Among the world’s greenest places to live, Slovenia debuts at No. 15
For those of you still hanging your heads in shame over Michael Moore’s outing of Slovenia’s rank among the world’s healthcare systems, here’s some good, or at least better, news. From Reader’s Digest of all places.
The magazine, hardly a member of the far-left ‘Blame America’ liberal media conspiracy, commissioned UCLA economist Matthew E. Kahn to produce a study to rank the world’s greenest, most livable places. The top four –Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden– are regular fixtures in various quality of life surveys, but you don’t have to look too far to find Slovenia, sitting coyly in spot No. 15, between neighbor Italy and France. (Apparently Kahn has never taken a walk in the Ljubljana woods.)
The USA was a lowly 23rd, just behind Latvia (Wow! I bet Michael Moore would have fun with that!), but ahead of Lithuania (24th), the UK (25th), Croatia (28th), Albania (31st) and Costa Rica (34th).
A summary of the study and methodolgy is here, the country ranking (141 deep) is here, and a city/metro area listing (72 in all) is here. At the top of the city list? Stockholm. Been there, lovely place. At the bottom? Beijing. Hmm. Can’t wait for my trip to the Olympics next summer.
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Hmmm, seems cool.
Joe joestain13@yahoo.com
Joe
Thursday, 18 October, 2007 at 16:12
Moore is right, most people in the US think you are talking about Slovakia when talking about Slovenia.
Susana
Friday, 19 October, 2007 at 03:12
People in the States do not know about Slovakia neither of Slovenia. Those that pretend that they do constantly mix these two countries. I live in the States and some of my Slovakian friends told me that it happens a lot that their country is confused with Slovenia. I guess Slovenians are not the only ones who upset by the lack of geographical knowledge by Americans. Though there are always exceptions
TS
Tuesday, 11 December, 2007 at 23:02