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People who live in functional and safe countries, how happy are you?

For those of us who live in the US things are and have been scary and depressing for a while, this seems to also be true about quite a few more countries in the world.

If you are living in a country that you deem safe, well functioning and overall a good country to live in, how do you feel? Do you feel anxious about the current state of the world? Also, what country are you in? (Just in case 🫣)

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  • Sweden is a functional country for the most part, but we are small in a geopolitical context.

    In daily life I feel mostly fine, I have a decent job (I am on the bus to work right now), I have a good apartment (if a bit small), just ordered a new desk for my home setup, in general you can feel society bracing against "Drumpf & Puttler's Crazy Wild Ride: The Rise of Ketamine boy".


    Biggest news lately, the school shooting in Örebro, terrible shit, and the coward perpetrator didn't have the decency to survive so we'll probably never know his motives which would help us prevent this in the future.

    Locally we have had some small scale scandals recently, politicians disliked by most citizens but with connections getting new jobs either barely following the process or outright ignoring it, nationalistic party have their scandal politicians, other politicians scamming money from the government.

    We recently had a news story about an islamist being hired as a teacher and raping a student, that guy was rejected by the security service when applying to be a security guard before being a teacher.


    Personally this is how I feel when reading the news lately:

    As it stands now, I will just focus on myself and my family and friends, the current US regime is dancing to the tune of a dictatorship and I try to stay far away.

  • All the fucking right wing wankers are feeling empowered and crawling from under the rocks thanks to the blond Cheeto you guys idiotically voted as president. Economy is going to shit. This is a nice peaceful sunny European country and we're suffering with your idiocy. So not very happy. At all.

  • In the UK, it's not great, and seems to be on the down trend like everywhere else, but right now it's a decent enough place to live - definitely a lot better than the US.

    • Fair but we're definitely on the verge of not qualifying to answer this question anymore

    • Yep. I have hopes that Starmer starts building some towns/houses. Another Milton Keynes would be horrid but a huge step up from where we are now.

  • I wouldn't say I'm happy, necessarily. But I'm content.

    I have everything I need in terms of basic needs but I suffer from depression, and I have two eighty year-old parents who have borrowed my car for nearly a year driving for DoorDash. My anhedonia keeps me leveled out 99% of the time, so when I'm happy or sad it generally manifests as a manic episode.

    Even though my country is generally functional and safe, it's really only that way if you have money. That DoorDash job is the only the standing between my parents and homelessness because no one will employ them, the government doesn't care if they become homeless or starved, and my dad is too old too roof houses.

  • USA. Despite what people will tell you around here we aren't crumbling to bits or shooting each other in the streets.

    What the federal government does has ultimately very little effect on my day to day life. I go to work. I come home. I get high and pet my cats too much. I play video games with friends I've made over the course of my life. I eat dinner and I crash. I'll repeat this pattern all week and then on weekends I do chores and visit friends/family.

    Other than that everything is still functional. Safety hasn't gone up or down. It's still exactly as safe as it was under Obama and Biden eras. Pretty safe as long as you avoid certain places or hanging out with the wrong crowds.

    8/10. Room for improved always but I'm not really concerned.

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