Intersting Article about Rick Steves

Steves revealed that if he didn't live in the United States, he would live in Norway. "I really like their social sensibilities, and I have Norwegian heritage, so I feel very at home there. But I have to admit that I would miss the free-wheeling business atmosphere that entrepreneurs enjoy here in the USA,

Assuming no language barrier, how many would choose an ancestral country as their "not in the USA" place to live?

I would choose Sweden, one of my grandmother’s heritage. I feel very at home there. And I have never laughed so much with strangers. Friendliest people that I have found traveling. And the landscape reminds me of home here.

Easy for me. My ancestral country is the UK and we almost speak the same language already.

Rick’s pick of Norway, where his family is from, would place him in a country where the people seem to agree on what “the greater good for the most people” means. They find consensus.
And the Norwegians —which just last century were fishermen and farmers and among the poorest in Western Europe—are fortunate in that they can fund their society’s progress with the proceeds from oil and phosphate discoveries.
Norway’s winters teach people that the help their neighbor needs today might be help they themselves may need tomorrow.

This, along with not forgetting their roots, makes Norway a real impressive place.

Carol now retired I am UK too. I even have a 700 year old ancestor in a stone box in the center of Christ Church Cathedral (the family has been paying for the upkeep for generations). Still I would never get past the language barrier.

I am 21% English and NW Europe (Belgium), 19% Irish, 17& German, 16% Scot, with some small percentages of African, French, Spanish, and Scandinavian. I think I would pick Ireland (Northern, Derry), though I find Belgium (since that's where I get my last name) sort of intriguing.

That would be Northern Ireland, County Tyrone. Haven't been yet, looking at getting there in 2027. My brother worked on our family history as far back as the 1700s.

I’m mostly Irish with some German, English and Scottish. I would pick England, most likely Yorkshire. Any place in the British Isles would due in a pinch.