't speak Spanish very well either & have noticed that even among the Mexicans living in the US, very few can speak English or are even trying. Thus, I choose either India or China. I figure I can get a job teaching English. If I were in Mexico, I'd have to sneak over the US border to get a job.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_English-speaking_population

So, so wrong......
 
FelixDeCat

FelixDeCat

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DrPizza said:
The OP brought up the issue of not being able to speak Mandarin for not living in China. Do you know what country has more English speakers than any other country? China.
I can't speak Spanish very well either & have noticed that even among the Mexicans living in the US, very few can speak English or are even trying. Thus, I choose either India or China. I figure I can get a job teaching English. If I were in Mexico, I'd have to sneak over the US border to get a job.
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My broken Spanish es muy excellente. However, preferring English would give sway to India according to the wiki link above ^.
 
AyashiKaibutsu

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Depends on how much money I have going in. Low class probably mexico. Ultra high class china. In between india.
 
rudder

rudder

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Mexico. So easy to cross border, fake an identity, get credit cards, live the high life. If you ever get busted, you slip back home for a couple of months. Rinse, repeat.
 
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Crono

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nageov3t

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China. my company has an office there.

I could move to Shanghai or Hong Kong tomorrow if I wanted to (of course, all on my own dime unfort)
 
MJinZ

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FelixDeKat said:
Living under communist rule in China, my inability to speak Mandarin and the lack of jobs paying more than .25 cents an hour pretty much kill it for me. Not to mention backwater medicine and living with 1 billion other people.

India is extremely overcrowded. Food might be good, water so-so. Again earning 10 rupees a day and sleeping 50 to a room is none too appealing. Want to ride the train to work? :eek:

Given the three I think Mexico takes it hands down. If you can avoid the drug dealers and eek out a living somehow you might make it afterall. The food is good, the water so-so and if things dont work out you can always come to America and demand citizenship. ;)

All three countries have corrupt cops and government officials, low standards of living and what-not. But if you had to pick among these three countries only, what would you chose and why?
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Hong Kong and Taiwan are basically first world nations onto themselves.

Mexico is a dump through and through.

I could see living in expensive areas of India.
 
MJinZ

MJinZ

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DrPizza said:
The OP brought up the issue of not being able to speak Mandarin for not living in China. Do you know what country has more English speakers than any other country? China.
I can't speak Spanish very well either & have noticed that even among the Mexicans living in the US, very few can speak English or are even trying. Thus, I choose either India or China. I figure I can get a job teaching English. If I were in Mexico, I'd have to sneak over the US border to get a job.
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You get shivved in Mexico, raped and murdered. You can get high too. But Mexico is a shithole - the main reason why they don't stay there.

Taiwan is a bit like Tokyo, probably the highest end place with lowest population you can do. Hong Kong is overcrowded but a high end place to live as well.

India would work, like Delhi for example.
 
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BlahBlahYouToo

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i just realized you picked the nations with the worst chicks.

mexico - short and round.
china - skinny and flat chested.
india - hairy and smelly.
 
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