Posted on 03/12/2022 7:45:32 PM PST by SeekAndFind
Four of the eight highest-ranked U.S. cities in terms of overall happiness are situated in California.
You will find more infographics at Statista
As Statista's Florian Zandt details below, according to an analysis by WalletHub, only one city not located on the United States' west coast managed to break into the top 3 last year.
The city in question is Columbia, Maryland, which ranks second on WalletHub's index of the 182 happiest U.S. cities. When looking at the individual scores for each of the three dimensions analyzed, the picture portrayed changes quite a bit. For example, Columbia is ranked as one of the worst cities when it comes to income and employment, a category encompassing poverty rates, job satisfaction, job security, weekly work hours or underemployment rate, but ranks fifth and third in terms of emotional and physical well-being and community and environment, respectively.
The top city in the latter category, which includes separation and divorce rate, hate crime incidence and leisure time spent per day, is Casper, Wyoming, coming in 79th place overall.
Fremont, on the other hand, is not only the number one happiest city in the U.S. according to WalletHub, but also scored top marks in the well-being category, which takes into consideration issues like depression and suicide rates, adequate sleep, sports participation and food insecurity.
We have only one question: if everyone in California is so 'happy', why are we seeing record numbers exiting the state and birth rates plummeting?
If you have lots of money, living in California can be the most wonderful lifestyle imaginable. The beaches, the forests, the sunshine and the scenic drives.
But if you are a working stiff, you seldom have time or funds to enjoy those things.
Sunshine and warm weather is conducive to happiness. Of course, there are a few (ahem) countervailing downsides to California.
If you don’t speak Mandarin or Dari (aka Farsi or Afghan Persian) in Fremont, CA, you are really left out.
RE: Sunshine and warm weather is conducive to happiness.
If so, why isn’t any city in Hawaii in the top 8 and why are Seattle and Madison in the top 8 ?
OK, you’re thinking a lot deeper than me tonight! I’m done thinking today. No answer.
San Francisco? Somebody needs to put down the crack pipe.
RE: If you have lots of money, living in California can be the most wonderful lifestyle imaginable
So, they only surveyed people with lots of money?
Out of those in CA only Irvine is still relatively nice, and people there don’t seem especially happy at all - more stressed out by rents, commutes, and taxes.
LOL - three of the “happiest cities” are in the Bay Area? The place that’s overpriced, insular and replete with litter?
Sure, Jan.
If they’re all so happy, then why are the mostly condescending, liberal a-holes?
“So, they only surveyed people with lots of money?”
They interviewed Gavin Newsome 20,000 times.
I live in the Bay Area and I’m conservative and very happy…the measurement seems to be about things like divorce and I’m happily married, happy with my job and kids and friends…I’m a Christian too which probably helps.
This is a total puff piece bunch of BS. California is now 50th in public school education-dead last in the nation with it’s test scores. It used to be number #1 in the 1950’s and early 1960’s.
Any large city in California has block after block of homeless encampments, filled with drug addicts, criminals, and the insane.
Illegals have no fear of deportation, and their graffiti can be seen everywhere. Crime is rampant because most thefts now only qualify as a misdemeanor.
Californians pay taxes on every gallon of gasoline for road repair, climate change, and pork for the dominant political party, which is now over $6/gallon in Southern California in most places.
The middle class is either leaving, planning on leaving, or wishing they could leave the “Golden State”.
This “article” is complete propaganda.
I’m in the bay area as well. Conservative christian. I really don’t fit in any more, and I grew up here. This is one of the darkest spiritual places in the country right now.
“Fremont, on the other hand, is not only the number one happiest city in the U.S. according to WalletHub”
Fremont?
I would think it would be Pleasanton or Livermore.
If ignorance is bliss, then some people are blistered.
Abundant drugs are why people are happy. Which also explains Seattle.
I worked in San Leandro and lived in Hayward for just over a year, 2016-2017. Personally, I felt like a stranger in a strange land for the most part. I did meet a few really great people and I thoroughly enjoyed doing tourist stuff like Alcatraz, Napa and a sunset cruise on the bay when friends of mine came to visit.
But I would never have felt at home there.
What’s funny is that I went to kindergarten there (San Lorenzo) and my parents had very fond memories of the area. (We were a Navy family.) But that was a long time ago.
I did like the Wente Winery in Livermore. Very nice people and decent wines.
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