would you trade lives?
anonymous · text only · no accounts

a profession in one country

life as a retired in Norway

2 strangers working as retireds in Norway have shared an anonymous fragment of their life. Average happiness 7.0 / 10, average stress 1.5 / 10. 77% of voters would trade lives with one of them; 6% would not.

fewer than 5 fragments — averages may not be representative.

averages across this group

2
lives
7.0/ 10
happiness
1.5/ 10
stress
8.2h/ night
sleep
78h/ week
free time
$2,072/ month
avg income

how strangers vote on these lives

would trade77%
would not trade6%
unsure17%

188 voices

how this group feels to strangers

  • stable20
  • enviable15
  • peaceful13
  • meaningful12
  • inspiring9
  • depressing2

two retireds in Norway have shared an anonymous fragment of their life. the sample is small — read the numbers below as suggestive, not definitive.

asked whether they would trade lives with retireds in Norway, 188 strangers have answered. the result is decisively yes — most strangers say they would take this kind of life: 77% would trade, 6% would not, 17% are unsure.

compared with retireds worldwide, retireds in Norway are less happy by 0.5 points on the 1–10 scale and less stressed by 1.2 points.

compared with everyone else in Norway, retireds in Norway are happier by 0.6 points on the 1–10 scale, less stressed by 1.7 points, and more envied by 6 percentage points in the trade-or-not vote.

how this compares

  • vs all retireds globally
    happiness -0.5stress -1.2would-trade +1.0pp
  • vs all lives in Norway
    happiness +0.6stress -1.7would-trade +6.0pp

fragments