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I hear good things about Costa Rica, hear being the operative term.  I surmise you can live well there with a paucity of funding.  Of course you might wake up one morning and find the political system had changed radically.

One thing I pay for here is stability.  I'm fairly confident the country will remain tomorrow and the next day more of less the same.

All rankings at best are general guides because each of us is unique, and we each will have a different weighting of the various factors used in any quasi-quantitative ranking.  This is one reason the wine rankings are so absurd.  A lot of those "100 point" wines would taste awful to most people, especially if quaffed short of 25 years of aging.  Your own tastes likely are just fine with some 87 point wine, and in fact, the difference between 87 and 91 points is very slight.  The rating doesn't even go below 50, and you never see a wine rated below about 83 or so (in my life).

So, nearly all wines in the $10-$200 range rate between about 88 and about 92.  Yay.  And some of the points are for things like clarity which may not matter to you, at all.

SFIrish had a Harley Sportster until the day before she went into labor with our first. She will have a bigger version when the kids are out of the house. She loved riding on the open roads around El Paso, particularly up into New Mexico. I'll probably get a class-M and join her, though I'm not sure.

Speaking as a cyclist, it's terrifying how many car drivers are clueless; they present the primary worry as I try to get around safely, but there is a tiny group of people who intentionally use their cars as weapons to intimidate. I'm not at all surprised by the video above. I've seen that kind of behavior several times--and, curiously, never when I've been the one doing something I shouldn't have. (People love to hate cyclists for running traffic signals, blocking traffic, etc., and I'm not perfect, but I know when I'm doing things wrong and when I'm not; usually not.)

I've had two vehicles--one a BMW and one a pickup truck--swerve at me. I'm sure they didn't mean to hit me, but there's no doubt they were sending me a message that the didn't like sharing the road with me. The BMW's driver just yelled at me when he did it; the pickup did it just before a traffic light that stopped us both, at which point he started to get out of his truck and wanted to fight me. My crime? I was in the left-hand turn lane on a multi-lane road, so that I could turn left.

It's far from the average day, but it's more common than it ought to be. Most people laugh and think it's funny. It should go without saying: it isn't.

And PS how on earth have no arrests been made in that incident? Could there be a clearer instance of vehicular battery? That crime is usually prosecuted against people who injure others while driving under the influence. It is shocking how few prosecutions there are against sober people who were, at best, criminally negligent--and more likely, as in this case--intentionally assaulting the victim. The driver of that truck should be facing charges. Full stop.

From what I am hearing- arrest forthcoming

You just like those Spanish women ;-)

Here's the methodology: https://www.usnews.com/news/best-countries/articles/methodology

I don't know that I'd agree with Canada being there. But I could see some advantages to anywhere other than Canada in the top 10.

If I had to leave.....Movin' on up..

Sweden is connected by bridge to Denmark.

We were talking about trying to do Christmas in Switzerland one year with our good friends who moved to NC. He lived there for about 9 months for his company right out of college, so knows the lay of the land. 

Then they had to go and procreate. So any Euro trips with them are probably sidelined a decade or so. 

Damn kids.

You just like those Spanish women ;-)

Here's the methodology: https://www.usnews.com/news/best-countries/articles/methodology

I don't know that I'd agree with Canada being there. But I could see some advantages to anywhere other than Canada in the top 10.

That I do. And the food. And the wine. And the sun. And the beaches. Spain is pretty awesome. And it's a lot more affordable than Switzerland, UK, or Germany.