UK shamed. Uruguay, Hungary, better places to live.

[The Johnny]

Mexico: #46

FML

[Epimetheus]

Mexico: #46

FML

psst...sneak up the coast, move in with me.

[The Good Reverend Roger]

Rhode Island has some of the best beaches and temperate summers in the nation and we still find reasons to bitch about it.

Arizona has the best coyote poop and meth addicts and we still complain.

[Rumckle]

Heh, they have a link to O'Rielly's reaction to the list.

[The Johnny]

Mexico: #46

FML

psst...sneak up the coast, move in with me.

I miss California. They have nice things, like streetwalks without cracks or tree roots; like where you can actually use bikes to one place to another.


-JohNyx,
  almost died last time he tried to bike anywhere.

[The Good Reverend Roger]

Mexico: #46

FML

psst...sneak up the coast, move in with me.

I miss California. They have nice things, like streetwalks without cracks or tree roots; like where you can actually use bikes to one place to another.


-JohNyx,
  almost died last time he tried to bike anywhere.

Trees?  What are those?

[The Johnny]

Mexico: #46

FML

psst...sneak up the coast, move in with me.

I miss California. They have nice things, like streetwalks without cracks or tree roots; like where you can actually use bikes to one place to another.


-JohNyx,
  almost died last time he tried to bike anywhere.

Trees?  What are those?

Oh silly Roger, its them like christmas trees that are made out of dry chairs, and the Machine makes people put them everywehre, because theres no more space at the local dumpster.

Some madmen speak of leaves and flowers not made of plastic; such deluded conspiracy freaks, it saddens me.

[MMIX]

I lolled . . . this is definitely good for a giggle but I can't take seriously a comparison created by a commercial outfit trying to sell foreign real estate to the overprivileged who run articles like "How to Finance an International Property Investment"   


"To produce this annual Index we consider nine categories: Cost of Living, Culture and Leisure, Economy, Environment, Freedom, Health, Infrastructure, Safety and Risk, and Climate. This involves a lot of number crunching from "official" sources, including government websites, the World Health Organization, and The Economist, to name but a few. We also take into account what our editors from all over the world have to say about our findings."

So this is based on something which they implicitly claim is 'scientific' ie it is created by 'numbercrunching' but they manage to not mention exactly what parameters they are using - and then they overwrite that with the opinions of their editors . . .

not that this should inhibit the inevitable lulz

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

if the french have been #1 for 5 years why are they always COMPLAINING

Probably that's the reason they have it so good.  Portlanders often complain about issues too, and it's (factually) the greenest, and (arguably) most liberal state in the union.

We are some WHINY BITCHES. 

[Iason Ouabache]

The United States got a 100 in Infrastructure but only 92 in Freedom? Weird.

[Zenpeanut]

How does Sweden get a flat zero on cost of living?

[Reginald Ret]

How does Sweden get a flat zero on cost of living?

alcohol is very expensive there.

[East Coast Hustle]

if the french have been #1 for 5 years why are they always COMPLAINING

Probably that's the reason they have it so good.  Portlanders often complain about issues too, and it's (factually) the greenest, and (arguably) most liberal state in the union.

Portland is not a state. And I'm curious about your definition of "greenest", and for that matter, of "factually".

[Payne]

http://www.internationalliving.com/Internal-Components/Further-Resources/quality-of-life-2010

You Amerispags did pretty well, at seventh.  Canada isn't bad at 9, either.  Auspags came second though and France came first for the fifth year in a row.

The UK, however, came behind such economic powerhouses as Belgium and Lithuania, in 25th place

That is mostly because of Scotland though, really.

[Aufenthatt]

http://www.internationalliving.com/Internal-Components/Further-Resources/quality-of-life-2010

You Amerispags did pretty well, at seventh.  Canada isn't bad at 9, either.  Auspags came second though and France came first for the fifth year in a row.

The UK, however, came behind such economic powerhouses as Belgium and Lithuania, in 25th place

That is mostly because of Scotland though, really.

And the North of England and Wales and Northern Ireland.