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i 'll be proud of them afterall my wife is a German and i'm proud she is a nairalander. But poszer wait a minute is it a taboo to be on @ NL?

@ TOPIC Source please.

It is not only childish, silly and and greediness will make someone do that.

madlady:
I must be having an off day, sorry @poster, I didn't think it was that funny.

The "mummy" seemed really bored hmmmm, I bet I can guess why.

Madlady pls i don't get you, pls tell us why you think she is bored.

smile4kenn:
erm, we all gonna appreciate his effort, but ₦100,000 is too small na, thats like $700.

So how much will like be good enough as a start up?

Times without number.

honeric01:
Maybe he thinks #100k can buy a house in Nigeria

So you wanted him to buy the winner a house. Appriciate his effort my friend at least he is doing something, and some of these guys will not be left behind if they put out a good performance

Bad parenting indeed. well the US top the list of the worst place to raise kids in 2007.

So this is what Naija romance look like thee days . though i find all entertaining.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A86uqiK9alU

2010 Quality of Life Index
----194 Countries Ranked and Rated to Reveal the Best Places to Live

By the Staff of International Living

Every January, we rank and rate 194 countries to come up with our list of the places that offer you the best quality of life. This isn't about best value, necessarily. It's about the places in the world where the living is, simply put, great.

To produce this annual Index we consider nine categories: Cost of Living, Culture and Leisure, Economy, Environment, Freedom, Health, Infrastructure, Safety and Risk, and Climate. This involves a lot of number crunching from "official" sources, including government websites, the World Health Organization, and The Economist, to name but a few. We also take into account what our editors from all over the world have to say about our findings.

Below are the countries that win our Top 5 in this year's Quality of Life Index and the final scores for each country in every category.

1. France
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2010-3-12 13:29


For the fifth year running, France takes first in our annual Quality of Life Index. No surprise. Its tiresome bureaucracy and high taxes are outweighed by an unsurpassable quality of life, including the world's best health care.

France always nets high scores in most categories. But you don't need number-crunchers to tell you its bon vivant lifestyle is special. Step off a plane and you'll experience it first-hand.

I always wish quality of life indicators could measure a country's heart and soul. But it's impossible to enumerate the joy of lingering for hours over dinner and a bottle of red wine in a Parisian brasserie. Or strolling beside the Seine on a spring morning, poking through the book vendors' wares. Or buying buttery croissants in bohemian Montmartre, hearing Notre Dame's bells, walking antique streets paved with poetry.

Romantic Paris offers the best of everything, but services don't fall away in Alsace's wine villages, in wild and lovely Corsica, in lavender-scented Provence. Or in the Languedoc of the troubadors, bathed in Mediterranean sunlight.

Provincial French properties are often keenly priced and lifestyles are less expensive than Paris. The Southwestern Midi-Pyrenees region is a particularly good hunting ground for village homes for less than $100,000—and classic three-course lunches for $14. Houses cascade with wisteria blossom; outdoor markets are everywhere. Foie gras, pink garlic, Armagnac, and crystallized violets aren't gourmet fare for locals. Rather, just another day's shopping.


2. Australia
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They don't call it the "Lucky Country" for nothing. Australia is famous for its large beaches and temperate climate. Across the continent, Aussies and those who've chosen to emigrate there have access to an active and healthy lifestyle. But urban dwellers will find plenty of great culture and excellent food in Sydney and Melbourne, and a cost of living below that of some of the world's other great cities.

Australia's economy has managed to weather the Global Financial Crisis better than any other Western country. For tourists and travelers, this means you'll be dealing with a strong Aussie dollar, making your visit there more expensive. But if you plan to stay, you'll find that few English-speaking countries with quality health care and good infrastructure will benefit as much as Australia from the economic booms in Asia and China.

The Australian economy is powered by agricultural, mineral, and energy exports that feed the voracious appetite of rapidly industrializing populations in Asia. Housing in Australia remains expensive by global standards. But there are plenty of jobs for skilled expats who can ride the Asian boom from the sandy, sunny, and safe beaches of the land Down Under.

3. Switzerland
sw.jpg (55.15 KB)

2010-3-12 13:29


For Harry Lime, in Graham Greene's story The Third Man, all the Swiss have to show for five centuries of peaceful neutrality is the cuckoo clock. The rest of Europe, meanwhile, stumped on through rivers of blood to create art, history, and civilization.

This is rubbish. Switzerland is an award-winning country because it turned all its natural disadvantages to its own advantage, ending up as a super-efficient, high-tech society while still managing to play Alpine inn-keeper to the world. Moreover the cuckoo clock comes from the Black Forest in Germany.



