Happiest Place To Live, Norway Apparently

[emmie]

should we be moving there seeing as how they are so happy..

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-39325206

[Mamyalynne]

We'd only make them miserable.

[emmie]

ha ha very good.

[emmie]

i have been there, beautiful if not a tad cold.

[Old_Geezer]

Seems to me that happiness is related to expectation. I think I'd rather be living a better standard of life and be a little discontented because I thought that I ought to be doing better than be happily settling for a lower standard. Not that contentment isn't a good place to be. Strange how colder climates seem to produced more contented folk.

[hereIam]

A place I'd like to visit.

[emmie]

OG
doesn't it. They seem contented in a way that few are.

[emmie]

remember flying over the fjords and thinking how stunning,

[emmie]

stunning

http://www.pxleyes.com/blog/2012/07/norway-photography/

[jno]

it's not just the colder climates, OG, otherwise Australia wouldn't be on the list. It's partly geographical: a lot of those countries are in northern Europe not far from each other, and arrange their affairs in much the same way as their neighbours do. I wouldn't be surprised if the same reason puts Australia and NZ on the list together.

Obviously, Protestantism helps - it must be the famous work ethic...

[NellieMay]

Not surprised at all. Found it to be such a relaxed happy country.

[emmie]

the photos i have linked are worth a look.

[ichkeria]

They won't be so happy on Sunday evening after they've succumbed to Michael O'Neill's men in green :-)

[hereIam]

Beautiful em. The cold wouldn't bother me at all.

[emmie]

it wasn't that cold when we were there. I have always wanted to see the Aurora Borealis , somehow i don't think it will happen but one can dream.

[hereIam]

I believe you can see them from some points in Scotland, so I've been told.

[emmie]

i believe you can, but much further north.

[ladybirder]

All you need to know about Norway - cost of living, crime rate, house prices etc.
https://www.numbeo.com/cost-of-living/

[emmie]

it is expensive there i give you that..

[ToraToraTora]

So was Sweden a few years ago.

[ToraToraTora]

£7.60 a Pint, I don't think that would help on the "happiness" front!