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First: Sorry, I didn't mean for my last post to come across as a flame. As I said, I'm sure America's a great place to live, and I don't mean to imply that where I live or anywhere else is any better, just that they're probably on a level.

Second: Sorry if I ramble in this post, it's late and I have a tendency to be longwinded when I'm tired.

Well I can't name another place like that, but then I haven't travelled much outside of New Zealand, so I'm not qualified to. I plan to do some extensive travelling a few years though.

However, your post gives me the impression that you think diversity is what makes the US, in your opinion, the best place to live. While diversity is great, how much of that diversity do you see while living your day-to-day life, as opposed to travelling around the states? Some, certainly, but I don't think it would be much more than you'd see in your day-to-day life living most other places in the world.

I also think there is more to a good place to live than just diversity. For example, as mentioned above by titsmurf, the standard of living is important, as I think are the kind of people that your countryfolk are. Again, I don't mean to say that NZ is better than the US, but a lot of Americans I have met say that the people over here are (in general, obviously) much friendier. (Their words not mine, for my part I have to say that the majority of the Americans I've met have been great.)

I guess at the end of the day different places have different things going for them, and they will appeal to different people. America's diversity obviously appeals to you, the easy-going nature of my fellow NZers and our clean air and water appeal to me, and other things about other places appeal to other people. It's all just personal opinion, which goes back to what I was getting at in my first post: I don't believe you can just state as a fact that one place is the best place to live.

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