The top ten is as follows:

1. Norway
2. Iceland
3. Australia
4. Ireland
5. Sweden
6. Canada
7. Japan
8. the United States
9. Switzerland
10. the Netherlands

linky.

This is fine, but my comment on the way the UN's "best countries to live list" is compiled is that they have "women's advancement" as a factor in deciding the overall quality of life in countries.

My argument against this is what does it matter how many for example: female judges there are and such? Things like this don't have a influence on the quality of life in countries at all!

So this is a completely unnecessary factor for deciding what position countries should be in such lists.

The UN is a detestable communistic beauracracy condemned out of its own mouth.
Anything they recommend treat with supreme suspicion.
The UN is a parasitic organism,that must be cured.
The more feminist influence the higher the suicide rate for men and the more injustices.The UN as I have read on their website is fundamentally a feministic communistic UN-elected body ...

Does anyone else catch the glaring proof of matriarchal inferiority presented in these rankings?

The irony is nothing short of overwhelming. Each and every one of those ten nations listed as possessing a high quality standard of living shares an ancient history firmly and inexorably rooted in a past rife with patriarchal ascendancy. Hell, one of those nations (Japan) still is almost wholly patriarchal.

The poorest and least successful nations ( Burkina Faso, Mali, etc), however, are those whose ancient history is prominently rooted in a tribal/matriarchal society.

Now the question is this: how long until those top ten nations eventually begin to reap the rewards of their misguided ethics? And which warrior-oriented patriarchal nation will be next to occupy the top of the collective global food chain?

Iceland !!! Iceland!!

isn't Iceland insolvent

I was reading a few weeks ago that Iceland was one of the first lanterns to flicker out following the US sub Prime meltdown

what little I know of thise Scandinavian countries they are all run by wimmin

Things change. Since Tyrael's post in 2006, Iceland has gone belly up and more nig-nogs have moved to Australia. Many from friggin' Ireland. The main problem is that these nig-nogs have voted a KRudd Labour Government in. We are on the way to going belly up too.

I'm surprised the US made that list at all, since we have the highest rate of people in jails and prisons of any country in the world.

And suicide rates, I believe...

75 years ago, 84 percent of all US households = Married

Now it is about 47-48%

New York City is at 26%

Parts of Utah are at 70%

San Francisco, CA has nearly 2% male gay couples.

Why marry? It's for women most seem to conclude since men are disinclined to marry.

Republicans overwhelmingly hail from districts that have high percentages of married people and lots of children; whereas districts represented by Democrats are stocked with more people who have never married and those who have few children. I'm Republican and would like to see traditional marriage strengthened and the divorce incentive greatly reduced. Such that more people marry and stay married.

Right now the only group that is fighting hard to marry is gays!

Icelands entire population is hardly more than a large British town..

300,000. Hard to imagine how these low population countries can be so high on the standard of living scale.

Is not almost the entire Icelandic economy based on one single Toxic aluminium plant though?

http://hdr.undp.org/hdr2006/pdfs/rep...6-complete.pdf
Page 280 and 281

Behind all of the rest....so maybe this justifies the complaining nature of many Germans.