Australia the second best place in the world

[glenc (Glen)]

United Nations names Australia as the second best place in the world to live
"The United Nations has named oil-rich Norway as the country with the best quality of life, followed by Australia and NZ, while Asia has made the biggest strides in recent decades.
The UN's annual A-to-Z of global wealth, poverty, health and education highlighted, however, that it is becoming ever more difficult to break into the rich club of nations.
Norway - with its 81 years of life expectancy and average annual income of $US59,000 ($59,000) - has topped the Human Development Index (HDI) for all but two years since 2001.
It doesn't come in first place in any individual category - average income in Liechtenstein, for example, is a wallet-busting $US81,011 and Japan's life expectancy is 83.6 years - but Norway's all-round performance gives it superiority in the 20th annual rankings on the UN Development Program (UNDP).
Australia, New Zealand, the United States and Ireland, in order, also made the top five."
http://www.smh.com.au/travel/travel-...105-17g3f.html
http://hdr.undp.org/en/statistics/

[jjjnettie (Jeanette)]

There's no place like home!

[mithrandir (Andrew)]

Originally Posted by jjjnettie

There's no place like home!

You forgot the repeats and heel click.

[jjjnettie (Jeanette)]

I didn't have my Ruby slippers on either.

I'm forever grateful to have been born in this, the Lucky Country.

[PCH (Paul)]

It's worth it only coming second not to have to learn Norwegian though

[Ric]

We might be number 2 but we are number 1 with our southern skies.

Cheers

[strongmanmike (Michael)]

Yeh but many Aussies thart fit this average will still complain about everything here... you know like ...we should be able to drive faster on our roads or...what Julia is wearing etc...

[mithrandir (Andrew)]

Originally Posted by strongmanmike

Yeh but many Aussies thart fit this average will still complain about everything here... you know like ...we should be able to drive faster on our roads or...what Julia is wearing etc...

So if we trade all the goat tracks for autobahns, and have everyone dress like they just left at a Milan couturier then Oz would be perfect?

[gary]

Originally Posted by Ric

We might be number 2 but we are number 1 with our southern skies.

Cheers

And with a mean daytime temperature in January of -2.3C in Oslo
plus the midnight sun during winter in the far north above the Arctic Circle,
where it can get down to minus forty below, I can't imagine too many Australian
observers wanting to permanently relocate there any time soon.

[strongmanmike (Michael)]

Originally Posted by mithrandir

So if we trade all the goat tracks for autobahns, and have everyone dress like they just left at a Milan couturier then Oz would be perfect?

Yeh the UN should have included road networks/conditions as one of the fundamentals of the standard of living...the roads in Norway are probably often covered in ice and snow so maybe we could have pipped'em then ....not sure Julia would stack up against the average Norwegian gal though...

[Peter Ward]

Originally Posted by mithrandir

So if we trade all the goat tracks for autobahns, and have everyone dress like they just left at a Milan couturier then Oz would be perfect?

I could live with that

[avandonk]

Pining for the fiords!

Bert

[BerrieK]

But what about all the trolls in Norway?

[el_draco (Rom)]

Originally Posted by glenc

United Nations names Australia as the second best place in the world to live
"The United Nations has named oil-rich Norway as the country with the best quality of life, followed by Australia and NZ, while Asia has made the biggest strides in recent decades.
The UN's annual A-to-Z of global wealth, poverty, health and education highlighted, however, that it is becoming ever more difficult to break into the rich club of nations.

If memory serves me correctly, the U.N. does not take into account intangibles such as environmental welbeing when doing this calculation... which of course makes it meaningless.

Recent events in the world have demonstarted one thing very clearly; the U.N. is a complete out-of-touch farce, a repeat of the equally usless "League of Nations"

If you want a real indicator of where it is good to live, try Bhutan's concept of G.D.H., a far better indicator that G.D.P.

Personally, give me C. Bay... (Not telling, so don't ask!!)

[jjjnettie (Jeanette)]

Originally Posted by BerrieK

But what about all the trolls in Norway?

LOL There's enough trolls on this forum to satisfy any Norwegian.

[Gerald Sargent]

For Ric - what southern skies ? Here in SE Qld we have been clouded out since late August
and at present in Brisbane it is more like November in UK - Gerald.

[Ric]

Hi Gerald, the skies are clear down here at the moment.

For how long though is anyones guess.

Cheers

[glenc (Glen)]

If they took temperature into account Australia would win.
The Norwegian roads are excellent, they have long tunnels through the mountains so that they can get around in winter.
The Norwegians are also very hospitable, they went out of their way to help us out several times when we were there.

[RickS (Rick)]

Not only do the Norwegians have long tunnels... they have mobile phone reception in them!

[Kevnool (Kev)]

As long as the beers ice cold then thats ok by me.
Cheers Kev.