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?
California’s deserts are not the only places where mirages
occur in the state.
For the poor or the rich, California can still be a wonderful place. For the rest of us in between, not so much. Escrow closes end of month and I’ll be leaving the state.
They just happen to have the highest suicide rates too.
Sounds to me like somebody be hittin’ da happy smoke again. LOL.
In the several years I lived in the Bay Area I was shocked at how many people believed they had a good quality of life when, in reality, the life they were living paled in comparison to what it could be in other places. Living in tiny apartments with zero land, cars broken into, squalor on the streets, high prices. Yeah, the weather was decent, but even SF weather is not all that great too.
Des Moines. Tulsa. Jacksonville. Flagstaff. Boise.
So true. There are a few houses on 17 Mile Drive that I would give my left arm to live in, work from home in.
Uh... aren’t those also the top places for recreational pharmaceutical and other mood-altering substance consumption?
Clearly San Francisco is super happy! That’s why everyone is leaving.
Joke post?
California has half the homeless in America, very high and rising crime rates, super high taxation and with tech companies fleeing to more civilized states but somehow are the “home of happiness”?
Yeah...for drug dealers and crazy people.
Yup.
And nonsense.
Yes it is. My family is in the California once Republic,,,now gulag. Our vote is not heard…complete cheating in every election. Since 1990’s. We have had no voice.
Maybe they surveyed the homeless in SF. SF is a great place to be homeless.
all libs should move there now!
#fakenews
Love this post.. keep the uber liberal right there. Remind them of the terrors that happen daily in red states.. God’s Word is preached and traditional family is valued.
If you’re not a liberal christian, I’d like to know what church you attend in San Francisco.
I was born in the old presidio back when republicans ran sf— and sometimes return to SF on biz. But I’ve never been to church there.
Heck I was born in the old presidio.
I’ve been back to sf a number of times in the last 15 years.
When I return I remember a california identity character and destiny that I had when I was young that is much different from my eastern identity character and destiny.
like the difference between driving in a convertible with either the top up or the top down.
which coast do you think would be the top up. which the top down?
You think those are the best places for the middle class, the lower middle class or the working poor?
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