re: Why do people in Nordic countries consistently rank as the happiest and what can we learn?

Norwegians emphasize education and child welfare beginning at 1 year old through high school, trade school and college. All tuition free. They obviously have the wealth and impose taxes to do so with a poverty rate of less than 1%.

I’ve never met a neurotic Norwegian or Dane, Swede or Dutch person. Children from a young age are raised well but not babied or subjected to helicopter parenting. They become self reliant.

Duplicating that in the U.S is unfortunately not remotely possible.