Does your country have a backyard?

[Goodfella]

So what's the moon again?

 

[Kyriakos]

Luxemburg's backyard would be literally just some backyard

 

[Tee Kay]

We can freely go to NZ without a visa, so that is clearly our backyard and don't forget Bali, since there are many Aussie tourists.

NZ is more like a little brother.

 

[Silurian]

Luxemburg's backyard would be literally just some backyard

Wins thread

 

[gay_Aleks]

NZ is more like a little brother.

Is he the one mowing the lawn?

 

[timtofly]

Our front yard is the Atlantic, our sideyards are Canada and Latin America, our Backyard is the Pacific. Simple.

Does that make one Eurocentric?

 

[Domen]

It has always been

More like since the war of 1864 - 1870:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paraguayan_War

An 1871 census recorded 221,079 inhabitants, of which 106,254 were female, 86,079 were children, with no indication of sex or upper age limit; and 28,746 were male.

 

[Thorgalaeg]

It would have been good to be male and paraguayan in 1871!

 

[LoneRebel]

It would have been good to be male and paraguayan in 1871!

Not so good just the year before, though.

 

[Takhisis]

It would have been good to be male and paraguayan in 1871!

What good is it for if you're only eight years old? All there is is a lot of mothers and big sisters.

 

[GamezRule]

Yes, my country has a backyard and it is called Earth. We also have a vacation home called the Moon and we're looking into acquiring the Sun as a financial investment.

 

[W|M]

What good is it for if you're only eight years old? All there is is a lot of mothers and big sisters.

Still, when you grow up, there will still be lots of women and few men

 

[Tahuti]

Is there any significant immigration from the latter two?

Not really. Suriname had an immigration binge to the Netherlands in the 1970s which has subsided since, and the Antilles is actually part of the Netherlands, so that wouldn't really count as immigration.

 

[eduhum]

I suppose Portugal is Spain's backyard…
Nearly no one in neither countries contemplates union seriously, but the idea is there, and in some decades my guess is that the sentiment will grow.

 

[Takhisis]

Still, when you grow up, there will still be lots of women and few men

Not that many women of a beddable age if there haven't been any men around to sire them.

 

[gay_Aleks]

I suppose Portugal is Spain's backyard…
Nearly no one in neither countries contemplates union seriously, but the idea is there, and in some decades my guess is that the sentiment will grow.

Can Catalonia into Castille's backyard?

 

[Takhisis]

Can Catalonia into Castille's backyard?

Noice use of cat memes, comrade.