Norway world’s best place to live?

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.

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With friends comes work?
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I’m not sure if I love or hate car driving.

Today we decided to take a trip to Nimbin (NSW). It’s about 171km from Brisbane, which is a 2h drive.

I kind of find driving fun, but then again not. I’ve done some practicing back in Norway and Sweden, and I’m a big fan of car games; but I’m still fresh. I still can’t help wondering how some of these drivers actually have a license. It seems like they just got it in the mail, by surprise.

The first bogan driver seemed a bit annoyed that a had to force my self in front of him, even if I had been signaling for a while and the first car didn’t let me in when I tried to merge. So when we came to a red light, he decided to speed up and cut in front of me. Continuing on the highway he actually tried to prevent me from legally overtaking him; but when I was in lane three aand he was in lane one I just snuck up on the side and coasted slowly past him.

As a learner driver, and someone who tries to follow laws as they are written, I force myself to keep the speed limit; as everyone else should too.
I find it odd that it’s so difficult for some to drive 100km/h where the speed limit is 100km/h.

Of course, you also have these idiots who obviously have much better car than we do, but they insist onĀ  driving 10km/h below the speed limit.

Do I really have to mention these idiots who ride up your arse, even if you are keeping the speed limit, when the speed limit is 110km/h?

In certain situations I find driving a car very fun, but now and then I just feel like stopping the car, getting out and just grab my bike instead.

There’s so many situations we’ve been in that I could actually just slammed the breaks, slammed it on an animal and we would probably have a new car, thanks to the hoon tailgating us.

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Are you an anti-vaccination nutjob?

Before this gets out of hand I feel I have to let people know that the recent flu vaccine is no different from the other vaccines the last one, or since we ever started making these vaccines.
And these vaccines saves lives, so unless you have another solution, STFU!

You can read the rest of the article here.

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What are my options?
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