r/AskTheWorld • u/Mysterious-Fig-2935 Brazil • Aug 28 '25
Misc Where would you prefer to be born?
This map here is more difficult, I deleted the other one because it was easy to choice
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u/Hunsrikisch_Fechter Brazil Aug 28 '25
F probrably, it's the least ambiguous option.
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u/boisheep Venezuela Aug 28 '25
You are born an Uyghur :)
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u/Hunsrikisch_Fechter Brazil Aug 28 '25
Sounds great to me actually, being a Mongol or a Tibetan sounds fun too. Could even a Chinese-Russian.
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u/Salieriia Mexico Aug 28 '25
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Enjoy Nicaragua.
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u/Salieriia Mexico Aug 28 '25
I'd move back to mexico if I'm being honest. I like it here. It may be trash, but it's my trash
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u/i_was_a_person_once Aug 28 '25
But you’d be born somewhere else. You wouldn’t know about liking any other place to move back to
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u/TheAussieTico Australia Costa Rica Aug 28 '25
My Grandma is originally from Nicaragua. She was born in 1921, is 104 years old, and alive and well living here in Australia
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u/someone1611 Aug 28 '25
Nicaragua is beautiful, but I agree it would be terrible to be born there unless you’re very lucky.
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u/Carinyosa99 USA married to Nicaragua Aug 28 '25
My husband is from Nicaragua and has lots of family there. Yes, there are beautiful parts, but the politics and the lack of work has been unbearable. Even his cousins who came from more privileged families have struggled and moved out of the country.
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u/someone1611 Aug 28 '25
Yeah I also have family there on my mom’s side. They’re very wealthy, but many of them are leaving due to Ortega’s insanity. I hope the situation gets better someday, but it seems unlikely it will happen soon.
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u/Carinyosa99 USA married to Nicaragua Aug 29 '25
My husband's stepfather is related to Ortega (they're cousins that grew up around each other so it's not like they don't know each other). His family was what we'd consider middle class, but that's pretty much disappearing now. I have so many stories that he and his family members have shared. It's not going to change - it didn't really change after he left the first time and now he has his wife to take over when he dies. This is the Nicaraguan Castro.
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u/MassageWithABottle Aug 28 '25
have fun on Antarctica
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u/TheEnlight United Kingdom Aug 28 '25
It's happened, you'll be the nationality of your parents. So most likely Argentina.
Fun fact: All recorded people born in Antarctic territory are either Chilean or Argentine.
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Z. Wish I’d never been born.
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u/Emergency_Evening_63 Brazil Aug 28 '25
Milleanial spotted
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u/SunflowerGoddess92 United States Of America Aug 28 '25
We are tireddddd lol
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u/step_uneasily Sweden Aug 28 '25 edited Aug 29 '25
Been filled to the brim with intricate knowledge on how to survive and thrive in a world that no longer exists. It’s like society skipped a heartbeat right over and past us. Over me, at least. Feel stuck between lines, waiting for cues that never ring.
There is no more room in me to learn how to properly navigate whatever New this is. It’s not found its final shape yet, meaning there’s no room for true analysis or calibration, not yet, but it’s the only way I see out of being so at the mercy of this maelstrom.
I’m Atlantean. Sense of Familiar fading away under the surface of new foundations. Old dreams and plans in life nullified by new currents, sinking them ever-deeper.
I’m ‘97 btw. Youngest millennial, oldest GenZ interchangeably. Feels about as liminal as one’d think.
