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Happiness report: Norway is the happiest place on earth

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Re: Happiness report: Norway is the happiest place on earth

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Post by pvdebbe »

harryh wrote: post #41
nabla9 wrote: post #14

That's what you get when you combine oil riches, Nordic model and coastline designed by Slartibartfast.

How does the coastline help? I've never heard this explanation before.

The coastline is required to make a nice-ish reference to THHGTTG.

Re: Happiness report: Norway is the happiest place on earth

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Post by matt4077 »

sn41 wrote: post #18
mistermann wrote: post #8

1. Norway 146. Yemen 2. Denmark 147. South Sudan 3. Iceland 148. Liberia 4. Switzerland 149. Guinea 5. Finland 150. Togo 6. Netherlands 151. Rwanda 7. Canada 152. Syria 8. New Zealand 153. Tanzania 9. Australia 154. Burundi 10. Sweden Will be interesting to see how spots 7, 8, 9 hold up going forward as many/most middle class people in these 3 countries increasingly find they cannot afford even a very modest home wit…

I am an Indian who have lived for a while in NZ. Please do not chug on this Kool-Aid that NZ is not corrupt. Part of the reason why real estate in Auckland is overpriced is because the government deliberately does not formulate a legislation that forbids non-residents from buying up property. Please petition for this reasonable legislation. Who does the current policy enrich? It is your country. I think you should fi…

If you label every policy you dislike as the result of "corruption" you're not doing the fight against actual corruption any favours.

Highlighting NZ as exemplary is exactly the sort of reward that politicians need to be immune to attempts of corruption. It also creates an environment where people who go into public service do so with a concept of self that has "is not corrupt" as one strong component.

Re: Happiness report: Norway is the happiest place on earth

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Post by harryh »

samirillian wrote: post #44
harryh wrote: post #41

Earlier quoted context omitted.

How does the coastline help? I've never heard this explanation before.

It's a Douglas Adams joke.

Heh, OK. I got the Douglas Adams reference. I just thought there was something beyond the joke. I guess not though.

Re: Happiness report: Norway is the happiest place on earth

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Post by matt4077 »

harryh wrote: post #41
nabla9 wrote: post #14

That's what you get when you combine oil riches, Nordic model and coastline designed by Slartibartfast.

How does the coastline help? I've never heard this explanation before.

It may actually have a bit of truth in it: The fractal coastline allows for many more coastline properties than the straight coasts of, say, South Africa.

Re: Happiness report: Norway is the happiest place on earth

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Post by kristofferR »

barking wrote: post #42

Does this explain why the Scandanavian countries are the number one preferred destination for refugees?

We're not that any longer. 2015 was crazy, so in 2016 the Scandinavian countries made it much stricter:

http://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/documents/2995521/7921609/3-160...

Page 4. First time asylum applicants declined with over 70% in all the Scandinavian countries.

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