Appears when: The thirty-year-old washer and dryer people wish they had kept

What the pattern means: Every record here dates the machine instead of describing it — 40 years, 30 years, since 1998, since 2000, 20 years and counting — and treats the date as the whole argument. One of them is running on a workaround rather than a repair, and the anxiety in the set is about service rather than failure: whether a part, and a person who knows the machine, will still exist on the day it finally stops.

What commenters described: My Whirlpool Gold washer with a HUGE tub that’s been running strong since 1998. I have to bang the lid about 3 minutes into the wash cycle now but it then finishes the cycle. I dread the day that trick stops working.

Limit: The thread's most-liked record in this set is a regret reported after the fact — a working 30-year-old pair left behind during a move — with no side-by-side comparison against what replaced it.

Appears when: Front-loaders, and the repairs owners reported

What the pattern means: The opening answer's reply thread turns into a disagreement about one machine type. Owners report repeated repairs on front-loading washers — a spider bracket replaced twice, a hot-water pump twice in two years, gaskets and seals, four repairs in three years — while another owner of the same brand reports none at all since 2008. Two explanations are offered inside the thread rather than by us: that the feature-heavy machines sold as the premium option have more points of failure, and that detergent overdosing rather than the machine causes the fouling people blame it for. One commenter describes stripping and scrubbing the tub and replacing the pump and waste hose for about $50.

What commenters described: I have an LG front loading combo and I’ve had to repair the washer 4 times in 3 years.

Limit: The set contains flatly opposed reports about the same brand — zero repairs in fifteen years alongside four repairs in three — so it supports no reliability conclusion in either direction.

Appears when: Where commenters said to look for another one

What the pattern means: The replacement advice in this thread is concrete and secondhand-first: estate sales, marketplace listings at around $200, and a used-appliance dealer attached to a repair-training programme where a broken machine can be traded in. One commenter names Speed Queen and distinguishes its two current lines by letter code. A dissenting record argues the durable machines were never discontinued, only repriced — that a comparable pair cost the equivalent of $4,000 when the old ones were new.

What commenters described: Try to find a used appliance store or someone who repairs old machines. Chances are they have some that customers chose to replace. I buy from a workforce development program that trains people how to fix appliances. If I can't handle a repair myself--usually electrical--I trade the old one in for another used Kenmore from the 80s or 90s and they repair and resell the broken one. Win win. Hint: If you are not living in the land of "Yankee thrift", look in working class neighborhoods to nearest big city to find an appliance whisperer. Most people making minimum wage aren't dropping $2k on a new washing machine unless they absolutely have to.

Limit: The Speed Queen recommendation is qualified inside this same set: one record recommends the brand highly, another reports being told that even the current agitator models are not what the old ones were.

Appears when: The old car with physical buttons, and why owners refuse to upgrade

What the pattern means: These owners describe their cars by what the vehicle lacks. The list is consistent and specific: buttons and knobs instead of a touchscreen, no subscription, no telemetry, a CD player, hand-crank windows, a simple engine and few enough electronics that a mechanic can work on it. Age is worn as a joke — old enough to vote, old enough to drink, close to antique plates — but the stated reason for keeping the car is rarely sentiment. It is that the replacement adds software that will go obsolete before the mechanicals do, and a payment the owner does not want.

What commenters described: Honestly, my car. I have a 20 year old Toyota Corolla. This thing is a beast. As long as you care for it, it will keep going for a long time. But the main reason is because it doesn't have a lot of electrical parts. There is no heated seats, fancy dashboard screens, remote start, etc. This makes it more reliable and easy to fix. Once it finally quits on my I will get a new (to me atleast) car but it is likely going to be after when all of these things started to become standard.

Limit: Two records inside this theme reject the premise: one owner says a ten-year-old car meets every requirement on the list, and another names a current-model hybrid with buttons for everything and no subscription.

Appears when: Hondas and Toyotas, and the mileage owners reported

What the pattern means: One reply thread in which owners answer each other with odometer readings rather than opinions: 110,000 on a 1999 CRV, 125,000 on a 2011 Fit, 160,000 on a 20-year-old Element, 180,000 after five years of fieldwork on bad roads, 242,000 on a Nissan Armada, 140,000 on a Yaris turning 20 next year that passed its test with no advisories. The Fit's discontinuation is the specific complaint, and the condition attached to the mileage claims is on-time oil changes.

