No particular nationality comes to mind. My options would be limited because I am total rubbish at languages. Maybe somewhere in the West Indies, the more remote the better.
You are right of course about the EU passport which is why I deplore Brexit which, to me, stinks of neo-liberal crony capitalism a la Trump sold to the public with a dressing of xenophobic nationalism to add grisly savour.
I resent having my EU citizenship snatched away by the likes of Boris Johnson and Nigel Farage fuelled by their toxic ambitions and naked greed.
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Couldn’t have put it more clearly if I had tried! Well said!
Thanks, @Norman_Clark and all other ‘luvvies’ who showed appreciation 
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When my dander is up I can be a bit of a swine and snotty invective flows freely from my thumb, perish the thought! 
Now THERE’S an expression I have heard in a long time -‘when my dander is up’ Oldies are often goodies aren’t they? 
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These sayings have very little or no meaning in contemporary society, but they come readily to my mind. But I would only use them whimsically now, not wanting to encourage stereotyping.
The derivation of dander is hard to find on-line, but I reckon it refers to the ‘ruff’ of feathers on a rooster. These form an elegant neck-ruff or mini cape on the cockerel. When my own rooster is miffed with me, his dander goes up like those veterinary devices poorly dogs and cats wear to stop them licking or biting. It exaggerates his head-size by framing it to look fierce.
So I think it’s a rural saying. My same-age Norman neighbour and I have a lot of such expressions in (sort-of) common, give or take a few that get lost in translation. Although I am a pre-war city boy my upbringing was garlanded with lots of sayings and words that betray a pre-industrial heritage, which I find incredibly beautiful in my latter days.
And this is an unexpectedly wonderful gift that coming to Normandy in old age has given me, a sense of ‘coming home’. 
It sounds as if you pre-date me as a City boy? I was born in 1940 in Slough God help me!) Where and when for you?
Brummagem, 1938.
Hi Peter, at the risk of offending other Brummies, it sounds just as bad as my heritage!
You seem to be ticking over very sweetly on your heritage, I’d say a 1947 Rover “six-window” saloon?
Apparently, this very question was once asked of our greatest statesman: " Mr Churchill, if you were not British, which nationality would you like to be?"
Back came a very blunt one word answer: “BRITISH”.
If this story is not apocryphal, it certainly shows the old bugger couldn’t be caught napping by a journalist.
But what a creep (the journo, I mean) to serve up such a sycophantic lob to lovable old toff Winnie). 
On 10 April, the Government passed the Arms (Prohibited Firearms , Magazines, and Parts) Amendment Act 2019, banning semi-automatic firearms , magazines, and parts. The Arms Amendment Bill was supported by all parties except the opposition ACT Party’s sole MP David Seymour. That’s the sort of response that all citizens want from their elected puts NZ so high up on the wish list!
Forget Trinidad.
9 miles from Venezuela and a positive motorway fast lane for drugs. Last time [and it will be the last time] I was there in 2011/12, the Trini army had just been stood down from 6 months of martial law and curfew enforcement. There had been a war, literally, with the drug gangs.
Port of Spain I refer to as Wakefield-on-Caribbean. A dump. There are no beaches. Well, there’s Maracas but it’s dangerous to swim - very strong under-tow. Rummed-up Trinis are drowned most weekends …
Tobago used to be OK but the bad guys are becoming more of a problem…
Antigua - that was lovely. Barbados, home of Mount Gay rum. The best. Martinique for being Caribbean & French.
Danish, I think. Or Dutch. They are our cousins. I say that the Danish and Dutch are what the British would be if only the British behaved better. An example of this is my typically British way of guffawing when passing the sign on the motorway crossing the bridge from Jutland to Funen, for the turning to Middlefart.
I was at a wedding reception where I was the only one in the room of 60-70 people who could not understand the speeches. However, everybody spoke excellent English, so if the speeches had been given in English, everyone would have understood them!
Not that I’d want to live in Denmark unless I was on Danish wages and soc security. It’s eyewateringly expensive. It’s also very flat.
France has been very good to me, but I would feel a bit of a fraud applying for citizenship because of my lack of ability in holding a conversation. But it still might be my best option.
Irish would be an obvious choice to maintain my European citizenship, but unfortunately my ancestors left the Emerald Isle too many generations back.
I would love to be Dutch. I would be 50cm. taller and answer every question with "You can… "
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At a recent meeting, it was mentioned that higher financial resources were necessary for those asking to be Naturalized in France after the sufficient number of years of Residency… and that there was no room for movement on the sums… 
unlike with requests for CdS where there IS flexibility…
For any of you who are already married to a French citizen and who are applying for French nationality on that basis, I refer you to an official French government document which I posted some time ago and which I found very useful in defining the requirements - in French of course.
I hope you know about the US chasing its citizens for income tax, no matter where that income originates from. That’s why the UK’s current PM, who was born in NYC (I refuse to type neither the man’s name nor some derogatory, but highly appropiate sobriquet) recently renounced his US citizenship after getting a bloody big tax bill.
Completely in character and I imagine Trump would do the same if it was allowed.