What Is The Greatest Country On Earth?

[Matra et Alpine]

are you joking scotland is one big field with lots of sheep

what a plonker

it's got the highest bloody mountains in Britain, so how can it be a big field ?
it's got the deepest water in Britain, so how can it be a big field ?

Learn before posting, or keep quiet.
There's a serious discussion going on and someone is interested in knowing and learning a bit more.

[Esperante]

Matra, I thought you wouldv'e posted something along the lines of this to put TreVor in his place

[Esperante]

[Matra et Alpine]

Nice to see you've all got poics of Edinburgh to hand.

but it's not the prettiest part, we keep Edinburgh for the toursits and the rest for us

AND THANK God, nobody posted a picture of our 450million pound parliament building. The embarrasment for Scottish democracy

[Esperante]

Is that the one designed by Gehry? I dunno, I think it's a needed change from Edinburough's countless identical streets. Every city has their sore thumb, but they come to be appreciated. NY used to have the WTC (the subject of LOADS of ridicule when they were bulit), Chicago has the Jelly Bean in millenium park, milwaukee has the Art Museum addition (which is praised NOW but when planned everybody HATED it), San Francisco has the Transamerica building, the list goes on. Every city needs to have an odd icon, it helps stir up the city a bit.

[Spastik_Roach]

I honestly think New Zealand is a dream place to live. Extremely friendly place to live, beautiful scenery, comfortable no extremes interms of weather, few disasters, and most of the towns are no longer than 1 hour from a beach!! It really is just an awesome place to live. Luuuuuuurvely food here aswell, whitebait fritters and pavlova are heavenly!

[Matra et Alpine]

Is that the one designed by Gehry? I dunno, I think it's a needed change from Edinburough's countless identical streets.

have you visited Edinburgh ?

'Sadly' what you describe as "countless identical" is the finest example of Georgian architecture and was the work of the Adams brothers in the 1700s.
Known as "the new town", it is one of the most protected styles of architecture in Britain and gneerally is viewed as beautiful

New isnt' always better and certainly when you look at Glasgows' "lost" Victorian arcgutecture, replaced by office blocks, "design" buildings of the 20th century an 4 lane motorways plowed throguh the city centre the comparison can bring tears to the eyes

The new Scottish parliament building.
It's noy so much the design which needs to "grow" on most folks, but it's the cost.
A country of 5 million people and we spend 90 pounds PER PERSON on a building when we could be increasing our support for pensioners and students and open new hospitals etc etc.
It was OK when it was going to cost 40 million pounds !!!!



To return to thread, I think I missed out NZ - Scotland with more interesting extremes Lots of friends have emigrated there and none have regretted it.

[Supercarfreak123]

are you joking scotland is one big field with lots of sheep

awsome avatar!

Call me patriotic, but the U.S., i've lived here all my life, and i love it.

Australia and Canada (USA Jr.) are also great countries.

USA! USA!

[UK CARS]

This thread is very intresting, which i and you can learn from.
I think trevor doesnt know whats serious and not. Ban him.

[The Tuner]

how old is trevor? mebe he jus a kid, mebe he jus foolin around...u cant ban him after being here for sucha a short time...it gona look like a military regime here!

dubai...rather...U.A.E.!! no taxes, everythin available here, fuel is relatively cheap, nice cars...and the ladies...WOW!
after this, probably canada. jus been there once, but it was hard not to fall in luv wit immediately. specially toronto...luvd the palce.

florida (in da US, FYI )...but then again, didnt stay there long.

[Esperante]

Well, saying 'countless identical' streets was a bit of an exaggeration, but i'm just trying to say that Edinburgh, besides Castle Rock, has no real identfiable landmark that sticks an image once you've seen it. To a tourist the streets al look rather the same. To a foreigner, all the streets of New York would look the same, but the WTC's open plaza and soaring towers wouldv'e left a lasting impression. And yes, I do understand that price is a bit concerning, but I'm talking design wise, I think that much was a good decision.

[Egg Nog]

I think if I had to pick one, I'd go with Iceland.

How does a completely sustainable national energy policy sound?

Iceland is a country that actually puts decent radical ideas into action. They will be completely free of fossil fuels within the next 50 years. No other country in the world can come anywhere near saying something like that.

[UK CARS]

I think greenland, you get to speek Greenish!

[Karrmann]

easy, USA

[Esperante]

easy, USA

back it up, I think that goes to prove how ignorant americans are. I seriously hope you're kidding, we have loads of Viagra and a shortage of flu vaccine! We're taxed to the bone! We can't even get a handle on government corruptoins!