HAPPIEST COUNTRIES 2023-GDP per capita, social support, healthy life expectancy, freedom to make life choices, generosity and freedom from corruption!

@bookerdana Ahead of the UK! Must be the coffee 😏

@helenS The Colombians make it for us 😬

@helenS There are so many other reasons why the UK is so low. It's hard to know where to start.

@MrAverage1965 When I spent some weeks in the UK (Wales, actually) in 2015, people looked quite happy. And the beer pubs were [u]excellent[/u].

@helenS Some parts of the UK are happier than others and you are right there are many excellent pubs but sadly the number of pubs are reducing by the day. Many are unable to make enough money you be viable. I fear once gone we will never get them back.

@MrAverage1965 Maybe younger people have found other ways of socialising? They don't meet at the local pub, they meet elsewhere.

@helenS The supermarkets and selling beer much cheaper than most pubs, often half the price. The pubs are not selling enough beer as a result so have to make most of their money from food resulting in high energy consumption and since the war in Ukraine many have seen the cost of energy triple, even quadruple. Whilst the energy companies make record profits.