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And The Unhappiest City In America Is...
It appears money can't buy happiness after all...
While happiness is relatively subjective (ask President Obama this week), the map below - using data from a recent working paper on happy (and unhappy) cities which mines responses from the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System, a national survey run by the CDC that has fueled most of what we know about the economics of happiness - quantifies just how ebulient or dysphoric each city is in America.
Unhappiness looks like it's concentrated in some wealthier, urban areas (New York ranks 318th out of 318), and also throughout the Rust Belt (Detroit, Akron and Pittsburgh).
Meanwhile, happier cities are newer Sun Belt cities, but their allure isn't just about the weather. One of the first patterns that may have jumped out at you on the above map is the role of climate: Sun-drenched cities seem happier; snow-covered places less so.
(Click image for Washington Post's interactive chart)
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Wall Street is a curse that keeps on giving. The happiest cities are all far away from Wall Street
Yep, who made that map? MSNBC??? The colors politically are ass backwards...
Red (self reliant) - happy
Blue (gubmint reliant) - sad
But fear not...
Great and wonderful Dear Leader, Obola...
Will equalize us all... with Trickle-Up Poverty!
Prepare to be sad (very sad!) if you're not already!
Perhaps the South won the Civil War after all
Let's see how happy the South is once they get a taste of this POLAR VOTEX heading their way...
http://iceagenow.info/2014/11/polar-vortex-dead/
The lesson from this article is that ignorance is bliss.
Cockroach infestation will fuck up any city.
#40 out of 318, washington dc. Question asked, "In general, how satisfied are you with your life?"
“Yep, who made that map? MSNBC??? The colors politically are ass backwards...”
WW.. you seem to buy into the relatively recent liberal media color meme.
Blue- Democrat, statist, happy government supporter.
Red – Independent or Republican, angry state minimalist.
That was done on purpose when the left leaning liberal media started presenting color maps to summarize the political landscape.
The red (angry) V. blue (happy) was a deliberate Bernays-esque scheme to paint conservatives as hot, angry and unpleasant malcontents and liberal socialist Democrats as cool, happy and pleasant statists.
“This reverses a long-standing convention of political colors where red symbols (such as the Red Flag or Red Star) are associated with revolutionary movements, and conservative movements often choose blue as a contrasting color.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_states_and_blue_states
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Bernays
Pissed-off motherfucking Yankees who hate everything, so they invade sovereign nations for fun.
They hate us for our happiness.
You really cannot compare Louisiana to any other state in the US because it might as well be a different coutnry... I lived in NOLA for years and can attest to the fact that coon-asses know how to pass a good time...
yeah please dont try to compare new orleans to the rest of louisiana either. thanks.
"Average life satisfaction, adjusted for income and demographics."
Maybe, but not adjusted for HUMIDITY...
It's so bad even the flies are sweating.
i am red, but happy to be red and happy, color blind merican waiting for supplimental goodies. i am merican, waiting for government freebies to get by. i wi8ll be happy and vote for freebies from either party. i am colorblind and i am lazy! looking for path of least resistence. color blinfd lazy and looking to suck your wealth and be happy in lousiana- thanks merica for something for notin- keep on working hard, now you all get off to work so i can be busy do notin all day off you hard work...
And rats - human and the real variety.
The small, polygamous birds migrated south 2 months early this year. The big, monogamous, edible ones are 6 weeks late. The critters had a good year.
I haven't heard of this yet and i live 200 miles n of Minot.
I guess its only a economy destroying polar vortex once it crosses the boarder, until then its just chilly out.
Let's see how happy the South is once they get a taste of this POLAR VOTEX heading their way...
Well, let's see:
"Worst hit will be Fargo, Minneapolis, Chicago, St. Louis and Cincinnati."
Yep ! They'll be happy alright down there in Louisiana...
The article clearly states the source. WaPo.
No shit. Constructed with data compiled from a CDC study. Is this WaPo's attempt at making the BLS look good?
I would assume those areas with legalized pot would register as the happiest. Whats wrong with my analysis? Stems and seeds blues?
And the municipal governments in the most happy and least happy cities are run by which parties?
Most happy=Republican
Least happy= democrat
Gee it's almost exactly like the electoral map from this week
Co-incidence?
Probably not...
