[edj]

Would be interesting to see a quality of life comparison (if such a thing can be reliably quantified)

The Economist attempted to quantify quality-of-life and rank nations using the metrics they developed [1]. Their quality-of-life index is a bit out of date - almost 10 years old now - but interesting nonetheless.

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quality-of-life_Index

[remon]

That seems a questionable measurement. In their reasoning quality of life goes up if a "variable taking value 1 if country has either high rate of church attendance or trade-union membership" goes up. There is not a developed country in the world where church attendance or trade-union membership is going up. That said, interesting read.