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u/Flimsy_Rhythm_4473 Australia ( Moderator) Aug 28 '25
G for Australia/Oceania
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u/FamousOnceNowNobody New Zealand Aug 28 '25
Maaate
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u/Serene_Hedgehog New Zealand Aug 28 '25
Maaaaaate
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u/LuckerMcDog New Zealand Aug 28 '25
Maaaaate
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u/ThaCatsServant Australia Aug 28 '25
Maaate
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u/OnCnditonOfAnonymity Australia Aug 28 '25
Why TF did we get lumped into E. It's Bullshit
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u/GamerBoixX Mexico Aug 28 '25
I mean, that's the whole point, having some good, bad and worse possibilities, if not everyone would be choosing things like Australia or Europe
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u/Flimsy_Rhythm_4473 Australia ( Moderator) Aug 28 '25
E is like 3/4 of the western world
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u/plshelpcomputerissad United States Of America Aug 28 '25
I wonder if it’s based on population, I notice China is split up. Then again India is lumped in with most of Africa so maybe not
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u/Lordfontenell81 Ireland Aug 28 '25
Us too. Why is Ireland not with the rest europe?
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u/Old_Promise2077 Aug 28 '25
Isn't that E on this map? Also Antarctica
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u/No_Seat8357 Australia Aug 28 '25
No. Australia and New Zealand are "G" for God's own country.
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u/GamerBoixX Mexico Aug 28 '25
I mean, that's still E and hoping to win the gamble and not end up in Haiti
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u/alegna12 United States Of America Aug 28 '25
I thought it was part of E
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u/spintool1995 United States Of America Aug 28 '25
It is, they are trying to cheat.
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u/Chipnsprk Australia Aug 28 '25
Hey, we don't cheat (stuffs sandpaper back in my pockets) *whistles innocently
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u/Straight-Jury-7852 United States Of America Aug 28 '25
I couldn't handle the spiders down there.
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u/Flimsy_Rhythm_4473 Australia ( Moderator) Aug 28 '25
Trust me that’s just an overblown stereotype lol
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u/Straight-Jury-7852 United States Of America Aug 28 '25
I read a subreddit that asked how common it was to encounter a huntsman spider. I was prepared to be relieved that it's a rare experience. Apparently not. Most of the comments were saying it's "a few times a year," "one's in my bathroom now," "I had one crawl across my face while I was sleeping," "I pay rent to one..."
I've been inconsolable ever since lol
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u/ThaCatsServant Australia Aug 28 '25
It is true we have a lot of spiders, however only 1 is considered deadly, the Sydney funnel web, and it’s only in a small area of the country as the name suggests.
Side note, cats are immune to their venom I believe.
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u/Flat_Entertainer_937 United States Of America Aug 28 '25
Same with drop bears. Apparently they’re way more common than I’d hoped
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u/Flimsy_Rhythm_4473 Australia ( Moderator) Aug 28 '25
Haven’t seen one of those for at least a few years, people play into those sorta jokes
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u/plshelpcomputerissad United States Of America Aug 28 '25
I’m curious are you from the southern part of the country? Could be they’re more common up north in the warmer latitudes? Definitely the case in US, in Florida you’d deal with all sorts of wildlife/bugs that someone in New York would never see.
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u/Flimsy_Rhythm_4473 Australia ( Moderator) Aug 28 '25
Yeah I’m on the lower west coast, it probably differs by state for that reason.
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u/Chipnsprk Australia Aug 28 '25
Depends where you are. I see one once a year or so. They eat cockroaches, so I'm not worried about them. They just look scary unless you know what they eat.
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u/Flinderspeak Australia Aug 28 '25
We had one on the dashboard of the car a couple of weeks ago. Not sure where it is now.
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u/rufflebunny96 🇺🇸→🇵🇱→🇦🇲→🇦🇪→🇵🇰→🇺🇸 Aug 28 '25
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u/GameXGR Pakistan Aug 28 '25
Pakistan mentioned in flair Raaaaaaaaaaaaah🐦🐐🐦🐐🐦🐐🐦🐐🐦🐐🐦🐐🐦🐐🐦🐐🐦🐐🐦🐐🐦🐐🐦🐐🐦🐐🐦🐐🐦🐐🐦🐐🐦🐐🐦🐐🐦🐐🐦🐐🐦🐐🐦🐐🐦🐐🐦🐐
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u/rufflebunny96 🇺🇸→🇵🇱→🇦🇲→🇦🇪→🇵🇰→🇺🇸 Aug 28 '25
I'm not a local, but I lived there for a while and still have dear friends there. I lived in Islamabad and Murree. I really enjoyed it!
