Why Denmark Is a Happy Place

I just had the pleasure of meeting four people from Denmark, all about my own age, who are taking two of their six weeks paid vacation touring the U.S.

I asked them about their country’s status re: the World Happiness Rankings (consistently in the top five), and they commented that, in exchange for slightly higher taxes than we pay here, they get free healthcare, they are paid to go to college, and have very little homelessness and other forms of poverty.  They’re also quite proud of their transition to renewable energy and electric transportation.

“Wouldn’t that make you happy?” one of them asked me with a grin.