Suicide rates are actually not that high comparably. Amd Finland topped the world’s happiness ranking. And people have almost too many activities these days in Scandinavian/Nordic countries, especially kids.
I’m convinced that the only reason Finland is topping the happiness rankings are because they answer the question “Are you happy?” with “Sure, it could always be worse!“.
Yeah, they have a laconic and relaxed view resulting in viewer highs and lows.
If you dive deeper in those happiness rankings other, poorer countries residents often rank higher in “having had happy moments in the last two weeks”, while Finland is much higher in “being relatively content and happy with own achievements and way of life”
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u/nihir82 2d ago
History of sitting in a log cabin for 4-5 months straight during the winter does that to a people