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The best countries to live in

Finland has been ranked the best country in the world to live in by Newsweek magazine, while the United States comes in at 11th place. But how should we interpret these results, given that measuring countries depends on the subjective use of data?

Programme prepared by Charlotte Oberti and Aurélien Aeberhard.


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morgan

I suppose Kennedy never took account of the millions of blacks that were 'exported' to America, who were born in another country, and who spent many decades working for little more than the rags they wore, and the alien diets they were compelled to eat.

Nor yet those millions of Jews who, without doubt, wished they had been born elsewhere, as they were frog marched to the gas chambers.

Yes indeed, better to live in the country you were born in, with certain reservations one must say. That is why whenever there is a hint of the mega rich being taxed a bit more, they immediately decamp to lower, or even non-tax regions.

No chance they will wish to live in the country they were born in, that is why so many billionaire Russians, Nigerians, Indians, Arabs, what have you, flock to London and Paris, New York and Los Angeles., where their overseas off shore accounts cannot be touched due to the UK, etc. leniency in revenue gathering, as far as the over wealthy is concerned.

Oh! no, that caveat about living where you were born ONLY applies to those too poor to do other than scratch a living barely able to make ends meet. Not for the masses the 'luxury' of being able to pick and choose the territory on which their lodgement just happens to be built.

die hard

THE BEST COUNTRY TO LIVE IS IN THE COUNTRY YOU WERE BORN IN. WHATEVER PROBLEMS ONE FACES IN YOUR COUNTRY GROUP TOGETHER AND SOLVE THE PROBLEM WITHOUT THE HELP FROM THE POLITICIANS. THE ANSWER IS TO REGROUP. JOIN HANDS. IMPROVE SOCIAL JUSTICE. IMPROVE RELIGION AND FAITH. TAKE UP A HOBBY. TAKE UP A SPORT.

live and let die

The best country to live is in a country that you were born in. It is John F. Kennedy said 'it is not what AMERICA can do for you,
it is what you can do for AMERICA'. Whatever happens in your co

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