There is no such thing as a best place. The best place is the place that suites the requirements of the individual at the time.

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I agree with this statement totally, but I do feel that some Australians seem almost brainwashed into saying " best country in the world" even when for some this clearly is not the case.

They seem to have very good propaganda media or something in Oz regarding the we are the best thing ?

I've said it before and will no doubt say it again but I've never heard any Australians say or believe that. The only time I hear it is when people on here say it happens all the time.

Been that way for ages and goes over my head now. Australia in my measurement would get a rating of an average to good country. Pro and Cons.

They have learnt the techniques to selling it though.

I think the scandinavian countries have mastered the closest thing to social equality of any nation but quality of life is not really about nations its about individual circumstances. Around my neck of the woods people are generally well off, with many of my neighbours owning second homes and all the trappings of the consumer lifestyle so many of us are enslaved to. I can walk a few streets and be in an area were pretty much everybody is a mulit millionaire or past the local council estate where people are just getting by.

Australia's better off than most of the world, as is any developed western nation, but all over the world there are people living lifestyles based on super wealth that the majority of us will never have. Should we feel pleased that this super wealthy class of people is sucking more and more of the worlds resources for themselves, at the expense of the rest of us? I'm not.

Like I've said before most of us will have to content ourselves with the fact that 'quality of life is what you pay for, a life is what pays you'.

Would you also say you have never heard that in the Australian media???

It's probably used more in the media than by the general population but i have certainly heard it spoken by many aussie's.....

We love you Queensland..."you're the best in the world"...!

Here was me thinking - whats wrong with Sunbury? Nice and handy for the M3 or M25 great location for anyone working in the business parks around the western fringes of M25 or along the M4/M3 corridor - an easy commute into central London and really convenient for Heathrow if you need to travel.....

I don't take a lot of notice of Australian Media, it's much the same as most of the UKs media - crap. I guess I notice it with politicians but to be honest, I still prefer that to the constant DM type crap that tells me Britain is down the plughole. I prefer the positive aspect to the negative one. I have enough crap in my own life to not get stressed/annoyed/wound up by outside stuff which is irrelevant to me. If a politician/media dick wants to tell me they think Aus is the greatest country in the world having never been anywhere else they can, doesn't mean anything and it certainly doesn't rub me up the wrong way, I couldn't care less.

the issue is....the sort of people who work amongst the ignorant and complain are the people who consume tabloid media...


read a newspaper....the other side of the coin is that they are full of battler stories of hardship - hardly Aussie is best.

queensland should secede from australia and join new zealand.

I was thinking the same thing

That's a slightly different stance than saying you have never heard anyone mention it. I don't give a toss either just stating that it would be pretty hard to miss.