Are you happy in Madagascar?

Madagascar rates 148 on the UN World Happiness Survey.  For me I would rate Madagascar as number one on Happiness, which is why I choose to live here for 15 years.  If I need to travel back to the USA, I feel like a stranger in my own country and always happy to come back home in Madagascar. 
I found Madagascar in 2002 after crisscrossing the globe for 20 years.  I came here as a traveler with no preconceived ideas meaning not as a missionary or NGO worker and being schooled as to what to expect.

For an expat, it is inexpensive to live here. I enjoy a great sense of freedom and independence.  There is not much government interference in daily life.  I view governments as parents for adults and first world countries have an over abundance of rules and regulations for it citizens.  Happiness for me comes in the form of a stress free lifestyle, wonderful tasty food, not seeing fast food places, shopping malls trashing the environment.  I like the idea of stores closing their doors for rest in the afternoon, giving a slow down pace of lifestyle.

People here are for the most part happy and very social, with hellos and smiles and giving a sense of a good community as we watch out for each others health and safety.  So there is a very calm and tranquille feeling.  There are so many good reasons to live here in Madagascar and one of them is self reliance of getting a job done which requires doing research and doing your homework thus getting a positive result. Life style here is simple, so wanting and getting anything more than the basics requires self-education.   
The air is fresh, the weather is balmy warm.  So now I am going to pick a couple of sweet mangoes off my tree for breakfast.   Veloma