Best place to live...........Norway?

Yes, Norway kicks all our asses again, though the data for the 2009 report comes from 2007, and since then Iceland has taking a massive beating in the credit crunch, so they're basically tied with Zimbabwe right now.

Or well maybe Austria.


But for all us awesome people who made the "Very high human development" part of the list

1. Norway
2. Australia
3. Iceland
4. Canada
5. Ireland
6. Netherlands
7. Sweden
8. France
9. Switzerland
10. Japan
11. Luxembourg
12. Finland
13. United States
14. Austria
15. Spain
16. Denmark
17. Belgium
18. Italy
19. Liechtenstein
20. New Zealand
21. United Kingdom
22. Germany
23. Singapore
24. Hong Kong, China (SAR)
25. Greece
26. Korea (Republic of)
27. Israel
28. Andorra
29. Slovenia
30. Brunei Darussalam
31. Kuwait
32. Cyprus
33. Qatar
34. Portugal
35. United Arab Emirates
36. Czech Republic
37. Barbados
38. Malta

Anyone who's country is not in the top 38, you obviously live in a third world hell hole. We're sorry, we shall send guns and butter.


I love how North Korea is just straight up not on their list at all.
http://hdr.undp.org/en/statistics/

Also Russia, you got beat my Mexico and basically tied with Albania, tsk tsk.(Though when the data for 2008 comes out when oil prices tripled and Russia was rolling in money they're probably going to jump ahead 10 spots)

 

that's sad that Poland is not listed

 

Norway has a lot of oil. Most of the profits from the oil sales go to the government who take care of the people (schools, unemployment, health care). Most of the benefits are free and guaranteed for life and for the life of their children.

Here in America (and most of the world) mining and oil profits mainly go to a few individuals.

 

5 fuck you Amerdica!!!!!!!!!!!

 

Well unlike these other countries our people are affraid of seeing the government owning/operating the oil/mining industry... politicians make money by having these companies in their pocket.. but could you imagine the uproar our citizens would have said government took over big oil and mining? our government strategies combined with government corruption would never allow such a thing to work.. at least not right now.. though.. if our economy keeps going to shit.. the government may one day own the oil and mining industry in the US.. they now own GM our only car manufacturer and everyone goes "are you really gonna buy a government made car?"

 

Pft hell no, your country is basically tied with Iceland when it comes to countries worst hit by the financial crisis, you guys are gonna fall like 8 places next year

Also keep in mind those big oil companies pay big taxes, lots of taxes, more taxes then generally the bottom 70% of Americans put together. Norway has a level of oil/oil revenue quite beyond it's size of 5 million people. Plus, we are one of the biggest consumers of Norwegian oil, they get rich on our dollar.

 

Hey give it a couple of years (although I'd love to live in Ireland). Most of your manufacturing is also moving to Eastern Europe and China.

 

Damn straight, we all already basically kiss China's ass, America and Britain are the only ones with a real advantage because of a large banking/financial sectors, Britain's close relationship with a lot of it's former colonies, and America, well America just being America

 

Im real interested in spending some time in Japan.

 

I refuse to believe in Japan until I go there, otherwise I'm convinced they've moved themselves into the internet.

 

i believe that all Japanese women love getting fucked by tentacles and eels.. and are really fucked in the head.. and no matter how old they are they all look to be roughly the age of 13

 

hmm im not sure whats going on now that the Lisbon treaty was voted in our government is a useless corrupt waste of space and over 15% of the population is unemployed...still love every minute living here though and being Irish is basically a free drinking pass in every other country :cheers2:

 

Heck just being part Irish in this country is a drinking pass.

I use my 25% Irishness to drink for 240% of me

 

#4 woot

 

I'm not surprised at that last by any means.

 

The oil companies pay big taxes-but not THAT much. They got over 1 Billion dollars in tax breaks in 2006 or 2007. They should be paying much more.

 

This graph gets thrown around a lot, but even with all the loopholes in place for businesses, it's still true:
http://mjperry.blogspot.com/2008/07/exxon-posts-record-3236-billion-tax.html

http://www.businessweek.com/bwdaily...?chan=top+news_top+news+index_news+++analysis

 

Woot !! 115.

 

Mississippi probably would rank 115th on its own if it didn't suck up tax money from other states

 

i think mississippi ranks 115th in a ranking of whats the worse state to live in..