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  Cammi at 11:00 AM JST - 17th July

  I know many French who can only pray to get a job outside of France. To the 20 something generation I know they would not agree with this article.

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  Spanishwoman at 11:24 AM JST - 17th July

  I think money and holidays are not the key factors in quality of life. You must also count on a fair society, low criminality, working conditions, good weather, good food, open character of people...

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  Everton2 at 11:48 AM JST - 17th July

  Spanishwoman - I agree

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  MissWorldTravel at 11:54 AM JST - 17th July

  I think money and holidays are not the key factors in quality of life. You must also count on a fair society, low criminality, working >conditions, good weather, good food, open character of people...

  I think these are among the other assessed 19 factors affecting quality of life. The people who do these studies are professionals who have many intelects from various departments at their disposal, Im sure they dont need your advise.

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  SuperLib at 01:03 PM JST - 17th July

  ...and if they had chosen 19 different factors the list order could have been completely reversed. These "studies" are more like tabloid news.

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  Everton2 at 03:33 PM JST - 17th July

  Spanishwoman - good on you, sound like you are talking about Australia perhaps the only true egalitarian society

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  Alinsky4prez at 03:52 PM JST - 17th July

  I like the way they package the message.Folks with the highest incomes,well,they enjoy the lowest quality of life.

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  NagoyaOya at 04:09 PM JST - 17th July

  Without knowing what the full list of factors are, we can argue ad nauseum about their objectivity. But having just come back from a trip to Ireland, I can affirm that the cost of living there is astronomically high for the quality of life you get. I arrived in Japan at a time when, compared to Ireland and the UK, living here was very expensive. But it was compensated by lower taxes and safer streets, plus a host of more subjective benefits to being a gaijin in Japan. Not much has radically changed here, prices included, in the last 20 years. But in that time, the cost of living has increased several times over in Ireland, to the point where it's now more expensive than Japan. This country has its faults, but it's only when you visit a supposedly fellow first-world country like Ireland that you see the many things Japan has done right.

  Now as to whether I prefer the cold, rainy Irish summer or the hot, humid Japanese one...I think the cold and rain takes it by a whisker.

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  realist at 04:16 PM JST - 17th July

  Life in Britain is low-quality, and thats a fact. British people are lied to by their government, especially Gordon Brown, who just wants to literally tax people to death. Petrol prices are astronomical, caused by the fact that more than 50% of the price is Tax. Food prices are also sky-high, and eating out is now beyond the reach of most ordinary British families. Crime is on the increase, as is racism. The service industries are atrocious. Give me Japan anyday with regard to the treatment of customers. Here, the customer is No.1. In Britain, the customer is just a nuisance. Shoddy service is the order of the day. Small wonder that over 40,000 British people decided to move to another country last year.

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  Madverts at 04:38 PM JST - 17th July

  "Petrol prices are astronomical, caused by the fact that more than 50% of the price is Tax."

  Make that 80 odd percent.

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  smithinjapan at 04:55 PM JST - 17th July

  No offense to the British diet, but this is not surprising.

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  jeremyfr at 06:21 PM JST - 17th July

  realist wrote:

  "Small wonder that over 40,000 British people decided to move to another country last year."

  right, and most of them moved to France (though they are still working in Britain!)

  Cammi:

  "I know many French who can only pray to get a job outside of France. To the 20 something generation I know they would not agree with this article."

  that's right, most of this generation want to get a job outside of France, however we love the quality of life in France, we enjoy to live in this wonderful country, I traveled often (not only in France) and I've never found such country like mine!

  We (maybe only me here) live in the most touristy country and we are loving it! (whatever foreigners think, not everybody has the chance to live here!) Here, people are nice, friendly, happy and they don't mind who you are (poor or rich, skinny or fat, black or white ...). Maybe that what the British want to get.

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  Everton2 at 11:27 AM JST - 18th July

  jeremyfr: are you sure France is the country you are talking about?

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  DoctorTofu at 11:43 AM JST - 18th July

  Too bad the article does not provide a link to the study in question - I'd like to see all the criteria, the complete list of countries and all that. Oh well, I guess it's Google time!

  On a related note - I think it should be mandated by law that articles on the Internet speaking about "a study" or "studies" always provide a link to it. Why? Because a study shows that 47,326% of people are morons, and will believe any outrageous claim if it's preceded by "a study shows"

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  DoctorTofu at 11:44 AM JST - 18th July

  whoops, submitted too soon - the last sentence should read "Because a study shows that 47,326% of people are morons, and will believe any outrageous claim if it's preceded by "a study shows" without any fact checking or research whatsoever."

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