Well, sir, if the scale is 1-10, with 1 being utterly sad and 10 being dizzily happy, and Norwegians rate a 7.4, that does not seem a bad score at all, to me.
You want a melancholy place, try the democraticunderground; now, that's a whole lot of sad people, especially on November 3, January 6, January 20, January 31, and February 2. An utter cesspool of wretched miserable people.
But 7.4 does not seem "low" to me.
Perhaps they are upset that their ancestors who migrated to North America chose Minnesota instead of, say, Florida.
A visit to the relatives from Norway to Minnesota probably doesn't feel like much of a getaway.
"SOB, it is freezing cold everywhere we go in the world? What about those pictures of beaches and suntans we see on state TV's travel channel?!?"
Hell, 7.4 sounds better than Norfolk.