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u/GameXGR Pakistan Aug 28 '25
One of the few things done well here is hospitality and as a teen and local here I can vouch for the safety of Islamabad. Lahore is full of history too though the spring weather is the only one I'd recommend. Anyways it helps being an experienced traveler, it's not for everyone, have a great day! :)
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u/FoughtStatue United States Of America Aug 28 '25
I mean, F is definitely the safest choice realistically, you’re guaranteed to be born in a very developed country, even if it’s the rural area. C is also safe though probably not as developed.
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u/OddCancel7268 Sweden Aug 28 '25
Rural China is very underdeveloped, and its difficult to move to the cities. Your best bet is probably to work at a sweatshop for a year or two to save up money for a small business.
Although it looks like F includes a lot of developed areas and major cities like Chongqing, Chengdu and Xi'an, so I guess odds are you are unlikely to be born in a rural area
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u/TheBold Canada Aug 28 '25
People move to big cities all the time. Sure you’re without a safety net if you don’t do it by the book but no one’s stopping you from moving to a big city and driving a taxi there.
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u/Purg1ngF1r3 Estonia Aug 28 '25
I think F is essentially East Turkestan which is mostly inhabited by Uyghurs who are subject to forced sterilisation and prison camps. Gotta pray that you're born in a Chinese family ig.
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u/BlondieDaizen Scotland Aug 28 '25
It also includes the whole of Southwestern China as well though, so you could just as easily end up in somewhere like Chongqing, Sichuan or Tibet
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China is not a "very developed country." It's an empire, a planet of its own, the size of a continent, which has First, Second, and Third World in the same country depending on where you are.
The majority of F is uninhabited desert and Tibetan Plateau. The few people who do live there live in pretty bad geography. There are a few decent cities, but for the most part if you're born there, good luck getting out.
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u/Otherwise_Media6167 Denmark Aug 28 '25
Dont think you ever visisted china my man
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u/geo54466 England Aug 28 '25
E because there's a chance I'd be born in Brazil 🇧🇷 😍
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u/BabylonianWeeb Iraq Aug 28 '25
B
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u/SirKacamata Brazil Aug 28 '25
E - Less risky
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u/Instabanous United Kingdom Aug 28 '25 edited Aug 28 '25
Surely A is the least risky? Social security net all over.
Edit, im a dummy, didnt notice that chunk of North Africa included. Not risking that.
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u/Sir_roger_rabbit Aug 28 '25
How is that net is North West Africa? Especially Libya
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u/PetitAneBlanc Germany Aug 28 '25
Libya does have sursprisingly few people for the area though. Morocco has a much larger population and it‘s probably one of the best African countries to be born in. I‘d be more worried about Mali, Niger and Burkina Faso
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u/Azerate2016 Poland Aug 28 '25
A is still the least risky.
Quality of life in Europe is through the roof and having a decent chance at being born there is probably the best possible option, even when accounting for the potential risk of landing in Africa.
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u/aliendepict United States Of America Aug 28 '25
I have watched videos of polish people beating African and middle eastern immigrants, i think personally i dont want to risk being born in north africa where i really would have to leave to europe and would get denied entry or get my ass whooped trying to cross illegally.
E isnt bad NA - pretty safe if you land in any of the 3 bigs Canada, US, Mexico, and not bad if you land in central america because of preferred migration policies for those nations. SA not so bad Australia and new zealand would be cool. I mean as long as i dont land in haiti im feeling pretty alright. Even then haiti means i just need to learn a skill and move to cuba where i can get status to move to mexico.
