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This article just came in, the World's happiest cities ranked by Forbes Magazine. Here are the top 10:
1. Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
2. Sydney, Australia
3. Barcelona, Spain
4. Amsterdam, Netherlands
5. Melbourne, Australia
6. Madrid, Spain
7. San Francisco, U.S.
8. Rome, Italy
9. Paris, France
10. Buenos Aires, Argentina
I have been to all of those except Rio, Sydney, Bueneos Aires, and Melbourne and can honestly say that Copenhagen, Denmark puts them all to shame. I have never in all my life run into a happier group of people then the Danes.
Certainly not Paris.
Parisians are hypocondriacs, most of them are on pills (Prozac)+ the suburbs are either very dangerous (riots, day-to-day violence and derelection) or more boring/conservative middle class than the most boring ones in US Suburbia.
There is road rage too, and bums, and very dirty places .
Police , especially local police , is not cool at all.
Tourists dread Parisian airports.
But everyone seems to have a love story with Paris, it's ununderstandable!
The FORBES MAGAZINE elected Rio de Janeiro "The most happy city of the world".
I am brazilian and I live in Rio de Janeiro and I agree. I would like know the opinion of all of you.
I don't know, aren't there many people living in slums in Rio? And how about gang violence and overall
crime rate (four times higher than in the similar sized U.S. cities as far as I know)?
Gang violence is as bad where I'm living now.
If you put me in a slum, I' ll probably die of sadness.
So hat off to the happy Brazilians.
Besides their music makes me so relax and happy.
Last edited by dougie86; 09-04-2009 at 01:12 PM..
Reason: grammar
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