I find it hard to believe that Spain is #41
How is Israel that high? Considering the military threat of all the countries around them and their own military efforts/genocide/disrespectful behaviour against palestinians and lebanon and all that with obligatory military service for almost everyone iirc. Me personally, I would be very unhappy in Israel.
maybe they are happy that lately israel killed +70000 civilians, that turns them on…
Because complaining is seen as a betrayal to the Zionist project. If Israel is not seen as a positive country from the outside, then support for Israel is in trouble. They do not need everybody on their side, but especially American Jews are critical. So Israel build up this facade of a high tech democracy in the Middle East to show how they are working on some sort of Jewish paradise.
At the same time Israelis are turning towards hard core Zionism, because a lot of them have actually experienced violence against them. The idea of fighting back is very human, but obviously Palestinians also have very similar if not worse experiences with Israelis. So yeah big problem.
I couldn’t agree more. I left Israel in 2014 for a variety of reasons, a short list of which would include:
- Bibi as PM
- The whole society becoming a nickel and dime internet seedy place
- Religious people everywhere
- Russians who brutalized the entire culture into something it never was like before.
Saying you’re not happy is equivalent there of saying you’re “yored”. Israel has become a cult. It should still exist, but it needs to drastically change.
Finland being also in the top 10 European countries for suicide rate like
I guess those did not respond to the questionair and are left out
Unhappy people didn’t answer the poll, and you already know why.
The ranking for those that don’t want to open the article:
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Rank Country Score in Europe 1 Finland 7.764 Yes 2 Iceland 7.540 Yes 3 Denmark 7.539 Yes 4 Costa Rica 7.439 No 5 Sweden 7.255 Yes 6 Norway 7.242 Yes 7 Netherlands 7.223 Yes 8 Israel 7.187 No 9 Luxembourg 7.063 Yes 10 Switzerland 7.018 Yes 11 New Zealand 6.995 No 12 Mexico 6.972 No 13 Ireland 6.928 Yes 14 Belgium 6.926 Yes 15 Australia 6.916 No 16 Kosovo 6.910 Yes 17 Germany 6.882 Yes 18 Slovenia 6.868 Yes 19 Austria 6.845 Yes 20 Czechia 6.821 Yes 21 United Arab Emirates 6.821 No 22 Saudi Arabia 6.817 No 23 United States 6.816 No 24 Poland 6.768 Yes 25 Canada 6.741 No 26 Taiwan 6.714 No 27 Belize 6.711 No 28 Lithuania 6.704 Yes 29 United Kingdom 6.694 Yes 30 Serbia 6.691 Yes I’m guessing SA and UAE didn’t allow women to respond?
or homosexuals…
Have they ever normalized the answers, e.g. by asking people who have lived in two countries?
Wanted finally to see how they get to this data:
Gallup interviews approximately 1,000 nationally representative residents aged 15 and older per country.
This is a laughable sample size.
Lived in some of these countries (both EU and Balkans) and have known people leaving some en masse. Call me a cynic but what a joke.
Comparing a small sample size to your anecdotal non-representative sample is also a joke.
And you think random circa 1000 people are sufficiently representing your country? Is it really properly spread across all demographics? Or are we just targeting bigger cities in those countries and having a skewed outcome?
Look at the questions and then look into some countries from the list - e.g. media freedom or availability of work is not really on par in Balkans or V4 and you have Kosovo or Serbia on the top 30 list? Nothing suspicious here?
Sure, my viewpoint is subjective, but it is also something Ive been a part of for the last 20+ years, so maybe weigh in with your view instead of just blatantly disregarding someones. Cheers.
So where do you think people are more happy than this? Africa? South America? Asia?
They have data since 2014. Yes 1000 is a small sample size, but the trend is comparable across the years.
1000 is not a small sample size though.
The variance of the mean of samples is the variance of the population divided by the sample size. For the standard deviation you take the root. That is to say: The sample size is plenty big, the representativeness is closer to where you could try leveling criticism of this type. But to do that, you’d have to look at how they selected the sample and what the state of the art of sample selection is.
Is 1000 people enough? https://www.xandyanalytics.com/survey-of-1000-people
I am from Europe, I live in Europe, but I still hate it. 🤷♀️
If you hate living in Europe, can I suggest using your relatively high wage to save up for to migrate out of it?
If you hate living under the rules of the EU, can I suggest participating in the relatively independent media?
If you hate living in general, can I suggest using your relatively affordable access to mental health care?
Either way, you’ll likely come across one of the reasons people tend to be happier inside Europe.
Same but I just hate people in general. All the other places also have people but have worse services and less freedom so…
