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  1. Beating Afghanistan! Woo! (I guess)

    .. A country which we helped be miserable by committing war crimes in the last forever war we went into before handing it all back to the terrible terrible religious fundamentalists that run it again.

  2. I don’t trust any graph that places America above Australia. Just because I don’t think glee from the insane crimes trump is doing doesn’t mean I’m more miserable.

  3. A lifetime of work to buy a house 1/5th if the size we grew up in.

    Ok

    Can’t drink
    Can’t smoke
    Can’t afford it
    Can’t go out
    Can’t enjoy the moment
    Just be pure and employed or you will suffer

  4. USA being happy in 2025 says how accurate the report is. πŸ‘πŸΌπŸ‘πŸΌπŸ‘πŸΌ

  5. idiotshmidiot on

    Wtf is this graph lol

    ChinaΒ  πŸ˜€
    Finland πŸ™‚
    USA and Australia 😐
    Afghanistan D:

  6. WontThinkStraight on

    The start of the decline can be traced back to Sunnyboys being discontinued in 2016.

  7. I’ve grown up in Sydney with a close knit family.

    It’s unlikely I’ll be able to buy a house here, and will need to move elsewhere. My parents won’t be present in my kids lives the way my grandparents were.

    Why wouldn’t that make me sad?

  8. DevinChristien on

    People are totally misreading this chart… its a *change* in happiness. U.S isnt “above” Australia

  9. Extreme-Seaweed-5427 on

    arh yes, let’s make housing so expensive people need to have high paying jobs, work endlessly for next 30 years, homelessness, expensive rent, expensive insurance, real wages being eroded, fuel problems, can’t get off watching porn, can’t criticize rivers or seas, health becoming more inaccessible…… What’s worth living for πŸ–•

  10. Can’t afford a house

    Can’t afford a beer

    Can’t afford a holiday

    Can’t afford kids

    Can’t ban gambling ads

    Can’t tax gas companies

    Can’t have a Voice

    Can’t hold a hose

    Can’t legalise it

    Can’t have a wank

    Can’t support our vets

    Can’t afford to retire

    Edit: Can’t afford insurance

    Can’t find a job

    Can’t have privacy

  11. The comments here show the sad level of graph literacy…… it doesnt even have a unit for the y axis…. I am going to assume its percentage of change. A 1 % dropnis negligable over that time period. In any case, this comparison is near useless data without understanding the baseline.

  12. Frosty-Bandicoot-178 on

    It’s no surprise.

    Renters are forced to live in appalling conditions with no security.

    Home owners are forced to take out mortgages that are 10x their annual income.

    It is the story of the frog in boiling water. The frog is suddenly realising that making property an investment has ill effects in all other areas.

    It’s a pity the media fails to recognise that the increased cost of groceries, fuel, insurance and everything pales in comparison to the extra years needed to pay back a mortgage.

    As a country, we’ve voted to steal from all future generations to keep the property investors and owners happy.

  13. Ocassional_templar on

    The report this is from also ranks Australia no.11 in the world. The headline is loaded and the graph is easy to misinterpret.

    11th happiest country in the world. Not what this graph portrays, maybe somewhat deliberately.

  14. ImAlwaysRightK on

    I mean I’m still living with my parents when my parents had already paid off their first house by my age

  15. Cost of housing, cost of living, cost of our politicians not giving a fuck about us punters……

  16. With over a decade of the former Liberal Government , this really isn’t surprising at all, we are still feeling the consequences of that truly awful era

  17. This graph is shit. I have no idea what data is being portrayed or what the y axis measures.

  18. PumpinSmashkins on

    When cheese is $10 a block and fuel is $2.9 a litre and your rent is going up again. Can’t afford a pint at the pub after work. Dental bills are in the hundreds. Clothes are shit quality for the cost and need replacing. Can’t afford a lot of hobbies or sports anymore.Β 

    Drive home and see people carting along a caravan worth a house deposit.Β 

    HECS fees hanging around for decades.Β 

    Dating scene is shit so you either live in a share house like you did when you were 22 or bend over.Β 

    Miserable is a state of mind.Β