If you had the chance to reset your life or obtain citizenship, where would you want to live?

[Grace O'Malley]

I have dual nationality (sorry for asking more of this off topic matter).

Is that easy (the process)? So you have it (dual nationality)? Do your daughter or son have it too (even as they have never lived in EU/Ireland)? How far that ''right'' can be transformed there ... based on laws? Does other parent's citizenship (for example only Australian) has any influences on the matter?

You can have dual nationality here. I have both Irish and Australian and I can pass on Irish to my children and grandchildren. It is the best of both worlds so I feel very fortunate. You can't have dual nationality if you are in Government. Parliamentarians cannot have dual citizenship but the majority of Australians can. Parliamentarians have to renounce their citizenship in other countries. Basically it is up to the Government of your country if they allow you to retain your birth citizenship if you apply for another citizenship. I had a friend who was born in India and had Australian citizenship. She married a London Jew and lived in the UK for a time but if she wanted to have British citizenship she would have to lose her Australian citizenship so she chose to keep her Australian citizenship. If she was born in Australia and gained British citizenship from a parent she could have retained both citizenships. My descendants can have both Irish and Australian. So you can keep the citizenship of your birth and parents. Another example would be an American that gained Australian citizenship. If they wanted to get British citizenship they would have to choose between British and Australian as they could not keep both.

[Finnish Swede]

You can have dual nationality here. I have both Irish and Australian and I can pass on Irish to my children and grandchildren. It is the best of both worlds so I feel very fortunate. You can't have dual nationality if you are in Government. Parliamentarians cannot have dual citizenship but the majority of Australians can. Parliamentarians have to renounce their citizenship in other countries. Basically it is up to the Government of your country if they allow you to retain your birth citizenship if you apply for another citizenship. I had a friend who was born in India and had Australian citizenship. She married a London Jew and lived in the UK for a time but if she wanted to have British citizenship she would have to lose her Australian citizenship so she chose to keep her Australian citizenship. If she was born in Australia and gained British citizenship from a parent she could have retained both citizenships. My descendants can have both Irish and Australian. So you can keep the citizenship of your birth and parents. Another example would be an American that gained Australian citizenship. If they wanted to get British citizenship they would have to choose between British and Australian as they could not keep both.

That's very good for your grandchildren. And as they'll have it (also Irish citizenships), they can same ways transform it to further?
Can you also vote in Ireland's election? Incl. EU-elections? I guess you can, except maybe Ireland's municipal elections (as you don't live there)?

So are you saying that dual nationality is maximum what you/your kids can have? I don't think they have limited max. nationalities to two in Finland. For example if I would move to Norway (can do that freely without any paper work ... just like that), living there 5 years without no crimes ... I would get Norwegian citizenship as well (as I'm native born of another Nordic country). Should I need to cancel either Sweden's or Finland's citizenship at the same time? I don't think so (based on Finland's & Sweden's laws). So it would be totally up to Norway (a new country) ... and Norway would't ask that either. But I know that some other countries would ask that.

[Megadorian]

Probably not, feel very content in my conditions and ethnicity

[Westbrook]

Ignorant of my own experiences as an American in Europe?

Quite the opposite, ignorant post.

[TheMaestro]

Ignorant of my own experiences as an American in Europe?

Where were you France?

[Maintenance]

Ignorant of my own experiences as an American in Europe?

Both, you havent been north to south and talked to the majority of the people.
People don't tell you they hate americans to your face for example, very rare chance for that to happen, doesn't matter where in the world you go.

[Westbrook]

You're right I haven't talked to the majority of the people in the world but I have been here and there and met a few of them, and I like to think I've reached a point in my life where I'm fairly capable of recognizing hostility and resentment from fellow humans. I can also tell you unequivocally that plenty of people have told me - to my face - that they hate Americans, among other things.

Both, you havent been north to south and talked to the majority of the people.
People don't tell you they hate americans to your face for example, very rare chance for that to happen, doesn't matter where in the world you go.

[Westbrook]

I've been to France, but seeing as the French tend to hate everyone including themselves, I'm not really taking them into account here.

Where were you France?

[Maintenance]

You're right I haven't talked to the majority of the people in the world but I have been here and there and met a few of them, and I like to think I've reached a point in my life where I'm fairly capable of recognizing hostility and resentment from fellow humans. I can also tell you unequivocally that plenty of people have told me - to my face - that they hate Americans, among other things.

So how is the south and east?

Basically the only places with hate for americans other than minorities in other countries.

[TheMaestro]

I've been to France, but seeing as the French tend to hate everyone including themselves, I'm not really taking them into account here.

Yes ofc youve been to France because their costumer service is shit, but its the only country they talk shit about everyone and you could have bad experience...