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States ranked from happiest to least cheerful
Seattle PI ^
| 12/17/09
| staff
Posted on 12/17/2009 1:50:59 PM PST by pissant
WASHINGTON -- A new study found that people who report more satisfaction with their lives live in states that score well on things like good schools, low crime and short commuting time, perhaps a first objective look at why some states are happier than others.
The state-by-state list, from happiest to least cheery:
1. Louisiana
2. Hawaii
3. Florida
4. Tennessee
5. Arizona
(snip)
45. Illinois
46. California
47. New Jersey
48. Indiana
49. Michigan
50. Connecticut
51. New York
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TOPICS: Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: happiness
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To: iowamark
Apparently, Louisianians dont recognize that they are living in hell.
Louisianians are too HIGH to know they're living in Hell.
To: RinaseaofDs
WA is only like that if you live on the west side. Why do you think so many of them are infecting (via moving) the east side these days?
42
posted on
12/17/2009 2:01:25 PM PST
by
Skenderbej
(People need to learn that no muhammadan practices his religion peacefully.)
To: GeronL
Cajuns are happy in a shack if they got enough crawdads in the cooking pot.Not a bad life..
43
posted on
12/17/2009 2:01:47 PM PST
by
cardinal4
(Dont Tread on Me)
To: pissant
California is rapidly becoming a third world country. I think that's why so many are grim. They can see the future and the future is Tijuana. That's depressing and that's what bumming so many out despite the spin the liberals are trying to put on it! They drank the multicultural kool-aid and now it's too late.
Also the welfare state that was constructed between 1950 and today is in complete collapse. The economics of the state can no longer support it. Liberals are in denial as they always are, blaming it on Prop 13 or George Bush or whatever. Their world is ending and it's killing them. They never have understood that the problem with socialism is that eventually you run out of other people's money. The liberals can't accept this.
California is finished. Demographics is destiny-another thing the liberals can't accept. Maybe the very Northern parts of the state can be saved but anything south of Marin County, forget it.
44
posted on
12/17/2009 2:02:05 PM PST
by
truthguy
(Good intentions are not enough!)
To: SJSAMPLE
Re: Indiana at #48
Blowback from supporting Obama...
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45
posted on
12/17/2009 2:02:06 PM PST
by
hoosier hick
(Note to RINOs: We need a choice, not an echo....Barry Goldwater)
To: pissant
51. New York"Being miserable and treating other people like dirt is every New Yorker's God-given right!"
Mayor "Lenny" from 'Ghostbusters 2'
46
posted on
12/17/2009 2:02:13 PM PST
by
COBOL2Java
(Big government more or less guarantees rule by creeps and misfits.)
To: domenad
I lived in Hawaii for a few years.
It was a long time ago but I can’t remember meeting anyone that was actually unhappy!
STE=Q
47
posted on
12/17/2009 2:03:01 PM PST
by
STE=Q
("It is the duty of the patriot to protect his country from its government" ... Thomas Paine)
To: don-o
I know a couple of Freepers from TN who should be on the bottom end of that list! (But not you, of course =))
48
posted on
12/17/2009 2:03:21 PM PST
by
Skenderbej
(People need to learn that no muhammadan practices his religion peacefully.)
To: pissant
Maryland is ranked #40 and I am not happy about that...
It has nothing to do with the fact that my state is totally controlled by democrats that would like to see me enslaved to the state. /sarc
49
posted on
12/17/2009 2:03:53 PM PST
by
bayliving
(Democrats are the enemy of my country and what it stands for.)
To: pissant
27. VirginiaI feel moderately happy about that.
50
posted on
12/17/2009 2:04:35 PM PST
by
paulycy
(Demand Constitutionality.)
To: iowamark
51
posted on
12/17/2009 2:04:46 PM PST
by
swain_forkbeard
(Rationality may not be sufficient, but it is necessary.)
To: pissant
I'm in Louisiana, and happy.
But I have this urge to go to Alaska after reading Palin's book.
Smoked caribou sausage sounds like it'd make a good gumbo.
To: pissant
You know. I bet they are. lol.
53
posted on
12/17/2009 2:06:09 PM PST
by
GeronL
To: iowamark
Apparently, Louisianians dont recognize that they are living in hell. We drink a lot!!!
Seriously, don't equate the third world sh**hole that is New Orleans with the rest of the state. Myself and a bunch of others have no use or need of New Orleans, it is a corrupt embarrassment.
54
posted on
12/17/2009 2:06:10 PM PST
by
The Cajun
(Mind numbed robot , ditto-head, Hannitized, Levinite)
To: pissant
I live in Orange County California, my congressman has a lifetime ACU rating of 95, we are happy, have good schools, low crime.
High today 70 F. Sunsets across the Pacifc which silhouette Catalina Island are gorgeous.
Like President Ronald Reagan, I choose to live out my days here.
To: saganite
Eat the tails, suck the heads! I could eat mud bugs all day long and NEVER fill up on them.
56
posted on
12/17/2009 2:06:42 PM PST
by
bayliving
(Democrats are the enemy of my country and what it stands for.)
To: iowamark
This native knows that Louisiana is a wet hell- especially SE LA. They must have taken the survey after one of the million ‘fests’.
And the Saints ain’t doin’ it for me either. I LOATHE football, and this deifying a football team makes me nauseous.
57
posted on
12/17/2009 2:07:27 PM PST
by
ClearBlueSky
(Whenever someone says it's not about Islam-it's about Islam. Jesus loves you, Allah wants you dead!)
To: 9YearLurker
*California wads up a sheet of printer paper to make a ‘nerf’ ball and tries to bounce it off the head of the New Yorker...and misses but doesn’t regret the attempt*
To: 9YearLurker
*California wads up a sheet of printer paper to make a ‘nerf’ ball and tries to bounce it off the head of the New Yorker...and misses but doesn’t regret the attempt*
To: pissant
60
posted on
12/17/2009 2:08:30 PM PST
by
Chickensoup
(We have the government we deserve.)
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