Have you ever heard someone say: “man, when I finish my internship, I hope I can go to North Dakota where there is lots of happiness?”
No. Because it’s -40° there half the year.
Community Engagement
Social Support
Voter Participation
Drinking Water Quality
Low Industrial Toxins
Low Pollution Health Risk
Urban Air QualityIt seems...like a really silly metric not to include in a quality of life ranking.
It's not possible to measure happiness by asking people.
I remember reading a study about, maybe someone can find it.
The only thing you can measure (or ask about) are proxies to happiness.
How do you correlate something to "happiness" (to determine its a proxy), if you can't measure happiness directly?
I mean, I agree that there's some significant problems in surveying a population, but I'm not aware of any other way to measure something subjective like happiness. I'd love to read the study you're referencing if you can find it.
Public perception has jack to do with actual happiness. A bunch of college students wanting to go somewhere does not give it a good quality of life.
The thing that I like about California is that it’s warmer than the rest of the country in the winter and cooler in the summer, generally expressed by the locals as “if the temperature is below 60 or above 80, everyone complains.”
Even inland California is too damn hot.
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