What commenters described: My Fit is 15 years old at approaching 90K! They are small mighty cars that refuse to give out

Limit: These are self-reported odometer figures from owners of surviving cars; the same models that did not last are, by construction, absent from a thread about what you still own.

Appears when: Parts, rebuilds and the components no longer made

What the pattern means: The point at which a working vehicle becomes uneconomic is a component, not the car, and the records name it precisely: a driver's door that requires a multi-state search of recently crashed examples of the same model, a part collected in person from another state, a marine diesel that has not run in eight years, and a rebuilt motorcycle that is knocking again.

What commenters described: I love my Honda Fit. Someone just backed into me and put a huge dent in my drivers side door. If they have to replace the door they said they have to do a multi state search for a fit that was recently in an accident to find a replacement door 😭

Limit: Parts availability in this set splits by production volume rather than by age: the same theme argues that eighteen-year-old economy cars have plenty of parts precisely because so many were sold.

Appears when: What commenters said to buy instead

What the pattern means: The concrete replacement routes proposed inside the car threads. Two are products — a used late-2010s model that still has knobs, and a forthcoming truck with hand-crank windows and optional telemetry — and two are corrections rather than recommendations: that continuously variable transmissions are not in everything, and that a Toyota hybrid's eCVT is a different mechanism. The longest record in the theme is arithmetic, working a new car's depreciation and five-year maintenance against a used one.

What commenters described: Why not just buy another used Honda? A late '10s model would still have knobs and buttons. Can't vouch for the transmission but I will endorse Toyota's eCVT they use in many of their hybrids. Also, I've noticed a lot cars from those years don't have as many miles on them as you'd think because we all stopped going anywhere for a year or so.

Limit: That arithmetic is one commenter's own worked example using figures they supply themselves, and it closes by asking the thread whether it has missed something.

Appears when: Furnaces, air conditioning and the unit that has run for forty years

What the pattern means: Fixed plant old enough that the installer remarks on it: a 40-year-old HVAC unit, a 30-year-old furnace every technician calls oversized, an olive-green unit from the seventies or eighties, one from 1948. The theme's only report on a current product is about a wall air conditioner rather than central plant. The efficiency argument runs both directions inside the theme — owners who replaced theirs report the new units are markedly quieter, smaller and cheaper to run, while an owner who has not cites three friends whose new units already needed major repairs. A floor furnace is named as the case where the components are simply out of production.

What commenters described: We replaced our late olive green 1970/80s A/C unit a few years ago. The guy who did the install said “Oh I have never seen one this old. I heard these old ones may just catch on fire on day, but they run great."

Limit: Nobody here compares running costs directly; the efficiency claim and the repair-frequency complaint come from different owners describing different units.

Appears when: Fridges, freezers and water heaters

What the pattern means: Cold storage is measured in decades — a fridge that reached 26 years, a deep freezer from the 1970s still running on one manual defrost a year — and the question the theme actually asks is whether anything sold now can do that. Two answers are offered: a premium built-in brand, with its price stated as a warning in the same breath, and a repair route in which the known failure part on a common model is swapped for a better-made one. A separate record wants a fridge with no ice dispenser at all and identifies the dispenser flap as the thing that fails.

What commenters described: You are quite right! My 1988 Sub Zero runs like a champ! I vacuum the coils twice a year and the seals have been replaced twice since new. Amazing machine and surprisingly energy-efficient for its age!

Limit: The premium-brand answer carries its own cost caveat from the commenter who gave it, and the parts-substitution route is repeated from repair videos rather than from a repair the commenter did.

Appears when: Plasma and “dumb” TVs owners refuse to give up

What the pattern means: A display technology nobody manufactures, kept in service by owners who date their sets precisely: 2010, 2011, seventeen years, a 21-year-old Bravia, a 19-year-old one. Two distinct reasons are given and they are not the same. One is picture characteristics. The other is that the set is not a smart television — several records name the absence of updates and data collection as the feature, and one owner reports keeping a working plasma over an OLED they already own and prefer less.

What commenters described: My 19 year old Bravia is still kicking as well, and it doesn't spy on me. 1080p is all I need.

Limit: The only repair anybody in this set describes is a power supply board replaced twelve years ago; nothing here establishes that the surviving sets are still serviceable.

