Let's talk about countries!

[Mnementh]

Good thread, I like that.
I'm from germany, living in the city Potsdam (near Berlin). I grew up in east germany. I think the thing I dislike the most here, is the bureaucracy. Germany has probably the most extreme bureaucracy in the world. The best thing about my country is probably the high standard of living. We are for sure one of the most wealthy countries in the world - but this wealth is also somewhat well distributed around the population. That is the result of a long time policy of west germany, called "Soziale Marktwirtschaft". That means focusing on free market economy, while maintaining good social security systems, that allow the population to participate on the economical growth. This policy was given up after the reunion of east and west germany. The current politics is to reduce the social security systems. But so far we maintain some of them.

I think, the best countries to live in are Iceland, the scandinavic countries, canada and new zealand. But that may a wrong opinion, looking from the outside. I visited some european countries, but I never left europe.