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We're Number Two!!!
Posted: Tue May 24, 2011 7:04 pm
by Scooter
PARIS — Canadians have a "better life" than anyone in the western world except — by a narrow margin — Australians, according to a new analysis released Tuesday.
Canada scored at or near the top in such areas as housing, education, health and life satisfaction, among 34 major industrialized countries.
Sweden ranked third among the members of the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development; the U.S. was seventh; and Turkey was a distant last.
The Better Life Initiative survey marked a major attempt by the Paris-based OECD, an economic and social policy think-tank funded by its members, to provide a broader measure of a country's success than gross domestic product figures.
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And Canadians really are "nice":
Roughly two-thirds of Canadians, or 66 per cent, "reported having helped a stranger in the last month, the highest figure in the OECD" and well above the average of 46 per cent.
Re: We're Number Two!!!
Posted: Tue May 24, 2011 7:46 pm
by The Hen
Yay!
Number two, number two, number two.
Just remember, to be number one, you have to try harder.
My lifestyle brings all the boys to the yard,
And they're like
It's better than yours,
Damn right, it's better than yours
I could teach you but I have to charge.
Re: We're Number Two!!!
Posted: Tue May 24, 2011 8:46 pm
by Scooter
The Hen wrote:Just remember, to be number one, you have to try harder.
Canadians would never want to be number one, it just wouldn't be polite.
Except in hockey, of course. The singular case where winning is the only thing that matters.
Re: We're Number Two!!!
Posted: Tue May 24, 2011 8:51 pm
by Crackpot
Most aren't proud to be related to "number two".
Re: We're Number Two!!!
Posted: Tue May 24, 2011 8:53 pm
by Crackpot
(I think that's why WE in the Good old US of A Claim to be number one until we're way out of the rankings.
Re: We're Number Two!!!
Posted: Tue May 24, 2011 10:48 pm
by Gob
Pah! We're hard done by, you lot have it easy...
WE HAVE lots of space to ourselves, but comparatively little time.
A new survey of living standards across the leading 34 industrial nations finds Australia at or near the top on almost every measure, but towards the bottom on the question of free time.
Where we stand out at the bottom of the pack is in the hours spent at work. We are the sixth most likely to put in more than 50 hours a week. And we devote the sixth least time to sleep and personal care.
Read more:
http://www.smh.com.au/lifestyle/lifemat ... z1NJSiTYCq
Re: We're Number Two!!!
Posted: Tue May 24, 2011 11:44 pm
by Lord Jim
So Australia is a Number One and Canada is a Number Two?
Re: We're Number Two!!!
Posted: Wed May 25, 2011 12:20 am
by rubato
Gob wrote:Pah! We're hard done by, you lot have it easy...
And we devote the sixth least time to sleep and personal care.
It's been mentioned by travelers.
yrs,
rubato
Re: We're Number Two!!!
Posted: Wed May 25, 2011 4:25 pm
by Beer Sponge
Lord Jim wrote:So Australia is a Number One and Canada is a Number Two?
More like Austrailia has taken a number one, (Gob taking the piss again, eh!), and Canada has taken a number two, and you know who we're on top of, correct?
Re: We're Number Two!!!
Posted: Wed May 25, 2011 5:16 pm
by Long Run
I agree with all the nice things said about Canada, but weather has to count for something, which is why I guess Australia comes up number one.
Re: We're Number Two!!!
Posted: Wed May 25, 2011 9:12 pm
by Rick
Canadians have a "better life" than anyone in the western world except — by a narrow margin — Australians, according to a new analysis released Tuesday.
Weeelll by this they should be #1, Oz is in the East...
Re: We're Number Two!!!
Posted: Wed May 25, 2011 9:33 pm
by Gob
Well spotted KF!!
Re: We're Number Two!!!
Posted: Thu May 26, 2011 1:35 am
by Sean
keld feldspar wrote:Canadians have a "better life" than anyone in the western world except — by a narrow margin — Australians, according to a new analysis released Tuesday.
Weeelll by this they should be #1, Oz is in the East...
Depends which way you travel to get there...
Re: We're Number Two!!!
Posted: Thu May 26, 2011 3:07 am
by The Hen
I can travel in any direction and I am right here.
It's amazing.
:p