Of course it's great to live in France if you aren't French! You'd get your way all of the time, because every time you got in an argument, the natives would just surrender.
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Of course it's great to live in France if you aren't French! You'd get your way all of the time, because every time you got in an argument, the natives would just surrender.
Sweden is #7 on this list:Quote:
Originally Posted by Levian
Statistics | Human Development Reports (HDR) | United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)
I dunno the criteria for International Living Magazine but the United Nation's HDI list focuses on life expectancy, general health, adult literacy, school enrollment, education, adjusted real income and purchasing power.
The Scandinavian countries always do well in these types of lists.
I like where I'm living though. Can't imagine living anywhere in the world besides California.
Yeah France is great until you download three songs and get your internet cut off.
Then again this is one of those bull:bou::bou::bou::bou: lists that dumb magazines publish each year. It's not exactly based on hard science. What is the US doing there on #7. Did they just ignore all it's problems and just looked at the happy white upper middle class surburban people?
The OP pasted this thread from the Daily Mail. I can tell by the font in the picture, and from having seen a few Daily Mail articles in my time.
Move along, people
Only time British people are happy with their country: When they are told somewhere else is better.
I recognised the font too. Christ, we are terrible.Quote:
Originally Posted by Old Manus
Also, smurf France.
smurf yeah!!! AUSTRALIA BITCHES!! WE"RE smurfING INCREDIBLE
Seriously why is Australia number 2? That is a joke. Everything can kill you here, in two completely different ways. We have horrible public transport, need a health reform bad (which we are now getting) and have some of the most ridiculous laws ever (see: recentish EoEo threads -- also see: Gamers4Croydon movement).
As far as I know, Ireland along with Norway has placed 1st on the past few polls of standard of living over the past while. Although with Ireland in recession I'm expecting it to have dropped down. Whether there is a big difference between a list of places too live or the standard of living, I dunno. I'm not sure if that list is entirely credible.Quote:
Originally Posted by Rye
Now this one I can believe.Quote:
Originally Posted by http://www.nowpublic.com/world/best-country-live-list-countries-2009-un-hdi
If it ain't Mercer's Quality of Life by City thing, it's not the right one.
I'm honestly surprised to find out Australia does even half decently in these things. All you hear is bitching on the inside and bitching from the outside. I guess the entire world is pretty smurfed
Australia has always been way up on quality of life rankings. Our accommodation is insanely cheap when you compare it to places like UK and US, we have a decent healthcare (it used to be better, but Mr. Howard kinda ruined that), we rank pretty high as far as effectiveness of education, great climate and we don't have any problems with large scale disasters (earthquakes, volcanoes etc.), except for maybe bush-fires I guess.
We go alright.
Wicked. Also it was old mate Abbott who botched the Health system iirc. I'm glad to see we're still mixing it with the big kids in the playground.
"..Bushfire destroys metropolis... "We never expected it to go down so fast"...Who's to blame? News at 11."Quote:
Originally Posted by eternal essence
Oh right, I almost forgot our hard hitting news programs.