There just about the only EU country I haven't heard bad things about recently. The wikipedia article is pretty badly written and out of date, but it says Austria is one of the wealthiest, highest living-standard countries in the world.
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A map. Because maps rock. US states renamed to countries with similar GDPs.
- 15/09/2011 03:28:54 PM
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Mine's Belgium
- 15/09/2011 03:39:37 PM
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- 15/09/2011 03:39:37 PM
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um... is Austria doing well? *NM*
- 15/09/2011 05:10:20 PM
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I think they're pretty solid.
- 15/09/2011 05:25:05 PM
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I'm back in Russia! This is really cool. Wouldn't have thought that Florida = = Australia.
- 15/09/2011 08:06:06 PM
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They mean their GDP in absolute numbers is close to the same size?
- 15/09/2011 08:10:00 PM
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Re: They mean their GDP in absolute numbers is close to the same size?
- 15/09/2011 11:33:56 PM
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Puts TX in pretty good shape though.
- 16/09/2011 03:47:19 PM
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Why does Sweden always have to be the place with a crumbling car industry?
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- 15/09/2011 09:02:45 PM
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- 15/09/2011 09:02:45 PM
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Delaware = Bangladesh?!
- 15/09/2011 09:11:42 PM
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Aren't there about 150 times as many people in bangladesh as in delaware?
- 15/09/2011 09:19:01 PM
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my backyard is bigger than Delaware and has more people in when I have a barbecue
- 15/09/2011 09:47:20 PM
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- 15/09/2011 09:47:20 PM
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Erm.
- 15/09/2011 09:55:08 PM
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Yeah, I don't see how those two figures are even similar tbh. *NM*
- 15/09/2011 10:00:30 PM
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Still a huge enough difference to make you wonder about that map, though...
- 15/09/2011 10:00:40 PM
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yeah I was looking at the PPP number which is 259B
- 15/09/2011 10:08:24 PM
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Re: yeah I was looking at the PPP number which is 259B
- 15/09/2011 10:22:27 PM
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There's a flip side to that, too, though.
- 16/09/2011 04:31:06 PM
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As Legolas says, that is essentially what PPP GDP is, and why I and others prefer it.
- 16/09/2011 03:59:41 PM
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Erm, nevermind.
- 15/09/2011 10:05:13 PM
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Hmm.
- 15/09/2011 10:10:55 PM
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Yeah, I started out by confusing Delaware with Rhode Island and it went from there.
- 15/09/2011 10:20:09 PM
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I have been known to call DE "the Black Hole of Calcutta for incorporation."
- 16/09/2011 03:40:39 PM
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- 16/09/2011 03:40:39 PM
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Connecticut being the UAE seems pretty appropriate in my mind for some reason ...
- 16/09/2011 03:08:23 AM
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Florida?! But that's America's wang! *NM*
- 16/09/2011 01:42:41 PM
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They prefer "The Sunshine State."
- 16/09/2011 07:09:21 PM
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