Living and working in Nashville isn't too bad. Not accepting Gov money. Not hit too hard by 2008. Got a slight twang to augment a decent vocabulary. Girls love it. Maybe you should move....
so no red states or red cities/counties get any welfare payments?
http://anodtothegods.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/8164046303_b8ebf5c10...
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2012/02/12/us/entitlement-map.html?_r... (medicaid, income support)
welfare, to include $ for the military industrial complex and wall street, has no political face
I grew up in California and a lot of us have ditched that basketcase state for just about anywhere else. A buddy moved to Lafayette LA and is having a blast.
Rush Limbaugh blasts Jon Stewart over botched CNN appearance:
http://tinyurl.com/pbvddgd
The most racist places self-report the highest levels of happiness. What a surprise.
Because Diversity is Strength, right comrade?
Odd DC says it's the unhappiest, where is your confusion coming from?
LA is a giant shithole
Yeah, I call horseshit.
I don't live in Louisiana anymore ( I grew up there ) but, It's a pretty happy place... something about the people there make it special.... You'll meet people there and you'll think, "why is that guy so happy living in that shack????".... "He's got no reason to be in a mood that good."
Whether you believe it or not, it's one of the only places in the states with it's own culture.... and, it's seeped in crawfish boils and keg beer.... block parties and mardi gras.... Hunting camps.... duck hunts... some very large deer.... You may meet somebody on the street... have a few beers and end up eating dinner with them that night..... You never really meet a stranger there...
At least in my opinion, that's unique and, I've never been any other place in the country with more friendly people.
Never been to Louisiana, but our daughter is now in school there (they say "NOLA") and says it's a very friendly place, overall.
Maybe all it takes is to be fat and dumb (just kidding!)
THis ol dog lies in south Louisiana. Been here my whole life. It has its ups and downs but family just keeps you here. I have been all over and its the family values that keep me from moving own.
I lived there for a while when I was young, and of all the places I lived, Louisiana is the only one where I still keep in touch with the people I met. I don't know why and it wasn't planned or anything. This thread made me realize that. So maybe there is something to it?
LOL, when I was growing up there... about a mile from my house, there was a bar called, "Mutts bar".... It was on the river road... really it was more of a shack that had been there for probably close to 150yrs.... It was very small.... the floor leaned.... and, if you went into the "ladies" room door... there was a false wall that was really a door... and if you went through there, there would always be an illegal card game.... The lady that owned the bar... her name was "Laa Lee".... she had a belly laugh that I can still remember and English was her second language even though all her ancesters were from Louisiana too. The bar was right where there was a ramp to go up the levee where there used to be a ferry that would go across the mississippi river.
You don't think of it much when you're there but, that was a special place.... eventually it go too unsafe and it burned down.... sad really.
There are places in far south louisiana that speak only spanish.... the spanish were there first and there are small towns that are fishing communities that only speak spanish to this day.
Nice
I used to work with a lot of Cajuns down that way. Great, fun loving, down to earth people.
Same here. The people are friendly as hell. With such great food, drive through daquiris, 24hr beignets, and Mardi Gras....all in their back yard...who could be unhappy?
I have had over the years people who were customers in LA. They are always nice. I think it will be a lot nicer not that the fat shit Mary Landreiu is unemployed.
I left there in 1991 but, I was born in the Baton Rouge area and lived there until I left the state to look for work in the computer industry.
Of course to leave a fun loving place with real fun loving people to go to the bay area where you never meet the person living next to you was quite a culture shock.
I got my career going and moved to Texas.... I still drive down to Louisiana every chance I get and see friends and family.... I'll be going next weekend and won't have nearly enough time to catch up with friends when I'm there.
Rural Texas is nice.... it doesn't have the culture that Louisiana has... The Cajuns know how to throw a party but, Texas and Texans are nice folks too and, I've made many life long friends here too. Texas is home now.... Live close enough to get into DFW when I need or want to but live 7mi from a grocery store.... best of both worlds.
it's because Cajuns have so much sex that they're happy. how does one reach that conclusion? look at their rankings for STDs among American states. Number 1. in fact, you can satisfy all 7 deadly sins in Louisiana without much effort. i'd say the experience is almost worth going to hell for.
as they told my the 1st time i tried to Zydeco, "Cajun life is all in the hips and the boots"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BH1r_03jyss
My experience visiting a pre-Katrina N.O. as well. I thought everyone was high at first. No, just happy.
