Australia Voted the World’s 3rd Most Friendliest Nation

According to Forbes magazine only Bahrain and Canada are happier nations than the people from the land Down Under:

Canada, which ranked first in a similar survey last year, fell to second place on HSBC’s integration score, which measures how easily foreigners and their families can settle into a new country. Australia, Thailand and Malaysia rounded out the top five. Foreign workers in these countries found it easy to make local friends and said they enjoyed a higher quality of life than in their native countries.  [Forbes]

I have actually been to a number of the countries in the Top 10 of this list and can vouch that places like Malaysia, Singapore, and Hong Kong are quite “happy” places to visit.  For those wondering the US was number 10 and unsurprisingly only one European nation, Spain made the list.

You can view the Top 10 here.