Living in a country like Sweden or other countries at the top of United Nations World Happiness Report offers it’s citizens many advantages and benefits that only highly developed democracies can and the reason for their high ranking in the report.
Some of the benefits of living in Sweden are :
Highly subsidized fees in preschools with high quality
Free schools, both public and private
Free universities with education of high international quality
Free healthcare of high quality and accessibility
Public transport of high quality and reliability
High levels of public safety
Strong export based economy
Low unemployment levels
Low crime rate
Low corruption rate
Well functioning public sector
Public services of high quality
A society will low level of bureaucracy
A society that really care about social sustainable development
Clean and well organized cities
High level of financial equality between citizens
High level of equality between genders
Possible to live close to both the city and the nature
Well educated people
Easy and cheap to travel to the rest of Europe
Low inflation
Stable political system
Strong democracy with independent institutions
Neutral country, more than 200 years of peace without armed conflict
Independent legal system based on the rule of law
Member in the European Union since 1995 with free travel access to all other countries in the European Union