Yes, adni, I knew that. Canada gets the #1 spot every year according to that UN ranking system, and our federal governement likes to boast about it. But it's actually funny, and it just shows how governments just pick on stupid things to boast how great their administration is: according to UN themselves, that classification was put in place to measure the quality of life in third world countries and it's totally absurd when applied to developped countries. In order to determin which third world country has the biggest problems, how it improves or worsen every year, it takes a number of data into consideration, such as - of course - number of clinic/hospitals, cost of living, access to education, etc., but also other kind of data such as the number of telephone poles, number of paved streets, access to fresh water, etc.
The difference between 1 telephone pole/50,000 people and 1 telephone pole/5,000 could indeed be a factor in determining the quality of life, but when that difference is between a 1:100 ratio and a 1:75 ratio, it really doesn't mean anything. Same goes for a number of factors used in that study.
So yeah sure, we do have a nice quality of life, but I'm not so sure it's so much better than in the US, Australia, France or Great Britain.
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