Thursday, September 9, 2010

Poll: Would You Or Wouldn’t You Like To Live In This Country?

September 26, 2009 by Swimming Pool Fanatic · 5 Comments 

I am trying to get a poll to compare my home country living conditions with others living in various countries. Just please indicate what’s better/worse about your own country, and where you prefer to live. You may also choose a third country that is neither mine nor your own to suggest as a great place to raise a family.
This is my country:
Pros:
1. A small Persian Gulf state overflowing with oil and money.
2. It’s neither a first world, nor a third world country. Meaning, it is a mixture of modern facilities, and some very old facilities (hideous, that is).
3. No taxes. None. Zelch.
4. Free (governmental) health care. Since it is free, there is a mixture of highly qualified doctors, and very awful clueless doctors (mostly fresh graduates from the country’s medical school).
5. 7 months of pleasant weather 75-80 F at its nicest, plus 5 months of 122 F weather.
6. Rare drunk driving incidents (alcohol is banned nation wide).
7. Open roads with ample lanes, yet playing catch up with maintenance is rather slow.
8. 3/4 of the country is empty lands. People live in one quarter of the country. It’s not as crowded as it could be, but it’s starting to become crammed. The point is, everything, the whole civil infrastructure and facilities are within a maximum of 1/2 hour drive.
9. Free education, also free college education (one large government-owned university), and several smaller private sector colleges.
10. Huge malls, numerous, and brands from US AND Europe.
The Cons:
1. Dirty beaches, despite the VERY long coastline. The conservative population as a whole is NOT into family fun, so you hardly see families enjoying “public beaches”. You HAVE to rent a beach house in order to enjoy the beach, more or less.
2. Decent libraries that lend you books for research are non existent, for the most part. If they do exist, they would have stone-age books.
3. People live too close to each other, they are into your every little business. If you don’t visit your in-laws every week, you are branded with a question mark all over your being.
4. Zero cultural/artistic/literary public life. What exists are cliques and cliques of cliques.
5. Horrible 5 months of summer 122 degrees F, dust storms, and high humidity(66% plus).
6. Women have very little venues for intramural sports and competition, let alone joining reasonable-cost gyms. It will cost me 1400 dolalrs/a year for the gym alone. Dirty public swimming pools. A woman who takes out her bike and goes outside gets “looks” although she would get away with it eventually. We are not required to wear the veil though.
Basically, the con side is that there isn’t much to do, no one is interested in improving the country, in fact if you talk about progressive environmental ideas such as “the electric car” or saving the environment, you would look insane. The whole fabric of the society speaks as one, pressuring you into conformity, and those who stand alone look nothing less than sore thumbs.
Is where you live the same or worse or better? Thanks

Comments

5 Responses to “Poll: Would You Or Wouldn’t You Like To Live In This Country?”
  1. Pressing On says:

    Some of the Pros sound good. I like the no alcohol part. In the part of the USA where I live, there is way too much alcohol and too many people die in car accidents caused by drunk driving. But because it also hot, I do appreciate being able to wear shorts and short sleeves. As a woman I do respect the idea that women should restrain themselves in what they wear. America has very little laws in that area, allowing a lot of women to walk around half naked. I, for one, am conservative and don’t appreciate that at all. All in all I’d rather live in the USA, but we could take a few pointers from your country.
    Does anyone live in Ireland, it looks peaceful and pretty. I wonder if it is.

  2. Mss Bushido says:

    it’s too long

  3. kasih sayang says:

    ok

  4. John T =D says:

    Well i live in Scotland and i love it =D
    It would be strange living in that place and no alcohol :O!
    that’s a big no no

  5. Deedee-D says:

    From the cons you listed it sounds like living in hell specially for women. And that paragraph about the whole society speaks as one (that’s no freedom of speech) and the ones who stand alone are sore thumbs. Wow that sounds like hell on earth.
    God Bless the U.S.A!!!!

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