What's your favorite foreign country?

[Maxi]

Austria.

 

[The Monkey]

Our summer is their winter.

Yes, that's what I meant with it being cold there. Why does everybody misunderstand me all the time?

 

[Dalamari]

Maybe a nice calm place like....Ireland...sheep and cool grasses all over

 

[Mr-Fusion]

Because you're a monkey?

I would say New Zealand, for obvious lord of the rings related reasons.

 

[jimbo118]

Maybe a nice calm place like....Ireland...sheep and cool grasses all over

omg stereotype alert!!!!!!!

 

[Danimal]

Phaic Tan

 

[Recoil]

China/Hong-Kong and Italy

... I also like the US, Mexico, Switzerland and France a lot.

 

[Harryz]

New Zealand. Always wanted to go.

 

[Zeus]

Probably the UK, I want to go someday (I live in USA btw)

 

[Lemonking]

Japan
I wanna go there really bad
The Food rocks ,the chicks rock ,Anime rocks,Sony rocks, Nintendo rocks.
Oh god I wanna go NOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!11

 

[oldagerocker]

Sweden \o/

 

[evil^milk]

spain or south america. specially cuz i can speak spanish better there, and it seems a much safer and friendlier place than the us in my opinion

 

[Danimal]

- Russian
- Japan
- Germany
- UK

 

[JellyWorld]

China right now, It's totally different to what you were expecting the first time you go.

It's always so lively, it never gets boring, and the food is generally great.
The country is very varied when you go from North to South or East to West, and there's a lot of culture, going back thousands of years.
In street markets you have to haggle for your illegally copied designer clothes

And it's amazing to see the scale of development and progress everytime you go back.

My favourite place was called Lijiang, it is in Yunnan (outer Tibet), it has a lot of Tibetan culture, and it is such a nice place.

I have also been to Xi'an (spent most of time there), Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Kunming and over to Hong Kong too.

I'm going back in the summer if I manage to get a job sorted out for after the summer.

It might be nice to holiday there, but living there is a completely different issue. They haven't changed much since Tiananmen Square.

 

[jimbo118]

China right now, It's totally different to what you were expecting the first time you go.

It's always so lively, it never gets boring, and the food is generally great.
The country is very varied when you go from North to South or East to West, and there's a lot of culture, going back thousands of years.
In street markets you have to haggle for your illegally copied designer clothes

And it's amazing to see the scale of development and progress everytime you go back.

My favourite place was called Lijiang, it is in Yunnan (outer Tibet), it has a lot of Tibetan culture, and it is such a nice place.

I have also been to Xi'an (spent most of time there), Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Kunming and over to Hong Kong too.

I'm going back in the summer if I manage to get a job sorted out for after the summer.

yes chinese people are some of the nicest people you could meet, very gracious. we have a large chinese population in ireland.

 

[kirovman]

It might be nice to holiday there, but living there is a completely different issue. They haven't changed much since Tiananmen Square.

Lived there for several months at a time, actually, in my girlfriend's flat in Xi'an, which is very old-style compared to Beijing, and got work experience in a pharmaceuticals factory. So not a holiday, as such.
I'm not talking about the government here, I like the country, the culture and (some of) the people.

I enjoyed living there, and I haven't been cracked down on yet.

If I could get a career which was as good as one over here, I might consider moving there, to a bigger city anyway like Beijing or Shanghai. My father is working in Beijing, he has been out there for 4 or 5 years now, and he thinks it's great, if you have money. Same like the US really - great if you have money.

And with respect to things not changing since Tiananmen square, I agree to the extent that freedom of speech in politics is allowed. But after the economical development that will come.

yes chinese people are some of the nicest people you could meet, very gracious. we have a large chinese population in ireland.

My girlfriend (from China) says they just act that way to keep face
Seriously though, I agree, they are gracious and nice. Although you meet a wide variety when in China.

 

[Ti133700N]

/me wants a russian cookie cuz in Soviet Russia, cookies eat you! Well that's what I heard.

 

[jimbo118]

My girlfriend (from China) says they just act that way to keep face
Seriously though, I agree, they are gracious and nice. Although you meet a wide variety when in China.

yes i was talking to a guy in college who is married to a chinese girl, when he had his 1st son her mom came over and had never seen a black man(not the guy i was talkin too) before, she was disgusted . , guess she had a sheltered life.

 

[Some_God]

Those soviet russia jokes are getting kind of old now...

But anywho, my pubescent mind is fixated on Brazil and Argentina... I think yuo guys can guess why I want to go there (HINT: I'm going to bring along a box of condoms).

 

[kirovman]

yes i was talking to a guy in college who is married to a chinese girl, when he had his 1st son her mom came over and had never seen a black man(not the guy i was talkin too) before, she was disgusted . , guess she had a sheltered life.

Yep, that's the typical attitude of a lot of Chinese people in mainland China, they don't get to see outsiders that much, so a few stare at you when you walk down the street. And shout "Hello Laowai (foreigner)!".

