(I can only answer №2 other info is missing)
Now great countries in cleanness are Australia and Canada, but taxes really high.
Not so clean is Indonesia, India, but jobs pay pretty well (if engineer)
Russia is good for both clean and good jobs.
America has many possibilities but it is quite hard to earn a lot of money.
Malasya and Singapore are also pretty good with jobs and cleanness.
It was quite calm in America 100 yrs. ago but Europe had lots of wars, so Canada and America were the calmest.
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1. They go to school together in the morning, and always get up at the same time.
There were пишется, когда мы хотим сказать, о том что находилось, было, говоря о новых, неизвестных еще вещах. Were мы употребляем совсем в других случаях, например, давая характеристику. Например. <u>There were</u> many pupils at the lesson. They <u>were</u> concentrated. (На уроке было много учеников. Они были сосредоточенны.) <u>There were</u> a lot of apples in his bag. The apples <u>were</u> red. (В его сумке было много яблок. Они были красные.)