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I had just returned from #2 happiest Norway when Reagan was shot. I went to the Norwegian Consular Office to see what it would take to move to Norway and become a citizen of a country where leaders would never be shot. An overwhelming bunch of requirements. So I’m still here.

Since then, Norway has produced shoot-em-up lunatics too; 92 young people were killed by a maniac in 2011.
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/norway-massacre-as-92-die-terrified-143635

This didn’t impact their happiness?

Well, I’m not sure how this piece of news is going to affect Scandinavia ( and the Swedes in particular ):

http://frontpagemag.com/2013/bruce-bawer/the-coming-flood-of-syrian-refugees-to-sweden/

The Coming Flood of Syrian Refugees to Sweden

EXCERPT:

Sweden has taken in about 15,000 Syrian refugees since 2012, more than any other EU member state. About half of the Syrians who have sought asylum in Sweden so far this year have been granted permanent residency; the other half have been allowed to stay for three years, but will now be able to trade up to permanent status. All told, just under 8000 Syrians are now temporary Swedish residents and will be eligible to stay in Sweden for good.

Before this new policy was announced, the number of Syrians seeking asylum in Sweden was over 1000 a month. But now? The sky’s the limit. Think about it: Syria’s population is 22.5 million, of which about 5000 are fleeing the country every day. More than two million Syrians have fled their country since the civil war began, and there’s no sign of that number abating. As for Sweden, its population is 9.5 million, of which about 1.5 million are foreign-born and about 2.5 million have foreign backgrounds. Earlier this year, Swedish Migration Minister Tobias Billström called current immigration levels “unsustainable” – only to be quickly shut down by Integration Minister Erik Ullenhag, who assured all and sundry that Sweden had no plans to tighten its immigration rules.

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