The correlation that you draw between progressive social democracy and a good place to live for the average citizen, might not be the correlation that promotes your cause.

OP didn't suggest it was any of those terms.

I just see it as a scale. Both extremes are terrible and the middle is the answer. So Australia is more to the middle but that still makes a good comparison. Op said that he's from a socialist extreme but that's just more to the point. There's a balance to be found and criticism of socialism isn't that meaningful compared to criticism of extremes.