Quality of life

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I was half listening to a radio 5 programme on my way home last night and they were talking about quality of life and how the traditional measure (GDP of the country you live in) is obsolete and it should be measured by various factors such as medical care, women's rights etc Indeed in this case Sri Lanka fair tears up the list due to it's excellent health programme.

Anyway, how do you measure your own quality of life?

― chris, Thursday, 14 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

emotionally. but then, admittedly, this is because i am financially secure and have an unstressful job

― gareth, Thursday, 14 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Given that homosexuality is illegal in Sri Lanka and they have the death penalty for drug possession I am not sure how great their quality of life is.

Iceland is supposed to be pretty good too I believe.

― Emma, Thursday, 14 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

The JEL Quality of Life Index (not proven by science) 1) Do I have any good music to listen to?

2) Am I bored at work?

3) Do I have enough projects on the go?

4) Is there anything that I want to avoid?

5) Am I bored in general?

If the answers are YES, NO, YES, NO, NO...then I think I'm doing well.

― jel --, Thursday, 14 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Indeed Emma, that was the point of the discussion from what I could make out last night, the whole idea revolves around exactly which concepts it should be based upon, in the end it's a very personal thing isn't it?

― chris, Thursday, 14 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

at the moment my quality of life is dependent on whether my boss is talking to me and how much my back aches. she isn't at the moment and my back is bad-ish, but nowhere near as bad as yesterday. so pretty peachy at the mo all fings considered.

― katie, Thursday, 14 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

We had this argument at my last job - [large multinational] wanted to create a quality-of-life index so it could segment its customers worldwide based on their average q-o-l and market to them accordingly. Of course being [large multinational] and in the business of making expensive consumer goods, its idea of q-o-l was based entirely on how many gadgets you had. My non-TV-owning put me way down the league table and I protested that my q-o-l was very high thankyou but [large multinational] was having none of it. The measure didn't correlate or make any sense anyway ha ha.

― Tom, Thursday, 14 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Why don't you just face up to the fact that your life is shit, Tom?

― N., Thursday, 14 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I just try to have fun, make people laugh and feel good, feed my sensory addictions without exploiting TOO many people, and I don't care if I look stupid when I do it......in the ladies dept., I will admit it's a little grim.....just this week I've broke off with a pregnant white-trashy girl and a korean sex worker and been shameless enough to tell everyone about it.....educationally I'm screwed but I get by financially......look, as long as everyone I know is tripping out on my monkey ass and vice versa, c'est tout gravy....fuck all yall snugglebunnies I love ya hun

― Ramosi, Thursday, 14 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

i like jel's QOL index. it works for me.

― di, Thursday, 14 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

While money, career opportunities and the like are all contributing factors to my quality of life I think the main thing is my relationships with friends and family. If they aren't going well then everything else starts to fall in a heap.

― Penny Lane, Thursday, 14 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Am I a Best Princess? Yes I am!

― ducklingmonster, Thursday, 14 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

six years pass...

britain isn't doing so well
http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5hOkilmMchdEPvFKHpVpDo0we33pA

obligatory momus ref
http://imomus.livejournal.com/387328.html

― czn, Friday, 18 July 2008 08:34 (seventeen years ago)

don't think there's much to argue with in the first half of momus' post

― czn, Friday, 18 July 2008 08:36 (seventeen years ago)

The link doesn't work on that house for sale.

― Mark G, Friday, 18 July 2008 08:42 (seventeen years ago)

Funny, now Ireland is bottom of the quality of life table, when I think there was a survey posted on ILX last month which put it at the top (though I found several things about it rather dubious at the time, e.g. there was a "community spirit" factor where they asked people, say, not "are you friendly with your neighbours, know a regular place you can go to find company, think that someone would look out for you if you collapsed in the street" or anything like that but "do you attend church regularly y/n").

(British national net income is over 35k? Really? Is that per household?)

― a passing spacecadet, Friday, 18 July 2008 11:21 (seventeen years ago)

...Ah yes, Momus article says it is. Sorry, the first article didn't seem to. Still seems a bit higher than I expected given that the average number of wage-earners in a household is probably below 2 (or is it?).

Don't disagree with anything he says, though his glee at finding new confirmation that Britain is rubbish and (Tokyo/Berlin/wherever) is a wonderland of joy and openmindedness can grow a little wearing, but probably only because it seems depressingly plausible.

― a passing spacecadet, Friday, 18 July 2008 11:31 (seventeen years ago)

ireland- "did you buy a house in the past 10 years, and not sell it before last year"- QOL = bottom of table.

― darraghmac, Friday, 18 July 2008 11:37 (seventeen years ago)

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