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Countries with the best quality of life in the world 2019 - US News Report
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I would say yes, but we have (Sweden) drifted towards more racism due to right wing populism and the refugee waves which have lead to middle eastern people probably have the hardest time currently.
EDIT: I am white so I wouldn't be the most reliable source, to clarify.
Taxes, hence why expensive beers :P
Need to pay for that healtcare and social security network.
germany is on the same longitude as canada and the rest is even more in the north. the exception being australia and new zealand.
There's Toronto or "centre of the universe"
And then there's everyone else.
Singapore is #18? Too low.
China top 20? Maybe in 10 years.
India top 30? Maybe in 20-30 years.
I don't think they properly account environment standards.
China top 20? Maybe in 10 years.
India top 30? Maybe in 20-30 years.
I don't think they properly account environment standards.
I'll take living in sunny California over most of those countries in the top 10.
Climate matters a lot.
Climate matters a lot.
many of us enjoy seasons. i'd be miserable if i didn't get to experience them.
people have a lot of negativity and doom and gloom about the UK's currently political climate, but it's not a bad place to live at all. people acting like it's some shithole.
If your going to respond to me, actually post something worth responding to next time, because that post contained literally nothing
Ok... We are still not a socialist country. Higher taxes does not equal socialism. Our markets are free and determined by supply and demand, we are pure capitalist.
I hope that clarifies.
Yeah it's fine. We have parties that are racist like everywhere else in the world, but not some gruesome nazis one in parliament. People are very open and caring. Can't speak so much for Sweden though, I have only been there a few times in regards to vacation... but they are the also the weirdos in Scandinavian. ;)
Well according to Breitbart, RT and the like Sweden is turning in to a Muslim nation with sharia laws incoming. So I guess the answer is yes.
There is always an excuse isn't there? To much people, to sparsely populated, to diverse a population or what have you. The real reason is lack of political will to change the system. (This is of course not directed at you personally but the American politicians and electorate as a whole.)
Where the hell do you get that from. Maybe for the most popular cities in the US, certainly not in general.
Even in New York food was "cheap" to me.
besides, loads of people get rent subsidies here, we actually build social housing, and pay way less for health insurance so you dont go broke when you get the flue.
I just think if you look at the top 10 most populated countries they all have significant and large problems compared to a place like Norway or Denmark. Maybe it's all just a big coincidence, but I doubt it.
You've got China, India, US, Pakistan, Brazil, Nigeria, Bangladesh, Russia, and Mexico for the most populated. Out of that list, I'd say the US is by far and away the most preferable place to live. But those countries are hardly the A-listers when it comes to quality of life, etc.
I'm not really disagreeing about political will though. More people will usually mean more disagreements and differing ideas of how to run a country. And you will need a strong will to break through and make meaningful change.
Yup, that's really an odd list and I wonder how they selected the contries to be on it. It's obviously not based on population size, and they completely disregard the fact that Vienna now has a 10 year streak as the most livable city on earth. I'd definitely rather live here than in Iraq which made the list..
Edit: This were their selection criteria:
Austria is present on all of these lists and in a much higher position than 80. So what's going on here?
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Hey I am British and I have a lot of negativity around the QoL here. But, thinking about it a bit more objectivity, it is a nice place to live for the most part.
So according to the country details in this list, the US has a better public health and public education system than a large portion of EU countries. I wonder how that's supposed to work. The safety rankings also seem to be way different to every other list I've seen online.
As for the list itself, apparently my country is significantly worse to live in than Qatar (where slavery is still a thing), Japan (known for overworking its population literally to death), Hungary (a county whose leader calls an illiberal democracy), and Russia (a dictatorship with the highest male suicide rate in the world). That's news to me.
Although from reading the methodology, this list was made by asking a specifically selected subset of people (like rich businessmen or college educated people) from 36 countries what they think other countries are like. So it's really more a popularity contest than an actual objective assessment of quality of life. In which case the list makes way more sense.
From the methodology page:
As for the list itself, apparently my country is significantly worse to live in than Qatar (where slavery is still a thing), Japan (known for overworking its population literally to death), Hungary (a county whose leader calls an illiberal democracy), and Russia (a dictatorship with the highest male suicide rate in the world). That's news to me.
Although from reading the methodology, this list was made by asking a specifically selected subset of people (like rich businessmen or college educated people) from 36 countries what they think other countries are like. So it's really more a popularity contest than an actual objective assessment of quality of life. In which case the list makes way more sense.
From the methodology page:
I just pulled up a list of the most densely populated countries. All tiny places, and the there is The Netherlands at 29. I'm guessing you mean largest population in general, but thats all a matter of political structure.
Sweden is the most welcoming out of the bunch. Denmark also got a left leaning government recently but their immigration policy is still shit.
Gotta love Sweden-Denmark rivalry :D
I love that she said this in danish in the show
We just elect a conservative government for a third term after 6 years of destroying the environment and welfare system we should honestly be lower
Being a Brit living in the Netherlands, I honestly can't imagine any country being better than the Netherlands, at least for me. Public transport is excellent (even better than Germany in my experience, which is overrated these days), and the cycling road infrastructure is amazing. It's literally completely unnecessary to own a car.
I wonder how Canada fares in that regard; I know the USA is horrible for getting around without a car, but I've never been to Canada or heard much about their transport systems.
I wonder how Canada fares in that regard; I know the USA is horrible for getting around without a car, but I've never been to Canada or heard much about their transport systems.
Probably because Canada sorta takes the concept of capitalism but instead of using it to benefit mostly the rich it's used to combine the best ideas of other governments and capitalize on them to improve the quality of life of as many of its citizens as possible.
Kinda surprised to see Australia there though. Insert obligatory joke grounded in some truth about how insane nature is over there, etc.
Kinda surprised to see Australia there though. Insert obligatory joke grounded in some truth about how insane nature is over there, etc.
Hm. True, but what would the ranking, for, say, black people look like?
Bullshit. Besides a couple on that list USAs GDP per capita is over most of theirs.. Canada's is 42k USD for GDP per capita and USA's is close to 60k per person. So nah. We have more than enough money to adopt many of these same systems. The population argument is nothing but grade A bullshit.
The Australian government keeps implementing Neo-Liberal policies and has driven the country into recession. Give it a bit of time and we'll drop out of the top 10 pretty quickly.
Not sure about Canada, but 6 years in Sweden, I've never needed a car to go anywhere. Public transport is available usually within 5 minutes walk from any place in both Stockholm and Uppsala, the two places I've lived in.
Yeah, but that's off set by summers that rarely go past 34 celcius.
If you're not in Vancouver or Toronto, public transportation is absolute garbage. Especially in the colder cities during winter where trains would suddenly stop running because of how cold it is.