This Green and Pleasant Land

Kennybhoy

"Great Britain"?

Hurrah for MORI!!

RichardH

Looking at the survey details, an average of 1000 people per country were surveyed. Given that the responses would vary per street in a town, let alone per town or region, I think the whole enterprise is about as useful as a chocolate teapot.

Beefeater

"More activities for teenagers."

Just a few ping-pong tables away from Utopia.

Vulture

There is a theory that Hungary, which I think has the world's highest suicide rate, followed by its neighbour Austria, is so prone because its a long way from the sea.

Sounds wacky - but there may be something in it.

Perhaps Hungarian males are more inclined to top themselves than the women, because Hungary also has the highest ratio of females to males. So all red-blooded males in search of Magyar muff should be on that plane to Budapest NOW!

MCMC

"Would it be mischievous to note that the Netherlands, a country with high population density, and Canada, Australia and the United States, all countries with high percentages of foreign-born inhabitants, score very highly on this contentment index"?
No, but it would be specious bollocks. England is more densely populated than the Netherlands and the other countries are mainly made up people who immigrated quite recently (notably to the detriment of the indigenous population in all)

John Edwards

The reasons Hungary has the highest suicide rate in Europe must be genetic in some way. I was not surprised to discover on a visit to Mari-El a republic in the Russian Federation, that the Mari who have linguistic\ethnic links with the Hungarians also top the suicide chart in Russia.

PuppetMaster

South Korea is ghastly, all of the architecture schools were taken over by fans of Le Corbusier. They have destroyed pretty much all of historic Seoul and filled it with huge soulless tower blocks. On top of that they all hate each other, it's how one of their old dictators used to control them, playing the regions off against each other.
I'm surprised Labour never thought to import a couple of million of them here, obviously a missed opportunity.

Craig Strachan

"why are so many Hungarians so mch more unhappy than everyone else?"

Viktor Orban and Calvinism.

Left Outside

"Looking at the survey details, an average of 1000 people per country were surveyed. Given that the responses would vary per street in a town, let alone per town or region, I think the whole enterprise is about as useful as a chocolate teapot."

Someone doesn't understand statistics. That sample is easily large enough to be accurate to within around 5%.

I wonder why there's such a big disconnect between people's view of their own locale and the country.

Perhaps its our Press but perhaps us brits just have a propensity to moan that gives us both a shitty alarmist press and a poor view of our country.

No idea about Hungary and South Korea. I suppose being close to significantly richer neighbours might do it.