would you trade lives?
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life as a retired in Spain

1 stranger working as retired in Spain have shared an anonymous fragment of their life. Average happiness 7.0 / 10, average stress 4.0 / 10. 69% of voters would trade lives with one of them; 19% would not.

fewer than 5 fragments — averages may not be representative.

averages across this group

1
lives
7.0/ 10
happiness
4.0/ 10
stress
8.3h/ night
sleep
56h/ week
free time
$1,406/ month
avg income

how strangers vote on these lives

would trade69%
would not trade19%
unsure12%

89 voices

how this group feels to strangers

  • meaningful5
  • peaceful5
  • enviable4
  • stable4
  • inspiring3
  • exhausting2

one retired in Spain 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 Spain, 89 strangers have answered. the result is decisively yes — most strangers say they would take this kind of life: 69% would trade, 19% would not, 12% are unsure.

compared with retireds worldwide, retireds in Spain are less happy by 0.5 points on the 1–10 scale, more stressed by 1.3 points, and less envied by 7 percentage points in the trade-or-not vote.

compared with everyone else in Spain, retireds in Spain are happier by 0.4 points on the 1–10 scale, less stressed by 1.7 points, and more envied by 17 percentage points in the trade-or-not vote.

how this compares

  • vs all retireds globally
    happiness -0.5stress +1.3would-trade -7.0pp
  • vs all lives in Spain
    happiness +0.4stress -1.7would-trade +17.0pp

fragments