Focusing on cities as diverse as Dublin, Hong Kong and San Salvador, researchers measured walking speed (how fast it took people to walk sixty feet in two differing downtown areas), postal speed (how quickly you could buy a stamp in the major post office), and finally clock accuracy. Other information was gathered from publicly available data sources on climate, economic indicators, measures of individualism, size of population, coronary heart disease, levels of smoking and subjective well-being. These were all combined to create an overall pace-of-life index. Switzerland was measured as
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