would you trade lives?
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a profession in one country

life as a retired in Portugal

1 stranger working as retired in Portugal have shared an anonymous fragment of their life. Average happiness 8.0 / 10, average stress 4.0 / 10. 70% of voters would trade lives with one of them; 14% would not.

fewer than 5 fragments — averages may not be representative.

averages across this group

1
lives
8.0/ 10
happiness
4.0/ 10
stress
8.8h/ night
sleep
50h/ week
free time
$703/ month
avg income

how strangers vote on these lives

would trade70%
would not trade14%
unsure16%

91 voices

how this group feels to strangers

  • peaceful9
  • enviable6
  • inspiring5
  • meaningful5
  • stable4
  • exhausting2

one retired in Portugal has 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 Portugal, 91 strangers have answered. the result is decisively yes — most strangers say they would take this kind of life: 70% would trade, 14% would not, 16% are unsure.

compared with retireds worldwide, retireds in Portugal are happier by 0.5 points on the 1–10 scale, more stressed by 1.3 points, and less envied by 6 percentage points in the trade-or-not vote.

compared with everyone else in Portugal, retireds in Portugal are happier by 1.3 points on the 1–10 scale, less stressed by 1.7 points, and more envied by 8 percentage points in the trade-or-not vote.

how this compares

  • vs all retireds globally
    happiness +0.5stress +1.3would-trade -6.0pp
  • vs all lives in Portugal
    happiness +1.3stress -1.7would-trade +8.0pp

fragments