{"id":184935,"date":"2010-01-15T16:23:46","date_gmt":"2010-01-15T21:23:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.skyscrapercity.com\/showthread.php?t=1045995"},"modified":"2010-01-15T16:23:46","modified_gmt":"2010-01-15T21:23:46","slug":"quality-of-life-index2010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/184935","title":{"rendered":"Quality Of Life Index,2010"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>We could have done much better  <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www1.internationalliving.com\/qofl2010\/\" >http:\/\/www1.internationalliving.com\/qofl2010\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Fresh from the press: we score a measly 54% on the 2010 Quality of Life Index. Together with another ten countries, among which Russia, Belarus. Zambia and Swaziland. There are 110 countries in the world where life is apparently more pleasant.<\/p>\n<p>Lebanon<br \/>\nCost of living 68%<br \/>\nLeisure &amp; Culture 56%<br \/>\nEconomy 50%<br \/>\nEnvironment 65%<br \/>\nFreedom 42%<br \/>\nHealth 85%<br \/>\nInfrastructure 36%<br \/>\nRisk &amp; Safety 21%<br \/>\nClimate 61%<br \/>\nFinal Score 54%<br \/>\nThe only reason why we do not feature any higher than that is because of the \u0091Risk &amp; Safety\u0092 situation. We\u0092re at the bottom of the list there. Apparently we score only better than Yemen, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Iraq, Iran and Sierra Leone. Ouch.<\/p>\n<p>This is how they calculate our \u0091Risk &amp; Safety\u0092 factor:<br \/>\n&#8216;Safety and Risk (10%). For this category, we use the U.S. Department of State\u0092s hardship differentials and danger allowances, which are based on extraordinarily difficult, notably unhealthy, or dangerous living conditions&#8217; <\/p>\n<p>&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;-<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sietske-in-beiroet.blogspot.com\/\" >http:\/\/sietske-in-beiroet.blogspot.com\/<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We could have done much better http:\/\/www1.internationalliving.com\/qofl2010\/ Fresh from the press: we score a measly 54% on the 2010 Quality of Life Index. Together with another ten countries, among which Russia, Belarus. Zambia and Swaziland. There are 110 countries in the world where life is apparently more pleasant. Lebanon Cost of living 68% Leisure &amp; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1366,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-184935","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184935","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1366"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=184935"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184935\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}