New Zealand, the best place in the world to live if you're broke

[Ocean1]

Rummage...

See: http://www.geostrategis.com/p_wellbeing.htm

There's a pop psych dictum that happiness increases with wealth only until basic needs are met. After that, happiness decreases as wealth increases.

That’s why Hulen and Co were always bleeding us dry, was just to make us ‘appy.

Anyway, if you can be fookt check the link against GDP by country.

[Indiana_Jones]

Have seen that in real Life, when I lived in South America the poor people were still happy and I always recond it was because of the sun and beaches
by contrast the british even if there rich are often miserable ( what that saying, whingeing poms ) they have hardly any sun and lousy Beaches

Changing my Choice to Brazil ( second of course to NZ)

Never should have let India go, would be even richer lol

-Indy

[RiderInBlack]

I can think of better places to be broke.

But - and this is important - they are not countries in which you would ever want to get sick.

Exactly. It's the total picture I'm looking at here. Your living standards if you are poor in that Country. That includes:
Health
Lifestyle
Education
Safety
Environment
ETC

[ital916]

Having come from europe, I can say NZ is a beautiful place. Even though pay is lower the price of everything is comparatively lower. Lifestyle is amazing as in it is always warm even in winter, it is sunny most of the time *unless we have an odd bad winter* and the roads are actually nice. It is green and lush and I can get up in the morning, ride to the volcano close to my house and go....yup this pace is beautiful. Most of the people I have met have been nice too .

And crime is low....if you guys think crime here is high then think again.

Would I stay here when I graduate...prob not, I will want to go overseas for adventure and to work and see the world. I would definately come back here though when I want to retire.

[2_SL0]

Having come from europe, I can say NZ is a beautiful place. Even though pay is lower the price of everything is comparatively lower. Lifestyle is amazing as in it is always warm even in winter, it is sunny most of the time *unless we have an odd bad winter* and the roads are actually nice. It is green and lush and I can get up in the morning, ride to the volcano close to my house and go....yup this pace is beautiful. Most of the people I have met have been nice too .

And crime is low....if you guys think crime here is high then think again.

Would I stay here when I graduate...prob not, I will want to go overseas for adventure and to work and see the world. I would definately come back here though when I want to retire.

So, your use our education system, then fark off with your skills, then return to use our health system. Nice.