http://www.cnn.com/2006/HEALTH/07/27/happy.world.reut/index.html
Anyone from Denmark on this board that can confirm this?!
I need to get me some happy 
No time to confirm, jumping around and singing songsâŚ
hah - how cool is that
but yeah I think weâre pretty happy in general, no BIG issues really - cept a cartoon or two :
Yeah, I can see that. They have alot of hot women in the Netherlands and the beer is really good. Two the things the states are short onâŚ
:-X
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and they have Laktritze!!! This stuff is awesome. Unless you become a Laktritze addict like meâŚ
Try a Danish hotdog and you will know why the Danes are the happiest in the world
Laktrize = licorice ;D
That was German arrogance speaking previously. Whatâs the Danish word for licorice anyway?
Thatâs fairly sexist. I donât think the survey was of only menâs happiness! Unless of course, you meant hot women and beer make all people happy, in which case I retract my first statementâŚ
Well, have you ever noticed that even womenâs magazines are filled with pictures of hot women? ;D
[quote]Laktrize = licorice Grin
That was German arrogance speaking previously. Whatâs the Danish word for licorice anyway?
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Lakrids. The d is silent.
Mmmmmm⌠lakrids⌠drools
No, youâre right it was sexist⌠intentionally so ;D
The studie is a little bit odd. How can ppl from US with such a president be happy? We in germany have doggy face MerkelâŚand be on place 35. US is on place 23.
Its very odd.
Cuz germans always are unhappy.
If we had nothing to be unhappy about weâd be unhappy about that.
Yea, thats right and sad 
We need some war were we can slaughter some ppl and join the US star force to eliberate anything and everything that is beyond good and evil. o_O
Americans will always be higher on a happy list than we âshouldâ because long, long ago collectively, we have learned to be in denial.
Honestly, itâs part of our nation heritage and culture. And I couldnât be happier about it! :o ;D 
:-\
Woo! Yeah! Go USA! Woop Woop! ;D
I think I may have been here too long.
Kev
When I lived in Germany I used to tell my German girlfriend that âlife is easy in Germanyâ. I mean come on, you donât have to own an auto, you donât have to worry about medical insurance, you donât even really have to worry about having a job because they could live pretty damn well on government handouts. Consequently when you do have a job in Germany 50% of your pay goes to taxes.
Ask Kev about the necessity of owning a personal vehicle in the states. In the US you may not starve, but thereâs not much of a social safety net either. So yeah, why are we so happy? ???
The one thing Iâve learnt so far about living here in the US is never to try and apply any rule across the whole of the states. Each individual state is like a independent european country (and the world would probably be a lot safer globally if they actually were).
In California you canât live without a car - or at least having someone near by that has a car and can drive you places. However, social concious here and standard of living is extremely high (much higher than for instance in the UK). The medical care you get if you have no insurance is pretty good - and insurance costs are extremely low (again, especially compared to National Insurance contributions in the UK).
Personally I think CA is a wonderful place where alot of things are just right. However, Iâm running back to the UK in a year or so - theyâre all just too gosh darn âpeppyâ round here.
Which is kinda my reply to this post. When the majority of people in a place are happy happy joy joy - sarcastic/cynical gits like me arnât
Have a nice day⌠ack.
Kev
⌠and some cities(like NY) have mass transit systems that let you live with out a car. (just proving your point)
We got a pretty good mass transportation system in Berlin but some are still unhappy⌠But generally I think that we Germans arent so unhappy ⌠at least compared to as much as the media is trying to make us worry about everyting. Especially that crappy BILD magazine of us⌠Makes me wanna puke every time I see it or some poor guy reading it. :-X Naaah, but except that I am quite happy here. I just came back from a two years study exchange in China and with regard to that Germany certainly has its advantages (nice clubs, relatively well-tasting beer, free-speech, safe traffic, democracy :), open minded people, etc. ) I am not saying that I dislike China⌠I would love to go back one day but currently I enjoy the nice things at home. ok, true the taxes are out of bounds and the living costs are not exactly cheap either. I am doing fine though as a student sucking money from my parents ;D
Johannes
PS: People I met in Asia often told me that they believe Germans are âgenerally concernedâ but not exactely unhappy. Not sure what I prefer. Either I m a psycho with a serious anxiety disorder or an always depressed crybaby⌠;D