Lacking natural frontiers or a unifying religion, and divided by five different languages, it sensibly decided that internationalism was its calling, quickly adding English to the French, German (two kinds), Italian, and Romansch (like ancient Latin) its people already speak so that foreigners of every linguistic persuasion could feel at home. Altruism followed from this and Geneva became home to the United Nations and the Red Cross.

Landlocked, mountainous, and without natural resources (except cheese), Switzerland still needed more than tourism to provide a living. So it developed secretive banks, whose potential clientele is numberless and efficient engineering and pharmaceutical industries whose appeal similarly knows no borders.



Such achievements reinforce each other. Tourists gladly clamber into Alpine cable cars because they trust their Swiss steel cables and electric motors. Jump on a Swiss train and you know you will arrive on time. Swallow a Swiss pill and you know it won't poison you. Likewise, you know the bank will always be discreet and the hotel room spotless. You also know everyone will speak your language. The Swiss succeeded because they made everything work.


4. Germany
ger.jpg (63.32 KB)

2010-3-12 13:29


Some Americans (often ex-military) retire to Germany. One forum poster mentioned being thrilled that youth culture hasn't taken over. Techno-throb Berlin and numerous summer rock festivals refute that, but this is the land of Goethe and Beethoven. Theater, art, and classical music concerts aren't considered elitist.

Will your medical insurance fund a health spa stay? Probably not, but it happens here with a doctor's recommendation. Despite the global downturn, Germans have it pretty good. Along with 30 days paid annual holiday, the average employee earns €41,509 ($61,433).

In Germany, everything works and works well. Its houses are built to last, and their legendary autobahns are still mostly without speed limits. If you enjoy sports, even small towns have numerous facilities. Some odd ones too—the Harz Mountains now has a specialist hiking trail for nudists. From spas to parks to North Sea beaches, Germany is arguably the world's most naturist-friendly country.

Romantics adore its Christmas markets and fairytale towns of half-timbered houses. Some favorites are Quedlinburg and Wernigerode in Saxony, and the Black Forest spa town of Baden-Baden. The latter has a posh reputation, but you could buy a 55-sqaure-meter apartment for $160,000. Or rent for $673 monthly.


5. New Zealand
nz.jpg (29.32 KB)

2010-3-12 13:29


From Auckland's waterfront to the Southern Alps, English-speaking New Zealand boasts some of the most pristine landscapes on earth. Much of the Lord of the Rings movie trilogy was filmed here. For younger migrants with the right skills, it's a wonderful place to relocate and raise a family. There's huge emphasis on sports, beach-life, and healthy lifestyles.

New Zealand's immigration department sums up the attractions perfectly. "In many ways it's not what we have that's important to our quality of life—it's what we don't have. We don't have high crime rates, our police don't carry guns and instances of corruption are virtually unheard of. We don't have abject poverty or hunger and we don't have the pollution, congestion, health issues and cramped city living that we see elsewhere."

Unless you buy your way in as an investor, it's difficult for retirees to get permanent residency. But you could rent or purchase a home and live there part-time. Seasons are reversed, so it's possible to enjoy two summers a year. However, property prices are rebounding. Taken nationally, latest figures show the average home costs $274,881.

The other Six immediately following the Top 5 are, in the order of approval ratings, Luxembourg, United States, Belgium, Canada and Italy.

What do you think of Quality of Life Index in the country where you are living ?

2010 Quality of Life Index
----194 Countries Ranked and Rated to Reveal the Best Places to Live

By the Staff of International Living

Every January, we rank and rate 194 countries to come up with our list of the places that offer you the best quality of life. This isn't about best value, necessarily. It's about the places in the world where the living is, simply put, great.

To produce this annual Index we consider nine categories: Cost of Living, Culture and Leisure, Economy, Environment, Freedom, Health, Infrastructure, Safety and Risk, and Climate. This involves a lot of number crunching from "official" sources, including government websites, the World Health Organization, and The Economist, to name but a few. We also take into account what our editors from all over the world have to say about our findings.

Below are the countries that win our Top 5 in this year's Quality of Life Index and the final scores for each country in every category.

1. France
fr.jpg (21.5 KB)

2010-3-12 13:29


For the fifth year running, France takes first in our annual Quality of Life Index. No surprise. Its tiresome bureaucracy and high taxes are outweighed by an unsurpassable quality of life, including the world's best health care.

France always nets high scores in most categories. But you don't need number-crunchers to tell you its bon vivant lifestyle is special. Step off a plane and you'll experience it first-hand.

