The results are based on an examination of two data sets, one that included personal reports of happiness for 1.3 million Americans and the other that included objective measures, such as how crowded that state is, air quality, home prices and other factors known to impact quality of life.
1. Louisiana
2. Hawaii
3. Florida
4. Tennessee
5. Arizona
6. Mississippi
7. Montana
8. South Carolina
9. Alabama
10. Maine
11. Alaska
12. North Carolina
13. Wyoming
14. Idaho
15. South Dakota
16. Texas
17. Arkansas
18. Vermont
19. Georgia
20. Oklahoma
21. Colorado
22. Delaware
23. Utah
24. New Mexico
25. North Dakota
26. Minnesota
27. New Hampshire
28. Virginia
29. Wisconsin
30. Oregon
31. Iowa
32. Kansas
33. Nebraska
34. West Virginia
35. Kentucky
36. Washington
37. District of Columbia
38. Missouri
39. Nevada
40. Maryland
41. Pennsylvania
42. Rhode Island
43. Massachusetts
44. Ohio
45. Illinois
46. California
47. Indiana
48. Michigan
49. New Jersey
50. Connecticut
51. New York
I was born and raised in #3, that's happy enough for me.:up:
http://www.livescience.com/culture/091217-happy-state-list.html
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Louisiana has new orleans. A suuuuuuuuuuuper violent city. That invalidates this study to me lol
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District of Columbia is not a state...hahaha....51 FTW!!!
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TN at #4 for happiness? I don't know about that the mood around here has been pretty pissy since about November of last year.
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Born in Florida, live in Tennessee now, and have lived and will be moving back to SOuth Carolina soon.
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With drunken Jet fans banging their heads after every loss and Bills fans licking the windows of the short bus, and a few random Patsie fans thrown in for good (?) measure.....51 sounds about right.Last edited: Dec 18, 2009Frumundah Finnatic, jetssuck, unluckyluciano and 2 others like this. -
#50 for me...:lol:
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14 here. :up:
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I have lived in New Mexico, Nevada, Colorado, Arizona and now Texas....I think that qualifies me to some extent to say....
This study is absolute B***S***
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LMAO out of 50 states New York came in at #51.
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Like those people Leno used to interview on the streets :lol:jetssuck and BigDogsHunt like this. -
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