The happiest people in the world

Nine months on fully paid child leave, to be split among the mother and the father as they so please, they are predominately Pagen and travel to other parts of the world and speak a couple of languages.
 
if Iceland is the world's best place in which to live, and one of the richest, it is because of the way governments have added enlightened policies to the island's pragmatic, inventive human raw material. 'I as a medical doctor and as a politician believe that there is an intimate link between the country's health and the quality of political decisions that are made,' said Dagur Eggertsson, Reykjavik's former mayor. 'We were the poorest of nations 100 years ago, but we all could read and we had strong women. On that we have now built strong policies. My point is that more important for the health of a country than not smoking and eating well are the social phenomena we stress here: equality, peace, democracy, clean water, education, renewable energy, women's rights.'
 
the country with the sixth highest GDP per capita in the world; where people buy the most books; where life expectancy for men is the highest in the world, and not far behind for women; it's the only country in Nato with no armed forces (they were banned 700 years ago); the highest ratio of mobile telephones to population; the fastest-expanding banking system in the world; rocketing export business; crystal-pure air; hot water delivered to all Icelandic households straight from the earth's volcanic bowels; and so on and so forth
 
Desh said:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/may/18/iceland?gusrc=rss&feed=worldnews


Icelanders.

Do you think we can learn anything from them?
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Well, its nice to have someone else build your country for you....

the British got there first. They established a military base on a finger of land near the Reykjavik coast. 'Suddenly there was an abundance of jobs that were, for the first time ever, unrelated to fishing or farming,' recalled Asvaldur Andresson. 'I remember that before the war we barely had roads, and those we had we had to build with picks and shovels. The British and Americans came and then it was Caterpillar trucks and tar roads and all sorts of wonderful new tools with which to work.'


Have treaties will other nations to protect your ass so you don't have the expense of maning your own Army...

it's the only country in Nato with no armed forces (they were banned 700 years ago)
 
So desh..........

when are you moving...sounds like socialist heaven...and you hate the USA so much I can't imagine why you are not on the next plane out!:sneak:
 
Battleborne said:
when are you moving...sounds like socialist heaven...and you hate the USA so much I can't imagine why you are not on the next plane out!:sneak:
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I'd move out there. The club scene is A grade and the local women are beyond belief.

Plus, Iceland probably doesn't invite UN inspectors in to examine racism claims.
 
Well in that case..........

charver said:
I'd move out there. The club scene is A grade and the local women are beyond belief.

Plus, Iceland probably doesn't invite UN inspectors in to examine racism claims.
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Maybe I will visit...however most of the foxes are tourists...the natives are a bit eskimo...!except those with Viking genetics....:cof1: Last time I was there was back about 1965..a layover on the way home from Germany...not much going on back then!
 
Dilloduck said:
Happy to be of service. Although I don't know how America could take a lesson from a country that basically proves multi-culturalism and racial integration isn't necessary for happiness.
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Well, i didn't contend that you Americanians could learn anything from Iceland in the first place.

I just professed a desire to live there, myself.
 
charver said:
Well, i didn't contend that you Americanians could learn anything from Iceland in the first place.

I just professed a desire to live there, myself.
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Actually Desh did in the OP but Im' sure there is a registration # there with your name on it !


All living Icelanders, as well as all foreign citizens with permanent residence in Iceland, have a personal identification number (kennitala) identifying them in the National Registry. This number is composed of 10 digits, whereof the first six are made up of the individual's birth date in the format DDMMYY. The next two digits are chosen at random when the kennitala is allocated, the 9th digit is a check digit, and the last digit indicates the period of one hundred years in which the individual was born (for instance, '9' for the period 1900–1999). An example would be 120192-3389. While similar, all-inclusive personal registries exist in other countries, the use of the national registry is unusually extensive in Iceland. For example, some video rentals register their customers using the registry identification numbers. It is worth noting that the completeness of the National Registry eliminates any need for censuses to be performed.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_Iceland
 
Dilloduck said:
Actually Desh did in the OP but Im' sure there is a registration # there with your name on it !
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I hope so. I've never been the same since meeting an Icelandic hen party in Manchester 1996 :D

(discount Bjork though, she's not your typical Icelander)
 
Say what....!

charver said:
I hope so. I've never been the same since meeting an Icelandic hen party in Manchester 1996 :D

(discount Bjork though, she's not your typical Icelander)
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Maybe I will skip a visit to Iceland...damn Charver first ya love sheep now chickens?:eek:
 
bravo said:
Well, its nice to have someone else build your country for you....

the British got there first. They established a military base on a finger of land near the Reykjavik coast. 'Suddenly there was an abundance of jobs that were, for the first time ever, unrelated to fishing or farming,' recalled Asvaldur Andresson. 'I remember that before the war we barely had roads, and those we had we had to build with picks and shovels. The British and Americans came and then it was Caterpillar trucks and tar roads and all sorts of wonderful new tools with which to work.'


Have treaties will other nations to protect your ass so you don't have the expense of maning your own Army...

it's the only country in Nato with no armed forces (they were banned 700 years ago)
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Yeah well the Brits, Spaniards, french, etc pretty well started this country as well. where do you think all the early investment capital came from ?
 
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