Monkey Poo - "The overpowering idiocy here is to be seen in the US citizens claiming that the US is the best place in the world to live on the basis of nothing more than blind prejudice." Really? I was pretty sure the overpowering issue had to do with trolls.
I would also regard your statement about how well traveled people are being a factor as being off base. A vacation, even if you're spending a week or two, will not tell you much about living there. The communities in the US, as is the case in much of the developed world, are made up of people from many cultures. You can learn as much from your neighbors about quality of life as you can from visiting there.
Floorman56 - I don't think diversity in culture is as important to quality of life as is the interaction between those cultures. Your argument seems to suggest that the US is superior because we have a black president, but one could argue the US is as racially and culturally unstable as any country listed in the top 10.
Good discussion. I wonder how the list would reorder without GDP in the mix. Obviously this is a category that is heavily waited toward places like the US, China, Japan, Germany, etc and one might argue is not the best indicator of quality of life.
For those interested in the comments concerning world aid numbers, visualeconomics.com has a couple interesting charts that show the largest contributors in aid (although not in %GDP or $ per capita) and how some large economics spend their money between healthcare, military, and education. The argument about who gives more is complicated when comparing countries with massively different GDPs and populations.
I think the exchange is funny, but it confounds me that the manager is being made out as the villain. Yes, the inspections sound extreme, but you have to live with the conditions of the lease you sign. This guy was clearly just being mean and I'm not sure I understand why we encourage him.
Good point Miss Cellania. I just remember being in Scotland a few years ago and being able to watch Scrubs reruns pretty much 24/7. I guess I just assumed that many of our other shows were also shown in other countries as well.
Ignoring the insignificance of the 0.1 year difference in education, the cyclical nature of the data is interesting and makes it look like more than just noise. It also makes the data look too clean to be real.
I wonder how they justify that the trend sharply increases going into May and just as sharply decreases going out. What makes May so unique? I also wonder how they would describe the kink in the data found between May and the next January.
I'm at T - 36 days to my wedding and I have found that everyone has a different concept of etiquette. We would prefer not to offer alcohol, but felt cheap offering a cash bar only. So we compromised. We are doing complementary wine while we finish our photos and a cash bar during dinner. We weren't going to do a bar option at all during dinner, but it is free for us to have the option there for our guests.
We also did not include our registries in our invitations or save the date. That kinda rubs me the wrong way. However, we did include a link to a website we set up with photo albums of us, details on the wedding and reception locations, and blurbs about how we met and the wedding party. We included links to the registries here, which works well because there is probably a high correlation between those who care to look through the site details and those who care to give a gift.
I would also regard your statement about how well traveled people are being a factor as being off base. A vacation, even if you're spending a week or two, will not tell you much about living there. The communities in the US, as is the case in much of the developed world, are made up of people from many cultures. You can learn as much from your neighbors about quality of life as you can from visiting there.
Good discussion. I wonder how the list would reorder without GDP in the mix. Obviously this is a category that is heavily waited toward places like the US, China, Japan, Germany, etc and one might argue is not the best indicator of quality of life.
For those interested in the comments concerning world aid numbers, visualeconomics.com has a couple interesting charts that show the largest contributors in aid (although not in %GDP or $ per capita) and how some large economics spend their money between healthcare, military, and education. The argument about who gives more is complicated when comparing countries with massively different GDPs and populations.
What DO you watch?
I wonder how they justify that the trend sharply increases going into May and just as sharply decreases going out. What makes May so unique? I also wonder how they would describe the kink in the data found between May and the next January.
I agree and it is another reason I cringe when I see neatorama post about celebrity deaths.
We also did not include our registries in our invitations or save the date. That kinda rubs me the wrong way. However, we did include a link to a website we set up with photo albums of us, details on the wedding and reception locations, and blurbs about how we met and the wedding party. We included links to the registries here, which works well because there is probably a high correlation between those who care to look through the site details and those who care to give a gift.