Saturday, November 17, 2007

Mödling - "the Happiest city in Europe!"

Mödling - how to sell my hometown as "the Happiest city in Europe!"

If I could show you a way to take your hometown up one notch on the happiness scale, would you be interested?
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having moved here from vienna, and had to reposition in my mind a transition from "Vienna-City of my Dreams!" I came up with "Wien ist anders, aber Mödling is besser", which after a while morphed into simply "Mödling - best city in the world" www.moedling.at

people challenge this , which is good, because if they think their home is better that is great ( not true, but great that they feel good ) In order to bring a measure objectivity into this, there is now a new and topical thought. Happiness. How happy is Mödling. How happy are other cities? Does it matter ( of course it does )

What do they need to become happier places? .well, here goes, on a scale of 1 to 10, how happy is your city? This could be measured by taking a sample of the average population and asking them how happy they are with their city on a scale of 1 to 10, and then asking what they would ike to see that would take happiness up a point on the scale. ( initial sample of course is a sample of one, - you ! ) .

original posting on xing here

3 comments:

ggamauf@gmail.com said...

maybe this blog developes into a collection of 'improvement requests' for 'our' city.
what would make me 'happier': a more responsive 'bürgerservice', an attidude of authorities, that they are here for the citizens (and not vice versa (in fact they are even paid by 'us'), 'stadtwächter' which regard themselves as 'outposts' of authorities and don't just 'execute', less negligent dog-owners (removing the excrements of their beloved).tmroi

nige said...

pooping, scooping and bürger-non-service !!!some feedback:-
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maybe this blog developes into a collection of 'improvement requests' for 'our' city.
what would make me 'happier':
a more responsive 'bürgerservice',
an attidude of authorities, that they are here for the citizens (and not vice versa (in fact they are even paid by 'us'),
'stadtwächter' which regard themselves as 'outposts' of authorities and don't just 'execute',
less negligent dog-owners (removing the excrements of their beloved).tmroi
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and some suggested actions:-
a meeting with burgerservice to discuss the perceptions of bürgers ( who/how/when?)
a poster campagin designed by children to encourage more pooper scooping, and more plastic bags for such ( who/how/when?)
nigel
https://www.xing.com/app/forum?op=showarticles;wsa=4110065.a85e55;id=6495987

ggamauf@gmail.com said...

'a meeting with bürgerservice ...' -> you ARE reaching high!