would you trade lives?
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a profession in one country

life as a software engineer in Romania

2 strangers working as software engineers in Romania have shared an anonymous fragment of their life. Average happiness 7.0 / 10, average stress 6.0 / 10. 54% of voters would trade lives with one of them; 29% would not.

fewer than 5 fragments — averages may not be representative.

averages across this group

2
lives
7.0/ 10
happiness
6.0/ 10
stress
6.6h/ night
sleep
20.5h/ week
free time
$4,388/ month
avg income

how strangers vote on these lives

would trade54%
would not trade29%
unsure17%

145 voices

how this group feels to strangers

  • meaningful13
  • stable12
  • inspiring6
  • depressing5
  • peaceful4
  • enviable3

two software engineers in Romania 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 software engineers in Romania, 145 strangers have answered. the result is narrowly yes — slightly more strangers would trade in than not: 54% would trade, 29% would not, 17% are unsure.

compared with software engineers worldwide, software engineers in Romania are happier by 0.4 points on the 1–10 scale.

compared with everyone else in Romania, software engineers in Romania are happier by 1.0 points on the 1–10 scale, more stressed by 0.3 points, and more envied by 5 percentage points in the trade-or-not vote.

how this compares

  • vs all software engineers globally
    happiness +0.4stress +0.1would-trade -3.0pp
  • vs all lives in Romania
    happiness +1.0stress +0.3would-trade +5.0pp

fragments