Hypothetically, if you had to live in any other country, where would you go and why?

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35. Like Nance, I'm already there

I live in the German Rheinland, near Düsseldorf.

I came here because my wife is German and didn't want to move to the States. The commuting got tedious, and I got to structure my job, so that 99% of it was in Europe anyway. I speak German, French, Spanish, Dutch and Italian (and a few others), so language was not an issue. Privacy IS an issue, and the Überwachungsstaat (surveillance state) is very pervasive. I sometimes wonder why East Germany didn't take over West Germany instead of the other way around (J/K--not really. The West had more money).

If I had to move elsewhere, I think I'd move down to Switzerland. Any area with a lake. Geneva, Zürich, Lugano, whichever.

Or maybe next door to the Netherlands, but it's a bit crowded there. Switzerland doesn't have an ocean coast, but Zürich and Basel are only a 50 minute flight from Düsseldorf, and it's a brief flight down to the Mediterranean coasts of Spain, France, Italy and Croatia. Besides, the Swiss lakes are spectacular.