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Americans, if you could live in any country where would you want to live?
noisyturtle:
I've been looking into NZ visas lately. Japan looks very nice as well and much more affordable than NZ.
Norway, Finland, and Sweden have great living standards but are just too cold for my tastes.
TomahawkLabs:
--- Quote from: noisyturtle on Mon, 10 March 2025, 20:47:43 ---I've been looking into NZ visas lately. Japan looks very nice as well and much more affordable than NZ.
Norway, Finland, and Sweden have great living standards but are just too cold for my tastes.
--- End quote ---
As an American who hasn't really looked Australia or NZ.
YALE70:
Haven't seriously looked either. Seconded on Japan. Hokkaido specifically. I'd probably also consider Canada (BC), Ireland, or Scandinavia. I like it cold.
Also, Croatia seems very nice in parts? Don't know what living there would actually be like though.
tp4tissue:
Japan's got radiation blooms every spring, it's heavily contaminated as is. Terrible idea, unless you're going there to retire.
Fuku5hima is an ongoing emitter, constantly adding more poison to the land. The ocean backwash has actually returned early than expected, but outside of that, filtration efforts have failed, refrigeration ground water control operating at only very limited success.
We're possibly 200 years out before the technology is even invented to handle-it.
Anywhere North will be the last viable places to live. When climate change hit us, the world will largely fracture into gangs/ warlordism. Assuming by some miracle, radiation is kept in check (unlikely), then it'll be like Haiti.
Even now, the United States are actually fiefdoms.
Ultimately, NO WHERE is Safe. We are facing an existential crisis, yet the average person is merely imagining it's going to be like a bad-vacation.
If you're looking for a realistic idea of how MOST of the world is going to be, look up the Slums of India. That's going to be best case for the majority of the population.
When the radiation really gets out of control, generations born today will likely be living to their 30s maximum. Then within 3-5 years, almost all large surface life will perish. The failure cascade will be swift. We're at the TAIL END of the anthropocene extinction event. As in, it's already been happening for the last 10,000 years.
Miracles, Super Intelligence AI Autocracy. Slim chance, a fantasy at this point. For us to hit singularity, we'd need to go 100% veggie first, just to have enough time to do it.
noisyturtle:
Well, Ascension Island it is then!
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