China is economically booming. They had the highest total GDP for 18 of 20 past centuries. They don’t have the issue of lazy voters confiscating wealth from productive citizens by voting. When I was there, the people seemed pretty content (though the army was everywhere!).
The citizens ARE at the absolute mercy of the central government; but the leadership is intelligent enough to know that pissing off a billion people is pretty stupid in any sense.
What say all of you? Freedom or prosperity? A booming economy or watch ACORN get people who live on park benches to vote away your life’s savings?
I don’t know this for a fact, but would guess China is not even close when it comes to quality of life. I am not sure what you would have us trade? Are we to give up more freedoms for less quality of life?
Living in a developing country may be an exciting life, but I prefer the luxury of living in a developed country. How well I am able to retain this luxury will be the trick.
[quote]CapitaineEvident wrote:
If China is so good in your opinion, why are Chinese immigrating to other countries instead of staying within?
Reminds me of this Chinese, Canadian and Cuban joke now…[/quote]
Don’t worry about China. Soon Americans will be immigrating to other countries faster than Soviet Jews in the 90’s.[/quote]
Grand Cayman is nice. I could make a go of it there.
[quote]Deadsion wrote:
if you improved the living conditions and living quality in china, I’d have no big problems moving there.[/quote]
Its fine if you have 15K a year or more. Nice condo, servants for $3 a day. Lots of really nice neighborhoods if you’ve got a little green. Hell, an engineer makes $5000 a year there.
Guanzhou, where my little girl is from, was fabulous – once again if you have $15000+ per year.