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France is the best place to live says study
Britain has dropped to 25th place on a list of the best places in the world to live - behind countries such as the Czech Republic, Lithuania and Uruguay.While France tops the poll for the fifth year running, the UK's climate, crime rate, cost of living, congested roads and overcrowded cities have pushed it even further down from last year's ranking at 20.
The Quality of Life Index, published by International Living magazine for the 30th year, says the French live life to the full, while Britons are over-worked.
In all, 194 countries are surveyed on nine criteria, including the cost of living, culture and leisure, environment, safety, culture and weather.
Australia is placed second after France, followed by Switzerland, Germany and New Zealand.
Even former communist countries where unemployment is still rife are considered better places to settle down in than Britain, with Lithuania and the Czech Republic coming in at 22nd and 24th place respectively.
Cars near high-rise flats in Vilnius, Lithuania: The Baltic state came in three places above Britain in the list
Ice skaters trek around the frozen Lake Nasijarvi in Tampere, southern Finland: The Scandinavian country came 18th in the list of best places in the world
Variety is also seen as a major factor in France's appeal, with the survey noting: 'Romantic Paris offers the best of everything, but services don't fall away in Alsace's wine villages, in wild and lovely Corsica, in lavender-scented Provence. Or in the Languedoc of the troubadors, bathed in Mediterranean sunlight.'
Britain does not top a single category in the survey, which is compiled using official government statistics, data from the World Health Organisation and the views of the magazine's editors around the globe.
The U.S. fell from third to seventh place because of the economic crisis last year. A magazine spokesman said: 'Sustaining the American Dream has escalated out of the reach of many.'
Germany is widely praised for its efficiency and leisure facilities, with the magazine noting that 'the Harz Mountains now has a specialist hiking trail for nudists. Germany is arguably the world's most naturist-friendly country'.
Well France is the Country of love and romance. It does also boast incredible architecture. I hope to visit France one day
The Museatlantis Corporation.
Australia actually came first, but some last-minute adjustments by influential Australians managed to move us from the top of the table.
Thank heaven. The riffraff tourists are now going to France.
Thank heaven. The riffraff tourists are now going to France.
Originally posted by OnetimePoster:
Australia actually came first, but some last-minute adjustments by influential Australians managed to move us from the top of the table.
Thank heaven. The riffraff tourists are now going to France.
Australia sucks
Mother nature needs you:
http://www.wildlifeaid.org.uk
http://www.wildlifeaid.org.uk
Originally posted by Muttsfan:
Originally posted by OnetimePoster:
Australia actually came first, but some last-minute adjustments by influential Australians managed to move us from the top of the table.
Thank heaven. The riffraff tourists are now going to France.
Australia sucks
Australians do have reputation for friendliness.
Originally posted by OnetimePoster:
Thank heaven. The riffraff tourists are now going to France.
Yeah not to mention asylum seekers arriving by th boatloads.
Originally posted by OnetimePoster:
Australians do have reputation for friendliness.
As a person living here, I can vouch that the 'mate' thing is nothing more than the friendliness one is subjected to in other countries.
Hmm. What was it. Ohh yes. A news channel had a couple arguing in the middle of the CBD while, the supposedly wife was brutally getting assaulted in the middle of thousands of people (they do theses tests from time to time you see). Not one person stopped the argument or call authorities (you know the business type that have their heads so far up their arses to care about others). What is sad is that foreigners and a granny offered help. Grandma Win.
Hey. I'll take escargo over 'shrimp on the barbi' any day.
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