Appears when: The argument over whether an old plasma is worth keeping

What the pattern means: The most technically specific disagreement in the corpus. The objection is power draw and mid picture quality. The answers are that late plasma sets carried the maximum six-star energy rating of their day, that plasma handled motion in a way the LED sets of the time did not, and that contrast approached OLED without burn-in or sample-and-hold. The running-cost dispute is never settled, and the thread's own conclusion is that the picture advantage has since closed.

What commenters described: Common misconception from the early models. Plasma TV power usage went down a lot by the time they were getting phased out and LED started taking over. I had the last 60 inch plasma Panasonic made and it had the maximum 6 star energy rating on release. By comparison, LED TVs at that time had an ultra efficient row of stars on top of the first 6. Picture quality was definitely average with less sharpness but they can handle scenes with lots of movement very well which was the opposite of LED TVs. LED has come a long way though so searching for an old plasma isn't really worth it anymore.

Limit: No figure in this exchange is sourced, and the annual running-cost estimates commenters trade differ from one another by roughly a factor of five.

Appears when: iPods, and the community that keeps them running

What the pattern means: The most complete repair pathway in the corpus, described by people who have done it. The modifications named are specific: the mechanical drive replaced with flash storage on a CompactFlash or microSD adapter, a new case and bezel, alternative firmware, and a documented community around the work. One owner reports a fifth-generation unit rebuilt almost entirely; another reports a 2006 nano still running on about twenty minutes of battery. The failure the mods answer — the click of death — is in the same thread.

What commenters described: you can get replacement everything for those now. I have a 5th gen thats flash modded and everything. new case, bezel, etc.

Limit: The modification route is reported by people who completed it; no record says what it cost, how long it took, or how often it fails.

Appears when: Headphones and amplifiers nothing new has matched

What the pattern means: What owners say cannot be reproduced is fit rather than specification: comfortable, owned ten years, every newer pair feels worse. The one repair actually reported is a consumable — third-party replacement ear pads, with one commenter on their third set. At the other end of the theme a roughly 50-year-old amplifier is becoming unserviceable for a reason that has nothing to do with parts: the only person still willing to work on it is the owner's ageing father.

What commenters described: i think i have the same model. the material on my ear pads split, probably from using them while weightlifting and sweating all over them but i ordered a replacement set from wicked cushions and now they're like new

Limit: The single replacement suggestion in this theme is second-hand — a commenter relaying a friend's recommendation — and names a brand rather than a matched model.

Appears when: Phones people are holding on to

What the pattern means: A withdrawn size, not a withdrawn model. The complaint is that one-handed use has left the market, and the records report the workarounds people reached for when their own unit failed: a refurbished replacement of the same model, a finger loop on the back of a larger phone, and simply keeping the old one going. Two owners say why they gave theirs up — a battery that swelled, and a handset that stopped connecting to 5G bands — and one reports that the newer, larger phone they moved to overheats.

What commenters described: Reading from my 12 mini right now. My hands are done growing… I ***need*** this form factor. Everything else is a two hander 👎

Limit: Both the people still using these phones and the people who gave them up are in this set, and the two who left describe hardware faults that buying the same model again would not fix.

Appears when: Mice, keyboards and controllers people bought in multiples

What the pattern means: This is where stockpiling is most literal: seven of one mouse, three of another with one still sealed, five of a discontinued keyboard including one in a French Canadian layout its buyer offers as the measure of their desperation. What is being preserved is a shape — thumb paddles, knuckle switches, a particular scroll wheel — rather than a brand, and the records report that current models from the same makers are shaped differently. Secondhand prices appear as both the alternative and the problem: a couple of hundred dollars on eBay for one model, thirty for another.

What commenters described: My Microsoft Comfort Curve 3000 keyboard. I'm on my last one, I bought 5 when they were discontinued. This one has a French Canadian layout, that is how desperate I was.

Limit: Two records disagree about whether these devices need stockpiling at all: one owner bought spares specifically to avoid precision soldering, while another says the parts are neither hard to find nor hard to fit.

Appears when: Learning to repair it rather than replace it

What the pattern means: A five-record exchange in which the answer to a discontinued device stops being a purchase and becomes a skill. One commenter offers part numbers and general instructions for a specific mouse repair; another argues micro-soldering is learnable and that a USB microscope, or in some cases a magnifying glass, is enough magnification. The objection raised is equipment cost and how much of it accumulates, and it is answered with a named soldering iron at around 35 dollars.

