Finland at second. Sweden and Norway have better daily experience thou. Their struggle is more enjoyable? We need some more struggling as a challenge to keep us happier? We thrive way too much…
Damn. Japan is 81, and number 5 on the suicide list. :eek:
I think some countries just don’t want to be happy.
Bulgaria is at 137? Yeah, that doesn’t surprise me. Sample conversations with Bulgarians:
Person in my town: Do you like Bulgaria?
Me: Yeah!
Person in my town: Why?
Me: Do you think things will improve in Bulgaria now that it’s a part of the EU?
My host sister’s MIL: No.
Me: Really?
My host sister’s MIL: Everything will just get worse and worse forever.
Everyone, all the time: Why would an American come to live in Bulgaria? What the hell is wrong with you?
I am a little surprised Israelis are so happy. As Alessan alluded to, Israelis seemed to complain and argue all the freaking time. But as I am not an Israeli myself, maybe I didn’t understand that maybe this is how Israelis display happiness?
We certainly don’t bottle anything up inside.
We’re number one! We’re number one!
Weird that such a paranoid, angsty population comes off as the happiest. I don’t get it. Perhaps y’all are just a lot worse off than I thought.
Whya re the colder areas always at the top of these lists? It’s the same when you see a list of the best cities/communites in the USA. Always the worst weather = the happiest people.
Maybe sunshine is overrated. . . or perhaps a side effect of vitamin D deficiency is happiness?!?
Carbon monoxide can’t be all bad right?
Vitamin D from sunshine is what’s overrated. It’s easily obtained in one’s diet from meat and fish etc. Also in pills.
Costa Rica, Panama, Brazil, Australia, and Israel are all in the top 12. No shortage of sunshine there.
Maybe they did the survey here in Finland during the summer - I’d call 20+ hour days enough sunshine.
I’m surprised everyone focused on the numeric rank, which is based strictly on a single column of a table with other interesting columns.
For example, in the score of “daily experience”, Panama came out on top, and Asia’s top three were all relatively poor S.E.Asian countries!
I think column one asks if you’re happy overall with your daily experiences.
Actually, the ranks in column 1 were determined by column 4 which shows the percentage of people who passed some threshold called “thriving.” We don’t see whether the “thriving” people in Denmark are happier (or “more thriving”) than the thriving people in U.S.A., just that there’s proportionately more of them.
Subjects were asked to indicate their “life evaluation score” and yesterday’s “daily experience score”; my skim of the article failed to find details of how these are combined to indicate “thriving.”
I reckon that they have not approved a Giggling Regulation yet. Unregulated behavior is Not Done, you know.
Spain is quite low this time; I expect it will get better soon, as the economy is certainly and clearly recovering from both the construction-bubble-bust and the general doom-and-gloom, but people are still in this mood of peeking around the corner to see whether they dare go around it or not, rather than boldly striding on.
We here in the United States enjoy the highest levels of happiness anywhere in the world; second to none and would not trade it for your so called socialized happiness. Polls lie; our grassroots happiness cannot be measured by polls. And if you disagree with that we would be happy to bomb the shit out of your country so that you can be free to enjoy the same levels of happiness we have achieved. 