Some people are happy no matter where they *are.*
I you no happy in Venezuelllaa, you get shot.
Next...
What a bovine excrement list.
I notice that most are Spanish speaking. Not sure what that means, if anything
I’m seriously looking at moving to Panama or Ecuador.
Go figure!
ridiculous
A place with dozens of species of poisonous snakes, flies that will lay eggs under your skin to later hatch, hellacious humidity. Drive through any village and see all the windows with heavy bars over them. Locals say that is a joke, thieves just use portable car jacks to pry them apart. More affluent all live behind gates.
ATM holdups are common, traffic is kamikaze, etc. Maybe a better place if you live in Detroit or Philly............
Singapore is in decline, and without the Malays and Indians, they would be even worse off in sheer numbers.
Some people are happy no matter where they *are.*
Happiness is in the eye of the beholder.
Central and western South America are now real hot spots for Americans escaping the USSA.
Two web sites concentrating of that region:
InternationalLiving.com and EscapeFromAmerica.com
You can sign up for their email updates.
I do not know about Thailand, as I was there only one time in 1999.
I am as happy as a clam on my Philippine beach,
I have no plan to return, even to visit the USSA.
I hear that Uruguay is the gayest place on the planet.
The top Countries listed have the highest murder rate per capita
in the world.
Going out on a limb here, but I would venture that the high grade quality of marijuana and cocaine in these locations may contribute to the happiness factor.
I recall Montego Bay, Jamaica in the early eighties. People were/are poor as dirt but happy as hell. Was offererd pot,coke, acid and black girls before I got to baggage claim. Welcome to Jamaica, Mon. A land free from malaria
Anyone else been to Paraguay? The part of it I visited was so miserable it was heartbreaking just to see. It left a big impression on me. Perhaps they are Christian, that joy will carry you through anything. I wasn't there long enough to find out and at that point in time I wasn't confident about walking around and asking.
A country that spend decades with the highest suicide rate . . . and to quote Kaunis Maa (Finish Language and Culture for Fun):
"Pekka, an expatriate Finnish man visiting California, was recently diagnosed as clinically depressed, tanked up on anti-depressants and scheduled for controversial Shock Therapy when doctors realised he wasn’t depressed at all - only Finnish."
The short article's worth a read.