And Australia is the best country, despite its problems.
That's the result of an Organisation for Economic Co-Operation and Development report, which has ranked 34 countries on nine measures of well-being.
The report is a serious attempt by economists to provide a clearer picture of how life is lived at a regional and local level around the world, rather than just a national level.
It comes with a big online well-being matching machine that allows you to compare living standards between 362 regions across 34 countries.
The report has the Australian Capital Territory topping the global regional ranking on measures of well-being.
Those nine measures are income, jobs, health, access to services, environment, education, safety, civic engagement and housing.
An earlier version of the report was released in June but it has been updated to include another access to affordable and quality housing as a measure of well-being.
It shows NSW and Victoria are among the worst in Australia when it comes to housing, coming 6th and 7th out of 8 regions measured (the worst is the Northern Territory).
But the ACT clearly comes out on top.
The nation's capital ranks 10 out of 10 for income – the ACT's average income is the highest of the any of the 300 developed nation regions identified by the OECD.
It also rates 9.6 for access to services, 9.6 for jobs and 9.5 for environment.
The OECD believes regions in the world that are similar to the ACT include western Norway, New Hampshire and Stockholm.
Canberrans already know this, of course. They have a flower festival on at the moment.
NSW and Victoria rank close to each other in most dimensions.
NSW does better in income, scoring 7.1 out of 10, compared to 6.4, while Victoria is better for jobs (8.5 compared to 8.3) and safety (9.6 compared to 9.2).
Australia places best in the world when it comes to country-by-country rankings.
It is followed by Norway, Canada, Sweden and the United States.
All of its states and territories are among the top 20 per cent OECD regions in environment, civic engagement (due to its compulsory voting system) and income.
Even the low performing regions in Australia fare better than the OECD average in all of the well-being measures.
Think I would rather live in Brisbane Peter, any day....
Canberra is the arsehole of Australia, created by arseholes who watse our money with their bullshit.
Apart from that, its a fredzing cold shithole in the middle of nowhere with not one beach with hours.
I have not been to Canberra for about ten years, I might pass by there on the way to the snow , but that's it.
I would also live in Hobart before Canberra, stopped off on a cruise in hobart a while back. I though it was nice.
Not even sure why they built that shithole down there away from EVRYTHING in the middle of NOWHERE where it is FREEZING cold.. I mean seriously, wff were they thinking.
The biggest joke of is they call it the capital of Australia, everybody knows Sydney is the capital
Look at the facts
LONDON NEW YORK PARIS SYDNEY
not LONDON NEWYORK PARIS CANBERRA
Says it all,most outsiders have never herd of this shithole, let alone know where it is or been there. It just reminds me of the whole joke that the government is and all the most ey they watse. How many people live in that big house. Built in Sydney and we could house a lot of people needing a roof over their heads, not house fwits for the day thinking of the next way in which to rob us or screw our economy over even further or how they can degrade our way of life by letting scum in our front door because they think it will prop up the economy.
Sorry had my rant on Canberra, not meaning to offend those that live there, its just that the whole place offends me for reasons mentioned above, and its too cold, with no beaches, just a swamp.
Beaches within 2 hours easy drive, snow within an hour if you know where to go with skiiing just over 2 hours away, beautiful weather in spring and autumn, 15 minute commutes from leafy suburbs to the cbd, more 6 figure jobs than you can poke a stick at, and it's cleaner than any other major in Australia. Safe, wealthy, planned, comfortable.
Yes, it gets cold for a couple of months in winter.
I probably wouldn't choose Canberra as a city to live in either, but I think that we need to keep in mind that this is a well being index, so it's emphasis is on safety, health, job, income, education, housing etc. and not so much on an exciting lifestyle.
I've just been looking at the housing index - amazingly we come in at number 4. The USA is number 1 and Russia is last with a dismal score.
I expect that there will be many here who would challenge our score - number 4 is seriously good and ranks us ahead of the so called miracle economy of Germany - Paul, any comments?
Beaches within 2 hours easy drive, snow within an hour if you know where to go with skiiing just over 2 hours away, beautiful weather in spring and autumn, 15 minute commutes from leafy suburbs to the cbd, more 6 figure jobs than you can poke a stick at, and it's cleaner than any other major in Australia. Safe, wealthy, planned, comfortable.
Yes, it gets cold for a couple of months in winter.
Like my little rant stinky
So its only 2 hours to the beach not three, maybe I can duck down for a quick surf or swim before starting work.
Spring and autumn, my two favorite seasons, not too hot not too cold. Notice you did not mention summer down there, that's another thing, stinking hot in summer with no sea breezes to cool you down, another set back.
I agree its probably well laid out, probably safer than some capitals and probably has a good transport system. But when its not so overcrowded, and you have a lot of money to throw at the place from government o erspending, you can afford to do things. They had the time and room and means to design the place better than others designed and poplulated long before Canberra was well established population wise.
And your six figure comment stinky, just another reminder of us overpaying morons to do nothing. While real workers are oit there struggling to make ends meet, but get robbed by paying these efwits to do nothingbut watse more money again.
We should just sack 75% of these dickbeads that waste our money to achieve nothing but further failure. We dont need these jobs, they are just made up jobs to keep the bullshit flowing, and just rob real people with real jobs from getting where they deserve to be, not paying for these overpaid fwits lifestyle while they struggle. The whole thing is a joke, lucky for many I am not in charge, half government workers would be gone tomorrow, just a complete fkup of our economy and real workers trying to get somewhere in life .
I would say there are ten times more six figure jobs in Melbourne or Sydney, that involve working for real companies, not made up ones robbing the public of their pay packet.
Off topic, but I also expect our government will be raising the gst before much longer, I've spoken about this before. It will be another way to rob us and take more money away from us for them to waste on more bullshit. Abbott said he won'tbe raising taxes, but all politicians told us lies only to change it all later. A rise in the gst, is the same as a direct hit on most pay packets.
I've always wondered why on earth Canberra is the Oz Capital ? Should be Sydney really
The only good thing I got was a free coffe mug from the ex BF when we did a tour of Parliament House...couldn't wait to drive back to Sydney.
Newjerk? can you try harder than dig up another person's blog. My first promo was with Billabong and my name in English is modified with a T, am Perth born but also lived in Sydney to make my $$ It's Absolutely Fabulous if it includes brilliant locations, & high calibre tenants..what more does one want? Understand the power of the two "P"" or be financially challenged Even better when there is family who are property mad and one is born in some entitlements.....Understand that beautiful women are the exhibitionists we crave attention, whilst hot blooded men are the voyeurs ... A stunning woman can command and takes pleasure in being noticed. Seems not too many understand what it means to hold and own props and get threatened by those who do. Banks are considered to be law abiding and & rather boring places yeah not true . A bank balance sheet will show capital is dwarfed by their liabilities this means when a portions of loans is falling its problems for the bank.
Funny how Australia has the second highest rooms per person count and one of the highest property prices in the world. Shortage? What shortage?
and funny how Japanese in Japan are staying in tiny places, counting every square centimeters, and have had property prices going down for years. And they tell you that property prices are driven by offer and demand only... I am surprised that Canberra tops the rank now only. Canberra has the best night life (better than both Bali and Bangkok), a huge choice of restaurants, the city is so dynamic, there are so many people outside in the evening that it is such a pleasure to go out, there are so many cultural events. Seriously, the OECD guy is from Canberra. I don't see any other reason. I wouldn't even rank Sydney as number 1. Number 1 for gentrification maybe.
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