Why Iceland has the happiest people on earth

[negator]

Highest birth rate in Europe + highest divorce rate + highest percentage of women working outside the home = the best country in the world in which to live.
There has to be something wrong with this equation.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/may/18/iceland

 

[squallumz]

:hit:

 

[dick van cock]

Don't forget: Iceland has no standing army

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_of_Iceland

 

[calpoon]

Highest birth rate in Europe + highest divorce rate + highest percentage of women working outside the home = the best country in the world in which to live.
There has to be something wrong with this equation.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/may/18/iceland

translation: married guys wives aren't around, the rest of them are either single or soon to be, and everyone's fucking. who wouldn't be happy?

 

[sputnikgirl]

It is the country with the sixth highest GDP per capita in the world; where people buy the most books; where life expectancy for men is the highest in the world, and not far behind for women; it's the only country in Nato with no armed forces (they were banned 700 years ago); the highest ratio of mobile telephones to population; the fastest-expanding banking system in the world; rocketing export business; crystal-pure air; hot water delivered to all Icelandic households straight from the earth's volcanic bowels; and so on and so forth.

But none of this happiness would be possible without the hardy self-confidence that defines individual Icelanders, which in turn derives from a society that is culturally geared - as its overwhelming priority - to bring up happy, healthy children, by however many fathers and mothers.

Let's try picking up a book & actually trying to parent our children here in the US. Those two things alone would improve the quality of life immensely.

 

[squallumz]

Let's try picking up a book & actually trying to parent our children here in the US. Those two things alone would improve the quality of life immensely.

you're so cute when you're angsty! <3

 

[sputnikgirl]

you're so cute when you're angsty! <3

I'm going off to brood now. :turnturn::spin:

 

[calpoon]

you know the real true reason that Iceland is so cool?

because they have Thor, the god of thunder.

 

[negator]

Don't forget: Iceland has no standing army

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_of_Iceland

as mentioned in the article, the standing army was banned 700 years ago.
ironically, the u.s. constitution has no provision for a standing army.

i guess the toothpaste is out of the tube. . .

 

[squallumz]

out of the tube and all over the face.

 

[tartanterrier]

I think it's the natural spas that make the difference

 

[titsrock]

It is very difficult for foreigners to become Icelandic citizens. They let you come, live, work. And that's about it.

Having said that...the reason why everyone's happy is social engineering...when your population is as attractive as there's is...what's to be angry about?

I flew thru the Reykavik airport once...most beautiful airport I've ever seen.

 

[anomaly]

The USA has no reason to "spread freedom and democracy" in Iceland. That alone makes it a happy and safe place to live.:ak47:

 

[member2013]

kissing the ass of scandinavia:

white supremacists, american conservatives, or fetishists for their oh so exalted, 'women.'

 

[Legzman]

they also mind their own fucking business. Much unlike the united states who always gotta fuck with everyone else!

 

[squallumz]

i think it has to do with the fact that iceland is more green than greenland which is icy.

 

[calpoon]

It is very difficult for foreigners to become Icelandic citizens. They let you come, live, work. And that's about it.

and yet all these "foreign invaders", in the popular freeone's members term for immigrants, haven't destroyed the utter fabric of their society (or the rest of europe) and they are very prosperous.

Go figure.

 

[SBTNW]

and i thought Switzerland was the best place on earth... whadayaknow!

 

[bombardier52]

It is a very cool place, so to speak. I spent a couple of weeks there once and I'm gonna say it's the best place to live because everyone is doing everyone. Free love reigns in Iceland! It really takes your mind off the fact that the weather sucks ass most of the year.

 

[titsrock]

and yet all these "foreign invaders", in the popular freeone's members term for immigrants, haven't destroyed the utter fabric of their society (or the rest of europe) and they are very prosperous.

Go figure.

True. It would be tough for me to live the life of the outsider though.