La Finlandia ha nominato il paese più felice del mondo, con l’Irlanda 15 °

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But I was told socialism was a one-way highway to human misery, and there isn’t a magic money tree to pay for things???

It’s weird cause every finish person I’ve ever met online is insanely depressed

Ah shur tis a great little country

Our inability to build a BBQ is ruining our society

Look how beautiful and clean everything is compared to Dublin. The streets of our city are strewn with rubbish and cigarette ends.

how does the article not provide a link to the list/report ?!

Feckin Finns

“Ooooooooooh look at us, we’re so great because we’re sooooo happy”

Feck off.

It’s very easy. Finland, Sweden and Iceland have a quite high suicide rate. So since all the unhappy whack themselves – only happiness remains 😬

It’s all down to the saunas.

Proven physical, mental health, and social benefits.

Normalise sauna culture in Ireland!

Yeah but it’s all bollocks really.

As an example, one of their categories is GDP per capita. Firstly, we all know that GDP in Ireland is misleading. Secondly, living in a high income country does not necessarily make you happy. The inclusion of that category biases the whole thing towards the western world.

The happiest people I ever met were Indonesians. Give them a guitar, a badminton set and a pack of cigarettes and they’ll be laughing away all day. However, the country has low GDP, high corruption and low social support, so apparently that means they’re unhappy. They’re 83rd on the list. However, they’re infinitely better craic than the Finnish

[Their mountains so lofty, their treetops so tall, Finland, Finland, Finland, Finland has it all. ](https://youtu.be/baHsoEAAMZU?si=26F39BSf8GbWxbj_)

Was in Helsinki last year for the the nations league game and the finish ultas walked past the Irish bar singing:

“Happiest country in the world, you’ll sing that”

The entire score is based on asking old people to rate their quality of life 1-10. It’s mostly bollox, in other words. If it was called the “How well off do people who routinely pick up their phone and answer surveys feel in each country?” it would be more accurate.

Everything else mentioned in the article (about eating alone, well functioning society, democracy, free speech etc etc etc) that ‘explains’ the score is just unrelated observations, not tied to the ranking by statistics or study-design – just a guestimates and speculation that they might be relevant.

Take just one simple example of why surveying people is a limited vector for assessing true ‘happiness’: Relative contentment. If I’m living in Mexico and rate it 5/10, and then quality of life in Iran plummets… I’m not going to be thinking about that very often. If a despot takes over in Syria and gasses his own people to spite the kurds… well I don’t see that in my doomscrolling quite *as* often: I’m stil 5/10. However, if my closest neighbor, that controls most of the world’s media organizations starts to fall apart and turn fascist, I see that very, very often. It’s all over my news feeds and apps, and it feels like the world is falling apart, but my country is still mostly ok? Maybe I should start to be a bit grateful… My life hasn’t changed but I’m a 7/10 now. While someone in French speaking Africa is all the while significantly less affected, despite their life getting a little better they’ve only gone from a 2/10 to a 3/10.

This is hilarious 😂 My mate LIVES in Tampere. It is without doubt the biggest Shithole l have ever been to in my life (and I’ve been to Zagreb!) . I have had the misfortune to visit him eight times in the last twenty years, and there is no bigger kip in Europe. I dread buying the ticket to go see him, It is an ordeal. The Finnish people are beyond depressed,they are in despair. Alcohol stops getting served in the off-licence l think at 4 pm on a Friday to stop people killing themselves with vodka. It is freezing and dark in the winter,20 hours of blackest night…..for six months! Then it’s worse in the summer,20 or so hours of sunny daylight….even at 3am! Your body is FUUUUUUUCKED trying to adapt. It’s like torture,like jet lag on steroids. I actually got sick from the endless daylight and wanted to kill myself. It’s HELL on Earth. The Finns? They are Zombies,walking around,glum faced, and bitter. So angry that they live in this absolute SHITHOLE. Tampere is just grey buildings and a few metal bars. ( Every bar is a metal bar in Finnland) The men all have long hair and beards,wear DIO teeshirts from 1987 and drink until they collapse in a pile of their own vomit,oh and the bars are a total sausage factory. The women ( if you can even see one) are Heifers. Big fat yokes,all size 14-22!!! hideous! There, the ratio has to be about 13 guys to every cow. There are no redeeming features to Tampere. The food is awful,C grade fruit and vegetables that arrive a week late from Holland, and so EXPENSIVE! The prices are insane! Want to go a Restaurant!? The prices are prohibitive! Tampere is a grey nasty ugly City that Stalin would be proud of. Dublin is like Venice or Rome in comparison, and there are few bigger shitholes than Dublin ( ok, maybe Zagreb and Tampere). There is no bigger kip in Europe. Still l get down on my knees and thank God everyday that l was not born a Finn because if l had been you would find me swinging gently from a tree in one of their many forests by a rope. That’s another thing,it’s nothing but forests everywhere. God help those poor bastards,stuck there in winter in that dump. If you are having a bad day today,just thank God you are not Finnish and that you don’t live in Tampere, the “Limerick” of Finnland. My mate told me that the suicide rate is off the charts too,no surprises there. Maybe l should tell people someday how l really feel about Finland but this will do for now.