It's an election year!
Feb. 11th, 2004 12:30 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
conuly(And a leap year... I just now realized that. Smart, ain't I?)
So I've been thinking. If the shrub-boy gets elected (won't say re, I refuse to concede the point!), I really don't think I want to stay here much longer... not until things change a bit. So I'm looking into overseas programs... even if the shrubboy doesn't make it, I still want to go a-travelling at some point, and if I can do it while attending school, so much the better. This time, I'm doing it right and focusing on linguistics programs.
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Please explain WHY you picked whatever you did.
As for myself, I'd most prefer to be in a country where you don't have to drive, people are fairly tolerant, and the cost of school/living isn't too high. Oh, and I could get a job. Strict requirements, I know.
So I've been thinking. If the shrub-boy gets elected (won't say re, I refuse to concede the point!), I really don't think I want to stay here much longer... not until things change a bit. So I'm looking into overseas programs... even if the shrubboy doesn't make it, I still want to go a-travelling at some point, and if I can do it while attending school, so much the better. This time, I'm doing it right and focusing on linguistics programs.
[Poll #246930]
Please explain WHY you picked whatever you did.
As for myself, I'd most prefer to be in a country where you don't have to drive, people are fairly tolerant, and the cost of school/living isn't too high. Oh, and I could get a job. Strict requirements, I know.
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Date: 2004-02-11 09:27 am (UTC)I'd most prefer to be in a country where you don't have to drive.
Excellent train system where I live, buses everywhere, not too unreliable. Cycle routes many places, easy access to anything on foot(unless you live on one of the desert islands). I've been living here for fifteen years as a pedestrian and am not finding it too bad.
People are fairly tolerant.
Here, absolutely. Race, religion, sexual orientation, anything. It's not so good in the cities such as London or Manchester, but it's great here.
And the cost of school/living isn't too high.
Uni is cheaper than the American equivalent, if i've worked that out correctly. Things cost slightly more than the average American item, but I should imagine that it's no worse than New York prices, if they're anything like Paris/London prices. Stay out of London if you want to live more cheaply.
Oh, and I could get a job.
Well, depends what field you go into. I'm not hot on jobs, mainly because I'm not in any position to get anything more than a McJob or a paper round.
Come on, come to England- you'd like it here. All the history, for one thing. We've got an 800 year old church and a castle about that age within three miles of my house, for example.