[SeekAndFind]

THE WORLD HAPPINESS REPORT:

http://www.earth.columbia.edu/sitefiles/file/Sachs%20Writing/2012/World%20Happiness%20Report.pdf

[cuban leaf]

Depends on where you are in the US since it is really 50 countries. I’m gobs happier in my small farm in Kentucky than I was in my home in the Seattle area.

YMMV.

[Zuben Elgenubi]

Syria’s got to be the happiest country in a recount.

[corlorde]

And falling.

[Ol' Sox]

Well, having Obummer as presIDent takes its toll.

[Veto!]

I had just returned from #2 happiest Norway when Reagan was shot. I went to the Norwegian Consular Office to see what it would take to move to Norway and become a citizen of a country where leaders would never be shot. An overwhelming bunch of requirements. So I’m still here.

Since then, Norway has produced shoot-em-up lunatics too; 92 young people were killed by a maniac in 2011.
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/norway-massacre-as-92-die-terrified-143635

This didn’t impact their happiness?

[The Sons of Liberty]

United States Takes Spot as World's 17th Happiest Country

I, for one, will be MUCH happier once the 0bama regime leaves office.

[yefragetuwrabrumuy]

It would be far more interesting to see a ranking of nations by how much “hate” they have. Or really, their willingness to say that they hated something.

Just do street “ambush” interviews, because you are not after data, but emotion.

[Jimmy Valentine]

Northern Europe is home to todays “Lotus Eaters”.

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When looking at a survey of over 156 countries, Denmark, Norway, Switzerland, the Netherlands and Sweden were ranked as the happiest places, and regions in Sub-Saharan Africa were noted as being the least likely places for overall life satisfaction, according to the report.

Most of the Africans I've known have been -- not to be too patronizing, I hope -- happy and cheerful people. Some of the Scandinavians I've known have been dour, unemotional people. Not all of them, but enough to make me wonder. Maybe the Africans were just happy not to be living in Africa anymore, but findings like this make me wonder a little how the results were compiled.