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Tabris · Jan 20, 2016

http://www.usnews.com/news/best-countries/overall-full-list

Top 10 List:

1) Germany
2) Canada
3) United Kingdom
4) United States
5) Sweden
6) Australia
7) Japan
8) France
9) Netherlands
10) Denmark
11) New Zealand
12) Austria
13) Italy
14) Luxembourg
15) Singapore
16) Spain
17) China
18) Ireland
19) South Korea
20) Brazil

Here is the methodology behind the survey and rankings (there's also a bunch of videos where they explain the rankings):

http://www.usnews.com/news/best-countries/articles/methodology

Behind a countrys wealth and success are the policies that create possibilities, the people that drive the effort and the history that shapes the environment and perspective.

Globalization has expanded a countrys presence beyond its physical borders, and the 2016 Best Countries rankings seek to understand a nations worth beyond hard metrics.

The 2016 Best Countries report and rankings are based on how global perceptions define countries in terms of a number of qualitative characteristics, impressions that have the potential to drive trade, travel and investment and directly affect national economies. Sixty nations were measured in the inaugural report.

McDougles · Jan 20, 2016

2 out of more than 200 ain't bad.

smokeandmirrors · Jan 20, 2016

WE'RE NUMBER 4! WE'RE NUMBER 4!

Mr. Giggles · Jan 20, 2016

McDougles said:
2 out of more than 200 ain't bad.

God bless Canada.

Sorry UK & US

Shmuppers · Jan 20, 2016

4th is the new 1st anyway.

evanmisha · Jan 20, 2016

Oh, Denmark. How the mighty have fallen.

Kinitari · Jan 20, 2016

I'd love to visit germany again - last time I went I was 11 and I don't think I had the capacity to appreciate it. Although it is the first time I saw boobs (accidentally took a family walk through a clothing optional park or something, I don't know).

Nice to see Canada in 2nd place - here's hoping that we can do a bit better financially in the upcoming years. Damn that US dollar and Oil valuation, fucking us pretty thoroughly.

Tabris · Jan 20, 2016

We're training and coming for you Germany!

DECK'ARD · Jan 20, 2016

Still punching above our weight.

FZZ · Jan 20, 2016

DEUTSCHLAND

Mr. Giggles · Jan 20, 2016

Kinitari said:
I'd love to visit germany again - last time I went I was 11 and I don't think I had the capacity to appreciate it. Although it is the first time I saw boobs (accidentally took a family walk through a clothing optional park or something, I don't know).

Nice to see Canada in 2nd place - here's hoping that we can do a bit better financially in the upcoming years. Damn that US dollar and Oil valuation, fucking us pretty thoroughly.

*sigh*

Indeed

LegendofDragoonLives · Jan 20, 2016

I've been in 8 of those, living in one of them at the moment. Nice.

Kinitari said:
I'd love to visit germany again - last time I went I was 11 and I don't think I had the capacity to appreciate it. Although it is the first time I saw boobs (accidentally took a family walk through a clothing optional park or something, I don't know).

Nice to see Canada in 2nd place - here's hoping that we can do a bit better financially in the upcoming years. Damn that US dollar and Oil valuation, fucking us pretty thoroughly.

Ehh, I'm not confident that our economy might improve unfortunately. If Trudeau is anywhere near the level of the crapshow that his Liberal friends in Ontario are, then we are screwed. You would have to be something pretty special in terms of incompetence to run Ontario as shitty as they have so far. Games rumored to go up to 85-89$ once again, hitting that 100$+ mark with tax.

I just raised CAN prices at my work online compared to our US prices for one of the websites, difference is 20-25% raise on the Canadian products that were already about 20% more expensive than the US counterpart. Our economy is

Bay Maximus · Jan 20, 2016

'US' News. It would be unbecoming to put yourself in the top 3 even if you're obviously the best. Nah, best to let others have some shine as well. Way to go America.

Metrotab · Jan 20, 2016

Damn, my country isn't even in the list.

Reversed · Jan 20, 2016

I should keep up shaping my terribad German then.

JeTmAn81 · Jan 20, 2016

Looks like Yurop is the overall nicest region. Pretty obvious.

Reversed said:
I should keep up shaping my terribad German then.

Pretty sure most of them speak English

Iorv3th · Jan 20, 2016

Mr. Giggles said:
God bless Canada.

Sorry UK & US

Don't worry those oil prices keep falling. We are coming for you.

Currygan · Jan 20, 2016

DECK'ARD said:
Still punching above our weight.

PillarEN · Jan 20, 2016

Countries where you get mugged in broad daylight and people go "welp, that's how things go around here. Shit I should hide my phone and necklace before somebody spots me with it" don't deserve to be top 20 on any list. Brazil *ehem*

shoreu · Jan 20, 2016

Mr. Giggles said:
God bless Canada.

Sorry UK & US

Don't worry we'll just come and buy up all your stuff with our double dollars.

El Topo · Jan 20, 2016

WIR SIND WELTMEISTER!

The list is bullshit.

Kaako · Jan 20, 2016

Not even top 3, we suuuck. Canada stays winning though...time to move(?)

DECK'ARD · Jan 20, 2016

Currygan said:

Don't spoil it.

Foffy · Jan 20, 2016

America seems too high for my liking.

Maybe move it to 15th and I wouldn't object.

Mr. Giggles · Jan 20, 2016

Iorv3th said:
Don't worry those oil prices keep falling. We are coming for you.

shoreu said:
Don't worry we'll just come and buy up all your stuff with our double dollars.

Come at us, we'll keep on swinging

ZZMitch · Jan 20, 2016

Poor Sweden

NoblesseOblige · Jan 20, 2016

US news is a traitor.