I think considering my situation living in this crappy state and being a wage slave bled to death by taxes, I'm quite happy nevertheless. Just cooking dinner with my husband tonight, eating our meal under the vibrant stars with a nice glass of wine puts everything in perspective.
Happiness is really about gratitude for what you do have and having someone who loves you so much to share your life. To see beauty in the small things and spiritual connection to another means you don't need much in terms of material items to soothe an empty, longing soul.
Miffed
I like hanging out with people that know when to stop.
I tend to get extra perspectivey with the whole bottle.
L.A. too
Based on the map, San Fran is pretty unhappy. Self loathing h**osexuals and retards waiting for the iPhone 7.
Weird thing: the gay Castro district seems to be the only happy place in town. Sometimes I wish I were gay, Most women here are angry, cold, and greedy.
Part of the larger problem is that most people in S.F. came from elsewhere. No common culture. They fear strangers. And most lack social skills needed to manage real risks of getting close to others.
So in a word, it's fucked out here. But we have great weather.
What you say is true.
LOL.... Imagine what it was like having a kid from S. Louisiana move out there knowing only the, "Cajun" friendly culture..... LOL.... I remember seeing a woman struggling with some bags so, I opened a door for her..... She stopped and glared at me and said, "WHAT THE FUCK DO YOU WANT FROM ME????".....
I knew I wasn't at home anymore.
Some people in Louisiana asked me what Calif. was like.... I thought about it a lot and told them that I'd like to just take 10 people there and lock them up in a room and buy them for what they're really worth and sell them for what they think they're worth...... That about sums it up for me. ( there are exceptions but, it's a good general rule )
Yes, Los Angeles IS a giant shithole.
what really pisses me off is that you can't tell Orange County apart from L.A. anymore. It used to be two very different and distinct vibes. I love to go out there, screw off and handle my business but I am even happier knowing I get to leave in a few days. Once you realize there is a whole nudder world outside the Orange Curtain, you just shake your head and laugh.
Ferguson? Nah figures it is a liberal stronghold. Monoculture is happiest. Ny is anything but.
Never really thought that much about it... maybe in passing but, I think you're 100% right.
Louisiana has its own culture.... probably one of the only places in the states with its own culture. The Cajuns in S. Louisiana have a happy go lucky, let's go get a beer and dance on a table culture.... and, even though until lately, there wasn't much money in the state, the people there are happy, for the most part.... or at least compared to other places I've been.
You can wake up in the morning and go hunting or deep sea fishing... water ski on the bayou or intercoastal canal... find any bar and go in and make a lifelong friend.
I remember jumping off train tressles into the intercoastal canal after deciding to skip school.... just showed up for school... in the parking lot and about a dozen of us decided to go get a bunch of beer and go swimming instead.....
I doubt that happens in many other places in the U.S..... some might call that a shit hole but, I call those memories that I think about all the time.
Fort Wayne ,Indiana is located in the middle of a whole lot of unhappy and I be feeling it every day!
Fort Wayne is where all the unhappy flows to from all those other shitty cities.....fuck this town! What are the odds?! Fucking Fort Waste...
Fort Wayne is heaven compared to Terre Haute. I left Terre Haute years ago. And never looked back. And will never go back.
Evansville is fun. 2 universities, riverboat gambling, Louisville an hour's drive away. large enough to be a city, but not so large that it gets sullied like the metropolis up north. Plus they had thong contests at Fast Eddy's on thursday nights while I was there. can't really beat that. took a winner up to Le Merigot once, loved it.
Money can't buy happiness?? I say that's a complete Bullshit. It surely can for me. The problem is, will it ever be enough?
So unhappiness is the motivation for liberals. Who knew?
I wonder if southeastern Florida would appear red now, following the recent election. Debbie Wasserman Schultz probably deserves a big red circle all by herself.
The reason NYC is the unhappiest city is because they have more graduates from Harvard living there. In other words indoctorinated neoliberalists caught up in the Keynesian lie. The tensions between reality and FRAUD are too much for the poor bastards.
The DC/Northern VA area is a very happy dark blue, ranked 40 out of 318 Metro areas. Considering three of the counties surrounding DC are ranked in the highest 7 in the entire country for income per capita I'm not surprised.
Those closest to the cash register always seem to be happy. I wonder why?
I live in Houston and believe me its not a happy place, even with a half decent job.
