It would be nice if you quoted a current article--Jan. 15, 2020, c'mon man, that is even pre-scamdemic. I found an article that spoke to the "happiest countries" but can't seem to find a current "best quality of life." The happiest article said Finland, Iceland, Denmark, Netherlands, Switzerland (top 5, as I recall) and Canada was like #7. The US was in the teens somewhere, I believe. I ran a thread on it yesterday.
Put Canada wherever it suits your agenda. Canada isn't the point for that link. You nailed it when you suggested that America is somewhere down in the teens.
Here's a newer link that's somewhat similar. I didn't count how far down America is but it seems to fall below the line for 'flawed democracies.
Canada has one of the world's strongest democracies, according to an annual ranking from the The Economist Intelligence Unit's Democracy Index for 2020.
dailyhive.com
Taking notice is showing your ability to rise above the usual denial. You're one of about two who have been able to make it that far.
Some of you Canucks have a problem with pointing fingers. You definitely have problems of your own. Trudeau being chief among them. There are posters on this board from Canada that can take up those issues better than I, but you live in a glass house--careful with those stones.
Stones really don't do much to igloos in a frozen tundra.
I'm on Vancouver Island and the weather is fine here today. Temperature is about 12C with blue skies.
The point is, most Americans have preconceptions that are wrong about my part of Canada.
And fk! The weather network shows flooding, snowfalls of over a meter, multiple car wrecks on freeways, and similar winter conditions in America that I've never experienced. Go figure!
I think the temperature here got as low as -6 here in the dead of winter, but I wouldn't bet on it.
Ask your mom or dad when your brain isn't so full, where the cold weather is hiding.
Would -40 be a stretch for N.Dakota?
Or how about -20 for Florida?
Let it go, let it go, the topic here is about the fkd up American way that's put the land of the gun up close to revolution, besides the threat of getting shot in public.