When people say Norwegians are happy, it doesn't mean we are all walking around smiling all the time. Happiness in Norway is ...

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But a persistent gloominess pervades - a sense of discontent that prompts one to wonder just what it is that people need to be happy. Norway is, after all, officially the best place in the world ...