Want to Be Happy? Try Moving to Finland

Want to Be Happy? Try Moving to Finland

Want to Be Happy? Try Moving to Finland

https://redice.tv/news/want-to-be-happy-try-moving-to-finland

Mar 16, 2018 Source: nytimes.com

Editor’s Note: This article fails to mention that one of the most important sources of a country’s happiness is the homogeneity or near-homogeneity of its populace. Social cohesion and trust are derived from this elementary fact. Why is it that Sweden does not score as high on the "happiness index" anymore? It topped the list for years. Whatever could have caused Sweden’s rapid happiness decline? To deluded Leftist idiots, it’s a complete mystery, but nationalists know the answer. We could also talk all day about race, IQ, and the wealth of nations, but I digress. Enjoy this article about our Finnish friends, but please bear the author’s globalist, multicult bias in mind. Mundilfury.

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Happy are the people of the Nordic nations — happier, in fact, than anyone else in the world. And the overall happiness of a country is almost identical to the happiness of its immigrants.

Those are the main conclusions of the World Happiness Report 2018, released Wednesday. Finland is the happiest country in the world, it found, followed by Norway, Denmark, Iceland, Switzerland, the Netherlands, Canada, New Zealand, Sweden, and Australia. Though in a different order, this is the same top 10 as last year, when Norway was No. 1 and Finland was fifth.

Burundi and Central African Republic, both consumed by political violence, are the least happy countries for the second year in a row. This year, Central African Republic is slightly happier than Burundi; last year, their order was reversed.

As for the United States, it is 18th out of 156 countries surveyed — down four spots from last year’s report and five from 2016’s, and substantially below most comparably wealthy nations. Though the economy is generally strong and per capita income is high, it ranks poorly on social measures: Life expectancy has declined, suicide rates have risen, the opioid crisis has worsened, inequality has grown and confidence in government has fallen.

“I think there really is a deep and very unsettling signal coming through that U.S. society is in many ways under profound stress, even though the economy by traditional measures is doing fine,” Jeffrey D. Sachs, an editor of the report, said in an interview on Tuesday. “The trends are not good, and the comparative position of the U.S. relative to other high-income countries is nothing short of alarming.”

The report was produced by the United Nations Sustainable Development Solutions Network and edited by three economists: Dr. Sachs, the network’s director and a professor at Columbia University; John F. Helliwell, a senior fellow at the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research and professor emeritus at the University of British Columbia; and Richard Layard, a director of the Well-Being Program at the London School of Economics’ Center for Economic Performance. It is based on Gallup surveys conducted from 2015 to 2017, in which thousands of respondents were asked to imagine a ladder with steps numbered 0 to 10 and to say which step they felt they stood on, a ranking known as the Cantril Scale.

The top 10 countries’ averages ranged from 7.632 for first-place Finland to 7.272 for 10th-place Australia; the United States’ average was 6.886, down from 6.993 last year. At the bottom of the scale, Burundi’s average was 2.905.

Compared with a 2008-10 base period, 58 countries became significantly happier, and 59 became significantly less happy. Of the 141 countries that had enough data from both 2008-10 and 2015-17 to measure how their happiness had changed, the United States ranked 107th, with a drop of 0.315 in its average happiness rating.

Explaining why one country is happier than another is a dicey business, but the report cites six significant factors: G.D.P. per capita, social support, life expectancy, freedom to make life choices, generosity and corruption levels.

Dr. Sachs noted that the happiest countries have very different political philosophies from the United States’. Most of the top 10 are social democracies, which “believe that what makes people happy is solid social support systems, good public services, and even paying a significant amount in taxes for that.”

This year’s report also focused heavily on how migration affects happiness. Most notably, it found that the happiness of a country’s immigrants is almost identical to that of its population at large — indicating, Dr. Helliwell said in an interview, that “people essentially adjust to the average happiness level of the country they’re moving to.”

“The closeness of the two rankings shows that the happiness of immigrants depends predominantly on the quality of life where they now live,” the report’s executive summary said. “Happiness can change, and does change, according to the quality of the society in which people live.”

This cuts both ways: A person who moves to a country high on the happiness list will probably become happier, and a person who moves to a lower-ranked country will probably become less happy.

The study did not examine how national immigration policies affect happiness. However, it did examine the findings of Gallup’s new “migrant acceptance index,” which measured public attitudes toward immigrants in various countries. These attitudes are not always correlated with national policies: The United States, for example, ranks highly on the migrant acceptance index, even though the Trump administration has pursued more restrictive immigration laws.

In countries with high migrant acceptance indexes — that is, countries where the populace is generally receptive to newcomers — immigrants “are happier than their other circumstances would indicate, and so were the people who were born there,” Dr. Helliwell said. “That sort of openness turns out to be good for both.”

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Comment by Less Prone on March 30, 2018 at 6:44pm

The Swedes cooked their goose. Is Finland next?

Comment by Elyag Reed...We are Legion on March 30, 2018 at 6:06pm

My Fin has her good Points and of course there are a few drawbacks. She prefers this warm climate and the beach, although I have been awaken late at night to see her trying to get in the chest freezer. It must be her body clock reverting to that cold climate.

So much for moving there when it can be her..

We are Legion and Growing..

Comment by DTOM on March 18, 2018 at 7:04am

@Less Prone

I would choose Fimbulwinter over a Caliphate / EU technocracy in a second - especially if that parka girl is there too.

Oh it's blatantly a call for invaders to be sent to Finland en masse.

I love how the utopia that is Sweden, no longer makes the list - obviously the PTB have decided it has been enriched enough.

@Chris of the family Masters - I have been in correspondence with an awakened Hungarian this week, and I am told things aren't as great as they are made out to be. I will write more as I get it.

Comment by Chris of the family Masters on March 18, 2018 at 3:18am

In this case another two good options would be Poland and Hungary.

Comment by Less Prone on March 18, 2018 at 2:53am

The ice age with a mile high ice is much better than the rise of a Caliphate. As Finland has been too slow to accept Islam someone is painting a picture of it being the best place to be for the invading parasites.

Comment by Chris of the family Masters on March 17, 2018 at 5:56pm

Moving to Finland in time for another ice age would be very careless, at least.

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