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Singapore sounds like the worst. From news sites, interviewees say that they don't sleep enough, hate their jobs, and don't smile. That sounds like pretty bad quality of life. To top it off it's also the least emotional country, doesn't seem like a nice place to live
From a true blue born, bred and still living in Singapore Singaporean, Singaporeans whine a lot and they dont know how to be contented that is why it seems like it a very bad quality of life..
In Europe everyone dreams of being to live in the city centre and to afford it one day. Suburbs are generally loathed by most people. The opposite happens in North America, that's why the average American city centre is completely lifeless at night.
I prefer living downtown, but I know most people in France dream of a proper house with a garden.
Here in Italy, the best thing people dream of is an appartment on top of a building and a big terrace. They care less about separate houses. Anyway the country is more densely populated and people are more into socializing.
Here in Italy, the best thing people dream of is an appartment on top of a building and a big terrace. They care less about separate houses. Anyway the country is more densely populated and people are more into socializing.
I assume Spain is similar? There didn't seem to be much in the way of recognizable suburbs in the same relatively low density housing with houses.
I prefer living downtown, but I know most people in France dream of a proper house with a garden.
Here in Italy, the best thing people dream of is an appartment on top of a building and a big terrace. They care less about separate houses. Anyway the country is more densely populated and people are more into socializing.
That is a natural evolution of density of population effects. Those countries with a more recent history of agrarian background and unsettled frontiers are going to have a greater percentage of population being averse to living in apartments.
It has not so much to do with socializing though. Many of us would enjoy the aspects of a neighbourhood pub we could walk to and from, but are stuck instead with alcohol beverage laws dating back to prohibition era where drinking and socializing establishments are limited in location so as to force people to drive but dare not consume lest they become the next ad for DWI driving. Forced and licensed morality, as it were.
What is the reaction, by even New Yorkers, witnessing those videos of subway train "people-pushers" in the east? How about the pictures of a typical Pakistani or Indian train commute with hundreds of people riding on the tops and sides of the trains?
It beggars the imagination to think of getting dressed for a day of work in a fresh suite and tie only to be physically crammed into, or having to climb up the side of a filthy train car.
Just get sick - really sick - and you'll RUN, not walk, to N. America. I was here (in Canada) in the first place, having come from the U.K. 40+ years ago.
My father died (aged 65) in England. It took (count 'em) 5 operations to complete a quintuple bypass, and he died after the fifth operation, after eleven days in a coma. $hit, we do those here in four or five hours!
My brother (he lives in Florida) is in a lower, lower economic bracket due to sickness, and he's receiving stellar care. He's 54 and 'should have been dead' four or five times now, but the doctors are excellent and he's receiving the best possible care; I know, I keep my finger on the pulse of it.
I can't think of any country in the world that isn't messed up, but when TSHTF or the lights go out, give me N. America every time - and preferably Canada. Second on my list would be Australia, for all the same reasons.
This poll shows :
The US and Poland win exaequo the Gold medal of bad quality of life
Singapore and UK the Silver medal
South Korea and Spain the Bronze medal
Spain...that hundreds of thousands of North European expatriates and snowbirds call home....I have some doubts about this kind of polls...
You know City Data is a joke when more people think that the US has a lower quality of life than Poland, South Korea, or Spain.
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