What s the best country to live in?
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Date: 2022-06-30
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Ankur
This is where Gandhi's village republics holds sway. I've lived in many countries, Switzerland, Indonesia, Japan, Peru, Chile and about 20 odd countries, but after 20 years of being a nomad, here's what I realised. Any place with a strong sense of community and progressivism will always have a better quality of life. I am currently living and working in a small state in India's Northeast called, Meghalaya. It's remote as can be (from the capital of India, but it has a strong sense of community (enshrined by an age-old principle called, 'Khlaw Adong' or village forests protected and kept apart by the villagers for conserving water and bio-diversity) and they take pride in universal education and healthcare (something I saw during coronovirus, when not many people died because of lack of healthcare services. In all other matrices, it is a LLDC (or least-developed landlocked country) but what do you know!
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This is where Gandhi's village republics holds sway. I've lived in many countries, Switzerland, Indonesia, Japan, Peru, Chile and about 20 odd countries, but after 20 years of being a nomad, here's what I realised. Any place with a strong sense of community and progressivism will always have a better quality of life. I am currently living and working in a small state in India's Northeast called, Meghalaya. It's remote as can be (from the capital of India, but it has a strong sense of community (enshrined by an age-old principle called, 'Khlaw Adong' or village forests protected and kept apart by the villagers for conserving water and bio-diversity) and they take pride in universal education and healthcare (something I saw during coronovirus, when not many people died because of lack of healthcare services. In all other matrices, it is a LLDC (or least-developed landlocked country) but what do you know!
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Square
Well, from experience I can tell you what doesn't make a country the best. When politicians are in the pockets of massive corporations and they don't look out for the interests of the people, but instead look out for the interests of themselves, their politician party and the corporations. A country where healthcare isn't a right, but a huge financial burden to everyone but the super rich. A country where children fear for their lives at school, women lose their rights at the whims of unelected officials and the orphan crushing machine just keeps rolling through the lands as everyone watches things get worse and worse. I really wish I could leave this place and you all know which country I'm talking about without me even saying it.
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Well, from experience I can tell you what doesn't make a country the best. When politicians are in the pockets of massive corporations and they don't look out for the interests of the people, but instead look out for the interests of themselves, their politician party and the corporations. A country where healthcare isn't a right, but a huge financial burden to everyone but the super rich. A country where children fear for their lives at school, women lose their rights at the whims of unelected officials and the orphan crushing machine just keeps rolling through the lands as everyone watches things get worse and worse. I really wish I could leave this place and you all know which country I'm talking about without me even saying it.
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jujitsujew23
The answer is simple and it is that there is not just one but a list countries that are the best to live in. These countries have the happiest populations, as citizen happiness is the ultimate determiner of wether a country is good to live in. Two of these countries are Bhutan and Costa Rica as listed in the video. The others are Iceland, Finland, Norway, Denmark, Sweden, Switzerland, The Netherlands, Luxembourg and New Zealand. All other countries in the world have disgruntled, disjointed and varying degrees of unhappy populations with lower levels of equality
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The answer is simple and it is that there is not just one but a list countries that are the best to live in. These countries have the happiest populations, as citizen happiness is the ultimate determiner of wether a country is good to live in. Two of these countries are Bhutan and Costa Rica as listed in the video. The others are Iceland, Finland, Norway, Denmark, Sweden, Switzerland, The Netherlands, Luxembourg and New Zealand. All other countries in the world have disgruntled, disjointed and varying degrees of unhappy populations with lower levels of equality
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matthewmatthew638
A somewhat more objective measure to best country to live in is to measure birth rates/immigration inflows after controlling for other correlating development indices (education/wealth etc. With the logic being that people, given opportunity, will flock/settle in the places that they perceive as best.
E. G Asian countries, which otherwise rank highly among other development indices, have extremely low birth rates and high emigration abroad. I. E they are relatively less desirable to people who otherwise have the skills/opportunity to move elsewhere.
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A somewhat more objective measure to best country to live in is to measure birth rates/immigration inflows after controlling for other correlating development indices (education/wealth etc. With the logic being that people, given opportunity, will flock/settle in the places that they perceive as best.
E. G Asian countries, which otherwise rank highly among other development indices, have extremely low birth rates and high emigration abroad. I. E they are relatively less desirable to people who otherwise have the skills/opportunity to move elsewhere.
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kanishk
I do think international trade regimes do matter. When global production hubs are shifted to third world countries, the western nations can build up advanced sustainable economies. The third world countries are forced to keep their labour markets unregulated. So wages are at subsistence. So the problems of environment unsustainability and poverty inequality are shifted to third world countries. In a globalised world, it's unfair to calculate standard of living only on internal metrics, while external forces are playing an equally imp role.
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I do think international trade regimes do matter. When global production hubs are shifted to third world countries, the western nations can build up advanced sustainable economies. The third world countries are forced to keep their labour markets unregulated. So wages are at subsistence. So the problems of environment unsustainability and poverty inequality are shifted to third world countries. In a globalised world, it's unfair to calculate standard of living only on internal metrics, while external forces are playing an equally imp role.
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Sanity66
Something i love about TED-Ed videos is that while many people answer questions with direct facts and all, a lot of the answers given by these videos often makes us think more about what are we asking and how we can come up with an answer for ourselves, i like this, i feel it helps me develop a better critical way of thinking, and also in ery easy to digest format that doesn't hurt my brain but neither doubts my inteligence to understand a wild varety of topics
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Something i love about TED-Ed videos is that while many people answer questions with direct facts and all, a lot of the answers given by these videos often makes us think more about what are we asking and how we can come up with an answer for ourselves, i like this, i feel it helps me develop a better critical way of thinking, and also in ery easy to digest format that doesn't hurt my brain but neither doubts my inteligence to understand a wild varety of topics
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secular
I'd say Germany is pretty awesome. I was stationed there for 3 years in the military, then another 5 years as a DoD civilian employee several years later. You kinda have the best of both worlds. You're living in Europe, but you get all the amneties of being a US citizen (all the US military installations over there are like little Americans towns. I can't wait to go back for another tour.
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I'd say Germany is pretty awesome. I was stationed there for 3 years in the military, then another 5 years as a DoD civilian employee several years later. You kinda have the best of both worlds. You're living in Europe, but you get all the amneties of being a US citizen (all the US military installations over there are like little Americans towns. I can't wait to go back for another tour.
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education
I like Sweden. but it s cold there.
i love hot weather(summer). When i was in Hawaii, it also good. but for me, island is not good.
I want to go to America. but I hate having guns. it's relatively unsafe. I ll probably have to bear with it. on the other hand, diversity is good.
Where should I live?
Maybe If I am happy here now, i will be happy elsewhere.
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I like Sweden. but it s cold there.
i love hot weather(summer). When i was in Hawaii, it also good. but for me, island is not good.
I want to go to America. but I hate having guns. it's relatively unsafe. I ll probably have to bear with it. on the other hand, diversity is good.
Where should I live?
Maybe If I am happy here now, i will be happy elsewhere.
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Blutmond
I had a lesson in school that was about this topic. We also talked about the other indexes that exist and not only the GDP, like you did in this video. It was really interesting and it s funny to see a video about it that was posted just a few months later.
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I had a lesson in school that was about this topic. We also talked about the other indexes that exist and not only the GDP, like you did in this video. It was really interesting and it s funny to see a video about it that was posted just a few months later.
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