Is this true?

22 comments
  1. Not even close to being true. Netherlands trying to play with the big boys? PHAHAHA!

    Exchange Netherlands with Finland/Denmark and you have it right.

  2. We tend to do good on certain statistics yeah.

    As long as you don’t mind walking on permanently regenerating ice with 5 hours of dim daylight through gray sky for 7 months out of the year, every year…then Norway is pretty good.

  3. It’s true for Norway and Switzerland, not so much for the Netherlands. Iceland or Finland would have to be there instead of the Netherlands.

  4. As a Dutchman, everything good about the country is a leftover from several decades ago. Ever since then, we’ve been sliding backwards just slowly enough for statistics to not have caught up yet.

    That said, these lists are just useless anyway, and putting any country on a pedestal is bound to disappoint you. Hell, I’ve been disappointed in Norway a couple times and that’s against the laws of physics.

    The best country in my book is any country where these lists aren’t used as clickbait headlines.

  5. Not correct, It should be Norway, Switz and Iceland.
    Or exchange Iceland with Denmark/Sweden/Finland.

    Netherlands is barely in the top 10.

    Basically its the 5 nordic countries and Switz that is always in the top 3.

  6. We do well on statistics, but the quality of life here is poor. The cost of living in a large, cold country is much higher than most countries. Example: need clothing for 4 seasons, housing is expensive because it needs to be high quality to not be expensive to heat etc.

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