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Old 02-21-2018, 05:17 PM
 
Location: Lakewood OH
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I know, these lists are always debatable but still, when they’re in your favor it’s kinda of nice. And ten doesn’t sound too bad because at least we made it.

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Old 02-21-2018, 05:26 PM
 
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I know, these lists are always debatable but still, when they’re in your favor it’s kinda of nice. And ten doesn’t sound too bad because at least we made it.

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Nice to see Cleveland and Detroit on this list.
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Old 02-21-2018, 05:27 PM
 
Location: Nashville TN, Cincinnati, OH
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If it was unhappiness list everyone would be saying how not credible the source is but if it is a happy list man fortune is the best source in the world. Americans today lol
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Old 02-21-2018, 07:06 PM
 
Location: Cleveland and Columbus OH
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If it was unhappiness list everyone would be saying how not credible the source is but if it is a happy list man fortune is the best source in the world. Americans today lol
Did you read literally the first sentence the OP wrote?
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Old 02-21-2018, 07:41 PM
 
Location: CA
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Old 02-21-2018, 08:24 PM
 
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My hunch is that purchasing power is an important factor boosting Detroit and Cleveland given relatively low housing prices and cost of living and relatively good wages.

It's interesting that only one sunbelt location made the list.

Boulder is in a wonderful area for outdoor activities. It has great local hiking and is about 90 minutes from Rocky Mountain National Park, making day trips to that wonderful NP very feasible.

Rockville, MD, has a Metro station, providing easy access to Washington, DC. It also has great natural areas nearby.

Neither Boulder nor Rockville are as cheap as Detroit and Cleveland.

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Old 02-22-2018, 10:01 AM
 
Location: New Mexico via Ohio via Indiana
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Nice to see Cleveland and Detroit on this list.
You never would think these two for sure.
Cleveland makes ME happy (and living there I was never happier), and Detroit does too. But I'm an odd duck.
I always called Detroit "the old drunk uncle no one likes but you."
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Old 02-22-2018, 10:05 AM
 
Location: New Mexico via Ohio via Indiana
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It's interesting that only one sunbelt location made the list.
I'd have put Santa Fe on the list as well. Happy folks, lots of activitities, an true arts mecca, natural beauty, and a bit of a hippie/wellness/natural living spot that lends itself to inner peace, etc...a bit like Boulder in that last part.
And the inflated real estate there (unlike most of the places here in NM where you can get an acre of land down the street from me for $800) make me think that $$$ adds to the happiness factor. It sure couldn't hurt.
Regarding the three Bay Area towns that made the list, I don't get it. I mean most tech jobs are forward thinking in their treatment of employees compared with the rest of the country (work-friendly campuses, great benefits for telecommuters and working moms etc), so there is that... but otherwise I know all three towns to be unbelievably stressful, with horrific traffic and construction and uncontrolled urban growth, and even racial and socioeconomic tensions...as well as some of the most overpriced real estate, especially at entry level, in the country.
If you go pricey Bay Area for happiness, I would have said two obvious choices in Palo Alto and Berkeley, or Mill Valley or charming Saratoga (I work down the road from there at a state park in the redwoods a month every summer....nice work if you can get it). But not sprawly, NIMBY, new-money growth machine places like Santa Clara and Mountain View, or schizophrenic personality "what kind of town are we?" San Jose. But if one is solely judging happiness at work? I guess I get it.
But where would I be happiest ever? A small workman's cottage in Peninsula. In my convertible driving to everything in NE Ohio. Even in February.

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Old 02-22-2018, 10:36 AM
 
Location: Cleveland, OH
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you never would think these two for sure.
Cleveland makes me happy (and living there i was never happier), and detroit does too. But i'm an odd duck.
i always called detroit "the old drunk uncle no one likes but you."
lol!
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Old 02-22-2018, 10:38 AM
 
Location: Cleveland, OH
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I know, these lists are always debatable but still, when they’re in your favor it’s kinda of nice. And ten doesn’t sound too bad because at least we made it.

The Happiest U.S. Workers Live in These Cities | Fortune
It's good to see Cleveland on the right of the list for a change.
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