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[-] [email protected] 1 points 10 hours ago

I am actually living less than a mile from where I was born, like some middle ages peasant who never traveled, but have traveled. I'd like to have been born here, but in the timeline where Al Gore waited for the ballots to be counted and won.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 22 hours ago

New Zealand, mostly for the charming accent.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours ago)

Canada. They don't have Trump as a leader. Universal healthcare.

[-] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago

France. Their culture is more open, they are more efficient, modern and if they dislike something they not just complain but move to change it. Also their trains are punctual (i am german)

[-] [email protected] 2 points 23 hours ago

Yea but you guys have higher wages. Agree on the trains tho (I am not German)

[-] [email protected] 2 points 22 hours ago

Not really. We also have less vacation

[-] [email protected] 1 points 21 hours ago

Gotta popularize riot season.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 18 hours ago

THAT is what i love about france! They actually rise up! They protest! So many germans just complain but then dont get their ass up to mass protest. France rose up when they had their retirement almost raised. Germany did nothing. There is a debate about people should work 48 or 56 hours "for the good of the economy". BARELY anyone protests!

[-] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago

Netherlands. They arent perfect but they have bicycles, freedom, and the shengen area

[-] [email protected] 3 points 23 hours ago

Any country which is richer than this shithole

[-] [email protected] 1 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago)

Ugh, okay, so, this will require some exposition. We went to a high school production once that was supposedly supposed to be really good. I wanna say there was some partnership with Cirque de Soleil but I tried to verify it now and can't find anything so I may have misunderstood or be remembering incorrectly. Regardless, the theater was packed. The kids were amazing. They were doing the types of acrobatic stunts you'd see at a Cirque show. Sure, they weren't quite as good, they're high schoolers, but it was still just absolutely phenomenal!

Leaving, I started to really look around. The buildings on this campus were so huge. Like twice as tall and wide as any school building I'd ever seen. Nicer looking than my college campus. This was a public highschool. I'd never felt jealous like that before. I'd always known the quality of public education was different in different areas, but this was hardly an hour's drive from where I grew up. I'd seen other nice schools in the area before but this one was truly on another level.

So my answer is I wish I was born in Milton High School's school district I guess.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 19 hours ago

Granted… you’re born in a house of someone living in the school district when your mom who was making ends meet by cleaning houses went into labor and couldn’t make it to a hospital.

(Couldn’t resist)

[-] [email protected] 1 points 18 hours ago

lol, that sort it thing crossed my mind when saying it. Because obviously you're not born exactly where you live. I was born in a hospital in Atlanta but my parents lived outside the city. Honestly outside the metropolitan area unless you're being extremely generous with the definition of metropolitan area.

[-] [email protected] 10 points 1 day ago

Pretty happy with where I was originally born to be honest. I just wish the country it’s in hadn’t gone to fascist oligarch shit.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

This! I won the birth lottery big time, why would I want to live anywhere/-when else?

[-] [email protected] 15 points 1 day ago

Nowhere. If this was a video game I would have quit playing a long time ago.

[-] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago

I would reload a save from 20 years ago to change one single thing.

[-] [email protected] 10 points 1 day ago

The single largest predictor of future wealth and earning potential in America is what ZIP code you were born in… So, with that in mind… 94027 or 33109. If you’re born in one of those two areas, you’re pretty much guaranteed to be a multi-millionaire by birth.

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[-] [email protected] 12 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Any of the top European or Asian countries with the most powerful passports. A lot of people with powerful passports don’t realize the privilege they have just by being born in their country.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

Why?

My country's passport is categorized as the 3rd better in the word, but I never really used it or saw any special advantage to it.

I suppose it can be useful if you travel a lot internationally, but if that's not the case is not really that big of a deal.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 23 hours ago

My comment was supposed to say “travel privilege” instead of just “privilege”, just missed a word.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

Czechia seems like it'd be pretty based. or Estonia. I like Central/Eastern Europe. or maybe Thailand.

[-] [email protected] 10 points 1 day ago

Any Scandinavian country

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

Switzerland.

[-] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago

Another planet. One where prejudice, greed, and hatred don't exist.

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[-] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago

Sentinel Island

Reasons are obvious

[-] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago

A utopian post-scarcity society of an intelligent space-faring species with kindness and compassion as core of society and having achieved immortality (in the biological sense)

Because I feel like I'm "missing out" after watching space sci-fi tv shows. This era still feels kinda primative.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

A VERY expensive luxury hospital in the US.

I'll keep playing the game I know, but with a stacked deck.

[-] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago

Congratulations, you are the proud spawn of Elon Musk and Barely Legal Gf #17.

[-] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago* (last edited 23 hours ago)

And your name shall be X-Grok-&$#@

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

I pronounced the last part Atsha.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

Knowing Elon it's probably supposed to be pronounced Robert

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

Shit. Anyone with that blood is worth some money! I'll just be yet another kid that can't stand him.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

Granted. You are born in the cleaning supplies storage room by one of the low-status staff members.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

Meh, I'll take it.

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[-] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago

You have no oxygen supply or life support system. You die immediately.

Insert coin to retry

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

Unlikely since there must have been at least one other living person around with a functioning uterus to give birth to me. I'll accept "your parents are slaves in the Glorious Musk Empire."

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

But the question is "where were", and we haven't colonized Mars yet even so past or current tense doesn't matter. You'd just pop and then "oh no" (but in baby speech).

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

Babies also don't just pop into existence.

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I've said that, if I had it to do over again, I might choose to move to Norway or Finland instead of Japan, but birth? I don't know that's possible to answer. Even if my family were the same people, they'd probably be culturally different having been born and raised somewhere. Even if we assume my parents were just plonked down there, I probably still wouldn't be the same person due to my environment. Some of that almost certainly for better, but I wouldn't be me.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Helsinki. Seems like a fairly decent place.

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