I don't think this list is shit, anyway they should have made top 100 city list or something. I lived in Manchester and London for example and that was a whole different experience (sorry prefered Manchester).

On the other end everyone has a different reason to like a country, food, climate, education quality, taxes, etc..

some categories dont really make sense to me.. US should be lower, Scandinavia higher.. thats about it

We get shafted because we have Scotland dragging us down.

Quite rightly. Don't be sorry.

Shandy drinking southern jessies.

I don't see how sweden would be 30. I agree that countries like new zealand, australia, austria and Canada are near the top, and find that it doesnt really matter which exact spot, so long as they are recognized to be great places to live.

The list is way off, it doesn't take into account enough factors. I mean Australia above New Zealand? Whats up with that?

I'll put it this way.

Quality of Life indexes are mostly BS.

Pretty much ANYTHING that tries to compare countries is BS... outside of things you can more or less count, like economical and military wise.

There are too many factors... not to mention it's all culturally different.  Someone from Russia, the UK, Algeria and Brazil all have different ideas on what makes life "quality."

The list above seems pretty Caucasian-eurocentric-male biased.

I know france isn't the first place i'd choose to live if I was muslim or a woman.

Or Switzerland for that matter... what with their recent minaret ban... and universal woman's suffrage not quite coming across until... 1990 was it?

And the UK isn't somewhere you want to live if you're a man. All the countries on the list have there faults which should be taken into consideration but this list seems to have its own criteria to which it is judging these countries so from their guidelines this might be very accurate but the makers of this basically say it has bias.

Like you say it's BS but worth a discussion.

Maybe sommeone should do a list based on all the negative aspects of coutries and see how well the top 25 fare then?

Okay so Canada is 3rd or 4th on the UN Human Development Index but according to some site I've never heard of its 9th. Hmm.

Well truth is... as long as your living in an industralized nation... it doesn't matter. 

It's more like tiers.

Once a nation gets "good enough" on certain levels.  It doesn't really matter anymore and it's all going to break down to personal preference.

Even quantitative measures don't really matter once you hit a certain level.