I'm actually shocked US is in top 10, let alone top 5.

The Lamp · Jan 20, 2016

Denmark should be higher.

Other than that, I agree.

LegendofDragoonLives · Jan 20, 2016

JeTmAn81 said:
Looks like Yurop is the overall nicest region. Pretty obvious.

Pretty sure most of them speak English

Most of the older crowd doesn't from what I witnessed. Expected the reverse.

shoreu · Jan 20, 2016

Mr. Giggles said:
Come at us, we'll keep on swinging

#never forget.

Dennis · Jan 20, 2016

Couldn't the US just outright buy Canada at this point?

buttnuggett · Jan 20, 2016

Mr. Giggles said:
Come at us, we'll keep on swinging

We were still recovering from Alanis Morrisette and Bryan Adams too.

Bastards!!

Tabris · Jan 20, 2016

Kaako said:
Not even top 3, we suuuck. Canada stays winning though...time to move(?)

Honestly, if you were American, you really should think about immigrating bringing your money in and converting it. You would get close to doubling your assets and live in a better country (assuming you aren't a Republican because this country wouldn't be a fit for you).

All the dollar fear is less about the job economy (as that's actually rebounding healthily with the lower dollar) and more just increase cost in import goods and traveling. There's a surplus of jobs happening right now in cities like Vancouver which should help drive up salaries over the year to balance the increased cost of things like video games, food not made in Canada, etc.

But for people stuck in their current role or working for a company that doesn't sell to the US, it will hurt them. New jobs will be driving up salaries though.

Plus unless you live in cities like NY and San Fran, the salaries you get in Canada are higher then what you are used to. Of course cost of living is more then you're used to too.

MikeHattsu · Jan 20, 2016

McDougles said:
2 out of more than 200 ain't bad.

2 out of 60 actually. Lots of countries missing

Tabris · Jan 20, 2016

Mr. Giggles said:
Come at us, we'll keep on swinging

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BradleyUK · Jan 20, 2016

I just can not believe the UK is 3rd!

This country is shit

hobblygobbly · Jan 20, 2016

DECK'ARD · Jan 20, 2016

BradleyUK said:
I just can not believe the UK is 3rd!

This country is shit

Eat some crumpets and sit down.

Piggus · Jan 20, 2016

BradleyUK said:
I just can not believe the UK is 3rd!

This country is shit

It's funny, I know so many people from the UK who hate it and want to move to the US or elsewhere. But the UK is one of my favorite countries I've visited. I guess the perspective is very different when you live somewhere.

NoblesseOblige said:
US news is a traitor.

I'm actually shocked US is in top 10, let alone top 5.

Despite what Gaf tells you, the US is quite awesome in a lot of ways.

DECK'ARD · Jan 20, 2016

Piggus said:
It's funny, I know so many people from the UK who hate it and want to move to the US or elsewhere. But the UK is one of my favorite countries I've visited. I guess the perspective is very different when you live somewhere.

Complaining is one of our national pastimes.

KillerMan91 · Jan 20, 2016

Eh. A lot of developed countries are missing from the list like Norway, Finland, Belgium, Iceland etc.

maniac-kun · Jan 20, 2016

Finaly Germany is nummer eins!

Kinitari · Jan 20, 2016

Tabris said:
Honestly, if you were American, you really should think about immigrating bringing your money in and converting it. You would get close to doubling your assets and live in a better country (assuming you aren't a Republican because this country wouldn't be a fit for you).

All the dollar fear is less about the job economy (as that's actually rebounding healthily with the lower dollar) and more just increase cost in import goods and traveling. There's a surplus of jobs happening right now in cities like Vancouver which should help drive up salaries over the year to balance the increased cost of things like video games, food not made in Canada, etc.

But for people stuck in their current role or working for a company that doesn't sell to the US, it will hurt them. New jobs will be driving up salaries though.

Plus unless you live in cities like NY and San Fran, the salaries you get in Canada are higher then what you are used to. Of course cost of living is more then you're used to too.

Yeah my company is doing Banana's with the dollar difference. We're a software consultancy and Canadian companies who would often consult with US companies are now staying local, and US companies who want to consult but save some money, are coming to us.

Buba Big Guns · Jan 20, 2016

Was Norway not ranked? Pretty good top 10.

Matsukaze · Jan 20, 2016

The missus and I were recently discussing our next vacation spot. I was already pushing Germany; I can use this list to my advantage.

Ophelion · Jan 20, 2016

DECK'ARD said:
Complaining is one of our national pastimes.

No kidding. I don't think I've never met a Brit who had a nice word to say about their country or their politics when it happened to come up and I spent a good amount of time in Britain...granted, most of that time was spent in Scotland, so...

Tabris · Jan 20, 2016

KillerMan91 said:
Eh. A lot of developed countries are missing from the list like Norway, Finland, Belgium, Iceland etc.

This list is just polling for 60 countries. Not sure why they picked what, it's probably in the methodology videos.

phaonaut · Jan 20, 2016

Tabris said:

I think that was the British.

dabig2 · Jan 20, 2016

KillerMan91 said:
Eh. A lot of developed countries are missing from the list like Norway, Finland, Belgium, Iceland etc.

Those are more isolated countries. This list seems to heavily factor in globalization and foreign investment.

Mr. Giggles · Jan 20, 2016

Matsukaze said:
The missus and I were recently discussing our next vacation spot. I was already pushing Germany; I can use this list to my advantage.

pfffft germany.

Come spend your delicious dollars here in Canada.

We've got maple syrup AND our water is the freshest of the fresh

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