Posted on 06/23/2019 12:44:21 PM PDT by NohSpinZone
The 2019 Best Countries rankings, formed in partnership with BAV Group, a unit of global marketing communications company VMLY&R, and the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, are based on a study that surveyed more than 20,000 global citizens from four regions to assess perceptions of 80 countries on 75 different metrics. The Quality of Life subranking is based on an equally weighted average of scores from nine country attributes that relate to quality of life in a country: affordable, a good job market, economically stable, family friendly, income equality, politically stable, safe, well-developed public education system and well-developed public health system. The Quality of Life subranking score had a 17 percent weight in the overall Best Countries ranking.
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For the second year in a row, the United States ranks No. 17 overall by survey respondents for providing a good quality of life. Its highest ranking is for its job market, where it ranks first. Its lowest ranking came in affordability, where survey responses placed it No. 56.
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Thee folks a USN&WR left “Socialist” out of the article’s title.
Yeah, who knew US News still existed?
Scanning the top of the list though, the GDP of the US is just mind boggling. Take that, Top 10.
All these Best Country, Best City, Best Restaurant, etc lists are moonshine. Pure subjective bunkum.
What’s interesting is the that the top tiers are occupied by white Nordic countries, including England, Ireland, the Netherlands and Switzerland. Despite their miserable climates white people make the most pleasant countries to live in.
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