It depends a lot on where you are in town. That rug munching mayor had got a lot of people in a twist.
Money may not buy happiness but it can rent a close proximity.
Drunk happy coonasses!!!!
Notice how the Vichy seem to be happy.
Money rents happiness, insofar as it keeps away all sorts of discomforts and allows for a lifestyle of consumption.
??????
I call bullshit. That's too much blue in SE FL.
They did the polling in August. The new yorkers hadn't come back, yet.
LOL. Based on survey by CDC...
A lot of blue in the red states and red in the blue states
... which mines responses from the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System, a national survey run by the CDC ...
Big brother is watching you to make sure that you are happy. Because if you are not, you might be a risk which they might need to do something about. So just keep smiling. You don't want to show up on their radar screen.
Fuck the CDC
I've been to Houma, LA. It is indeed a happy place with a lot of really nice people of all stripes. Poor as hell, but everybody seems to be alright.
Meanwhile I can also corroborate the Big Apple. Are they Mo'happy? Or Mo'ssad?
Well, a lot of people on the california coast are "unhappy" because they are struggling to pay their gigantic mortgage, car payments, kids' activities, and basically wake up very early, go off to a miserable non-manufacturing job in a cubicle, push paper all day, and then go home late in the evening, and watch some tv, drink a beer, heat something in the microwave and then go to bed.
Repeat 5 days a week. Then they typically try to rest or do stuff around the house for two days, and then, repeat previous routine again for 5 days.
After doing this for a number of years, they fall into a state of depressed normalcy.
most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them-henry david thoreau
i think you have to live a long time to appreciate the genius and insight of that.
Erie, PA.
If you have ever seen it, you would be unhappy too.
Drove across continent several times, Erie a name everyone knows so I thought I would skirt the Great Lakes on the way to Canada, take an old State Highway System road, see that part of the country.
ZOMG
5 minutes. Did not even get out of the car. What a dump, like a run down version of Detroit, yes it's that bad. Nothing there any more and an abandoned port from the 1850's that has no glory left.
I did not even buy gas, stop at any store, stop in downtown, not even a soda at a convenience store, nothing - saw the city, turned around, left. Yikes.
There are not many places on this planet you should never go to, just because they are a waste of time.
Erie, PA is one such place. Avoid at all costs for all eternity.
Truth!! Lived there for three years because my ex-wife wanted to be closer to family. Awful. I wanted to commit suicide everyday of my life. My ex-wife wouldn't leave, hence why she is my ex-wife. I yearned for a return to Florida (which I saw as nearly equally bad, but still slightly better). Now I live in a happy place outside of the armpit of Erie and swamp of Florida. Thankfully.
Erie, PA is a shithole among rustbelt shitholes.
All the places i know of on the unhappy list are complete shitholes i never want to even have to drive though ever again. And rochester MN is a nice place (last time i was there)
I wsas born in FL the 40's and raised in a small central Florida town back in the 50's and 60's. My experience much like the people from Louisiana. Family was big. Everyone knew everyone. I rode my bike to school beginning in 2nd grade. Life was good.
Something else too...I remember Hurricane Donna coming through our small town, the eye passed over us. No Categories back then. Would have been a 3 when it pased over us. Wrecked the town pretty good. A lot of damage as you might expect.
BUT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! There was no FEMA or anything like that. How did our lil town survive?
Everyone got off their ass and cleaned up the debris as best we could and life went on. Big piles of shit everywhere for months... but school was back in session within 2 weeks at most <a week for me. Things were fine in a matter of months.
Hint: The Federal Gov't had a very minor roll in the aftermath.
What would be done if there were no government?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kyg4N5I4Ooo
warm weather, all except MN. Ny to ME this time of year, darn depressing.
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They aren't just happy, living contentedly in their Section 8 housing built on their converted swamps, they're slap happy.
My take from this chart: stay away from Wall Street and the Rust Belt.
Yay, more infographics! Thanks HuffingtonHedge! :)
If I can master the art of blowing bikers away with a shotgun from the window of a pickup truck I'll be moving to Lousiana soon.
Get your motor running....
PS They got Rum down there?
Lets put Hollywood into perspective. The people doing the killings were all Bull Connor democrats, George Wallace wannabe's and FDR KKK-ers doing all that shit in those old black and white news photos and videos firehosing black schoolchildren, lynchings, and such.
