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Our latest post feels appropriately wintery. In it, @melyoung53.bsky.social & @alexscm.bsky.social discuss the Nordic countries, who consistently top the global happiness charts, despite long, dark winters. What can the rest of us learn from them? youngandyounger.substack.com/p/how-the-no...
How the Nordics are doing it right
The Nordic countries often rank as the happiest in the world, despite long, dark winters. What are they doing that the rest of us could learn from?
youngandyounger.substack.com
February 1, 2026 at 9:24 PM
Our latest post feels appropriately wintery. In it, @melyoung53.bsky.social & @alexscm.bsky.social discuss the Nordic countries, who consistently top the global happiness charts, despite long, dark winters. What can the rest of us learn from them? youngandyounger.substack.com/p/how-the-no...
The third & final part of our 'perfect town' series explores the ideal size of our town, and how to ensure the people who live there are happy and safe. @melyoung53.bsky.social youngandyounger.substack.com/p/our-perfec...
Our perfect town: population, policing and happiness
Mel and Alex continue to explore the idea of their perfect down, this time exploring the ideal population size, and how to ensure residents are happy and safe
youngandyounger.substack.com
February 1, 2026 at 9:20 PM
The third & final part of our 'perfect town' series explores the ideal size of our town, and how to ensure the people who live there are happy and safe. @melyoung53.bsky.social youngandyounger.substack.com/p/our-perfec...
The younger half of 'Young & Younger' has been shamefully slack about sharing our Substack posts- apologies @melyoung53.bsky.social! Part 2 of our 'perfect town' series is putting structures in place to make it governable and democratic youngandyounger.substack.com/p/our-perfec...
Our perfect town: respect, democracy and having your voice heard
Mel and Alex's utopian town is all very well, but if it were to exist in the real world, what structures would need to be put in place to make it governable and reflective of its residents needs?
youngandyounger.substack.com
February 1, 2026 at 9:18 PM
The younger half of 'Young & Younger' has been shamefully slack about sharing our Substack posts- apologies @melyoung53.bsky.social! Part 2 of our 'perfect town' series is putting structures in place to make it governable and democratic youngandyounger.substack.com/p/our-perfec...
We're Young (@melyoung53.bsky.social) & Younger (@alexscm.bsky.social) - 2 friends from 2 generations who write about anything that interests us! You can find our 'blog chats' on Substack; first up for 2026 is the first in our mini-series about our perfect town: substack.com/home/post/p-...
Our perfect town
The world feels like a difficult place at the moment - so Mel and Alex spent some time musing on what their perfect town would be like - and it raised some interesting discussion!
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January 7, 2026 at 4:29 PM
We're Young (@melyoung53.bsky.social) & Younger (@alexscm.bsky.social) - 2 friends from 2 generations who write about anything that interests us! You can find our 'blog chats' on Substack; first up for 2026 is the first in our mini-series about our perfect town: substack.com/home/post/p-...