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Old 03-03-2023, 07:20 PM
 
Location: Greenville, South Carolina
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We enjoy the weather here, and we are in Sammamish where we get 54" of rain. Seattle only gets 37", and in fact, that is less than many other major cities such as New Orleans (86"), Miami (67"), Nashville (63"), and New York City (62"). Even Crescent City California gets 79". Working in Seattle myself, I would consider a lot of the sadness to be from tripping over the homeless people living on the sidewalks, in the parks and under the freeway every day.
It’s not the amount of rain that’s depressing, it’s the lack of sunshine.
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Old 03-03-2023, 07:56 PM
 
Location: WA Desert, Seattle native
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If you are born and raised in Seattle it really doesn’t matter. Humans adapt quickly to their environment. As a native Seattleite I adapted. Now I live in an area that gets a lot of sunshine. Adapted to that as well.

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Old 03-04-2023, 01:02 AM
 
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Okay looks like we are number 11 happiest city in the US now:

https://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/loca...eport/3171348/

RANK CITY
1 Fremont, California
2 San Jose, California
3 Madison, Wisconsin
4 Overland Park, Kansas
5 San Francisco, California
6 Irvine, California
7 Columbia, Maryland
8 Sioux Falls, South Dakota
9 South Burlington, Vermont
10 Burlington, Vermont
11 Seattle, Washington
12 Bismarck, North Dakota
13 Oakland, California
14 Huntington Beach, California
15 San Diego, California
16 Scottsdale, Arizona
17 Minneapolis, Minnesota
18 Yonkers, New York
19 Aurora, Illinois
20 Fargo, North Dakota
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Old 03-04-2023, 02:32 AM
 
Location: Knoxville, TN
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What a bunch of bs. Please stop these bogus surveys. Happiness is personal, internal. and private. How any government can rank this is impossible and thoroughly unscientific. Just leave us alone! It I guess their real goal is to get us to use more social systems that are really not necessary for most. This is a step toward socialism which is not right step.
Not everything is bogus. For example, winter depression in Alaska is genuine, when it is dark almost continually during the winter months. We are programmed to respond to sunlight and the very little sunlight Alaska gets in winter causes a high level of depression in people.

Seattle gets sunlight per se, but is the 2nd most cloudy/overcast city in America, behind only Anchorage AK. Seatle has the least number of cloudless blue days of any city in the lower 48, along with frequent rain, and those can be a severe mood buster.
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Old 03-04-2023, 03:46 AM
 
Location: Seattle
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I only lived in Alaska for three years, but everyone I knew seemed pretty happy. Most folks up there love being Alaskan. But, I didn't live in Anchorage so YMMV.
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Old 03-04-2023, 08:49 AM
 
Location: State of Transition
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Okay looks like we are number 11 happiest city in the US now:

https://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/loca...eport/3171348/

RANK CITY
1 Fremont, California
2 San Jose, California
3 Madison, Wisconsin
4 Overland Park, Kansas
5 San Francisco, California
6 Irvine, California
7 Columbia, Maryland
8 Sioux Falls, South Dakota
9 South Burlington, Vermont
10 Burlington, Vermont
11 Seattle, Washington
12 Bismarck, North Dakota
13 Oakland, California
14 Huntington Beach, California
15 San Diego, California
16 Scottsdale, Arizona
17 Minneapolis, Minnesota
18 Yonkers, New York
19 Aurora, Illinois
20 Fargo, North Dakota
Hey, just below Sioux Falls, SD, and one step ahead of Bismarck, ND! Wow, Seattle really rates! And Vermont seems to be a happening place, too.

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Old 03-04-2023, 10:35 AM
 
Location: State of Transition
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OK, here are the criteria the pollsters used. Some of these may explain how Vermont made it onto the list twice. Still not sure about the Dakotas, though...
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When putting together its list, WalletHub compared 182 of the country's largest cities across three key factors: emotional and physical well-being, income and employment, and community and environment.

"We examined each city based on 30 key indicators of happiness, ranging from the depression rate to the income-growth rate to average leisure time spent per day," the report states.
Income-growth rate has been fairly stagnant over the decades for anyone but techies, UW faculty, and a few other professionals, so I don't know how that would result in a decent score for Seattle. The results would also seem to imply that higher than average depression rates in Seattle are largely mythological.
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Old 03-04-2023, 10:39 AM
 
Location: Pacific Northwest
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Hey, just below Sioux Falls, SD, and one step ahead of Bismarck, ND! Wow, Seattle really rates! And Vermont seems to be a happening place, too.
Well better than San Diego.
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Old 03-04-2023, 02:56 PM
 
Location: WA Desert, Seattle native
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I will start paying attention to happiness surveys…

Never.
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Old 03-04-2023, 03:26 PM
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If you are born and raised in Seattle it really doesn’t matter. Humans adapt quickly to their environment. As a native Seattleite I adapted. Now I live in an area that gets a lot of sunshine. Adapted to that as well.
Right...you moved to an area with lots of sunshine!!!

And the reason you left Seattle was????
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