[pavilionnotebook]

What's this "we" ****? You ain't one of us...

[ANCETPYNCTEXT]

Netherlands

[ForumMasta]

We try hard to follow your excellent example.

[newpiknicker]

Some of the poorer countries had much better home lives and the like. (or qualitative satisfaction).

But yeah...

Russia was lower in the stats it showed for it.

JM

[SueveDobe]

Heh. UN study.

Worthless.

[alecaf]

Alot of the survey was about perceptions and if you are 8 and are constantly being told that you live in a crime ridden hell hole, you might think your liffe is a bit rubbish, even though you are objectivley one of the luckiest kids in the world

[Viyzarei]

Our kids drink the most, have the most sex and take the 3rd most drugs and they are the unhappiest?

Stupid whinging little bastards.

[gagagaridze]

Originally posted by Sandman
More seriously, the constant screeching of the tabloids about the state of the NHS, schools, immigrants, yobbery etc probably plays a part in this. Brits are materially better off then ever before, but are also quite convinced that society is crumbling around them. QFT. I expect this 'survey' says more about miserablism in the UK than living standards.

[Txaizdxx]

Personally I'm not saying anything about other countries. Just about Britain.

[Virosponna]

Well atleast we're best at something for a change

[velichay]

Originally posted by Asmodean
So children in Poland are generally more well off than children in the States. Food for thought. That's just one aspect. Don't worry. Overall, the U.S. remains the industrialized nation with the shortest lifespans and the highest healthcare costs. --But it's okay, because our health insurance companies are raking in the profits.

[Opislossy]

Originally posted by Aeson
Without Utah's 5 Electoral votes, Bush would have lost to Gore in 2000... Deseret If by you mean Utah sucks, correct.

(We'd rank higher than the USA on this list too!) Only 'cause you're all brainwashed. Though I think Tassi would even it out, really.

[thomaskkk]

I meant in the ranking by kid satisfaction or whatever it was they were measuring (by bringing it down).

And why would you be on the list, anyway? It's for first-world countries.

[TheBestCheapestOEM]

Originally posted by Kuciwalker
I meant in the ranking by kid satisfaction or whatever it was they were measuring (by bringing it down). You have really weird age limits for "kid"...

And why would you be on the list, anyway? It's for first-world countries. Utah's economy is capitalist, government is Democratic, and the standard of living in Utah is higher than the US average. Deseret would be first-world if the US is... (At least until we revolted to a Mormon Theocracy.)

[PickEmUp]

Originally posted by Tacc
I am a citizen of the United States of America and of the State of Utah.
Deal with it. Your skin is brown. Deal with it, furriner.

[Fiipolera]

WTF is Deseret?

[Lypepuddyu]

lol http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deseret_alphabet

[Farson]

Originally posted by TheStinger
Alot of the survey was about perceptions And that is why the survey is of little value. It tends to measure perceptions and other subjective things and only rarely hard numbers. Basically it is a popularity/pissing contest much like the UN's best place to live "survey".

If people are interested in some of the things which made this survey rubbish: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/6359849.stm

[HakTaisanip]

The authors say they used the most up-to-date information to assess "whether children feel loved, cherished, special and supported, within the family and community, and whether the family and community are being supported in this task by public policy and resources". http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/6359363.stm

This is the same bullshit garbage from the same idiots who brought us the Unicef best country to live in survey. It's pure rubbish since be definition to score high a country must be socialist.

"whether the family and community are being supported in this task by public policy and resources" which translates to they vote for countries which have the same ideological sympathies the authors have and the facts don't matter. How healthy and happy the children are, as judged in a mathmatical and reproducable way, doesn't matter and instead it is all about promoting one political/ideological system. Is it any wonder the UN's survey's get laughed at so much? Hell, these idiots even claim that income inequality some how matters more then median income. Those assurtions are purely political and have no barring on the supposed subject of the survey.

[DYjLN8rF]

Originally posted by Kuciwalker
I'm pretty sure I don't. Then stop implying Tass is a kid!

You already are a mormon theocracy. No I'm not.