THE BEST PLACES TO LIVE
The Reader’s Digest has done a valuable (valuable meant to be sarcastic) study to rank the best places to live on earth. For this exhaustive study they used most of the politically correct (that means dumb) statistics they could find.
I have traveled a lot and came up with my own criteria for finding the best place to live which I will write about later. In the meantime here is their partial result:
Well sir, let me say something about that. The Scandinavian airline, SAS, put me up in a Copenhagen hotel when I was enroute to an even worse place. The date happened to be June 30. What does that have to do with it? Well I didn’t bother to close the window curtains and the goddamned sun came blasting into my room at three o’clock in the morning, local time.
I called downstairs to find out what was going on. “The sun is shining in my room,” I told them, “and it’s three o’clock in the morning.”
The guy on the phone spoke pretty good English as everyone should. “Did you try closing the curtains, sir?”
“What the hell does that have to do with the sun shining at 3 in the morning?”
“Sir?”
“Can you do something about it? I mean, is the world coming to an end or something?”
“The sun always comes up at 3 this time of the year, sir. Would you like someone to come up and close your curtains?”
Well there you have it. How can you deal with people like that? The sun comes up at 3 and they treat it like an everyday thing.
Who would want to live in a place like that?
The ranking combines environmental factors, such as air and water quality, respect for biodiversity and greenhouse-gas emissions, as well as social factors, such as gross domestic product, access to education, unemployment rate and life expectancy.
They probably weighted all these dumb statistics and gave them point scores and added everything up and there you go.
I have traveled a lot and came up with my own criteria for finding the best place to live which I will write about later. In the meantime here is their partial result:
Nordic countries take the greatest care of their environment and their people, according to a ranking published on Thursday by the publication Reader's Digest.
Finland comes top of the 141-nation list, followed by Iceland, Norway and Sweden, and then Austria, Switzerland, Ireland and Australia.
Well sir, let me say something about that. The Scandinavian airline, SAS, put me up in a Copenhagen hotel when I was enroute to an even worse place. The date happened to be June 30. What does that have to do with it? Well I didn’t bother to close the window curtains and the goddamned sun came blasting into my room at three o’clock in the morning, local time.
I called downstairs to find out what was going on. “The sun is shining in my room,” I told them, “and it’s three o’clock in the morning.”
The guy on the phone spoke pretty good English as everyone should. “Did you try closing the curtains, sir?”
“What the hell does that have to do with the sun shining at 3 in the morning?”
“Sir?”
“Can you do something about it? I mean, is the world coming to an end or something?”
“The sun always comes up at 3 this time of the year, sir. Would you like someone to come up and close your curtains?”
Well there you have it. How can you deal with people like that? The sun comes up at 3 and they treat it like an everyday thing.
Who would want to live in a place like that?
posted by Walter Guest at 3:32 PM
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