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Posted: **Tue Oct 07, 2014 12:40 am**

The latest OECD regional rankings have yet again confirmed what many locals have long known, finding that Canberra is the best place to live in the world.

And the world is taking note.

A story on the The New York Times's new site The UpShot, titled "Want an easy life? Try Canberra", trumpeted the results from a second report from the OECD, analysing data ranking 362 regions according to nine measures of well-being from their 34 member countries.

If each topic, across access to services, education, income, jobs, environment, health, safety, housing and civic engagement is equally weighted then Canberra was found to be the top ranking "region" in terms of well-being.

The data is collected from a number of different sources by the OECD from measurable indicators such as air quality indexes and education attainment levels.

Canberra was measured as being similar to Western Norway, Sweden's Stockholm, New Hampshire in the US and British Columbia in Canada.

Other Australian states such as WA, Queensland and NSW also made the top ten in regional ranking along with Minnesota, New Hampshire and two regions in Norway.

This follows the release of similar OECD regional data back in June, which gave the territory a perfect score on crime, average household disposable income, and voter turnout.

Apart from all the good news for Canberra, however, the report finds "regional inequality in household income is lowest in Austria and highest in Australia".

The income inequality measure also showed up the United States where the most unequal part of the US, the District of Columbia, was found to be as unequal as parts of Mexico.

This is not the capital's first appearance in the prestigious newspaper's pages this year. In June a travel profile said "what the "bush capital" lacks in big-city tousle, it makes up for in big-sky beauty, breezy civic pride and a decidedly hipster underbelly".

The site The UpShot, is aimed at helping readers "understand the news" and competing with other new news sites such as Vox.com.

Read more: http://www.canberratimes.com.au/act-new ... z3FPngtq5c

Posted: **Tue Oct 07, 2014 1:15 pm**

Not really.

Kim Jong Un has had an easy life, a very easy life.

Our bodies are shaped to need hardship to be healthy, our minds cannot develop without it, and our emotions would be the uncontrolled autonomic responses of newborns if we were not challenged.

yrs,
rubato

Posted: **Tue Oct 07, 2014 1:37 pm**

by that logic, he s doing his people a favor by providing hardship....

but I get what you mean. whatever doesn t kill me makes me stronger and all that. only problem is that it is wrong.

that theory works until you are about 26-31, then whatever doesn t kill you cripples you a bit more physically. and mentally? well you can tough out a lot of things, pain, misery, unhappiness, whatever, for a lot longer, but even the toughest son of a bitch around can break if they don t bend.

if you push too hard, for too long , mind and body are damaged. being a glutton for punishment is just as bad as being a glutton. see Cool Hand Luke. the bad part is that if you "get your mind right", your body is still fucked.

take it from a guy who knows.

take it easy. you ll want to use that body when you are older.

Posted: **Tue Oct 07, 2014 3:20 pm**

A Sensitive City with Tousled Hair

Let's say it was Canberra
that line was searching for,
folded and unsatisfactorily abandoned
in the pages of 'Human Sexuality'
does this look like the work of a city?
I scratch my tousled hair

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