What commenters described: Disabilities notwithstanding, micro soldering is definitely a learnable skill and a useful one going forward. USB microscopes are pretty affordable as well. A magnifying glass may even suffice if needed.

Limit: The exchange records a plan rather than an outcome: the offer of part numbers is accepted, and no record says whether the repair was carried out.

Appears when: Old machines still doing real work

What the pattern means: Computers kept in service by the job they do rather than by their specification: a fourteen-year-old laptop running daily in a cabinet shop with no battery and bolts through the case where a hinge failed, and a 2012 machine named for the version of Photoshop it still holds. The other two records move the replacement problem off the machine entirely and onto component pricing, reporting the same solid-state drive at double its price within a year.

What commenters described: My 14 year old Toshiba satellite laptop that runs windows 7 pro that I use in a cabinet shop every day. Doesn’t have a battery anymore, has a couple bolts through the case(fixed a hinge)but it runs and does what I need it to do. God I wish Toshiba still made laptops, this thing is made of diamonds.

Limit: The price-doubling report is one commenter's account of a single component they happened to be tracking, with no source given.

Appears when: Smart-home hardware switched off by its maker

What the pattern means: None of this hardware wore out. A smoke-alarm range was discontinued after an acquisition and the units are now expiring on their own schedule; a streaming dongle's successor requires a remote and local software, which is exactly the workflow its owner built around not needing; a hybrid watch with real physical hands still works while its software support has ended. The shape of the problem is that a replacement exists and is worse for the specific use, so the owner is counting down rather than shopping.

What commenters described: Chromecast Ultra. The last Chromecast that doesn't require a remote or local software installation, and just works when you tell it to play something. My entire media setup has been based on this workflow for like 15+ years.

Limit: The smoke-alarm records concern a life-safety device with a fixed expiry date, and none of them names a replacement those commenters consider equivalent.

Appears when: Universal remotes and media boxes

What the pattern means: A discontinued control layer, and the one place in the corpus where a named current product is reported as a working substitute rather than a hope. Two commenters independently report moving to the same replacement remote, and both describe app-based configuration as an improvement on the original's software. The counter-argument arrives in the same exchange and is about durability rather than features: outdated software keeps working after an app update has stopped somebody else's.

What commenters described: Can confirm. I had a bunch of Hamronys in the box for backup and then tried out a Sofabaton and it works really well. Doing everything through the app instead of janky outdated software was a game changer.

Limit: One commenter here reports holding brand-new sealed units of the original as backup, which is the opposite bet to the replacement the other two recommend.

Appears when: Hardware that still works and software that no longer will

What the pattern means: The failure in this small theme is a version number. An eleven-year-old laptop is described as finished not because of the machine but because of how its office software is now sold — a claim the reply corrects by naming the standalone edition that still exists. A 2016 tablet is reported as physically fine with very little that still runs on it.

What commenters described: Nope. You can buy Home Office 2024 with standalone apps for Windows or Mac.

Limit: The most useful record here is a correction: the original claim that the software is subscription-only is answered by a commenter naming a current one-off purchase option.

Appears when: T-shirts, underwear and the fabric that changed

What the pattern means: Garments used as dated measurements. The records carry years and counts: fifteen pairs bought in 2011 with one left, a twenty-year-old shirt worn weekly and now half white and tissue-thin, four or five pairs from 2009 gone woefully thin. What is described as irreplaceable is a weight and texture of cotton rather than a brand, and the lists of rejected substitutes are unusually precise — thickness, strap width, ribbing, length, and how much the fabric makes the wearer sweat.

What commenters described: I've got a purple American Apparel t shirt that is the best shirt I've ever owned. It's 20 years old this year and I wear it once a week. About half of it is white at this point and it's as soft and thin as tissue paper. Never got a hole never popped a thread. I would have bought 15 and never wore another shirt in my life if I had known. Owner was a psychopath, but Jesus, did they make a good shirt.

Limit: The one brand offered here as a substitute is refuted inside the same exchange by a commenter who reports it is the same retailer and no longer makes the item.

Appears when: Coats, boots and shoes

What the pattern means: Footwear and outerwear sit at the repair boundary, and this theme is largely about who decides whether the item survives. A cobbler has kept one pair going for fifteen years; a tailor is proposed for a failing zipper; a resole is possible but the shop cannot say whether the uppers will hold without dismantling the shoe first. Where the material itself has failed — cracked leather, disintegrating cork — no route is reported at all.