I always wish quality of life indicators could measure a country's heart and soul. But it's impossible to enumerate the joy of lingering for hours over dinner and a bottle of red wine in a Parisian brasserie. Or strolling beside the Seine on a spring morning, poking through the book vendors' wares. Or buying buttery croissants in bohemian Montmartre, hearing Notre Dame's bells, walking antique streets paved with poetry.

Romantic Paris offers the best of everything, but services don't fall away in Alsace's wine villages, in wild and lovely Corsica, in lavender-scented Provence. Or in the Languedoc of the troubadors, bathed in Mediterranean sunlight.

Provincial French properties are often keenly priced and lifestyles are less expensive than Paris. The Southwestern Midi-Pyrenees region is a particularly good hunting ground for village homes for less than $100,000—and classic three-course lunches for $14. Houses cascade with wisteria blossom; outdoor markets are everywhere. Foie gras, pink garlic, Armagnac, and crystallized violets aren't gourmet fare for locals. Rather, just another day's shopping.


2. Australia
au.jpg (36.66 KB)

2010-3-12 13:29



They don't call it the "Lucky Country" for nothing. Australia is famous for its large beaches and temperate climate. Across the continent, Aussies and those who've chosen to emigrate there have access to an active and healthy lifestyle. But urban dwellers will find plenty of great culture and excellent food in Sydney and Melbourne, and a cost of living below that of some of the world's other great cities.

Australia's economy has managed to weather the Global Financial Crisis better than any other Western country. For tourists and travelers, this means you'll be dealing with a strong Aussie dollar, making your visit there more expensive. But if you plan to stay, you'll find that few English-speaking countries with quality health care and good infrastructure will benefit as much as Australia from the economic booms in Asia and China.

The Australian economy is powered by agricultural, mineral, and energy exports that feed the voracious appetite of rapidly industrializing populations in Asia. Housing in Australia remains expensive by global standards. But there are plenty of jobs for skilled expats who can ride the Asian boom from the sandy, sunny, and safe beaches of the land Down Under.

3. Switzerland
sw.jpg (55.15 KB)

2010-3-12 13:29


For Harry Lime, in Graham Greene's story The Third Man, all the Swiss have to show for five centuries of peaceful neutrality is the cuckoo clock. The rest of Europe, meanwhile, stumped on through rivers of blood to create art, history, and civilization.

This is rubbish. Switzerland is an award-winning country because it turned all its natural disadvantages to its own advantage, ending up as a super-efficient, high-tech society while still managing to play Alpine inn-keeper to the world. Moreover the cuckoo clock comes from the Black Forest in Germany.



Lacking natural frontiers or a unifying religion, and divided by five different languages, it sensibly decided that internationalism was its calling, quickly adding English to the French, German (two kinds), Italian, and Romansch (like ancient Latin) its people already speak so that foreigners of every linguistic persuasion could feel at home. Altruism followed from this and Geneva became home to the United Nations and the Red Cross.

Landlocked, mountainous, and without natural resources (except cheese), Switzerland still needed more than tourism to provide a living. So it developed secretive banks, whose potential clientele is numberless and efficient engineering and pharmaceutical industries whose appeal similarly knows no borders.



Such achievements reinforce each other. Tourists gladly clamber into Alpine cable cars because they trust their Swiss steel cables and electric motors. Jump on a Swiss train and you know you will arrive on time. Swallow a Swiss pill and you know it won't poison you. Likewise, you know the bank will always be discreet and the hotel room spotless. You also know everyone will speak your language. The Swiss succeeded because they made everything work.


4. Germany
ger.jpg (63.32 KB)

2010-3-12 13:29


Some Americans (often ex-military) retire to Germany. One forum poster mentioned being thrilled that youth culture hasn't taken over. Techno-throb Berlin and numerous summer rock festivals refute that, but this is the land of Goethe and Beethoven. Theater, art, and classical music concerts aren't considered elitist.

Will your medical insurance fund a health spa stay? Probably not, but it happens here with a doctor's recommendation. Despite the global downturn, Germans have it pretty good. Along with 30 days paid annual holiday, the average employee earns €41,509 ($61,433).

In Germany, everything works and works well. Its houses are built to last, and their legendary autobahns are still mostly without speed limits. If you enjoy sports, even small towns have numerous facilities. Some odd ones too—the Harz Mountains now has a specialist hiking trail for nudists. From spas to parks to North Sea beaches, Germany is arguably the world's most naturist-friendly country.

Romantics adore its Christmas markets and fairytale towns of half-timbered houses. Some favorites are Quedlinburg and Wernigerode in Saxony, and the Black Forest spa town of Baden-Baden. The latter has a posh reputation, but you could buy a 55-sqaure-meter apartment for $160,000. Or rent for $673 monthly.


