Absolute nonsense!! I don't live there, but travel to St. Petersburg often on business and it's a perfectly delightful town.
Jackson, Wyoming is very nice.
Absolute nonsense!! I don't live there, but travel to St. Petersburg often on business and it's a perfectly delightful town.
Well, apparently something is lurking under the surface there that causes a great number of people to have troubles with clinical depression. I think that there are probably many cities near the bottom of this list that would be perfectly fine to visit for recreation or work, but sometimes being in a particular place while the years roll by can make a world of difference in ways that may not be readily apparent from a short-term visit.
It could also be that for some of the cities at the bottom of this list, they are simply a magnet, for whatever reason, for people with a preexisting depressive condition. Perhaps they are living in 'city x' and are depressed, and think " I'll be happier if I move to sunny Florida!" and so they move but this doesn't address their condition.
I was surprised to see so many FLorida cities with low ratings on the happiness scale. I think the reason is that older people are often diagnosed as clinically depressed when they are merely lonely and rather frightened. So a city with a much older than average population would rank lower than expected, based on consumption of psychotropic drugs.
My mother was in a nursing home for years (in CA), and I know for a fact that the staff was keeping everyone slightly buzzed, maybe just to keep them quiet and easy to manage.
I lived in FL for five years and found that people living in retirement areas tended to drink bigtime, because they were depressed and also adding to their depression. I had the busiest job of my life there, was extremely happy, but without work one enjoys, who knows what happens to the mind? Little widows with lovely homes in FL are essentially dropped off there by their adult kids, thinking mom will be happy. But really, mom would rather stay where her kids and grandkids are.
Summing up: St. Pete and other FL cities are a blast as long as you're working and/or living a busy, involved life, which you can do at any age if you try. But it's easy to slide down the mood scale when you're lonely and bored.