Best Countries for Quality of Life in 2011

Gullfoss Waterfall, Iceland

An organization called Nation Ranking recently released its 2011 Quality of Life Index. One hundred thirty-seven countries were ranked according to: “a nation’s livability for its average inhabitant. It is a composite of six sub-indexes, each describing one of the elements which objectively influence the quality of life: health, education, wealth, democracy, peace and environment.” [...]

Are You Running Toward. . . or Running Away?

running away

Recently it seems as though I’ve been stumbling across all sorts of reasons to expatriate — or not — from all sorts of different sources. All the reasons, though, fall into one of two categories: running away from something running toward something In general, the coaches I’ve been in touch with agree that your move [...]

Americans, I Have Some Bad News for You

US flag, all worn out

On June 10, EFAM published an article titled America — the Grim Truth. And grim it was indeed! “Americans, I have some bad news for you,” the article starts. “You have the worst quality of life in the developed world – by a wide margin. “If you had any idea of how people really lived [...]