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Vacation time
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The way they treat their citizens. I've heard great things about Scandinavian countries and how they provide PTO to new parents (including the father). Also, I've heard they rehab criminals rather than incarcerate them (which happens to be a huge problem in the USA).
Food is definitely important! which is why Peru is the greatest nation in the world! :P (half-joking of course)
I would say environmental policy is very important as well as is the treatment of immigrants/refugees.
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IAmSoldieR wrote:Vacation time

The only metric.
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I really hate it when people ignore all that is wrong in America, and continue to blindly insist that we are the best at everything. Greatness is earned; it isn't innate... The United States needs to stop its endless military adventures abroad (which costs trillions of dollars each and accomplish nothing), reform its education and healthcare systems, and confront the still-lingering ghosts of slavery.

American exceptionalism is cancer.
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Papist wrote:I really hate it when people ignore all that is wrong in America, and continue to blindly insist that we are the best at everything. Greatness is earned; it isn't innate... The United States needs to stop its endless military adventures abroad (which costs trillions of dollars each and accomplish nothing), reform its education and healthcare systems, and confront the still-lingering ghosts of slavery.

American exceptionalism is cancer.

American exceptionalism is what our government wants you to believe in (it distracts from the government's detrimental ventures). I would say our people are not too bad, but our government is filled with crooks. The main reason for that being that our government is not democratic at all, it's legacy based. You have politicians/CEOs here paying their son's/dauighter's way through ivy league schools with "sizeable donations" to the law/business departments of their respective schools. And future CEOs alongside future congressmen in the same classes in these ivy league schools, cheating/scamming their way through college together. No wonder they cheat and scam together when they grow up and inherit daddy's position in life.
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the greatest nation is the one which has achieved to brainwash the highest percentage of their citizens to believe it's the greatest nation, or else be too afraid to show dissent. So naturally, the greatest nation is North Korea.
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kami_ryu wrote:So then the next question is what are those metrics? The rights we get? Scientific or social accomplishments? Food? Price of booze?

http://worldhappiness.report/ed/2017/
Norway, Denmark, Iceland, Switzerland, Finland, in that order. :biggrin: They measure social support, GPD, corruption, freedom to make life choices etc.

I was couchsurfing with an American couple this summer and was shocked to hear how little vacation they get per year. Like one week or something provided you've managed to get a decent job? Meanwhile as a Finn all I have to do is manage to hold the same job for a year and i get a ~30 weekdays long vacation with pay.

That said, all these nice things don't stop people from being unhappy, depressed, suicidal...
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There isn't really a greatest nation on earth. You can get prominent countries and countries that people want to live in but to have a single country that stands out as the greatest is quite objective I feel. There are good and bad points about any country really. The US is pretty nice to me, I would like to live there one day. The US, however, has a lot of poverty and hardship - more than a lot of countries. You could argue that a happy country is a great country but that isn't quite the case. Every country is great in their own way and bad in others.
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For me its the Netherlands, would consider moving to germany, denmark, sweden and norway but beer in norway is too expensive so for now its NL denmark sweden and thats it.
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V.O.C !

USA sucks. I'd rather live in some village in zimbabwe.
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jesus3 wrote:I do not mean to disrupt this discussion, but...

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Edit: On a serious not. I'm a big fan of the north european countries. Their social system seems to be fairest and create happyness (watch above).

I've been in the US and this idea of "everybody else wants to live in the USA too" never stops to amaze me. By most standards, there are better places to live, though granted worse too. That being said, I do love the place, but happy living where I live. :)
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The greatest nation on earth exists in our hearts, and maybe if we just believe then we can make it real.
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Papist wrote:I really hate it when people ignore all that is wrong in America, and continue to blindly insist that we are the best at everything. Greatness is earned; it isn't innate... The United States needs to stop its endless military adventures abroad (which costs trillions of dollars each and accomplish nothing), reform its education and healthcare systems, and confront the still-lingering ghosts of slavery.

American exceptionalism is cancer.


Sad to say but I think US huge military and weapon industry is not allowing US to stop fighting. I'm not expert is this matter but I think constant fighting and selling arms and whatever is what is keeping states in reasonable condition.
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And yeah btw Germany is the greatest place ever : )
cheap food and cheap alcohol, all you need as a finn. and culturally they're rather close to Finland if you don't count swedes and norwegians.
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Brazil.
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tedere12 wrote:Brazil.


Serbia.
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Sweden, because it is simply among the best in all of those aspects: price of booze, scientific accomplishments, food, social accomplishments, and rights. Our price of vodka is twice that of Germany, we were among the first to break free of the biological paradigm and realise that there are in fact 328 genders, potatoes with meatballs is probably the most luxurious and innovative dish in the world, Swedes are extremely antisocial - reaching heights no other nation has ever been able to reach before, and everyone has the right to pay tax.
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Gendarme wrote:Sweden, because it is simply among the best in all of those aspects: price of booze, scientific accomplishments, food, social accomplishments, and rights. Our price of vodka is twice that of Germany, we were among the first to break free of the biological paradigm and realise that there are in fact 328 genders, potatoes with meatballs is probably the most luxurious and innovative dish in the world, Swedes are extremely antisocial - reaching heights no other nation has ever been able to reach before, and everyone has the right to pay tax.


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princeofkabul wrote:And yeah btw Germany is the greatest place ever : )
cheap food and cheap alcohol, all you need as a finn. and culturally they're rather close to Finland if you don't count swedes and norwegians.

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