What commenters described: Birkenstock sandals that I got in Germany on my honeymoon in 2005. Still usable to a degree but the cork is disintegrating. I can send them to be resoled and hopefully they will be good to go, but there is no guarantee the leather uppers will survive. Spoke with the shop and they said they would have to dismantle them to know for sure. The sentimental value of them is making me second guess what I should do, because while I would love to have them for many years, throwing them away would suck.

Limit: Repair viability here is case by case: the one owner who asked was told the shop would have to take the sandals apart before it could say whether the repair would work.

Appears when: Bags, wallets and everyday carry

What the pattern means: Four objects carried daily whose exact model has no current equivalent, each for a different reason: a discontinued bag size, a wallet in a skin its maker no longer works with, a multi-tool whose entire value is one-handed opening and closing on a belt, and a nylon tote a retailer sold in the early 2000s.

What commenters described: My wallet. Not quite on last legs but showing signs of wear. Had it for about 10 years or so. Reason it’s impossible to replace is it’s made of karung. The maker doesn’t do exotic skins anymore.

Limit: Three of the four items are reported as still in good condition, so what these records establish is the absence of a current equivalent rather than an urgent replacement problem.

Appears when: Mixers, ovens and machines built when the gears were metal

What the pattern means: The metal-to-plastic complaint at its most concrete. A mixer that has started to heat and grow louder, whose owner was told the gears are all plastic now; a sewing machine dated against the point in the sixties and seventies when plastic gears arrived; two dishwashers of different vintages compared with each other and with a modern built-in that has already been replaced twice. Two more records are simply microwaves that have run for 29 and 37 years. The repair advice offered is one line and mechanical: it probably needs regreasing.

What commenters described: Kenwood mixer from the 1980's. It has started to heat up during mixing and has also gotten louder. I don't know if they make metal gears etc any more. Last time asked was told they're all plastic now.

Limit: The claim that a named mixer brand now uses plastic gears is second-hand — the commenter reports being told this when they asked — and nothing in the theme verifies it.

Appears when: Countertop cookers, coffee makers and grills

What the pattern means: Here the appliance usually still works and what has been discontinued is a feature: a hinged, self-draining, locking slow-cooker lid, a stir-tower attachment, a battery-operated caulk gun that disappeared for a decade and returned. The coffee records are the most useful in the theme because they are comparative — one commenter rejects three named alternatives for stated reasons of price, feel, reliability reputation and wattage, and a reply answers with ten years of use, available parts and a refurbished purchase.

What commenters described: My Moccamaster is a tank and has made delicious coffee for at least 10 years, you can easily get parts to repair it and it’s a refurb so it was a great price. Seriously, just try one, a great piece of equipment.

Limit: The two named coffee makers are assessed in opposite directions by different commenters in the same exchange, and neither assessment goes beyond personal use.

Appears when: Hand tools, mowers and workshop machines

What the pattern means: Tools are judged in this theme by what they do under load: a socket set whose modern replacements are said to flex or split under real torque, a mower that starts on one pull after fifteen years, a garden tractor its owner is certain has no equal. The sourcing advice is the most concrete in the corpus — estate sales at around twenty dollars, and a local mower mechanic who keeps working examples and parts. The film-camera record names the constraint the others avoid: the people who can still service it are ageing out.

What commenters described: These are fairly easy to pick up at estate sales near me, for around $20 give or take. I’ve collected most of our hand tools from estate sales and stick with USA made items primarily. If you’re lucky enough to be able to shop in upper middle class areas where people weren’t in a business using tools, it’s likely the person didn’t use them much.

Limit: The estate-sale advice comes with its own qualification from the commenter who gave it — that the tools are likeliest to be unworn in areas where nobody used them for a living.

Appears when: Chairs you can still get parts for

What the pattern means: The counter-example in the corpus. A commenter with a snapped chair arm concludes the chair is fine with no arms at all, and the replies turn the thread into a parts-procurement guide: refurbished units arrive with new armrests, the manufacturer keeps spares for decades past a twelve-year warranty and will do the repair, a dealer can drop-ship the part, and the exact driver bits are named. The theme's last record states the general complaint the rest of the corpus only implies — that too many current chairs treat one failed component as permission to discard the whole object.

