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A Great Place To Live PRO
Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 26, 2002 (message contributor)
A GREAT PLACE TO LIVE
America is a great place to live. Thousands of people reach its borders everyday hoping to live the American Dream.
The Chrisian Science Monitor recently reported a poll that asked the question "If it couldn’t be US, whose citizenship would you want?"
Americans, if forced to choose a country other than the US, would most prefer to be citizens of neighboring Canada, according to results of a new opinion poll. The survey of 2,142 adults was conducted May 23-29 via the Internet by Rochester, N.Y.-based research firm Harris Interactive. The countries polling highest, and the percentage of respondents who picked each are as follows:
1. Canada 28%
2. Australia 23%
3. Britain 9%
4. Italy 3%
(tie) Ireland 3%
(tie) France 3%
7. Germany 2%
(tie) Spain 2%
9. Mexico 1%
(tie) Japan 1%
But whose country, whose kingdom would really be...
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