Just a quick note here.. Standard of living.. Canada is not in the top 10 of the list. The US is not the top, the highest rated have been a couple of the arab countries that control oil (Kuwait used to be the top for YEARS!). Also, Switzerland, (they have always been up there because they generate MASSIVE amounts of money just from the fees of their banking industry(nobody has a name) and their small population. Wish I could find the non biased standard of living polls that used to be published yearly. Found some good articles, but none that are non biased..
Again I say, Patriotism is great! I have it, and I don't know if I could have a better standard of living anywhere else, but I don't want to even try. So it is easy to say that a country is in the top 5, but feelings get in the way. Unbiased stats talk. I know the UN used to put the stats out, but I couldn't find them
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