Ive heard people say that Nordic people are the most boring in the world, especially icelandics. is that true?

no they're pretty cool

Just look at Swedish girls. You better pick up a tutor for the language : it's going to put you a step ahead of the competition.

Norway has good music, and is the holy land of hard rock/metal, so I respect them for that.

I heard Finnish, cold-blooded and not communicate(I heard this from Finnish

US, most capitalist country in the world

US, most capitalist country in the world

Best country definitely.

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I live in Finland

^ So how is Finland?

Chances are, Human torch lives in a Sami hamlet that is very poor, very afflicted with frostbite and disease, in Lapland, of course.

There is hardly a day chefs villages, and even if there is so few tens of thousands

I would love to live in Holland,

Oh wait i already live there..

Yay :D

1. Germany
2. Sweden
3. Norway
4. Poland
5. USA (I'm Canadian, despite what Warlight seems to think)
6. Scotland

^ Hahaha! That's what I'm talking about!! (Free universities AND free health care, get rekt).

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Scotland sounds nicer than the Rest of UK

Heh, it's poor, low infrastructure, less money...no offence to Scottish, but you depend on England!

poorer, well I thought you were beyond that Juq, you know that in England the wealth is unevenly shared, that there is a huge gap between the rich and the poor nowadays and it is getting worse now. And I believe that if Scotland is more in the left side of the political spectrum, then even if Scotland is poorer according to its overall GDP (counting the average wealth), it does not mean that the middle class would be poorer than the English one.

Depending on England? if it was the case, England would have not done that much effort trying to reason Scotland to stay in the UK, Scotland has more ressources than England, and could do alone better than many countries. They just need to trust in themselves, and stop believing the English bashing your country and fearing the Europeans boycotting and threatening an independent Scotland.

Last but not least, an interesting report from an American journalist :

Scottish Independence: England's Shameful Secret (from forbes.com)

In 1974 the English government had received a secret study conducted by economics professor Gavin McCrone. Nearly all that North Sea oil is Scottish, Professor McCrone wrote. The oil reserves were far bigger than most people realized, he said. An independent Scotland would become one of the most prosperous countries in the world, comparable to Switzerland or Norway, he wrote. Its coffers would overflow. The biggest problem the country might face would be dealing with its massive balance of payments surplus.

Meanwhile, of course, the big loser from independence would be England.

The English government suppressed the report. The McCrone Report was hushed up, and didn’t see the light of day until about ten years ago. We only know about it because the Scottish Nationalist Party, using freedom of information laws, forced the English government to reveal it.

Today it’s available online.

And as the Scots gear up for this week’s referendum on independence, it makes devastating reading. All that talk about England and Scotland being “Better Together”? All that talk about the British “family” and the historic union? All that pompous finger-wagging from Englishmen who think of Scotland as a place to shoot grouse? All those pictures of the royal baby?

Take a gander at the secret report that the English establishment hid from the Scots for thirty years.

“The full significance of North Sea oil… remains in large measure disguised from the Scottish public,” Professor McCrone wrote (He cited ineptitude in Westminster rather than malice; as anyone who has ever lived in England knows, the charge is all too believable). Analysis by Parliament’s Public Accounts Committee, he added, gave “authoritative support” for the Scottish nationalists’ charge that the government had “giv[en] Scottish oil away to the international companies ridiculously cheap.”

It is worth remembering what was going on in the rest of England at the time. The country was plunged into economic and political crisis. These included a “three day week” and, in 1976, the humiliation of having to seek a bailout from the International Monetary Fund. Some English at the time genuinely feared a constitutional crisis.

In the circumstances the country needed every penny it could get to survive. North Sea oil was about the only bright spot in the economy. They were not going to give it up.

Realpolitik is nothing new. The English government was doing its job – protecting the interests of the English. And this is, of course, old history. Much of the oil has now been given away. An independent Scotland would not get the windfall it would have received decades ago. But the story nonetheless remains a shameful one – and one that the pro-union forces would rather not talk about as the Scots prepare, once again, to go to the polls to consider independence.

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Scotland are not economically poorer than the rest of the UK. We have many more natural resources, millions of people flock to Scotland to see the wonders of the Loch Ness Monster, and the beautiful Highland terrain. Furthermore, due to the lengthy coastline, multiple lochs, and windy climate, a lot of renewable energy is produced in Scotland. Scotland has a lot of room for improvement as well, as it holds the capacity to produce 25% of Europe's wind energy, and 25% of Europe's tidal energy. The reason Scotland tends to have less wealth than England is because Scottish people pay a lot more taxes, and don't get the same in return. Scottish people pay more tax than anyone else in the UK, and Scotland would be 8.3 billion pounds more wealthy independent, but since the Scottish taxes are accumulated in London, and due to the Tory government, they are distributed in the ways that they want them to be distributed. A lot go to London, and the various other big English cities, such as Birmingham, Sheffield, and Manchester.

There is a diverse economy in Scotland, with money being pulled in from various places, such as agriculture, industry, oil, construction, financial business, transport, and more. We also have an excellent fishing association. This is shown how Scotland survived the Global Financial Crisis much better than England. Scotland would also be richer, since Westminster has been costing them billions of pounds (64 billion right now) in repaying debts that England are responsible for. The acts that England are doing are devolved matters, which Scotland have no contribution to, but are obliged to pay this amount of money because they are part of the UK. Moreover, Scotland's national deficit spending is lower, and Scottish public finances are stronger than the UK as a whole.

Scotland also has very strong exports, consisting of petroleum, electrical goods, finance & insurance, mining, transportation, machinery, and Scottish cuisine. Scottish whisky and haggis are very strong exports that are exported to many countries, (with the highest demand in Germany).

Scotland is also the second most reliable place (after London) for investments. 11% of UK's FDI was secured in Scotland, despite the fact that Scotland makes up 8% of the population. USA and Norway put millions of pounds into Scotland, and are always satisfied.

If Scotland had full control over tax, business regulation, labour market, exports, and innovation, the economy would be much stronger. There would be no need to give money to London, for the wealth to be distributed unfairly according to taxes paid, and they would be much better off economically because of this.

Scotland's most popular party (SNP) are a left-winged government, who are very interested in evening out the wealth distribution in Scotland, as opposed to the right wing Tories in London. This will prove beneficial to Scotland's economy because less people will be living on less money, and places like the Highlands, which are currently poorer than the rest of Scotland thanks to David Cameron, can become more economically stable.

For all these reasons provided, Xypapy, I hope you reconsider your asinine, ignorant, statement of no offence to Scottish, but you depend on England!

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