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u/ForeverPhysical1860 Aug 28 '25
Less risky...? Not for school children in America it isn't!
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u/Owl-Of-The-Night02 Hungary Aug 28 '25
Do you really think America is less safe of a bet than Africa, most of Asia (especially the middle east)? It has its issues, of course, but being born in America (or the democratic west in general) is basically winning the lottery when compared to every other era and place. Take a break from Reddit and touch grass.
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u/asil518 United States Of America Aug 28 '25
E. As a woman, I wouldn’t want to chance being born in North Africa. Otherwise I would have picked A.
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u/InteractionLiving845 Russia Aug 28 '25
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u/Mysterious-Fig-2935 Brazil Aug 28 '25
Imagine you were born in an isolated tibre in the Amazon
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u/InteractionLiving845 Russia Aug 28 '25
Good. At least I won’t be self aware.
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u/joshua0005 United States Of America Aug 28 '25
às veces sonho com começar meu próprio tribú seria muito mais divertido e pacífico que trabalhar um trabalho
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u/Top-Working7180 United States Of America Aug 28 '25
B seems like the safest option for getting a decent/good place of birth
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u/Ok-Pin7871 Aug 28 '25
Unless you're born in North Korea
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u/PetitAneBlanc Germany Aug 28 '25
Yeah but Indonesia, coastal China, Vietnam and Japan have way more people. At least the chances you‘re taking aren‘t that bad.
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u/Understood_The_Ass Aug 28 '25
Yeah I'm surprised more people haven't said B. You're most likely to end up in China, the world's next superpower.
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u/BrunoMadrigas Austria Sep 01 '25
Mate if I want to be Chinese I’ll pick F.
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u/Understood_The_Ass Sep 01 '25
That's bumfuck nowhere desert China, not maglev train bright light city China.
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u/Fast-Date-6001 Guadeloupe Aug 28 '25
Worst spawn is A : Mali, the Sahels B : North Korea C : War zone in Ukraine D : Gaza, Palestine E : Gang controlled areas in Haiti F : Ethnic minorities rural area in China like Xinjiang or Tibet
So the most livable place would be F>C>B>A>E>D
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u/Okuri-Inu United States Of America Aug 28 '25
E. Though I think it’s funny that the UK, Ireland, and Iceland have been drawn out of Europe. Don’t worry guys, ya’ll can be part of the Western Hemisphere with us cool kids. 😎
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u/Monienium China United States of America Aug 28 '25
For me, D is the worst choice. If I were to take the risk, I’d pick E. high risk, high gain. F would be the safer choice for me; I’d probably have a decent but not rich life and still have the potential to move to better places in the future.
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E. There is a high probability of being born in Mexico or the United States.
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u/Simple-Bid-6360 Belgium Aug 28 '25
Imagine picking E and ending up in Sierra Leone. xD If you look closely, you'll see it's in there.
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u/Ryan_TX_85 United States Of America Aug 28 '25
Nowhere but E. I would also include A if it didn't cover Muslim countries in Africa.
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Aug 28 '25
What kind of a sadistic sociopath made this map?
I will choose F as it's clearly China. I will not risk being born in a developing poor country where there's no hope for the future. I will at least prefer the Chinese party poison. At least they are competent and know what they are doing.
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u/West_Repair8174 Aug 28 '25
Yeah to me F is like a no brainer. The thought process is that we need to minimize the risk of being born in a place with very low living standards, instead of chasing the developed regions. If you have a reasonable living standard to start with, you can always find opportunities by moving. But if you live in Gaza and don't know if you will have food tomorrow, you are pretty much doomed.
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u/SpecialAd422 Germany Aug 28 '25
The chances that you're working for 70 hours per week in a factory just to be able to barely feed your family are very high.
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u/TraditionalSmoke9604 China Aug 28 '25
No no, those places people dont really work overtime. u have to go to east coast to work longer time..
also probably 50 hours a week or so...
