I would rather be.......
 

Please complete the following sentence:

I would rather be a citizen of (Insert your nation of choice here) than any other nation on earth.

Thank you for your input

Yoda

The United States of America.

Yoda

The United States of America (with all certainty)

Of course, USA!!!!!

Red white and blue
 

Nowhere but usa

Yoda, I am curious; did you use the word nation vs country
 

for any specific reason?
Have been a globe trotter my working life I have an excellent basis for vigorously stating, there is no place like the good old USA for me and my family.

I am very hawkish about the protection of it's core values and what it's founders intended.

btk

USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA and The USA

There is no place like home but the food in Italy and the wine in France.....

Easy
 

I lived in 20 different countries and am in love with the USA.

One thing tho the beer in England is the best.

North America
 

Preferably the United States of America.:eclipsee_gold_cup:

Huh?
 

I wouldn't rather be anything... I'm already an American!

I would rather be a citizen of the USA. Then I could live in The Villages full time.

Sadly, as a Canadian, (and Brits are the same), the U.S. Government only allows us to stay in the USA 182 days in a calendar year. There is no type of "retirement visa" available to us. Even though we own property and pay real estate taxes in Florida. :cry:

So let me see if I have this straight. You play by the rules and can only stay in USA for 182 days a year. An estimated 12 million illegals do not play by the rules and they stay here 365 days of the year.
If you stayed here longer would they deport you? Seems like there are different set of rules for different people?

Yes Donna, there are definitely different sets of rules for different people. I'm not sure how millions of illegals manage to live and work in the USA. Perhaps by claiming refugee status?

Canadians and Brits are limited to 182 days in a calendar year. And sadly, there is no such thing as a "retiree visa".

I've spoken with Immigration Lawyers because my wish would be to live in The Villages 100% of the time. I would definitely be willing to give up my "free" Canadian health care and purchase health care in the US if I could live in Florida full time.

We limit our stay to 182 days because we don't wish to be in the US illegally. Our passports are scanned at the border. If we were to stay in the US for more than 182 days and then travel, we could be permanently denied re-entry to the US. And of course we don't want to risk that, as we own a home in The Villages.

How Inane
 

Of course (those of us who are American) we love America first. What are we going to require McCarthyite loyalty oaths now? Or did you set up this question for some astro-turf "gotcha."

I don't see your flag pin! Where's your flag pin?! You must be a muslim-commie!

Why doesn't Barack Hussein Obama wear a flag (American) pin or salute the flag? Why does he not release his college records? Does Hussein Obama sympathize with the recent terrorist bombers the way he sympathizes with his friend Bill Ayers, himself a terrorist bomber? Inquiring minds want to know.

By the way, Joe McCarthy is a true American hero, unlike the Anointed One who thinks we have 57 states.

There was no reason. It could have been either.

Yoda

I think this thread has shown that although some may think that America is no longer number one, it is way ahead of whoever is in number 2.

Yoda

Here's surprise for you, Yoda. I'm rather fiercely loyal about my citizenship. You may not believe it, but words cannot express how I felt when my passport finally came in the mail after 20 years of trying.

I think I know what you're trying to demonstrate with this thread, given some of what's happened in another thread.

Make what you will of it, but there are several reasons that I'm here and stay here and it's not because of immigrant work policies of other countries - though I grant you that I entertained working in Canada (meaning I searched job listings up there) when I was out of work for a year and a half back in 2004.

I still don't think there is something that can be called "Number One" since the definition is, by it's very nature, subjective so different people will judge it differently.

That being said, I was born here, I'll most likely die here (since I don't travel more than a fraction of my time) and I'll will continue to vote in every election, attend as many town meetings as I can and keep hoping my voice, as well as others, are heard.