Age just one factor in how old you feel

BEING young is not as much a matter of age, how you look or how you feel as much as where you live, according to a Eurobarometer survey.

Age just one factor in how old you feel

At 50 years of age in Greece and Cyprus, you are still considered young. But move across the Mediterranean to Malta and youth ends at 36.

Even Ireland has stern views on who is young, and the bad news is that once you hit 39, you are over the hill. That’s two years sooner than the EU average, but two years later than across the water in Britain.

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