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Tildes Survey #2: What country do you live in? (Results)
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Submit your response here!
- Direct link: https://survey.tildes.community/form/what-country-do-you-live-in-2
- This survey closes on May 3, 2026 at 10:00 UTC
- The results will be published on May 3 shortly after the survey has closed. I'll edit this topic and post a comment about it!
The current plans for questions that will be asked in the coming weeks are as follows:
| Question | Survey opens | Survey closes |
|---|---|---|
| How old are you? | ||
| What country do you live in? | 2026-04-26 18:00 UTC | 2026-05-03 10:00 UTC |
| What country were you born in? | 2026-05-03 18:00 UTC | 2026-05-10 10:00 UTC |
| What languages can you speak? | 2026-05-10 18:00 UTC | 2026-05-17 10:00 UTC |
Please submit your ideas for questions here! Even if they've been submitted already by someone else. All input is valuable! You can view all submitted questions on this dashboard.
Thank you all for participating!
The survey has been closed and the results are in!
Thank you to all the 244 people that responded! Check out the dashboard for a map visualization and a breakdown per continent, region and country! Here's a few quick stats:
- 43 distinct countries are represented!
- Spread across the following continents:
- America at 48.5%
- Europe at 39.0%
- Asia at 6.2%
- Oceania at 5.8%
- Africa at 0.4%
- And the top 5 countries with the most responses:
- United States at 37.7%
- Canada at 8.2%
- United Kingdom at 8.2%
- Germany at 4.9%
- Netherlands at 4.9%
- View the full results dashboard here
- If you have any ideas for vizualisations or stats I can add I'd love to hear them!
- ZIP download of the data
Thank you all again for participating! I hope to see you in the next survey. :)
Surprised it's a free text box and not a selector/drop down. That's going to be fun to sanitize the results!
I spent about 10 seconds looking at what n8n provides for dropdowns and decided I'd rather deal with a text input than manually inputting all the different countries in their UI... :')
Also, I can now add a statistic with what % of Tildes users can follow simple instruction. >:) (cough @TaylorSwiftsPickles cough)
Caught red-handed. What can I say, I'm a huge brat
It's you, hi, you're the problem it's you πΆ
Not that I'm being pedantic (I'm totally being pedantic), but I don't actually think the instructions are that simple. Like I realise the UK is a bit of an exception, but as per the instructions to 'include the full country name', should I be writing: The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland? Or just United Kingdom? Or The United Kingdom? Or just Great Britain? Or just England (the country (within the country) that I actually live in)?
Yes.
Thank you, highly clarifying :)
I'll be sure to do so when I answer
So U. S. of America. Got it.
A true patriot would respond with just a flag made of emojis
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Even though that is the opposite of almost everything Tildes stands for, I still want to exemplify that comment, purely for the amount of effort that went into it.
Must not use exemplary as a a super upvote. Must not use exemplary as a a super upvote. Must not use exemplary as a a super upvote.
Maybe you can reply to Goose using
Edit: might make our mod upset though if this runs wild
On second thought, I identify more with California as my current country I live in, so I am submitting this as my answer...
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Is that a bear or a space invader?
Four guys carrying giant heart
@talklittle
Three Cheers on iOS (version 1.5.1) is freezing when trying to render the above comment (probably because an
Examplarylabel is so glorious that it doesnβt know how to deal with its unmatched majesty).EDIT: Trying to load my profile page just gives me an infinite spinner, which Iβm assuming is because I copied the label here.
A simple table formatting issue? Or is it something more sinisterβ¦
Is Marvin is on the loose again?
Hey so I submitted a fix to TestFlight yesterday (Three Cheers iOS v1.5.2) but it's taking longer than usual to be approved. Just an FYI. Thanks for reporting the bug but also anti-thanks for inventing Examplary.
Examplary
I'm not sorry.
That's a genuinely impressive turnaround time on a bugfix for something like this. You remain an inspiration, talklittle!
Fwiw Android 1.5.2 has no issues rendering the comment, just for a data point
That uh, did not render correctly on mobile...the stripes are in the stars, the rest are wrapped around the bottom.
Just fyi. Of course somehow it still works for its point.
On my desktop, for your viewing, uh, pleasure.
The mangled patriotic horror
Star mangled banger . Temu old glory.
hiding further noise
Good golly, is that the loudest Tildes comment ever conceived?But also why red circles instead of π₯?
Look, nobody ever accused us Americans of "being the smartest"
Also that was the first "red" I found when searching for something I could copy/paste
A true patriot would use this emoji: π±π·
Your flag of Liberia can't fool me! My American education may have me struggling to count to 50, but I know there's at least more than one star on old glory!
Same for the Netherlands. Is the full country name "Netherlands", "The Netherlands" or "Kingdom of the Netherlands"?
Upper Belgium of course.
Anyone that submits "Upper Belgium" as their response will be counted as living in Belgium, you have been warned. :P
The UK of England
Thatβs a crappy UI but I bet you could one-prompt an LLM to make a bookmarklet that auto-fills all of the fields with valid countries from ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 codes, using
Intl.DisplayNamesfor the labels. No biggie now, but yeah depending on how many responses you get that could be a lot to normalize. Also who knows what shenanigans @Sunbutt23 and @cqns are up toβ¦As for me I wasnβt sure what to put. My mother was from Pavarek and my father from Oltavia. They conceived me on vacation in San Lucaro but I was born in Faronde during the Wessaran occupation of present-day Jorvash, but I expatriated to Qamarat where I now hold dual-citizenship with my ancestral home of Veyskor. For tax purposes I live on a tugboat in the Sea of Hadrava.