Medgar Evers was a republican shot down in his own driveway in 1963 by a registered democrat, who henceforth also sought his Democratic party's nomination for Lt. Governorship of MS in 1967 (Bryan de la Beckwith). Northern states lynched a ratio of 75% white republicans to 25% black republicans during Jim Crowe. All but 4 states and territories of the union comitted lynchings and killings. Not a Southern thing.
Blame it on the weather bitchez. Looks like the Alberta clipper coming in from the north.
We'll send you the Arctic.
Then we'll sell you the gaz.
Have you honestly ever met a happy Liberal?
I think this survey proves the obvious answer!
No! They're very bitter nasty control freak people.
newspeak is alive and well in America.
Liberals are the nastiest, most envious, most narcissistic, unscupulous, basterd mofos topside this crust.
....and those are their good points.
Congratulations to the Seven lucky contesting cities that managed to beat out DETROIT for "Suckiest City of Amurica".
Next?!..... the swimsuit competition!
All I know is the area I grew up became largely black. The taxes went up to take care of them. Well crime went up, it got dirty, my family and I no longer felt save. I remember kids playing in the street and now it's cars racing down roads blasting loud music and overall just ruined the quality of life.
I took my money and business and moved to an area that is almost all white. It's clean, my family feels safe, taxes are low, and neighbors care about each other. The people are like minded, we all speak english, we all work to make sure our home and neighborhood is a pleasure to come to, and we all have jobs that we take pride in and work hard at. Almost everyone is clean and polite.
I don't care if people call me racist but there is difference between whites/asians and blacks. Sure we're all human but lions and cats are all felines and I don't care how much you want to argue it...we're not the same and neither are the felines.
We have different values, morals, etc. Multiculturalism is fine if you want to participate in it but don't force it down my throat. Black people are miserable and useless as whole and if looking at Africa doesn't prove my point than I'm not wasting my time with people trying to argue points like the world is flat.
I stay as far away from black people as possible and I'm happy about that because my quality of life is higher now, much, much higher (after having moved) and I'm not ashamed to say it.
Statistics back you up, and black people will back you up on all that. Even a recent poll of black people showed that black people labeled themselves as the most racist ethnic group.
Blacks do the same in Europe. In England only 2% are black, but they commit crimes and are incarcerated 500% more than whites, same rate as in the USA, except we have 13.5% blacks, so blacks make up 10% and 58% of those prison populations, resepectively. Ex-African American stats -- crime, violence and prosperity in America are same as for European countries despite US gun ownership.
As long as there are Al Sharptons blaming YT it will never be solved.
But liberals will say "the cops are racist"
No. The cops aren't racist (I mean some of them are on both side. Black people commit more crimes so by extension they are going to be more black people in jail. Some journalists and politicians are expecting what? 50% white and 50% blacks in jail...because that's equal? No. Blacks commit more crimes that's why they are in jail. Period. End of Story.
From a genetic point of view black people have less impulse control. They are more inclined to commit violent crime (more black on black crime than any other metric that exists.) They don't have the capacity for higher learning or fostering innovation (look at all inventions from the last 100 years) They don't have the mental capacity to do basic financial planning. The wear clothes that don't fit them head to toe in red. More white people are beginning to lose their jobs to less competent blacks because there are quotas.....too many white people working here we need more blacks. Well....the whites are more intelligent than and Blacks have the lowest IQ scores and SAT results you'd think they're retarted.
No this is not isolated. This is not 1 neighborhood. Drive to 10 black neighborhoods and walk around for an hour. Drive to 10 white neighborhoods. Now - look at countries. Now look at continents. One of the largest continents is a giant fucking ghetto for the most part Africa)
Blacks and whites are not equal. No one with critical though can tell me otherwise. If blacks feel so disinfreinchised here in the US than go back to Africa. I'll pay for as many plane tickets as I can. They can go back to Africa and eat bushmeat and push carts with square wheels.
Often people ask about "the missing link" helloooooo you're fucking looking at it. Has anyone foundd it peculiar that black people look like chimpanzees, gorillas, or monkeys? If you don't think Obama looks like Curious George well I don't know what to tell ya...most of his characteristics came from his purely African father.
I hate to be the one and only that says this but it's right there in front of your face, I'm sick of blacks trying to put me on a guilt trip. I hate to say it but blacks really haven't done anything to improve the quality of anyone. In fact as every day goes by and more get importeId it gets worse and worse here.
