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Happiness report: Norway is the happiest place on Earth
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MikeHattsu
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Woo
EatinOlives
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So...like...not Disney World then.
I mean, are you SURE though?
I mean, are you SURE though?
Laevateinn
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Finland in the top five? I feel like that cant be right
Loss of happiness due to perpetual winter is offset by vodka and heavy metal.
perfectchaos007
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How is this possible? They aren't even very religious
ReplacementPelican
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Aye, they always did say ignorance was bliss, didn't they?US>UK forever and always
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Top 10 is very predictable these days, though, in the Gaf rankings I'm sure Australia would be dead last due to the scary creatures.
I know a lot of people who want to move to Canada actually, Brexit will probably help that along nicely.
MikeHattsu
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Sweden letting everybody else down though
You need a realist in the gang to keep everyone sane
Så är det.
entremet
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Who would've thought the land of Vikings would become this lol.
Schattenjäger
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Based on their echo chamber and their standard of happiness is different from other countries
This book does a good deal speaking about the subject
Rest of the world are you even trying?
entremet
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The embrace true capitalism along with strong social services.
Its possible and not a contradiction unlike the thought of some posters who think capitalism is the worse thing ever.
I mean, it makes sense. It's really sad going to class in April where I live, seeing how the grass is green, the sun is shining in the sky and it's like 25 degrees outside.
But you are stuck in a classroom, looking through the windows at the people that is hanging around and having fun while you are acting as if you listened to that day's lecture.
To be fair, Norway has a population of 5 million people and nice fat oil reserves that help financially support their very progressive culture (they also are ok with high taxes which definitely helps, that is definitley something more unique to nordic countries). I'm very jealous of how Norwegian people get to live, but also understand it's not necessarily feasible in larger countries.
I'm Finnish and I just wonder how the hell did we end up that high in this list. Everyone is miserable here during fall and winter seasons. It's funny seeing how so many of my friends change to totally different persons when the spring comes (me included). We also have high suicide numbers etc.
It's the alcohol consumption isn't it? We like to get fucked and party.
It's funny seeing how so many of my friends change to totally different persons when the spring comes (me included). We also have high suicide numbers etc.It's the alcohol consumption isn't it? We like to get fucked and party.
SillyEskimo
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You answered your own question
Well done my crazy (but happy) Nordic friends. Just back from a few nights out in Copenhagen - terrific fun. Hoping to get back to Norway/Sweden later this year.
I remember the first time I took my (at the time very young) kids to Norway and Finland. I asked them what they thought afterwards and they said "very clean and everything works". What more could you want?
I remember the first time I took my (at the time very young) kids to Norway and Finland. I asked them what they thought afterwards and they said "very clean and everything works". What more could you want?
And that's in spite us just coming out of 6 months of permanent darkness.
Autumn Wind
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Sweden at number 10 surprises me. They used to be higher.
Cold weather > hot weather. Sorry, it's true, and I'll use nordic people's eternal happiness as living proof of this.
Depends on how far north you're going, but late spring should be good. It's always a crapshoot with the weather though, but at least it'll be bright.
capitalCORN
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Canada! Canada! Canada!
Tart Toter 9k
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i'd say winter > summer > spring > fall but it all depends on where you are going.
Fall is usually plauged by rain so if you plan to go outside you should keep that in mind. I think bergen had 280+ rainy days in 2016 and there are places with more rain than that.
Alessandro
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Happiness is eating snowflakes.
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Part of this is culturally subjective, to be fair. You could put the average Briton into the exact same lifestyle and conditions as the average Norwegian and we'd still be sod miserable. It'd be terrible if we didn't have anything to complain about, I don't even know what I'd do with my spare time.
Kotetsu534
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I feel like a survey that looked at separate demographics within countries would be interesting: i.e. where in the world are pensioners happiest? mothers of children under 5? young men? children? the rich? the poor?
entremet
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lol.
KillerMan91
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I feel people overstate how cold it's in Nordics. it's not nearly as cold here as the latitude would indicate (far warmer than in somewhere like Alaska or north Siberia that share the same latitude). Especially in southern Norway, Finland and Sweden. For example this winter there was maybe something like 3 weeks in total that you had enough snow to cross ski here in southern Finland (I love cross country skiing so this winter sucked)
Mild weather > both though
I live in one of those crazy countries where both body temperature and 10 degrees below the freezing point are regular weather occurences, and the inbetween is what really feels best
Australians are just Brits with significantly more sun exposure
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