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WA. No state tax. Nice nature. Not completely overrun with corona like most of the other no tax states.

Post pandemic, somewhere in Western Europe hopefully. Some place that actually cares about its residents unlike this shithole country that's doing everything in its power to ensure the most corona cases and deaths possible.

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No nationalistic flamebait here please.

No regional flamebait either for that matter.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Is that statement just based on your general feeling or data? Because the data does not show that Western Europe is doing better in Covid deaths per capita than the US.

Top 10 countries in covid deaths per capita (as of today)... US is #8 and 5 of the top 7 are in Western Europe.

1. Belgium

2. UK

3. Peru

4. Spain

5. Italy

6. Sweden

7. Chile

8. USA

9. Brazil

10. France

Of course the pandemic isn't close to over, so this data will continue to change.

In addition, besides measurement differences, many other non-policy factors impact this scorecard. For example, age distribution of a country, population density, luck of when an outbreak started... impact a countries Covid deaths per capita... so I personally wouldn't start tallying a scorecard yet.

[1]https://www.statista.com/statistics/1104709/coronavirus-deat...

Fair point, but counter argument would be that US, Brazil, India, Russia and Mexico are poised to see many more deaths, while countries like Italy had an initial huge wave of deaths, but are now doing much better and do not expect significant deaths in the future.

Leaving this here for both of you.

https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2020/08/05/8993658...

I'd love to move to Norway or Iceland.

Iceland is known for its horizontal rain (i.e. rainfall combined with 50+mph wind). Add long days in the summer and long days in the winter. Add no trees at all. It's a somewhat extreme place.

When I dropped into street view of an Icelandic suburb I was surprised how many trees I saw. Maybe it's an issue of topsoil rather than climate?

Yes, from I've read it's definitely the issue of soil. The island was completely deforested a long time ago and the unprotected soil has completely eroded since then (the same thing also happened in Scotland and Sicily ?). There are some recent initiatives to reforest Iceland, but it will understandably take many decades to repair the damage.

I definitely have looked into Norway, though it is one of the most expensive places to live.

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