World Happiness Report 2012:

Denmark has taken the top spot on the United Nation's first ever World Happiness Report, followed by Finland, Norway and the Netherlands.

The 158-page report, published by Columbia University's Earth Institute, was commissioned for the United Nations Conference on Happiness on Monday in order to "review the state of happiness in the world today and show how the new science of happiness explains personal and national variations in happiness."

SA ranked 90th

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Working and talking with them is more than enough, merci laugh wine
Hi Rob, sounds like you need some of PC's HPlaugh
Stony : die another day ,dear ! smitten
We call it "Geistesblitz" Ghost's Blits, very nice.

And The Cyber Angels? take their wine from yellow cake, very nice, too.......till the end that I die.moping
I have a Danish friend and he is very happy with his life. Denmark takes very good care of their people. Last year they were #2 and Finland was #1 and Sweden was #3.

@Honey I read Maylasia was now the MOST expensive place in the world to live which is probably why Malaysians are unhappy.
G : einfach so gesagt : idea Geistesblitz comfort
@ Guadal, Sounds similar, can be use as nitro...laugh

@ Saddest, maybe its something in the water there that keeps the spirits high... dunno laugh
@ Prima,,

Enjoy the 'Geistesblitz' I'm off to have dinner at a new restaurant that opened near my place. Don't get too tipsy or the ghosts will follow you.laugh wave
Stony: dont break too many girls their hearts, or they will follow you. lips
I see New Zealand gets a ranking of 8th which is ok but I'm not sure how much credence to give this poling. I was working for a Danish company and all the Danes there seem to be clinically depressed and medicated for it! I felt a bit sorry for them. Perhaps they were not a representative sample?

Still at least NZ ranks ahead of Australia....(as it should do!).
Saddestange17 the high cost of living here makes Malaysians unhappy. Prices of goods keep increasing.


CyberAngel, not really miserable but not content with life and want more and more. That's why they are always unhappy.
Yep!! But we dont go near the Stuff!! We Export it to Canada!! Where the taste of it puts them in the Low 10% of the Worlds most Unhappy People!!! moping mumbling blues
rolling on the floor laughing rolling on the floor laughing rolling on the floor laughing rolling on the floor laughing
bouquet comfort comfort comfort
I think you may be happy in almost any country if you are at one with yourself. It's not easy to reach such a balance though.
The more I thought of it, Indonesian would still be happy even though his country was listed or even unlisted on the list uh oh laugh mumbling yay crazy
As to lists, they may throw you off balance in no time. roll eyes The less you think about it the happier you are:)
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