How bad can it be?

 Rich guys *chose* the hellhole they're living in, Fires, floods and the plague.

I got lucky (so far) and the hail is small, the rain is huge but the rivers it makes are small and easily navigated.

That's a sheet of rain, not a dirty-glass window.

It's just, a *stark* contrast to what it usually is.

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Countries you've never heard of, couldn't find on a map, vs countries every history book talks about...
is too vast a subject and would be dry as dust.
O sure, Vlad the Impaler you might know, Archduke Ferdinand you know, but...
OK look at this present-day map.
Anything jump out at you?

I've got this fine-looking metric wrench from "Slovenia,"
And it piqued my interest for a couple minutes.

Fucket, "Finland" is easier to pronounce and has much happier people

Real estate salespeople from the propaganda ministry, or actually happy? IDK

(you can google Finland's "propaganda" about happiness, and get many hits, but the actual pages I've gone to have no such word)

Wading through the folderol, it seems maybe (I didn't read every word) that the answer lies in what you should answer on a survey, not what is actually true.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9814021/