Diclosure: I'm not a klan member, part of a hate group, or trying to revolutionize a failing country. I'm just a normal guy that is getting sick of hearing this shit. None of what I said is racist. It's pure simple fact. Genetically blacks just got out of the jungle. It's science.
If you are black and are opposed to slavery while also owning a smart phone than you might want to readjust your views on slavery. Because that smart phone was made by a slave....it just happened to be a 15 year old boy working at foxconn like factory. Next time you pick up your smart phone to hit your boo up just make sure you know that you support slavery. Hopefully you haven't Chris Browned her or Ray Riced her by then.
"If you don't think Obama looks like Curious George well I don't know what to tell ya.."
George W. Bush was a dead ringer for Curious George - how quickly you've forgotten...
I hope your identity never gets revealed or else the (cough) "liberals" will ensure you never work again. If not worse. As Orwell warned 'in times of universal deceit speaking the truth is a revolutionary act'.
13%
Why the static number? It seems "African Americans" are everywhere, being OVER-represented on TV, in magazines, etc. Again, this is easily researched. African American women ABORT 2 out of every 3 newborns. see: http://www.blackgenocide.org/black.html ..and numerous other web sites for this approximate statistic. African Americans always seem to want "respect" from everyone else, and cry racism at the drop of a hat. (See Jessie Jackson and Al Sharpton). However, ANY discussion of "racism" must start and END with this - based on the above statistics;If a race cannot RESPECT ITSELF, AND WILLINGLY ABORTS 2 OUT OF EVERY 3 BABIES BORN TO IT, THEN THEY DESERVE LITTLE RESPECT NOR OVER-EXPOSURE.
"As long as there are Al Sharptons blaming YT it will never be solved."
No. As long as YT tolerates the AL Sharptons it won't be solved. That will apply to the much anticipated and 'beautiful' America of 2050. Pity I won't b alive to see the fuckers get their commeuppance. http://irishsavant.blogspot.ie/2014/06/america-in-2050and-its-beautiful....
blacks ruin every area they move into in America. Let's hear it for all those African industrial and scientific patents.
Oh, there aren't many...
That's grossly unfair. Did not a black guy invent the super soaker? Must have as I read about it every Black Histry Mumf. And every time I turn on the TV or watch a movie I see brilliant, hard-working black scientists, engineers, doctors all over the place.
RACIST!! HATER!!
I grew up in white areas all over the US. I moved from Lakeside CA (hello Tall Tom) to start LSU in Baton Rouge.
I had some very different ideas about racism and minorities due to the fact that I'd never been around them.
What One and Only says is absolutely true. It was painful (literally) learning that everythign I'd been taught about blacks was dead wrong.
I stayed in BR until 2005. After Katrina the black population of BR went way up. The quality of life, already on the downswing, went down more and fast.
I too moved to an area that's majority white, and like the poster above, I'm here to tell you that the quality of life is much better.
I miss some aspects of LA, particularly the friendliness of the (white) people there. And I miss LSU games at Tiger Stadium.
I can go back and visit but I don't miss the downsides at all.
Upvote for Mr. One and Only. He nailed it.
"I took my money and business and moved to an area that is almost all white. "
It is.......for now. But the parasites will pursue their productive prey so expect to get enriched on a progressive (ha!) basis over the coming years. Furthermore a successful Whiteopia (but I repeat myself) represents the biggest threat to the nation-wrecking overlords and won't be tolerated.
If Houston Tx is one of the happiest places in Amerika, the rest of you must be openly shotgunning each other in the streets.
this is a map of most racist cities c'mon
I think you forgot the /sarc tag. If not you'll find that people who actually understand that races (and genders) are different are more at one with nature as opposed to "liberals" living in the Matrix.
The study leaves me perplexed. I spend time every year on biz in Duluth, MN, Sioux Falls, SD Grand Forks, ND and Sioux City Iowa...and others, but I picked those because the results seem backasswards. Duluth is the happiest? No way. And those other 3 cities less happy? No way. And Billings, MT is in a depression? No way. It is a beautiful place with a thriving economy and you are only an hour away from the mountians and you can see them from there. And the weather is fairly mild for a northern city. I have rellies there and they are quite happy in their 700K house. Duluth has GREAT weather - 3 months out of the year. It is on a steep hill that gets icy. You could not pay me enough to live there in the winter.
