Life is good.

After a long discussion over beer and dinner tonight, I've given some thought as to the social condition. That being how to live your life in a society, and what model a society can hope to achieve. Being in Europe is quite nice, there are a lot of liberties. However, for what you get, there are many things that you have to give up as well. For an easy life in some respects (vacations, good food, efficient transportation) you give up the ease of doing things fast. I don't think that a perfect society exists, there is always a tradeoff. But how do you value these things? I mean, I'm enjoying everything here, but I'm frustrated to no end by how I can't do things the way I can in Canada. Is one frustration better than another? How do I judge? There certainly is no empirical test. If it comes down to which is the better quality of life, then the question keeps asking, how can you determine said quality?

Maybe some more statistics must be done.