5. New Zealand
nz.jpg (29.32 KB)

2010-3-12 13:29


From Auckland's waterfront to the Southern Alps, English-speaking New Zealand boasts some of the most pristine landscapes on earth. Much of the Lord of the Rings movie trilogy was filmed here. For younger migrants with the right skills, it's a wonderful place to relocate and raise a family. There's huge emphasis on sports, beach-life, and healthy lifestyles.

New Zealand's immigration department sums up the attractions perfectly. "In many ways it's not what we have that's important to our quality of life—it's what we don't have. We don't have high crime rates, our police don't carry guns and instances of corruption are virtually unheard of. We don't have abject poverty or hunger and we don't have the pollution, congestion, health issues and cramped city living that we see elsewhere."

Unless you buy your way in as an investor, it's difficult for retirees to get permanent residency. But you could rent or purchase a home and live there part-time. Seasons are reversed, so it's possible to enjoy two summers a year. However, property prices are rebounding. Taken nationally, latest figures show the average home costs $274,881.

The other Six immediately following the Top 5 are, in the order of approval ratings, Luxembourg, United States, Belgium, Canada and Italy.

What do you think of Quality of Life Index in the country where you are living ?

saxywale:
wrong, Nneka is well known in Mainland Europe than the US.

Her last album stayed on the German top 10 charts for weeks.

Mama-gee.

Nneka.

[quote author=mama-gee link=topic=451442.msg6549308#msg6549308 date=1281462101][color=deeppink]^^Do you eat rats? [/color][/quote]Manage it. that's what women who can't cook but ask their fellow women for food gets.
lazy animal.

You are not only silly, you are also a hell candidate.

[quote author=mama-gee link=topic=493520.msg6543984#msg6543984 date=1281397383][color=deeppink]Who is being discriminatory over here?

I hope you feel a little important cause of the reply from me.

Now go back to wherever you popped out from or better still stick to posting pictures of an asian girl staring at nothing.[/color][/quote]Well, i'm not supposed to exchange words with a well know fool like you. keep your fake a-ss outta my sight, else i will report you, and u know the concequence. you are not even ashamed of yourself you 've beefed with almost every Nairalander. Charity begings from home. Hope you know.

[quote author=mama-gee link=topic=493520.msg6543984#msg6543984 date=1281397383][color=deeppink]Who is being discriminatory over here?

I hope you feel a little important cause of the reply from me.

Now go back to wherever you popped out from or better still stick to posting pictures of an asian girl staring at nothing.[/color]


[/quote


Well, i'm not supposed to exchange words with a well know fool like you. keep your fake a-ss outta my sight, else i will report you, and u know the concequence. you are not even ashamed of yourself you 've beefed with almost every Nairalander. Charity begings from home. Hope you know.[/quote]

[quote author=mama-gee link=topic=493520.msg6542952#msg6542952 date=1281384129][color=deeppink]What's so funny about that?

Do you have laughing gas in your system?[/color][/quote]I rather keep laughing than hating and discriminating against other ppl. hope i got an answer to your question.

[quote author=mama-gee link=topic=493520.msg6542952#msg6542952 date=1281384129][color=deeppink]What's so funny about that?

Do you have laughing gas in your system?[/color][/quote]My friend prove me wrong and answer that question now.

Pweety4me:
[color=#550077]your into love?since when did u start quoting about love?[/color]

lol.

medjai:
There's this Nas song i really love. 'Gangsta tears'. It was featured in the movie, 'Exit wounds'.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LDyFcoSMGJw

YES. but i don't like flying domestic flight during day time.

[quote author=mama-gee link=topic=493506.msg6542534#msg6542534 date=1281378855][color=deeppink]I'll just ignore you cause of my New Year's resolution and your tender age.

If it were back in the old days, you would have gotten a real whoopsie mouthful.[/color][/quote]I wonder why your name didn't made it in that silly ppl's list. Opp! i see you 've not been that active at the tribalism section.

[quote author=mama-gee link=topic=493506.msg6542534#msg6542534 date=1281378855][color=deeppink]I'll just ignore you cause of my New Year's resolution and your tender age.

If it were back in the old days, you would have gotten a real whoopsie mouthful.[/color][/quote]Another dumb a-ss talk. look at your new year resolution

[quote author=mama-gee link=topic=493506.msg6536839#msg6536839 date=1281298893][color=deeppink]They are known for their funy usernames obviously. . .

But seriously, Is this thread necessary?[/color][/quote]Dumbiest human being i 've ever come across. These guys are simply known for the silly hatered they are preaching.

As far as i'm concern there is nothing wrong with that pic, overweight ppl can also sometimes be very sexy, and i 've seen worse pics.