France has the best quality of life out of Europe's biggest countries, while Britain has the worst despite having the highest incomes, a study says.
I've no idea how rigorous this study is, but it contrasts with years of hearing British politicians subjecting their continental counterparts to tedious lectures on how they need to modernise, deregulate and become more like Britain. Maybe the British way of doing things wasn't that impressive after all - perhaps all we've been doing is running furiously round like hamsters in a wheel just to stay in the same place - so much for Anglo-Saxon "efficiency":
It revealed that Britain had the highest net household income ... but much of this is spent on a higher cost of living.
And of course, those high incomes are taking a battering:
The report warned that Britain's quality of life was likely to fall further because of the recession, which has pushed unemployment to nearly 2.5 million and will likely result in public spending cuts.
Read more here (originally spotted by The Null Device).
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