The World's Best Countries

[muppet]

http://www.newsweek.com/2010/08/15/interactive-infographic-of-the-worlds-best-countries.html

[Winston001]

At least we beat the cheese-eating surrender monkeys. And the nation of whingers.....

[spaceman]

Bah!!!! Countries where they have months where the MAXIMUM temp doesn't get above 0 for the entire month should be marked down severely on the "Quality of Life" section .....that'd move us well into the top 10.

Cheers
Spaceman

[muppet]

We are also ahead of Austria.

[Asim]

very interesting information sharing here.. nice thread.

[eri]

lots of cheap land in siberia

how many thousand hectares do you want?

esp. the permafrost stuff should jump in value once we get a little warming

bring over a few thousand hungry mongols to plant watermelon seeds and you'd be away

best try to get within a few thousand clicks of the railway

[donna]

So we are the world's best kept secret - nice one....we don't want to be ranked too high.

cheers,

Donna

[One]

Depressingly - but not surprisingly - the top 28 countries are all high-income.

[shanmarsh22]

Yeah...the Latin Arch is nice (Portugal, Spain, France and Italy)... PS: Actually Portugal is not part of that arch since it an Atlantic country,

[InvestmentGuru]

This site is a very good one. Nice to know the stats don't lie

[InvestmentGuru]

This will be a very much biased answer...Go Australia

[PC]

Snakes, spiders, crocs, flies & Koalas - yikes!
Go NZ!

[muppet]

Don't forget water shortages.

[InvestmentGuru]

Snakes, spiders, crocs, flies & Koalas - yikes!
Go NZ!

lovers...go go go

[mattinvestor]

Australia at #4 - we are the lucky country!
i really like the graph which is very interactive