WV ranks last in Happiness

[kevinm]

Originally Posted by CTMountaineer

There are a lot of unhappy folks in the state right now, since the government has largely destroyed one of the primary industries that employed 28,000 people, ... who lost their jobs as a result. That said, I would think that any logical analysis would say it is really location specific. Unless you are talking about a few malcontent blowhards, we seem to have a happy lot here in Morgantown. We'd have a happier rating if the malcontents would pack up and leave, but some of them just keep on hanging on. It is interesting to see, for example, that Texas is in the bottom half of the "rankings". That is probably also location specific and based on a handful of chronic complainers too. Most Texans I have met are generally quite content. I seriously doubt the validity of this ranking.

You cannot judge an entire state by one college town.

[CTMountaineer]

Originally Posted by kevinm

You cannot judge an entire state by one college town.

No, you can not. And, that was my point. Anything like this is location specific, and using a state as a model for comparison is incorrect because there are invariably wide variances from one part of a state to another.