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Cheap beer in Canada? I've been to Toronto thrice now and paid $28 for their cheapest 12 pack. I understand the healthcare and all but dude needs a cheap buzz.

buy more weed ldo

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05-06-2009 , 07:04 PM

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Originally Posted by I.M. Baked

panama seems to have a lot of the right stuff for what i would want in a country. beaches, bitches, lax m.j. laws and no taxes and only a few hour flight from miami. also i've read the have the lowest crime rate in latin america.

+1 for panama its at the top of my list for best places overall

my 2nd pick would be Porto alegre Brazil

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05-06-2009 , 08:39 PM

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Lisboa (Capital) two casinos / Algarve(turistic region - beaches!) one casino, in Portugal.

1600$/month and you live confortable (one T1 in lisbon costs around 300$/mo on the city itself, not suburbs..) In algarve it's cheaper..

Portuguese girls usually have cute faces and are fashion-aware but aren't in the same league as it's scandinavian counterparts

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05-06-2009 , 08:45 PM

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Cheap beer in Canada? I've been to Toronto thrice now and paid $28 for their cheapest 12 pack. I understand the healthcare and all but dude needs a cheap buzz.

you clearly got scammed...cheapest beer here is 24 for 24$...Lakeport is cheap but tastes like **** imo.

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05-06-2009 , 10:45 PM

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Originally Posted by kommunizt

Define "comfortable". For $1600/month I can live comfortably (in my opinion) in many places in the US.

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05-06-2009 , 10:56 PM

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dubai

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05-06-2009 , 11:14 PM

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I didn't read the thread, but I'm just going to say Australia isn't that great, cost of living isn't that great, there is no culture (except maybe the blue singlet wearing footy fan who just wants to get drunk and fight someone), the food is ok if you eat at a foreign restaurant, people aren't that friendly by nature and we have that argue-just-for-the-principle trait that I hear other cultures don't have.

...and we're also the fattest country in the world, yes fatter than America, it's official, look it up if you don't believe me.

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05-06-2009 , 11:22 PM

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Originally Posted by WilGil

Cheap beer in Canada? I've been to Toronto thrice now and paid $28 for their cheapest 12 pack. I understand the healthcare and all but dude needs a cheap buzz.

ummmmm.... it's $28.15 for a case (24 beers) of lucky lager, lakeport, carling, james ready... wtf did you buy.

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05-06-2009 , 11:46 PM

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acording to forbes aus is #21 while usa is #9

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/in...9184200AAufNwY

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05-07-2009 , 12:05 AM

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Just google "world's fattest country" and Australia is in nearly every link.

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05-07-2009 , 12:22 AM

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I've been living in Australia for close to a year now, and can't WAIT to get back to Norway. The weather is nice and all, but everything else pretty much sucks.

The women: Some of the Americans were impressed by the standard of women down here, but in 10 months I've met ~10 Australian girls that were above what I would consider a 7 back home in Norway. I thought .au would have all kinds of surfer chicks and whatnot, but the standard down here is pretty close to Britain if you don't count the Asians (AKA incredibly bad)

Cost of living: WAY more expensive than the states, but cheap compared to scandinavia (ldo). The cost of living in .au has skyrocketed during the last ~3 years.

Beer: There is nothing in the world more annoying than drunk aussies (apart from drunk brits..). There is an incredible amount of fighting going on every weekend - I would say the majority of aussie guys get aggro when they drink, that sucks.

Good times: The beaches are good.

Overall: Australia sucks balls.

Edit: Mauritius is imo the country in the world that is closest to perfect. The relative lack of casinos might sucks for those of you that wanna play live, but everything else just screams paradise.. The girls are hot, the weather is close to perfect, the beaches are beautiful, and everyone's extremely laidback. As for taxes; nonresidents are taxed only on their income from sources in Mauritius. The only problem I see is that the majority of people speak French, although English is the official language.

You live in Perth though and wonder why majority of the Australians you encounter are the typical Russel Crowe characters. Also if you've lived there for a year and encountered 10 decent looking girls then you're not trying hard enough, no matter where you live =/

Catch a flight to a respectable state to bide your time easier imo

EDIT* I'm not saying Australia would be the best country in the world for an online pro but it's certainly not as bad as this post makes it out to be.

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05-07-2009 , 02:50 AM

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Just google "world's fattest country" and Australia is in nearly every link.

http://www.forbes.com/2008/06/20/aus...markets06.html

damn

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05-07-2009 , 02:53 AM

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http://www.forbes.com/2008/06/20/aus...markets06.html

damn

but

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/us_w...l_most_ob.html

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05-07-2009 , 02:55 AM

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Monaco. But you would have to settle for 3rd prince status...

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05-07-2009 , 03:04 AM

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why hasn't Canada gotten any love? no taxes on winnings here either.
Really cheap weed for online play.
Really cheap beer for live play.
Free healthcare incase you get carpal/tunnel from 24tabling.

i live in canada and I got carpal/tunnel (eyes obv) from 24tabling. I am in the proccess of getting my free health care.

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05-07-2009 , 05:00 AM

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Originally Posted by Moshiach

Just google "world's fattest country" and Australia is in nearly every link.

Think that might be because you are searching from Australia, when I google it Australia is not mentioned in the top 10 results and America is mentioned in a few of them.

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05-07-2009 , 05:06 AM

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i live in canada and I got carpal/tunnel (eyes obv) from 24tabling. I am in the proccess of getting my free health care.

what's gonna happen? surgery? i'm afraid of getting carpal tunnel...i know i have tendinitis for sure though

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05-07-2009 , 06:13 AM

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australia. melbourne. period.

Wtf does this thread even exist. Australia is the ****. go **** yourself. ty.

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05-07-2009 , 06:14 AM

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acording to forbes aus is #21 while usa is #9

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/in...9184200AAufNwY

And Japan wins for least fatties without a starving population. Guess you should go there if you can figure out a way to play online.

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05-07-2009 , 06:46 AM

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disregard this

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05-07-2009 , 07:03 AM

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australia. melbourne. period.

Wtf does this thread even exist. Australia is the ****. go **** yourself. ty.

This is why Australia sucks. Full of people like this.

Last edited by drzen; 05-07-2009 at 07:04 AM. Reason: spelling. Obv. couldn't decide between people and pole

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05-07-2009 , 07:09 AM

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australia obv.

THIS obv

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05-07-2009 , 07:11 AM

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Japan or Korea if you got the money! U.S too.

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05-07-2009 , 07:19 AM

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I quite like Britain frankly, we don't get taxed on our earnings and London has all the women you need, the best shops and food, at presently with the crisis everywhere is on a sale, and getting a meal for 2 for £10 is common.

Loving it!