Best Place In The World Also Loneliest

Dubbed by the Economist as having the best quality of life of anywhere in the world you wouldn’t expect Ireland, that lush green land of rolling hills and perpetual rain, to be the ‘loneliest’. Google Trends, the branch of Google that analyses search term statistics, have found that internetters in Ireland enter the word “lonely” into Google more than any other country in the world. Australia, New Zealand and Singapore also featured highly in the lonely charts, although somewhat strangely, Singaporeans also had the highest count of “happiness” searches.

The Irish government refused to comment, saying that publishing the results of the survey would only lead to an increase in masturbation, self-loathing and obesity. A Singaporean representative reported that the results made him feel both ‘detached’ but ‘happy’ at the same time.