Excepting for Utah, the people who live in those ‘happy’ states, should take a clue and stay happy by staying there. We in Florida and Texas don’t want them here. We’re getting too many of them moving south, as it is, to ‘unhappy’ grounds. So, you ‘happy-staters’, if you don’t want to move to an ‘unhappy’ state, please stay put.
Ask those who fled those states what they think.
Total BS
These sorts of rankings are meaningless. It all depends upon the criteria by which different states are going to be judged. You can make a list of states and criteria and set up an Excel spreadsheet and even pivot tables to come up with results.. but how meaningful are the results?
I doubt too many people who live in the slums of Camden are happy that they live in one of the happiest states in the Union.
I fell like we Texans should lend New Jersey our slogan:
“Don’t Mess With New Jersey!”
Might amp up the happiness
whadayathink?
I left 2 yrs ago, couldn’t be happier.
I grew up in NJ and left in my 20’s. I now live in Ohio.
I will have to say I found the people in NJ to be much friendlier.
They never asked me.
Last year we were number #1, I demand a recount!
This is a rigged poll and I deny this poll ever took place since New Jersey is the best place to live
"How do I love thee? Let me count the ways!" ( sonnet by poet Elizabeth Barret Browning ).
So sorry....Florida is THE first-place happiest state, for a number of ways too numerous to list....and that is why peeples from the whole country are moving here in droves !
Florida, we love thee !
Leni (Florida, of course !)
I would think that New Jersey, Maryland, Minnesota and Utah would be among the unhappiest places in the entire world. Hawaii may call itself “paradise,” but it has one of the worst business climates and is plagued with anti-white racism.
Take huge number of data points plus the desired order of results and have a computer calculate the weighting factors needed to get from one to the other.
These surveys are always suspicious. They aren’t to be taken seriously. But they may not be completely wrong. Hawaii has good weather, so fewer people are depressed. Utah has strong family and social structures, so may Minnesota. New Jersey and Maryland? They are rich suburban states, with high volunteerism rates, low divorce rates, not much snow or hurricanes or tornados. There’s a bias against rural states, where people have to travel distances to get things they want.
Who r u kidding
Half of Jersey seems to be in the Carolinas now.