What do u believe is the best country to live in right now

[nellanella]

and please explain why

[=♥Abbie♥=]

Цитата допису crunchyfrog:

Цитата допису Ramenandspagghetti:

It's funny because other studies and cross examinations of such rankings show that it is infact biased most of the time and based on who could invest most money in the shortest amount of time into the specific "sources".

The Nordics, neither Western, Central and Eastern European countries were on top for a long time now, North America and Central America hasn't either - which is followed by most of North and East Asia.
What is funny is in these studies Japan is ranked highly when in reality its a country filled with depressed people, just like Taiwan (Taiwan having a 1 legitimate player to 2 cheaters ratio aswell as a 70% toaster bath per person ratio already shows alot).
Not to mention these ""studies"" do not take peoples opinions into account, they only take what the government REPORTS being the ""case"" in their territory, the actual happiest countries by tested participant turn out to be nations like Australia, New Zealand, the Phillipines, Thailand, Vietnam and Nepal - Hell even Mongolia which is rated very highly for both testosterone in men aswell as "overall citizen happiness score" is a country full of depressed people.

No that's because you're misunderstanding the metrics.

Using Japan, sure it's got a lot of depressed people and there's stark reasons for that which are societal. But that's NOT the same metric as societal wealth and health. Anyone who tells you they're the same is lying or simply doesn't understand.

Societal wealth and heatlh reflects how comfortably and happily you can live within the society and it reflects things like how much you earn versus the cost of lving, taxes and so on versus what security and social security safety nets there are.

it does NOT reflect things like whether people are depressed due to societal things. In Japans case it's well documented that a large reason why this is the case is because of their corporate culture of working ridiculous hours, and having little time for family life. There is a bit of a change going on but we'll see how that bears out.

So in short, no that's not how it works.

And for example, you will see societal wealth and health do far better in countries which have decent socialisitic safety nets. Like here in Britain, while we have a range of problems and while previous government has tried to wreck our health service the fact we have totally free NHS has a BIG effect on this metric.

Likewise things like paid paternity and maternity leave, statutory sick pay and other things.

So now we're saying happiness is based on how much you pay people even though it's never been like that?

Okay cool, come back when you have actual metrics that haven't been thrashed by personal bias.