If you have lots of money, living in California can be the most wonderful lifestyle imaginable. The beaches, the forests, the sunshine and the scenic drives.
But if you are a working stiff, you seldom have time or funds to enjoy those things.
Sunshine and warm weather is conducive to happiness. Of course, there are a few (ahem) countervailing downsides to California.
If you don’t speak Mandarin or Dari (aka Farsi or Afghan Persian) in Fremont, CA, you are really left out.
San Francisco? Somebody needs to put down the crack pipe.
Out of those in CA only Irvine is still relatively nice, and people there don’t seem especially happy at all - more stressed out by rents, commutes, and taxes.
LOL - three of the “happiest cities” are in the Bay Area? The place that’s overpriced, insular and replete with litter?
Sure, Jan.
If they’re all so happy, then why are the mostly condescending, liberal a-holes?
This is a total puff piece bunch of BS. California is now 50th in public school education-dead last in the nation with it’s test scores. It used to be number #1 in the 1950’s and early 1960’s.
Any large city in California has block after block of homeless encampments, filled with drug addicts, criminals, and the insane.
Illegals have no fear of deportation, and their graffiti can be seen everywhere. Crime is rampant because most thefts now only qualify as a misdemeanor.
Californians pay taxes on every gallon of gasoline for road repair, climate change, and pork for the dominant political party, which is now over $6/gallon in Southern California in most places.
The middle class is either leaving, planning on leaving, or wishing they could leave the “Golden State”.
This “article” is complete propaganda.
“Fremont, on the other hand, is not only the number one happiest city in the U.S. according to WalletHub”
Fremont?
I would think it would be Pleasanton or Livermore.
If ignorance is bliss, then some people are blistered.
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.
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.
all libs should move there now!