Countries to move to

[Guest guest]

Message-ID: <eqd1d7+bldmeGroups>

User-Agent: eGroups-EW/0.82

MIME-Version: 1.0

Content-Type: text/plain; charset= " ISO-8859-1 "

Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

X-Mailer: Yahoo Groups Message Poster

X-Yahoo-Post-IP: 204.16.147.13

X-Yahoo-Newman-Property: groups-compose

Sender: notify

X-Yahoo-GPoster: Y3DK=vmazoV9x_eC

For those of you that are contemplating moving to another country,I just

read this item today and attach same for what it is worth.

Regards

Guy

The way to be happy may be to live in a country where everyone else is

happy too. If you live in Denmark, you live in the happiest country in

the world. Switzerland, Austria and Iceland are next, in that order.

Canada is number 10 and the US is number 23, behind Costa Rica, The

Netherlands and Norway.

UK psychologist White has created the first world map of

happiness, based on the findings of over 100 different studies around

the world, which questioned 80,000 people worldwide. He says, " There

is increasing political interest in using measures of happiness as a

national indicator in conjunction with measures of wealth. A recent

BBC survey found that 81% of the population think the government

should focus on making us happier rather than wealthier=85 Further

analysis showed that a nation's level of happiness was most closely

associated with health levels, followed by wealth, and then=85education.

The three predictor variables of health, wealth and education were

also very closely associated with each other, illustrating the

interdependence of these factors.

" There is a belief that capitalism leads to unhappy people. However,

when people are asked if they are happy with their lives, people in

countries with good healthcare, a higher GDP per capita, and access to

education were much more likely to report being happy.

" We were surprised to see countries in Asia scoring so low, with China

82nd, Japan 90th and India 125th. These are countries that are thought

as having a strong sense of collective identity which other

researchers have associated with well-being=85It is also notable that

many of the largest countries in terms of population do quite badly.

With China 82nd, India 125th and Russia 167th it is interesting to

note that larger populations are not associated with happy

countries=85It is worth remembering that the UK is doing relatively well

in this area, coming 41st out of 178 nations.