What commenters described: Herman Miller has a 12 years warranty and after that you can still buy spare parts directly from them, they keep them for decades and they can repair them for you as well. That’s one of the reasons to pay the premium price.

Limit: Every parts route described here belongs to one manufacturer's chairs; the record that generalises the point is a complaint about other chairs, not a report that parts exist for them.

Appears when: Pillows, lamps and household objects nothing replaces

What the pattern means: Low-value objects with a failed replacement search behind them: a rectangular travel pillow whose maker was contacted directly and whose substitutes were bought and rejected, a pillow owned for 38 years, a firm backrest displaced in the market by memory foam that does not support the same way. The lamp record is the one where the trade fails rather than the product — it was repaired once, and multiple shops have since refused to work on brass.

What commenters described: My nap travel pillow from brook stone. Looked everywhere, contacted them. Not available. Tried multiple knock offs from Amazon, not even close. Why would they stop making the perfect pillow? It’s not the u shaped thing they sell now. But a perfect rectangle pillow with ultimate comfort. If you had one, you know.

Limit: Most of these searches are reported as already exhausted — makers contacted, substitutes bought, repairers called — so the records establish that the owner looked, not that no equivalent exists.

Appears when: Discontinued small goods people stockpiled

What the pattern means: Small items either bought ahead or lost before anyone knew to buy ahead. A discontinued face powder is down to the last two jars of a stockpile; a pair of dog ear defenders went out of production unnoticed and the owner says they would have bought five. Against those, one hairbrush has survived more than thirty years of daily use, about half a dozen substitutes were tried and rejected, and the record ends with the brush being retrieved from a house the owner had left it in.

What commenters described: My dog's earplugs. They stopped making them and I didn't know, otherwise I would have bought like 5 pairs.

Limit: These are single-owner accounts of specific discontinued lines, and three of the four describe substitutes that were tried and did not work without saying which ones.

Appears when: Bodies, knees and backs

What the pattern means: A large group of records read the question as being about the body and answer it literally: knees, backs, legs, a nervous system. Several are written as a repair manual — parts that rattle, joints needing more lubrication than they used to, a request to return the whole unit — but the set also holds plain reports of a wheelchair user considering amputation for pain relief and of a second spinal discectomy, with a reply offering that person a recovery timeline.

What commenters described: My back. Just had a second L5-S1 Discectomy.

Limit: These are personal medical accounts posted in a thread about possessions. They are not medical information, and nothing in them should be read as advice about a body or a procedure.

Appears when: People and pets

What the pattern means: Answers naming a person or an animal. The longest is an account of a 92-year-old father, five years bedridden and two on hospice, and its replies are not about replacement at all but about the years of losing somebody who is still present. The pet records carry the theme's own correction: one commenter, having answered with a dog, adds that they will find another rescue and that it will not be a replacement.

What commenters described: My dog. But I’ll find another rescue, not a replacement.

Limit: Several records in this group are grief rather than an answer to the question, and one is a joke about a spouse; they are kept together so the counts elsewhere on this page are not inflated by them.

Appears when: Patience, money and the sense that everything is wearing out

What the pattern means: The thread's single most-liked answer is one word — the commenter themselves — and this group holds it along with the records that make the same move: sanity, tolerance, self-respect, confidence, emotional stability, the will to keep working. Two of them name a material cause rather than a mood: two people living on one paycheque for more than a dozen years, and a commenter who says everything they rely on is on its last legs and that being poor is exhausting. One record answers by declining the premise, saying everything can be replaced but only as a shadow of what it was.

What commenters described: The will to keep working and paying bills. 2 people on 1 check is harsh and we've been doing it for over a dozen years. I'm burned out.

Limit: The thread's humour and its genuine distress sit inside the same records here, and they are not separable: the same one-word answers are read by different repliers as a joke and as a report.

Appears when: Rights, information and institutions

What the pattern means: A small set that moves the question from possessions to civic conditions: free access to information, voting rights, democracy, a country. The exchange underneath the country record is the thread noticing its own assumptions — a reply pointing out that the forum is global and asking which country is meant, answered with all of them, and then a commenter saying that given the choice they would struggle to name one they felt positive about.

What commenters described: It really feel that way, doesn't it. Not to the same level, but given the choice to move to another place I'd have a hard time picking the one I'd really be positive about.

Limit: These records state a feeling about institutions rather than evidence about any of them, and the only context attached is the thread's own reply chain.