There is a blue dot where I live.
But it is not in America.
I have named this place.
The Republic of River Road.
And it is happiest when left alone by the adjoining country.
I am surprised. I thought the most happiest city would be Washington D.C.
...sweet home Alabama...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IwWUOmk7wO0
Duluth Minnesota? Low wages and horrible weather. High taxes. Moonbat central. Covens of bull dykes. Has to be an anomaly.
I certainly haven't lived everywhere. I love the LA natives who came from nowhere to support this artical. I never would have guessed...but I suppose I could have if I'd really bothered. But who has time to bother? I live in Nashville, TN. Complaints? Yeah, aweful drivers. Fucking aweful. Otherwise..none. Good city. Not too small, not too big. Busy enough to feel like a city (meaning, busy enough to make you dream of the country), but still familiar enough to be yours. A love that this artical actually made some ZH people show their hometown colors. I read this site almost daily, don't always buy the opinions of the writers, but absolutely appreciate the perspective. If the shit ever does go down, to whatever degree is decreed, everybody better remember real quick where they're from. Cuz thats where you need to be. Unless that place appears red on the above map....oddly enough...
Happiness is over-rated. It should not be a goal. Do something worthwhile instead.
I dunno, looks like retiree and Obamaphone areas to me with a happy group in Colorado for obvious reasons. Why the fuck is anyone happy to live in Alaska?
New York City is home to the most miserable bunch of bastards I've ever known and I don't need a Harvard study and a map with colored dots on it to tell me that.
What is the Happiest city is the wrong question to ask, and is vastly overrated.
You can't get to 10 unless you multiply 5 * 2, notwithstanding the iterative, 10 * 1. Happiness is a RESULT of some kind of activity, movement, something or things that have come b 4 it, to produce (always temporary) happiness.
I doubt some demographic that does nothing all day is a happy one. Any visit to a retirement home will prove that.
The true measure and the right question to ask is: "What do you do to pursue happiness"?
I'd love to know what those folks polled in those cities do all day to pursue and acquire that temporary state of happiness consistently.
The happiest man i know is not pursuing happiness he is "building a boat", playing with his (grand) children, creating something, skiing, focused on something completely outside himself, not pursuing happiness as an end in itself.
"What do you do to pursue happiness"?
The wrong question. Happines arises from your attitudes and approach to life, family and other people. By pursuing happiness per se you are, despite the objectives of the US Constitution, doomed not to find it.
The socialist utopia of Massachusetts looks ready to revolt. Great!
i pursue happiness and sometimes catch her,,,, I married the only woman on earth that would put up with my bullshit and still pursue her, on occasion i catch her,, enuff said. Happiness quotient ,,, hmmm. Yup,,, i have health,, I don't have to split firewood to heat my cabin, my dad did. That makes me successful and happy,,,, great weekend to all,,,,,,
I can attest that Northwestern Pennsylvania is indeed home to the most miserable human beings on this Earth. Lived there for 30 years and I have never seen people more quick to treat you with instant disdain and rudeness. It is some of the most beautiful country you'll ever see but the people are horrible. I have a theory that it is due to the lake effect cloudy weather that NW PA has. There are over 300 days without sun. It is mosty kind of grey/ dirty white overcast sky that usually doesn't produce rain, just looks like shit. The winters are also harsh.
Gainsevillle FL? Really? I hate that place!
"Sun-drenched cities seem happier; snow-covered places less so."........but California arguably has the nicest weather in the world.
I think an overlay map showing voting trend and political leanings may show another relationship as well
Wow. Californians manage to be suicidal even with the best weather!
No coincidence that people in the Bible Belt are the most happy. It's a screwed up world, and if you feel like there is nothing after this world then you're going to be pretty damned depressed. Not to mention Bible thumpers are more charitable and all around more pleasant than your atheists or other non-Christians. Sorry, it's just the truth. When SHTF I'd rather be in here in the deep South with like-minded people than anywhere else.
I would not live in NYC for any amount of money. It is the most over priced, smelly, dirty city in America. If you want to see a nice city go to Vancouver, BC.
Not surprised. Everyone I've ever met from Louisiana has always been super friendly and happy. There is an actual distinct common culture and history in Lousiana. That's why there is a sense of self. You see this in the American South and I think it's extremely healthy.