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mnm1 | 5 years ago

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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dang|5 years ago

No nationalistic flamebait here please.

No regional flamebait either for that matter.

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

tuna-piano|5 years ago

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...

simonebrunozzi|5 years ago

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.

plessthanpt05|5 years ago

I'd love to move to Norway or Iceland.

cyberdrunk|5 years ago

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.

Bedon292|5 years ago

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

tomcam|5 years ago

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mortonpe|5 years ago

As someone who went to the CHOP multiple times through out the protests, I don’t agree with your characterization. My personal experience was not that of yours. It _was_ uncomfortable, but nobody makes change by staying in their comfort zone.

As for the miles of filth and needles. I’ve seen too. I’ve seen it in New York, Chicago, San Francisco, Miami, the list goes on. When you have folks being displaced as rents and property prices increase, so goes the middle and lower income folks. Small cities naturally don’t have challenges at the same scale as large cities.

Complaining does not help-What are the solutions to these problems? I don’t know, but I am all ears.

pbourke|5 years ago

There is more to Washington than downtown Seattle.