iaink

That's not how it works though is it? Some city has to serve as the base line worth 100 pts, It could have been London, or Paris, they just happened to choose NY. They dont say its the best, its just a reference point that many corporate types might be familiar with. The top city (vienna) scores 108.6, NY is ranked 49th.

JamesM

Exactly- those Scandinavian countries have the highest suicide rates around.

iaink

If all the unhappy people kill themselves, doesnt that push up the average happyness of those left behind

Alan2005

Well that would depend on exactly who was topping themselves wouldn't it.

iaink

I was rather assuming the suicidal to be at the very bottom of the "enjoying life" league table.... but maybe some people are just too depressed to be bothered going to all that effort.

I sense thread drift though...

Alan2005

That wasn't quite what I meant...

hereandthere

In contrast, I have been struck by the increase in posts and threads by people returning to the UK from the US and Canada in recent months. As you probably have worked out, there are more threads about British people returning from Australia because more British move there in the first place. Ib fact in strict statistical terms I think more Brits move back from Canada than Australia, mainly due to the fact that they don't wish to retire in the cold and can't afford VI real estate prices, but I cannot remember where on Earth I read that.

Rae

Australia is a free Western liberal democracy with a good healthcare system, great weather, good schooling and literacy rates, lots of natural resources and an excellent immigration system. Austria is a tiny nation ruled by Brussels with a worrying rise in neo-Nazism and an even more concerning penchant for head cheese*. I'm of the opinion the UN did not get them the wrong way round - but nice try .




*If anyone does not know what this is, it's probably better to leave it that way.

Aviator

Yes, but most of them had no choice or way of getting back.

Souvy

Also worryingly popular in QC. The French name (cretons) is fairly unpleasant but it's miles better than the English version.

hereandthere

I'll say. I vote for cretons, bien sur!

iaink

Isnt the reason more people in MBTUK forum are coming from Oz simply that more people head there in the first place?


(he said , trying to move the topic on from head cheese)

Souvy

Yes, probably. Not many people from the UK migrate to Canada these days. I think it adds up to a few planeloads a year.

fledermaus

I thought I read in that UN survey that the majority of people who emigrate from the UK head to North America.

Souvy

I don't think that is correct. Are we making a distinction between people that migrate from the UK and cradle Brits that migrate from the UK?

I don't think all that many cradle Brits come out this way any more. Not permanently, anyway. Much has changed over the last few decades.

fledermaus

I think it's just people from the UK

http://hdrstats.undp.org/en/countrie...ty_fs_GBR.html