Reuters: Iceland best place to live; U.S. slips in rankings

BRASILIA, Brazil - Iceland has overtaken Norway as the world's most desirable country to live in, according to an annual U.N. table published on Tuesday that again puts AIDS-afflicted sub-Saharan African states at the bottom.

Rich free-market countries dominate the top places, with Iceland, Norway, Australia, Canada and Ireland the first five but the United States slipping to 12th place from eighth last year in the U.N. Human Development Index.

The average high in Oslo, Norway is 50 degrees. The average high in Reykjavik, Iceland is 44. Guess the cold climates aren't necessarily deterrents for people moving there, as most of us assumed. And I visited Ireland in April 2006 - seems like a lifetime ago and it seems like yesterday. I didn't want to come back to the U.S.