What would have been the best overall Medieval Kingdom to live in?

[StCapps]

DrY identified that as the best possible place to live in the medieval period.

Which would include the best possible place to live in Islamic world in the medieval period. Like I said you both agree on the best place in the Islamic world to live during that time period.

[DrYouth]

@glory of greece
I'm assuming I would have been born into the culture and therefore fluent in the language etc.

[Montegriffo]

Saying progressives love ISIS is an attempt to derail a decent thread which I hope everyone will just ignore.

Don't ignore this thread... it's illustrative of the limits of certain imaginations.

I wasn't hoping everyone would ignore the thread, just DSL's attempts to derail it.

[Speaker to Animals]

You guys are so blind to your love affair with Islam. The rest of us see it pretty clearly. Islam is fucking horrible and has no place in our civilization, and yet you are so invested in it that you want to believe there was some mythical period where Islamic civilization was not like ISIS. That's just a mistake. It's always awful. Everywhere. Always.

[GloryofGreece]

What was the most stable least violent time for Feudal Japan? And is it true that farmers and artisans were respected more than merchants?

[DrYouth]

You guys are so blind to your love affair with Islam. The rest of us see it pretty clearly. Islam is fucking horrible and has no place in our civilization, and yet you are so invested in it that you want to believe there was some mythical period where Islamic civilization was not like ISIS. That's just a mistake. It's always awful. Everywhere. Always.

If you ask me where I would live today it would definitely not be in a Muslim nation. Not in the running whatsoever.
But the OP defined the Medieval period.
That was probably the worst time period for Christian nations.
China and the Islamic world were both flourishing more than Europe during the majority of the middle ages.

I didn't choose China because I know relatively little about it...
A know quite a bit about Andalusia because of my family background... which wasn't Islamic that I know of... but probably had some interbreeding way back. (Some suspect there were jewish conversos in my grandfather's lineage.)

[Speaker to Animals]

That's just a myth, man. Islam was always horrible. Lots of Europe was just fine in the medieval period. If the question were framed in that period between late antiquity and the medieval period (like the 600s), then sure. There was a total economic and political collapse in Western Europe back then.

[Montegriffo]

I'd choose 13th century Norwich. At the height of the wool trade it was Englands second city and very prosperous. The cathederal, castle and some parts of the city wall still stand and I think I would be able to navigate myself around it comparing locations to how they are today. Pulls ferry would look a little different but parts of it are from that era.

The cathedral would look much the same as today but only 100 years old rather than 850.

same with the castle keep


the castle present day

[Speaker to Animals]

I'd choose 13th century Norwich. At the height of the wool trade it was Englands second city and very prosperous. The cathederal, castle and some parts of the city wall still stand and I think I would be able to navigate myself around it comparing locations to how they are today. Pulls ferry would look a little different but parts of it are from that era.

The cathedral would look much the same as today but only 100 years old rather than 850.

same with the castle keep

I think I could be quite content in a medieval English town like that.

[Montegriffo]

Just don't try to tell anyone that the Earth revolves around the sun.