Really shows the agricultural region of the Po River Valley and why the north has traditionally been wealthier than the south.
There is an absolutely proven corelation between higher ambient tempratures and anger/violence. Dont want to dig up references, but it is one of those things taught in intro psychology classes. Obviously a few outliers there, but pretty high corelation between warm temps and higher anger there.
In these 11 European countries, births out of wedlock are in the majority Worldwide, 15% of children are born out of wedlock, but the figure varies from less than 1% in places like China to 69% in Iceland. I find it interesting that in China less than 1% of children are “born out of wedlock” (sort of an odd phrase from where I sit, but I digress). Coincidentally, China, the world’s most populous country seemingly forever, but being caught up and possibly surpassed by India any day now, is wrestling with a declining population. That declining population has the autocratic/dictatorship very alarmed. Perhaps the government there should ask Japan’s government for advice on what to do about it. The reply from Japan’s foreign minister will likely be an exaggerated shrug, but asking seems like a logical thing to do.
Interested to see the child/partner support and insurance coverage (I know, universal healthcare) laws in the countries with high out of wedlock births.
An “off the cuff” guess, but my hunch is that those countries have insurance coverage for those circumstances far superior to our own.
Yeah...outside of the ridiculous cold and language barrier, which can be overcome, Nordic countries are the way to go.
Yes, can’t disagree. I’ve been to all of them except for Finland (on my bucket list), more than once, and they all have excellent mass transit, great rail systems, high standards of living, beautiful countryside. Even Denmark has lovely countryside, despite being flat, like Houston. It’s nothing at all like Houston, of course. There’s a museum in one of the towns with a complete Viking ship they discovered buried as part of a grave. It’s stunning. I had an interesting experience back in the early ‘70’s. I was in Grindelwald in Switzerland back when it still had a blue glacier at the top of its valley, staying with a girl at the amazing hostel (it has a huge deck with a view of the Eiger across the valley) and at breakfast we got to talking with this tall, blonde Swedish fellow. Ended up walking with him to the glacier. On a hilltop close to it, we sat down on the grass and took in the view. So this guy pulls a harmonica out of his pack, leans back, and starts playing bits of classical music. Mozart, Bach and the like. He played beautifully. After a while, we walked right up to the glacier and noticed a metal walkway across the front of it. After a brief discussion we began walking on it, with me leading the way like a fool, my girl taking up the rear (I think she was getting interested in the Swede). I noticed that the metal walkway started to get a bit wobbly, with some small chunks of ice breaking off. Then I looked down at the couple of hundred feet straight down below us, saw the walkway disappearing around a curve and said, “Guys, maybe we ought to head back. What do you think?” They both immediately said, “Good idea!” When we got back to firm ground, we walked up the path we were using a little further and saw a sign which said, in at least 4 languages, “Do NOT under any circumstances use the walkway across the front of the glacier. It is UNSAFE!” Spent another couple of days hanging out with the Swedish guy, who invited us to visit him in Stockholm if we made it there. We did later, but that’s another story.
It's a gut punch when you realize that almost all of these places are gone or subsumed by American towns/cities.
Spent a week in northern New Mexico recently. Not surprised that some decent to good SF has been made there. It’s tempting to sell the house in Austin and move to Santa Fe. Not sure what to make of this map. Geopsychology: Your personality depends on where you live Research suggests there's truth to regional stereotypes in the U.S. — with some caveats. Regional variation for four of the Big Five personality traits. (Credit: Tobias Ebert et al., Perspect. Psychol. Sci., 2021)
