would you trade lives?
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a profession in one country

life as a writer in Italy

1 stranger working as writer in Italy have shared an anonymous fragment of their life. Average happiness 7.0 / 10, average stress 5.0 / 10. 50% of voters would trade lives with one of them; 35% would not.

fewer than 5 fragments — averages may not be representative.

averages across this group

1
lives
7.0/ 10
happiness
5.0/ 10
stress
9h/ night
sleep
33h/ week
free time
$1,757/ month
avg income

how strangers vote on these lives

would trade50%
would not trade35%
unsure15%

55 voices

how this group feels to strangers

  • exhausting5
  • lonely4
  • inspiring3
  • stable3
  • chaotic2
  • meaningful2

one writer in Italy 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 writers in Italy, 55 strangers have answered. the result is narrowly yes — slightly more strangers would trade in than not: 50% would trade, 35% would not, 15% are unsure.

compared with writers worldwide, writers in Italy are happier by 0.8 points on the 1–10 scale and less envied by 8 percentage points in the trade-or-not vote.

compared with everyone else in Italy, writers in Italy are less stressed by 0.8 points and less envied by 9 percentage points in the trade-or-not vote.

how this compares

  • vs all writers globally
    happiness +0.8stress +0.3would-trade -8.0pp
  • vs all lives in Italy
    happiness +0.2stress -0.8would-trade -9.0pp

fragments