Where do you wish you were born, and why?
Where do you wish you were born, and why?
No control over to whom, just where.
Where do you wish you were born, and why?
No control over to whom, just where.
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.
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.
My comment was supposed to say “travel privilege” instead of just “privilege”, just missed a word.
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.
Any Scandinavian country
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.
This! I won the birth lottery big time, why would I want to live anywhere/-when else?
Netherlands. They arent perfect but they have bicycles, freedom, and the shengen area
Sentinel Island
Reasons are obvious
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)
A VERY expensive luxury hospital in the US.
I'll keep playing the game I know, but with a stacked deck.
Granted. You are born in the cleaning supplies storage room by one of the low-status staff members.
Meh, I'll take it.
Canada. They don't have Trump as a leader. Universal healthcare.
New Zealand, mostly for the charming accent.
Helsinki. Seems like a fairly decent place.
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.
Switzerland.
Czechia seems like it'd be pretty based. or Estonia. I like Central/Eastern Europe. or maybe Thailand.
Any country which is richer than this shithole
Iceland
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.
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)
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.
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.
Atlantis
Nowhere. If this was a video game I would have quit playing a long time ago.
I would reload a save from 20 years ago to change one single thing.