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Australia ranks second for quality of life AUSTRALIA has the second-best quality of life in the world and could pip Norway for top spot, the author of a UN report on migration and development says. Australia was ranked second among 182 countries on a scale measuring life expectancy, school enrolments and income in the United Nations Development Program's Human Development Report 2009, released yesterday.

Pollyana

When does the plane leave for Oslo?

mohogony

OZ should be number 1 ahead of Norway because OZ has a much better climate which means a better quality of life if you can spend more times outdoors.

mohogony

Someone forgot to include the Aboriginies and the unemployed. The unemployed in OZ are the poorest in the developed world and the Aboriginies don't even live in the developed world.

Alfresco

Tsk tsk tsk Polls!

"Average temperatures vary between -10°C in January in Spitzbergen and +16°C in July in Oslo."

http://www.weatheronline.co.uk/repor...ate/Norway.htm

spalen

When deciding where to emigrate to - it was either Norway or Aus for me. Norway would have come first if they didnt speak norwegian and my kids dont.

Oslo is stunning. The country is run brilliantly and they have huge revenues to fund infrastructure because of their oil reserves. Stacks of Norwegians have 2nd homes on the 'fjords' of which there are trazillions. It really does look like a picture postcard.

On the other hand, waaay too much pickled herring and not enough vodka in the world will overcome eating the delicacy they have with the rotted fish they eat.

On the downside - the 20hrs of sunlight is a bit weird and the suicide rate is really really high (on account of eating rotten fish with vodka at twilight at 4am)

Vash the Stampede

Quick, everyone - teach the Norwegians to speak English with an Australian accent!

NOBODY WILL NOTICE...

Wol

Polls or surveys on subjects such as "quality of life" are totally meaningless, since the fundamental question is so subjective and personal. I suppose they *do* keep polling companies in employment, thereby keeping *their* quality of life up to scratch <g>.

Sally Redux

Yes, rather thoughtless of them

jad n rich

Yeah but, norweigans dont have bits of their faces and ears missing due to skin cancer....

CEM

No, fingers and toes due to frostbite Sorry

JackTheLad

It was the grilled Puffins that put me off.

And the fact they speak Norwegian while eating grilled puffins.

jad n rich

I was going to emigrate to Iceland 2 years ago based on this survey, however shortly after Iceland went broke.

Can anyone tell me if this years survey is more accurate

Broad Shoulders

Exactly! I mean how much of this is relevant now? The survey sample was taken a few months before one of the biggest world financial collapses. As said, Iceland is now broke. I can't remember the stat exactly but was watching a documentary recently that a ridiculously high percentage of people had gone broke and lost their lifetime savings and home in Iceland.
I'm sure it's a wonderful place to live now, with no job or home

Sherro

Ahhh, this is a quality thread, and one that should be popped into the MBTUK forum just to really wind some people up innit.

Infact I think I am the man to do it, I am going to do a "before you all up sticks and move back to that miserable shi* hole Brittaaan you wanna read this and stay in Australia".

its all be said before but it cant be said enough, it is "like" down to each individual