Although the educated ones are more open minded and don't stare (and aren't rude).

 

[Combine Elite]

British C.
Now watch that just confuse you more.

Nah I wont tell them but agree one hundred per cent.

 

[Fat Tony!]

I hope to either live in wales since I lub Wales or Finland since Ive heard great things and everyone ive met from Finland is fantastic

 

[Feath]

Those soviet russia jokes are getting kind of old now...

But anywho, my pubescent mind is fixated on Brazil and Argentina... I think yuo guys can guess why I want to go there (HINT: I'm going to bring along a box of condoms).

Well, you've got a high opinion of your sexual attractiveness.

 

[Shakermaker]

Well, you've got a high opinion of your sexual attractiveness.

He is -after all- a god. Not the god but some god. If he is a mere mortal, he might be overestimating himself a tad ...

 

[Some_God]

I never said I had a huge penis or that I'm very manly or that I even have sexual attractiveness... It all doesn't matter in an impoverished nation. :O

 

[Shakermaker]

I never said I had a huge penis or that I'm very manly or that I even have sexual attractiveness... It all doesn't matter in an impoverished nation. :O

That's just .... sick.

EDIT sickening rather.

 

[Some_God]

What's so sick about it?

 

[Polaris]

I love Canada ! Why?
- Beautiful nature
- Fine peoples (like many members of this site)
- Nice cities and for many other things....

Also I love Great Britan - but I have been only one week in London But nice week

Anyone like Czech republic ??? :naughty:

 

[Pesmerga]

Sorry... "for-eign"?

What does this mean?

Edit - Oooh, you mean, not of America? Does Alaska count?

 

[Pogrom]

Yep, that's the typical attitude of a lot of Chinese people in mainland China, they don't get to see outsiders that much, so a few stare at you when you walk down the street. And shout "Hello Laowai (foreigner)!".

Although the educated ones are more open minded and don't stare (and aren't rude).

Yeah, but travel to the rural backwaters and watch the stares!

btw kirovman, I've been to Lijiang too and liked it, but I enjoyed the northwest a lot more. The Xinjiang Autonomous Region, Turpan and Urumqi, as well as the Province of Gansu were all the highlights of my trip to China.

And Jellyworld - I've lived in China for 18 months. Although there is some curtailing of political freedoms, it is a very nice place to live. Most of the Chinese people I talked to about political freedom were pragmatic. They said it would be nice, but that it wouldn't be possible to develop as quickly whilst simultaneously trying to implement democracy. Just look at developing nations in other Third World countries for examples.

They want to get rich too

 

[kirovman]

Yeah, but travel to the rural backwaters and watch the stares!

btw kirovman, I've been to Lijiang too and liked it, but I enjoyed the northwest a lot more. The Xinjiang Autonomous Region, Turpan and Urumqi, as well as the Province of Gansu were all the highlights of my trip to China.

And Jellyworld - I've lived in China for 18 months. Although there is some curtailing of political freedoms, it is a very nice place to live. Most of the Chinese people I talked to about political freedom were pragmatic. They said it would be nice, but that it wouldn't be possible to develop as quickly.

They want to get rich too

I would love to goto Xinjiang and Inner Tibet. Hopefully this summer if everything goes as I plan. Didn't get that much experience of rural living, just a few weekends away from the cities.
I'm not a city person myself, so that kind of conflicts with me when I goto China (since most of the countryside is poor there). But I would like to spend some more time in the countryside.

Nice place to live, I could *almost* see myself living there in the future when I retire, especially since it'll be even more developed by then. Hopefully having mastered the language beforehand.

 

[lePobz]

France I love the french, they're all so stubborn and nice.

 

[Polaris]

Really no one like North Korea ???

 

[$kelet0r]

Germany rocks
never liked France although some of the people are bang on
England is boring and looks too much like home
Spain is a desert and full of noisy people

 

[Hazar]

I've always wanted to go to Sweden

same here

 

[Polaris]

Yes I like Germany too, Berlin is fine city, germany food is great, nice girls ... good country. But Canada and England - better !

 

[kirovman]

Yes, that's what I meant with it being cold there. Why does everybody misunderstand me all the time?

I do it deliberatley to upset you

 

[h00dlum]

Canada (seems like a light version of USA)
Australia\New Zeeland...beautiful countries..

 

[Shippi]

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[vetebulle]

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Anyone like Czech republic ??? :naughty:

I'm going to Prague after summer. Can't wait. I love your beer.


Otherwise I've always wanted to visit Canada, NZ (that was a dream even before LoTR mind you), Iceland, Greenland.

Norway I like. Been there a dozen times now.. the road to Oslo and the mountains is getting familiar. Denmark's nice too. I like the greek islands and man, can't get enough of that mediterranean food. Turkey's alright but I kinda don't like Spain that much, I don't know. Germany feels like Sweden.. atleast the cities. Can't say much about the countryside though. Some day I have to get my ass down to München for the oktoberfest.