Re: Eat her dust Germany and Finland !

In article
<5e774df9-608e-47ee-9c32-4d9f795e4e25@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Vidas
<darsiaubas@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Aug 26, 6:13=A0am, hol...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Eugene Holman) wrote:

Bah ! I endorse nothing ! =A0:)

I don't see how countries that have 9 month long winters can be "the
best"..The pale and pastiest maybe - but best ?

The question was not posed to take climate into account.

It's a matter of personal preference. If someone asks me what
qualities I would associate with living in the "best" country - minus
40C wind chill factors for significant chunks of the yearly calendar
wouldn't help the ranking.

The change of seasons is invigorating. And this summer we have had
virtually perfect weather with temperatures between 20° and 30° C since
mid-May. Sound building, undergroung shopping malls, and efficient public
transportation make the winter quite livable.

In a country like Finland, with its long dark winters, we get partial
climactic compensation in the form of approximately four months of intens=
e
summer with 20-odd hours of daily daylight. Additionally, since we have
exceptionally long paid vacations =AD eight weeks annually for many peopl=
e =AD
as well as high salaries from even a European perspective, people desirin=
g
to
spend more time in the sun need do nothing more than fly off to dirt chea=
p
Turkey or Bulgaria (where the round-trip flight and a week in a modest bu=
t
clean hotel can cost as little as =A4200), or to somewhat more expensive
Thailand, Greece, or Spain, for a few weeks, any time of the year.

So what you're saying is that Finland has successfully incorporated a
system of official bribery where those willing to live there are
rewarded with cash and ample time/opportunity to run off to somewhere
that doesnt suck ?

That's one way of putting it. But the same holds true for our Nordic
neighbors as well. Cultures evolve to fit their environmental niche.

That's a bit of a contradiction. The best country
to live in would logically be one that you don't want to leave, no ?

No. You could never appreciate the positive and see the negative in your
own country if living there made you so complacent that you lacked the
incentive or curiosity to broaden your horizons by travel.

The best country in the world to me would be some secluded, sparsely
populated place with year round warm weather and sunshine, amazing
women (not clad in fur for 9 months of the year),

Here in Helsinki, no more than three...

superior wine growing areas, excellent restaurants and pristine golf courses.

But what if the economy was terrible, the politics corrupt, the men
possessive to the point of murderousness of what they regarded as their
women, a rigid caste system assigning you to a station in life at birth
that you could not escape from, and closed borders? Some of the more
salubrious parts of the former USSR (e.g. the Crimean Peninsula) would
have fulfilled most of your requirements (secluded, sparse population,
climate and sunshine, more bikini-clad and well endowed young women
strutting their stuff than you could ever imagine, great local wines,
including champagne, fine restaurants (although often poorly managed or
requiring a bribe to enter), and ample opportunities and infrastructure
for a wide range of outdoor activities), but social mobility was limited,
the politics were dictatorial and corrupt, and travel, even to another
part of the country, extremely difficult.

Over,
Eugene Holman
.

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