Japan is better than Canada....

...　worse than the US, and noone beats Norway.　　That's right, the U.N. Development Program standard of living survey was released this week.

Japan returned to the Top 10 best countries to live in, moving up 6 spots from # 11 in 2005, while Norway (my other home-away-from-home) was # 1 for the 6th year in a row. While this might be true, Oslo and Tokyo, two notorious cities in Norway and Japan, generally end up in first and second place for the 'world's most expensive city.'

I guess you get what you pay for ;)

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