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Canada is the closest thing you will get to those goals without being trapped in a boring isolated Nordic European country.
by caiob 11y ago
Canada is the closest thing you will get to those goals without being trapped in a boring isolated Nordic European country.
- padobson 11y agoYou mean Europe's Canada?
- S4M 11y agoHow about France and Germany?
- realusername 11y agoFrench here, France is the complete opposite of an efficient government. The bureaucracy is massive and everywhere. It's quite outside of the scope of this topic but the short answer is don't create a company there.
- S4M 11y agoI'm French as well (expat, though). What you say is true, but it strikes me as a lesser evil than the ones that are plaguing USA: little social protection and high cost of education among others.
- realusername 11y agoAlso expat on my case (London). Yes indeed I agree. My problem with the French system is more the bureaucracy than anything else. I'm from the countryside in a post-industrial area so it makes it even worse than in cities. I have a brother who has a shop and honestly, it's impossible to manage the paperwork nowadays, I don't want to put any anecdotes here because people won't beleive me and I will probably be downvoted. I think around ~70% of the shops in the area are close to bankruptcy and the system is crashing really hard currently. If it stays like this, everyone will be relying on some sort of black market to purchase goods in less than 10 years. While I guess main cities are still okay, things are not really working anymore in remote areas.
- pmoriarty 11y agoTake a look at the Netherlands. It fits the OP's criteria, is not isolated, and Amsterdam, for instance, is at the opposite extreme from boring.
- Grishnakh 11y agoA "boring" Nordic country sounds good to me... but how hard is it for Americans to move there and get software jobs there?