我21日在飛機上看見The Daily Mail的這一篇報導（Are we the miseries of Europe? You must be having a laugh…）的時候，我真的有笑出來，因為好意外呀！
我也以為英國人應該會大大落後其他歐盟國家的，不過結果出來到釋出乎我的意料。一直以為在地中海旁邊那幾個拉丁民族應該每日生活都會很爽吧！？結果……義大利和葡萄牙竟然是倒數幾名的耶！反而芬蘭那種我想冬日應該日照時間短到讓人感覺愁苦想要自殺的國家倒是很快樂！
專家的意見是快樂的感覺與好的教育以及好的工作有正相關。因為這些人比較容易在生活之中尋得滿足感以及自我實現的快樂！
雖然我有在懷疑就這樣訪問三萬五千名歐洲的成年人，會不會有人因為靦於告訴別人自己糟糕的生活，所以打腫臉起來佯稱很幸福呢？我總還是覺得陽光充足，夏天溫暖，冬天也還過得去的地中海會應該讓人感覺快樂呀！還是因為地中海沿岸都要被西北歐這些國家的居民給霸佔了，所以這才是真正西北歐國家的人會感覺快樂的原因哩？如果說在英國賺錢在夏天拿去希臘揮霍，真的也是會很快樂吧！
不過，我想今年應該大部分的人都會比較不快樂吧！看全球股市跌成那樣，真是多投資多嘔氣呀！哎哎哎，C’est la vie啦！不管世事怎樣多變化，還是要努力讓自己感覺快樂和感覺幸福呀！
Are we the miseries of Europe? You must be having a laugh...
By BETH HALE
Last updated at 1:29 AM on 21st November 2008
If the world seems a gloomy place at the moment, then it's time to take heart.
For, despite our reputation as being somewhat dour, it seems we Brits are actually a fairly happy bunch.
The average Briton rates their state of happiness at a healthy 7.8 out of ten - higher than most of the rest of Europe, including Spain, Italy and Germany.
Perhaps unsurprisingly, those with a good education and highly paid job were more likely to say they were satisfied with life and felt fulfilled.
Across most EU countries, health and family relationships were ranked as the most important aspects to quality of life.
The study, which questioned more than 35,000 Europeans over the age of 18, including 1,500 Britons, revealed Denmark is the happiest country, with a rating of 8.5 on the 'smile scale'.
Bulgarians are the most dissatisfied, polling a dismal 5.8 - nearly three points below the European average of 7.5.
The study - for the Dublin-based EU agency, the European Foundation-for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions ( Eurofound) - also found that those living in the Nordic countries and in the Netherlands topped a similar poll of 'life satisfaction'.
Jorma Karppinen, Eurofound director, yesterday said there were many reasons for the wide discrepancies in happiness and general satisfaction across the EU.
'The differences in terms of life satisfaction and attitudes towards the future underline the significant inequalities in living conditions and in the experience of daily life for Europeans,' he added.
'In particular, well-being in the former socialist countries varies greatly between social and demographic groups.
'There are marked disadvantages associated with low income, and older people are more likely to report dissatisfaction with their situation.'
Robert Anderson, also of Eurofound, said: 'If you are looking at happiness, that's not as strongly related to things like income as life satisfaction is.
'Happiness has a better relationship with things like quality of family life and health. It's a bit more of an emotional state.'
However, he admitted that the data was collected last year, adding: 'Clearly people might be reporting themselves to be far less happier now than they were a year ago.'
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