Imagine how's saturday nights in Oslo.... they can keep it!

Norway is a beautiful country and not boring at all. You find boring places everywhere. I have been traveling a lot, and every time i come back to my country i think i must be lucky to live in this peaceful and rich country as Norway. I love my country Norway.

As countries go, South Africa has the climate, the almost indescribable beauty, the diversity of Fauna and flora and the infrastructure to be the most desirable place to live on this planet. However, It has fallen under the control of people who have, in the whole history of mankind, never produced anything of any value to the world when it comes to technological development of any nature. They are not city-builders or transport or infrastructure builders or maintainers of anything that requires a strict sense of caring, responsibility, or punctuality in whatever they are supposed to be truly dedicated to. They are also pathetic when it comes to the type of agriculture required to feed the nation, and are extremely addicted to wanting, in fact, demanding all the luxuries in life that they are totally incapable of producing themselves. Their lazy, African-inherited come day go day God send Sunday attitude to life means, simply, tomorrow is another day, "Let us eat, drink and make merry as long as the sun keeps shining in our Sunny South Africa. And when the money runs out, we'll just keep increasing the taxes and the economic cover-ups. Economic empowerment of the masses of any form seems to be tolerated, so corruption and serious crime is rampant because of the pathetic attitude and ability and drive to actually get off their thrones and to do something really meaningful about it. The real, truly qualified and enthusiastic people who can and will get the task of getting things back into shape done, are not represented in the governing body; so things, quite frankly, look pretty damned bleak; and the soccer world cup is not going to contribute to getting the failing system back to where it was in the wonderful, good-old-days. The whole South African Nation needs to catch a serious, rapid and honest wake up to the truth or we will very soon be at the bottom of the list of desirable countries to live in on this planet. Only the acceptance of and responding to the truth and what it requires of all of us to do will save our country and set us free indeed. We cannot keep pretending that everything is just fine, because it is definitely not, and time is running out fast. Let us all put our shoulders to the wheels and get our wagons out of the drifts, because the storm waters are on the way. I have written this comment in truth, because, in truth, I love this country and all its people and would want for all of them to prosper in truth.

... and they want you to believe that because it's a best place to be then there is no death. I still mantain that compare countries at your own stupidity.

@Jason - spot on, couldn't agree more!

JASON SWITZERLAND IS VERY CENTRAL IN ONE HOURE DRIVE YOU ARE IN GERMANY FRANCE ITALY OR AUSTRIA NO CRIME AND IT'S SAFE , THE FOOD IS GREAT,YOU HAVE THE MOUNTAIN AND THE SEA.AND THE UNEMPLOYMENT IS LOW,AND SO MANY CLUBS,NOT LIKE MOZAMBIQUE WHERE YOU JUST FIND ONE CLUB COCONUT. PLEASE WHAT ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT,THATS WHY THE ON TOP OF THE LIST.

Such drivel is published by people who have nothing to do except compare countries and judge them. How can you compare Afghanistan, DRC, Ethopia to Norway, Scotland and France? Only crazy people do that.

140 Cities - Harare got last place at 140. see econimist.com

I have often been to Norway (and Switzerland) and they are the two dullest, most boring places i can imagine. Give me a place like Mozambique instead anyday. I would rather die of malaria than boredom

@cmw: Apparently, they cover 166 counties. For a full list search "undp.org". Judging from the list we really didn't do well...