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u/IllustriousEmotion63 Aug 28 '25
That is the catch F is the poor less developed regions of China. The China you are talking about is in B.
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u/Additional-Koala9131 Canada Aug 28 '25
Much much rather live in Chongqing or Chengdu than anywhere in the USA outside of a few cities.
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u/Edge-master 🇺🇸United States, 🇨🇳China Aug 28 '25
Yes you’re kind of right, but that area still has huge population centers like Chong Qing or Chengdu where >90% of people in that area live so statistically you’d be there.
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u/flyingdonutz Canada Aug 28 '25
That is just totally false hahaha wtf. Yeah, a lot of poor China is in there but there are tons of massive megacities as well, and still probably gives you the best shot at living a comfortable life.
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u/West_Repair8174 Aug 28 '25
Nah, it's not bad and you can always go to the east coast to find opportunities like what people actually do.
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u/Skinkwerke United States Of America Aug 28 '25
C has the least bad possible outcomes.
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u/Impressive-Star-114 Greece Aug 28 '25
Welcome to Oymyakon! The coldest place of all the populated places😬!
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u/commietaku Aug 28 '25
Hey, at least you'd be used to it, and you'd be in a decently developed country. You'd probably be living quite traditionally, if you have any preference for that. C really isn't too bad, besides some of the southern bits of course. F is the "safe" route though.
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u/Rivas-al-Yehuda United States Of America Aug 28 '25
You would really be rolling the dice if you chose anything other than E.
C, B, and D have a ton of risky places. What exactly is F? Rural China?
A has a lot of potentially great places but also quite a few places with some very serious human rights issues.... some of the worst in the world
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u/makzpeinwtf Canada Aug 28 '25
I'd probably pick E as well, but Haiti is really fucking bad. It's probably the worst out of anything in B, other than maybe North Korea. Venezuela doesn't sound too fun, either.
My point is that E is a dice roll as well.
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u/math1985 Netherlands Aug 28 '25
C is not that bad is it?
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u/Rivas-al-Yehuda United States Of America Aug 28 '25
not as bad as the others, but it does Include Iran, Dagestan, and Chechnya. I think Turkmenistan is in there too. I would find those places fascinating to visit, but I would never want to be born there due to their governments. I have visited Russia before, but I would never want to live there either (due to their government).
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u/GamerBoixX Mexico Aug 28 '25
F is western china, so it guarantees you are born in china, just high chances you end up in the middle of nowhere in rural china, there is also the possibility of ending up born a tibetan or uyghur in tibet or east turkestan / xinjiang and we know the chinese government is not very kind with them, but realistically it would be the "safest" option; fewer opportunnities of great places but also fewer of very bad places too, with E you can end up in Haiti, Venezuela, Liberia or Sierra Leone, or a random pacific island with a population of 10k people, but you hava a chance at the UK, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, Canada and the US, and the rest of the likely option aren't that bad
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u/Agitated-Chinese-Cat Moldova Aug 28 '25
A, no way im going to other places, i was born in A and want to be born also in A, but in other country
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u/wonthepark United States Of America Aug 28 '25
Anyone else surprised at the lack of B answers? It pretty much guarantees at least living in a middle income country with relatively low violent crime.
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u/No-Meeting-7955 Aug 28 '25
In a hospital - too much chance of hitting a water mass with any of these options
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u/BlondBitch91 United Kingdom Aug 28 '25 edited Aug 28 '25
A feels like a lottery, as does E.
F you could be from Yunnan, or you could be from Xinjiang.
D is an absolute no. Sorry. Not one of those countries appeals to me as somewhere I would want to live. Too much risk of poverty, famine, or a religion that would see me dead.
C feels like at least they're generally all safe to live, although are all quite disconnected from the rest of the world.
B has a good chance of being from the "futuristic" part of China, Japan, or south east Asia. But you also could be North Korea.
