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    Soddisfazione di vita complessiva in Europa. L’Irlanda è al sesto posto in Europa

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    2. 3hrstillsundown on

      There are obvious issues with this kind of measure. Different cultures will interpret a 0-10 scale differently, and people will probably compare their life to an “expected good life” which will differ between places like Poland and Germany.

      However, I thought it was interesting that Ireland ranked relatively highly despite our obvious issues with housing, infrastructure etc… It might help explain our recent election results.

      https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/index.php?title=Quality_of_life_indicators_-_overall_experience_of_life

    3. devhaugh on

      Not surprising, Irelands a great country. It has issues sure, but we have it pretty great.

    4. Inevitable-Story6521 on

      We are such a nation of complainers – of course it’s high, the standard of living is very high.

      Despite the housing problem, home ownership is very high in the country and most people aim to get on the property ladder. Compare that to France, Spain, Italy and Germany where large swathes of the population rent for life and, while rent regulations are consequently more thorough, live with all the uncertainty that entails.

      Third level education is relatively cheap and very accessible. We also have copious amounts of courses to reskill and retrain later in life. Other countries don’t give you that ability to do a career change later in life.

      We are a safe country. We don’t have to worry when our kids visit the Christmas market that some freak will drive a car at top speed through it.

      We are an English speaking and have opportunities in other first world countries open to us without having to negotiate a language requirement for visas.

      The list goes on and on.

    6. L3S1ng3 on

      In the entire history of our nation and our people, we’ve only really had comparable living standards to the rest of Western Europe since about 30 years ago.

      We will be amongst the easiest to please in the EU for a long time to come.

    7. WellWellWell2021 on

      I’m typicaI Irish. I always complain about everything even when it’s good and I know it.
      It’s in my blood. Bred into me.

    8. Shot-Advertising-316 on

      Interesting, it would be great to see the spread of people who were asked, where they are in life etc. Definitely not getting this from my group 25 -35, although the general mood does seem to have improved.

      Also, it might be just that I’m more in tune with it atm but there seem to be a lot of mental health issues and suicides lately, not sure when the 2024 statistics for that would be out but it would be an interesting element.

    9. saidinmilamber on

      Wow, what an unusual cohort that ranks high!! Gotta say I’m pretty satisfied overall. Yeah things could be better of course but one thing that I can clearly see with our response to what’s happening in Palestine is that all in all I think Irish people have a good enough moral compass to avoid things getting awful without challenge

    11. Witches_Falls on

      I think we forget how bad things are in some other European countries. We have a housing crisis, population pressure from immigration, overstretched hospitals etc absolutely but some places are experiencing much worse.

      I know Spain, Italy, Greece etc have youth unemployment around 25%, Poland has a much larger number of Ukrainian people to suddenly accommodate with resultant housing pressure.

      In UK it seems the health system has largely collapsed whereas for all the many problems with the HSEA, we can at least generally see a GP, probably get treated etc.

      Much as I love to moan about Ireland there are some genuine positives here

    12. fenderbloke on

      So here we see testers not understanding the concept of sarcasm.

    14. freeflowmass on

      For how much the Irish like to moan I’m positively surprised at the ranking here. 

      It’s not all doom and gloom after all!

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