#020 A Good Country

I want to start this episode by asking a simple question. If you were told you had to live in a different country from now until the rest of your life, where would it be? Where would you go? That said, how would you go about choosing a new country? What criteria would you use? How would you go about giving each country a “report card” so to speak? How would you rate each country? And furthermore, what are the factors and characteristics of the country of your choice that would be the tipping point of your decision? 

But you see, when you think of a good country, do you think about great educational opportunities for your children, a secure and stable government or do you really think about a world class golf course. What you should be thinking about is things such as personal freedom, cost of living, health care, education, work and business, happiness, quality of life, safety and security, as well as environment and climate of course. 

Do you think of the everyday amenities that are so easily available to us in the United States or do you have the desire to live in a socially, economically, and politically stable country. Because it is these things that would make your new life abroad much easier and more enjoyable. 

Simon Anholt has spent years putting together the Good Country Index, which can be found at goodcountry.org. What I discovered in my research is that there seems to be a direct correlation between high rankings in the Good Country Index and countries that focus on sustainability.  

Listen to this episode and find out some very interesting facts as well as something you can do to to improve yourself no matter what else is going on in the world.  

Always live sustainably because this is how we build a better future. 

Patrick