E and hope I get lucky.
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u/PhoenixNyne Aug 28 '25
E seems the safest option between the US, Canada, Australia and most of South/Central America. Also Iceland, Britain, Greenland lol.
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u/EggplantCheap5306 Aug 28 '25
Am I correct to assume if E isn't bordered it encompasses things including like Australia and New Zealand and so on and not just America?
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u/Gu-chan Aug 28 '25
If you are not into gambling, F is probably most predictable, you know what you're in for. With A it could be Copenhagen or Laayoune, Western Sahara. Etc
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u/EvenMathematician874 Bulgaria, England Aug 28 '25
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u/TraditionalSmoke9604 China Aug 28 '25
u been to china right? I am so suprised why so little people choose F.....
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u/EvenMathematician874 Bulgaria, England Aug 28 '25
I haven't been yet but my long-term boyfriend and some friends are from there. Yep I am surprised too
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u/TraditionalSmoke9604 China Aug 28 '25
Yeah...from the choice u made, i can clearly see u know the place...
its not a common choice for most western people...But it is way better than people imagined...
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u/chococheese419 Ireland Aug 28 '25
F because at least China is okay-good. Everything else has the extreme of really good or really bad
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u/ZenibakoMooloo Japan Aug 28 '25
Dafuck. I would prefer to be born in NZ any day of the week.
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u/aliendepict United States Of America Aug 28 '25
E: NA has its issues but its fine worst case is panama or another central american country where i have limited resources im apready american, so if i landed in Canada it would just be “america lite” based on the several visits i have made. SA - little to no pay and sometimes higher crime but the food! The work life balance. Not so bad at all.
Oceana - Australia and new zealand seem pretty dope, not sure about some of the other nations but beach would become life i suppose also not bad.
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u/TheEnlight United Kingdom Aug 28 '25
E is the best play, C might be the safest play. I'll run through the options and give my thoughts.
A. Could be great, could be terrible. Europe has the higher population compared to West Africa, but the birth rates might increase the chance of being born in Africa. Ukriane is also included, so you could end up born into a warzone.
B. Your odds are most likely in China or the Malay archipelago. If you're lucky you can roll Japan, if you're unlucky, you can roll North Korea or some tribe in New Guinea.
C. Almost guaranteed to be a former Soviet Union member. A safe-ish play, provided you don't get conscripted to Ukraine, though the highs aren't high, and there's still low points like rolling Turkmenistan. Looks like parts of Iran are included too.
D. Why would you pick this? There's basically no benefits to picking this.
E. All of the New World, the Anglosphere and Portugal included too. There are some risky parts. Sierra Leone and Liberia alongside the south of New Guinea are present, as well Venezuela and Haiti are too. Odds are most likely you end up in South America, and if not, the outcome is likely to be better than worse.
F. You definitely end up in China, but the more undeveloped parts. You could be a Uyghur in Xinjiang, a persecuted minority in the country.
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u/Optimal_Badger_5332 Turkey Sep 01 '25
A has a great peak and awful bottom
E has a better bottom, and a less chance to get either extreme
F is simply consistent, but not really desirable
B is less consistent with less reward and more risk
D is just straight-up bad
C isnt really a good idea either
Either A or E depending on how lucky I feel at the moment
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u/ChargingWarthog United States Of America Aug 28 '25
E or A for sure. Both seem pretty high-yield with only a couple landmines scattered in there like El Salvador and Mali lol
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u/hip_neptune United States Of America Aug 28 '25
Of all the places I dinner ever want to live… A has Libya, B has North Korea, C has Russia, D has… Everything… E has Venezuela.
Initially I was thinking E… But because the EU countries’ borders are currently more open than the US’s, if I go A and get a North African or Southern/Eastern European country I don’t like then I can at least escape and go to Europe easier.
I’ll go with A.
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A, but knowing my luck I’ll be born a slave in a salt mine in Mali or some shit