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Constant whining is basically a national sport in Germany. Yes, there are way too many poor and homeless people here too, but the ones crying the loudest are mostly middle class people who are financially secure. Its either that their neighbour has a bigger car or they blame society that no one likes them.
Very interesting, thank you!
This is such a big factor. Good luck forcing a Finn to complain about literally anything.
Why is the top comment some stereotype trying to explain away the results?
I'm surprised at France being so close to EU average. Being constantly dissatisfied is basically our point of national pride
It feels like many countries claim that as a national sport. In Austria "sudern" (i.e. complaining but not actually doing anything about it) is considered a time-honored tradition, and yet according to this we are among the most satisfied.
Do you complain about getting shafted in the kangaroo department?
There's actually a bunch of kangaroos just 5 minutes by foot from where I am right now ... so no, we're okay in that department.
I guess the French are happy that Macron has given them enough things to be dissatisfied about.
You'd say it's not a zero sum game but life satisfaction levels in Poland are through the roof because we see that they're so low in Germany.
Good to know everyone else around me is satisfied π
Bulgaria my friend, whatβs wrong? :c
Romania on the other hand is doing exceptional.
It's weird, I wouldn't have imagined those two to be hugely different when it comes to to things like human development or corruption, but in on this map, they're on opposite ends of the spectrum, Bulgaria being the lowest value bar none, and Romania being surpassed only by Austria...
One thing I like about Romania is that it seems to be steadily improving the last 30 years or so. Granted, it had a terrible starting point, and improvements are slow as hell, but whenever I check up on them things never seem to be actively getting much worse.
My guess is they're that much closer, geographically and chronologically, to what real authoritarian hell actually looks like. So, they have some actual perspective.
All young Bulgarians leave as soon as they can.
I know this map is only the EU, but it sure would be nice to see Norway, the UK, and Switzerland.