Hi

The UN released its Human Development Index 2006 the other day and the list ranks 177 countries by achievements in terms of life expectancy, educational attainment and adjusted real income (see http://hdr.undp.org/ and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_Development_Index )

For the sixth consecutive year, Norway is ranked as the best country to live in ^ and I think that most Norwegian appriciate this fact. When the report was released one of the ministers in Norway commented this on TV by saying that Norwegians have to stop complaining. And I agree...even if we are one of the richest countries in the world we still like to complain about price of cars, price of gas, taxes etc. Norway is in no way a perfect place and there are still issues that needs to be adressed. But if you compare Norway to many, many other countries it shows that we have no reason to complain..,.we should just be greatful that we are born here :-)