Happily living in Manila

By Peter
July 13th, 2006 @ 5:52 PM News

Apparently despite the high poverty index, corruption and everything else you can find wrong in Third World countries, the Philippines is the 17th happiest country in the world .

Are you generally happy living in the Metro? How about the Philippines in general?

More Sources:
INQ7.net – RP, 17th happiest state worldwide, Vanuatu happiest–study

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10 Comments so far

  1. nina (unregistered) on July 13th, 2006 @ 6:26 pm

    This holds true for me. I love Manila, pollution and all :)


  2. Kyameel (unregistered) on July 13th, 2006 @ 8:51 pm

    I love this country, screwed up and all XP


  3. Anna (unregistered) on July 14th, 2006 @ 3:08 am

    That the Philippines is ranked 17th happiest state worldwide strongly bespeaks of the Filipinos’ resilience against hardship and all the screw-ups happening around them. Or at least that is what it says to me. I love the Philippines and I am proud to be a Filipino.


  4. kim (unregistered) on July 14th, 2006 @ 2:12 pm

    wish i was home. i mishu mse.


  5. urbanodelacruz (unregistered) on July 14th, 2006 @ 11:32 pm

    wish I was home too.

    for now, google earth will have to suffice.


  6. steven (unregistered) on July 17th, 2006 @ 5:31 am

    The only thing is that this index measurement is based on land size. So small countries and islands get hire index scores. I don’t believe it, as much as i want to.


  7. Lynn (unregistered) on July 18th, 2006 @ 12:46 am

    This was based on the Happy Planet index, which calculates not just people’s happiness level, but also how good our lives are according to how the environment and our natural resources are used to provide the supposed happy life. Personally, I sneeze at this ranking.


  8. twisted diva (unregistered) on July 28th, 2006 @ 9:29 pm

    I don’t care what the rest of the world says about Manila. I love it and will always call it home. Please keep posting photos of my city. thanks!


  9. pinoy (unregistered) on July 30th, 2006 @ 12:09 pm

    amazing!

    with all the poverty in manila that it’s a happy place .. unbelievable


  10. evren (unregistered) on August 2nd, 2006 @ 10:37 am

    did you mean happiest corrupt elected officials?
    KARMA is powerful.



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