Reuters writes:

Norway has retained its status as the world’s most desirable country to live in, according to U.N. data released on Monday, which ranks sub-Saharan African states afflicted by war and HIV/AIDS as the least attractive places.

If it’s the country to live in, why haven’t I been living there the last 4+ years?

I’m fairly confident that this is the prime example how statistics can really be used the wrong way. Based on the report, I can’t say I recognise Norway. At least that’s not the Norway I grew up in or read about everyday in the Norwegian media.

Either I must have been in all the wrong places everyday and I’m still reading the wrong articles everyday, or something can’t be right with the statistics.

I wonder if they asked anyone in Norway what they think, or if they took a few numbers, mixed them together and created a bunch of new numbers and claimed them as “facts”.

After living in my fourth country I can say with certainty, as of now, that there is now best country. All countries have different qualities. And from the countries I’ve been living in, they do a lot more things better than Norway.