Tugboat toot toot
But is it still a tugboat if you're not tugging anything? If you are tugging, say, a barge with your living quarters, then you live on the barge and not the tugboat no?
If the tugboatβs anchored, technically Iβm tugging the whole continent.
Just whatever plate you're anchored to maybe. Then maybe the county that claims the most land on that plate is where you should fill in the survey :3
My geography is so shockingly bad that I found myself googling Pavarek and Oltavia, and interestingly this thread is around the 6th result, 1st if you put it in quotes!
I just figured not following instructions was proof that I am in the country that I entered abbreviated.
U S A! U S A!
I'm now wondering how many people are going to enter historical names for the country/region that they live in.
Reminds me of a silly internet screen cap of a Japaness student, on an English class worksheet:
I look forward to the unsanitized result
I apologize for my answer already
Unfortunately, United States. Does it count that I want to live in New Zealand? ;-;
I'm curious to see how many users (at least those who answer the survey) are from the States and Canada... Very few english speaking websites/services have majority non-US/Canadian users.
You can still submit your own suggestions for questions...
I think that'd be a great question.
'According to your own personal preferences - which no Tildes user is allowed to judge - which country would you want to live in if money/family/immigration processes were no object?'
I'm from Aotearoa! Or as the English name goes, New Zealand. And yes, we could have had a laser kiwi on our flag.
TΕ«tira mai ngΔ iwi...
Land of the Long White Cloud!! So poetic!!
Laser Kiwi would have been amazing
If I could move to any country and work/family/legal shit/etc were not a problem, I honestly would choose this one.
Jumping in here to say thank you for running these, Bauke! I'm loving the recurring format and quick turnaround time.
I have no doubt that you've spent many hours setting everything up and will spend many more hours parsing and presenting results, so thank you for all your efforts.
Slystuff's comment reminded me of a more serious thought, and I'd like to supplement my survey answer witht this:
I would like to acknowledge that I live in Miβkmaβki , the traditional, current, ancestral and unceded territory of the Miβkmaq People. This land is governed by the treaties of Peace and Friendship, first signed by the Miβkmaq, Wolastoqey, Peskotomuhkatiyik, and the British Crown in 1726. These treaties did not implicate or affirm the surrender or transfer of land to the British, but recognized Miβkmaq and Wolastoqey title.
You know I thought about this and the "worst part" is that my part of IL has land acknowledgements but we so thoroughly pushed them out/killed them/etc that there aren't barely any local tribes left in the state.
I believe the state returned some land to the Potawatomi Nation a couple of years ago, but between them and the Peoria - now located in Oklahoma - that's it for current ties. I hate seeing how much culture has become (poorly covered) history.
That's horrible to think about ;_; I mean, not from Canada's lack of (edit: genocidal) trying, mind, but it would have been nice to have survivors be able to see the progress towards reconciliation. Some less terrible tidbit to make this less sad: I know there are private Atlantic land "owners" who purchase and then "gift" back land to local nations' forever land trusts. I just passed a station where the restrooms signage are bilingual in Mi'kmaq and English (lol no French sorry Acadians and other francophone Canadians). But yeah it's sad that not every nation made it.... So much culture lost violently.
Romanian here, curious to find out what's the percentage of Eastern European users.
There are no Eastern European users on tildes. Eastern Europe is, by definition, always "1 country to the east". ;)
Bauke organised the last survey by generations: probably a good chance this one will be grouped by regions
Depends on definition of Eastern Europe, heh.
Recently I learnt that Transylvania is technically Central Europe even though Romania is generally considered Eastern Europe, so por que no los dos, I guess.
Yeah.
For me it's been never clear where exactly East Europe ends and West Asia starts. Especially with all post soviet countries.
I thought the Ural Mountains were treated as the border between Europe and Asia, has that changed?
I suspect not a lot of fellow tilderinos from Croatia or former Yugoslavia.
I appreciate the phrasing of the question. Too many times I've been asked "Where are you from?" And wonder which of the many interpretations they want.
A quick update to be transparent about the privacy of the surveys, I've started saving the User-Agent string alongside IP addresses. Like with IP addresses the User-Agent data won't be shared publicly and will be deleted after the survey has been closed. With these two bits of information I feel confident I can maintain the quality of the responses and there won't be more of these behind the scenes changes any time soon.
Also, quick reminder to submit your response in case you haven't done so! There are 48 hours left before the survey closes. :D
Some quick stats:
@Bauke, are you going to be able to correlate those who were born in a different country from which they live? Only about 5-15% of people live in a different country they were born in. The difference between that and random survey error might be hard to spot.
I don't think I'll be able to link 1 to 1 if someone submits country of residence in this survey and country of birth in the next survey if they match or don't match. But I do plan to compare the two survey results as a whole if possible. We'll see!
Would it break your survey to have two questions on the next one, with a y/n for living in the same country you're born in?
That's certainly possible and potentially a nice one to try out in addition to the main question.
I'd have to have a think about how that data could be grouped together to make a useful result but it's definitely possible!
The survey has been closed and the results are in!
Thank you to all the 244 people that responded! Check out the dashboard for a map visualization and a breakdown per continent, region and country! Here's a few quick stats:
Thank you all again for participating! I hope to see you in the next survey. :)