USA BITCHES AND YOU KNOW IT

I'd choose Denmark,Switzerland,Japan and Germany

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i'm surprised nobody mentioned north korea...

US style of living is definitely not the best imo. Most of the points I saw are true, but they do not really affect YOU personally. Yes, the US has the most powerful military, but is life in America really the safest in the world? Yes, a good proportion of the most advanced technology came from US, but you can also find this technology in the world. Factors contributing to good living like good healthcare, judicial and education system, I suppose you can find in US. But I would still choose other countries for living.

I suppose, if you argue about the pointless topic about the ‘best’ country being the most powerful, then yes, I guess US is the most powerful for now.

But tbh I’m not surprised really. From my observation, American and British pride are usually very outspoken.

I third Zamonia!

But Scandinavian countries seem the best places to live in a variety of factors, according to lots of studies. But those same studies consistently put the Netherlands in the top 10, so I am not going to move :-)

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Britain deserves to be arrogant. They've won dozens of wars, used to own 1/4 of the world and are the first Europeans with individual rights.

anywhere is nice to live if you're rich and shit if you're poor. If you're poor the best country is the one with highest equality index and if you're rich then it's the one with the highest gdp per capita. most people are in between so then it's some combination of those two.

I'm pretty surprised this evolved into a real discussion. It is simply too broad of a question. I better questions might be:

"If you were forced to leave your country, where would you prefer to live?"

Without having been to any, but knowing a decent amount about their quality of life, I would probably pick Sweeden, Denmark or Norway.

"Any country whose residents don't childishly claim their own country is best. "

Then it is a last places tie between all countries?

^Which also makes everyone the winner :)

If you would like to be technical and not have everyone claiming whose nation is better than everyone else. You have to look at a broad amount of subject and see the differences that they all have and some of their common similarities. If I was forced to leave my country and I wanted to go someplace where I could live. I would most likely go to either England, as they are slowly moving back to the Conservative values I believe in or maybe id go to Bhutan, they are the happiest nation on earth.

Yeah, take your conservative values to Bhutan and make them as miserable as the rest of us!

Edit: ;)

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Iceland, Norway, Sweden, Netherlands, Denmark.

5 best countries, (Iceland by far)

Switzerland ftw!

I would like to live in Israel (State House) or at the moon ...