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Where The Happiest Americans Are (And Are Not)
On an income-adjusted basis, New Yorkers are the most miserable Americans while citizens of Lafayette, LA are the happiest. As MarketWatch reports, based on a Harvard study which 'adjusts' for age, sex, race, income and other factors, the following map indicates where the happiest Americans are (blue/green) and are not (red).
The happiest five cities are all in Louisiana, with Lafayette taking the crown (Louisiana is also the happiest state). The unhappiest cities, after New York City, are St. Joseph, Miss.; South Bend, Ind.; Erie, Penn.; and the Evansville, Ind.-Henderson, Ky. area.
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Nice libby towns are all red...WTF...I can see detroit NYC and chicago, but i would think that the lovely SF and seattle would be so happy in their hi-tech utopias....living wage bitches.
Locate yourself, locate where you might prefer to live.
Print this map out. Fold it tightly. Flush it down the toilet.
Happy now?
Now? No. Fucking folded map clogged my toilet.
I know when I used to drive over the bridge at Blythe headed east and finally cleared the Idiot Reservation, the air cleaned up, the sky was a bluer shade of blue and the birds began to sing.
That's what escaping repression can bring to one's soul...from there it's a pretty nice drive until you see the lights of Phoenix.
Lafayette Louisiana, home of the Ragin Cajun's, where people live life to the fullest. Family comes first & there is always a reason for a party with family & good friends.
You know what they say about Louisiana, we are either under water or under indictment!
Laisse Bon Temp ~ Let the good times roll~
I saw another study that concluded that Idaho and Wyoming had the most Neo-Nazi hate group whack-jobs. I reckon they are happy whack-jobs.
New York has the most supremacists, I heard.
Today's term is statist.
Maybe, but it could be that areas like NYC have a much greater number of Nazi whack jobs. Except in NYC they wear police costumes and are on the government payroll. (Not saying the Idaho cops are not Nazis, there are just much fewer of them).
in any rural area on the that map all you see is 'happy' until you see a light patch which is an indication of people living in cities.
turns out that city dwellers are fucking miserable and everyone living in poor rural areas is happy!!!!!!!
I think they are confusing the heat stroke index for happiness.
Two words: Wild, Dental-Floss.
I'm going to Montana soon.
no human can be happy coz by nature he get used to everything.
thats why in sports " heighter farer stronger "
that's why car are faster & faster, why technologies & data transfer are faster and faster,
and eventuellement why daft punk made "harder better faster stronger".
Hugh Hefner looks pretty happy through his life.
Sorry I'm late to the party on this topic. I was helping friends shuttle for their overnight rafting trip on the Middle Fork of the Flathead river---located in truly wild bit of river bottom sandwiched between Glacier National Park and the Bob Marshall Wilderness complex :) :)
After helping with the shuttle, I took a drive up the North Fork of the Flathead which is a "National Scenic River". I cruised on back home after a delicious cinamon bun from the Polebridge Mercantile in Polebridge MT. "The Merc" as we call it is on the National Register of Historic Places. My kind of place--Dirt roads and No cell service!
Yeeehawwww
And so I can affirm that, relatrively speaking, Montana is a pretty happy place. So do come visit us, spend your money--and then go the fuck back home to your "red" unhappy state :)
hairball
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sx7D8p-AoEs
People in Seattle seem pretty happy to me - the red is surprising. One has to wonder what the newly legal weed will do for those folks who get a little depressed by all the rain.
I know a lot of non-tech multi-generational people in seattle/king county are they are very unhappy with the cost of living inflation. The schism that is taking place in the bay is happening here but at a slower pace.
Certainly Seattle's minimum wage hike to $15.00/hr should turn that all that "red" to "blue"!
/sarc
Maybe the brutality of the SPD makes people sad.
Those in tax-happy states are very unhappy, the places where the public union costs are out of control.
I noticed that it doesn't go up to 10.
I live in the middle of corn fields. The fewer people i'm around the happier I am.
Lousyianna.........go figger.
Notice how folks in cities ain't happy?
I had the (mis)fortune of spending too much time in Leesville, LA (not far from Lafayette) in my Army days. For the uninitiated it's the obligatory shithole just outside Fort Polk which is one of the most godawful training centers in Uncle Sam's inventory. The locals never struck me as particularly happy - or endowed with great dental service providers - but they sure knew how to fight. We tended to get rowdy on our R&Rs, and normally we came out on top whenever some townies got out of line with us, but Leesville was the only town where we almost always got our collective teeth kicked in.
This would be a GREAT (study/Chart ) if it showed who was awake. You know those who researched what was going on, not those who work, if they have a job, then go home and turn on the Boob Tube News, or some reality show.
Well, in the cities (where folks appear to be least happy) you also have large concentrations of people feeding at the public trough. Maybe THAT'S why the other working people as so UNHAPPY.
Regarding LA-what's not to be happy about? They've got Cajun food and Zydeco music-EEEEYAAAH!
We just moved from South Bend, IN to Toledo, OH. Yahoo! Up one space.