Any hope for this world

I would struggle to name one country on this planet where things are going really well now.

I would struggle to name any of the cities where I have lived (leaving my current base of Frankfurt out of the equation entirely), where it would be really good to be living at the moment.

There are times when I miss Amsterdam (it was constantly on my mind last night) and Paris .... and maybe Köln. For the rest, no, absolutely not. I would not return to England (Grimsby, Manchester - what have either of them to offer now?), or Milwaukee or Brussels or Toulouse or München.

Where is there anywhere that can offer me a lifestyle, a decent standard of living, the chance to keep my head above water?

The global economy has created this Chinese monster where massive numbers of jobs have gone as cheap labour (hardly raising the standard of living except the usual 7% at the top), and taken the decent standard of living that people had elsewhere with it.

Now if you are not into speculation and debt - forget it. The world gets more and more and more overpopulated, and poverty is coming back in a big way, even to the developed world.

The new powers of the world economy have all adopted this reward the rich, damn the rest approach. Hard work will not resolve this - cheap is the ethos of the time, not industry.