New York City is America's unhappiest town

[garbon]

 

http://www.nydailynews.com/life-style/new-york-americas-unhappiest-city-study-article-1.1877204

The National Bureau of Economic Research says New York is the unhappiest city in he U.S. Pittsburgh, Louisville, Milwaukee and Detroit follow.

New York, New York's little town blues aren't melting away.

It's just the opposite, according to a study released by the National Bureau of Economic Research that says New York is the unhappiest city in the U.S.

New York, Pittsburgh, Louisville, Milwaukee and Detroit are, in that order, America's least happy cities. Survey data from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention asked respondents: "In general, how satisfied are you with your life?" Researchers then tweaked that data for factors like race, education, marital status and family size.

"Our research indicates that people care about more than happiness alone, so other factors may encourage them to stay in a city despite their unhappiness," UBC researcher Joshua Gottlieb said in the report.

"Researchers and policymakers should not consider an increase in reported happiness as an overriding objective," he added.

The city that's all smiles is Richmond, Va., followed by jovial metro areas Norfolk, Va.; Washington; Raleigh-Durham, N.C.; and Atlanta, Ga.

Gothamites aren't buying this sob story. New York's population is currently 8.4 million, an all-time high.

Just ask new kid on the block Jaclyn Minker, 22, who moved to the Upper East Side this summer.

"There's nothing I can't do in New York City," said Minker, who works at a startup company in Brooklyn.

"If happiness is doing what I love, when I want to do it, New York City must be a happy place. There is such variation and uniqueness in each neighborhood that I visit and person that I meet and that makes me happy to live here," she adds.

For everyone else, if you can be unhappy here, you can be unhappy anywhere.

[DGuller]

Not surprising.

[mongers]

Garbon you should turn this around for the Big Apple, maybe think about leaving the place.   

[Darth Wagtaros]

Its a shithole. Of course its denizens are unhappy.

[garbon]

Its a shithole. Of course its denizens are unhappy.

[Josquius]

I blame the gays.
And the blacks.
No way is it the wealth disparity.

[Ideologue]

The only Goddamned useful things about NYC are that it votes Democratic in federal elections and you can blow it up in movies.  Which are largely made by Hollywood in Canada.

[dps]

It's the most populous city in the country, by far.  Of course it's going to be the unhappiest--there are simply more people there to be unhappy.

[Eddie Teach]

It's the most populous city in the country, by far.  Of course it's going to be the unhappiest--there are simply more people there to be unhappy.

Sure, but one presumes they're talking about per capita unhappiness. 

[dps]

It's the most populous city in the country, by far.  Of course it's going to be the unhappiest--there are simply more people there to be unhappy.

Sure, but one presumes they're talking about per capita unhappiness. 

Well, yeah, but to confirm that I'd have had to actually read the article in the OP.

[Razgovory]

I blame the gays.
And the blacks.
No way is it the wealth disparity.

I can always count on you to post something dumber then I can even think of.

[Caliga]

Louisville doesn't seem particularly 'unhappy' to me.  But I try to avoid the poors... maybe they're unusually unhappy, I dunno.

[garbon]

Louisville doesn't seem particularly 'unhappy' to me.  But I try to avoid the poors... maybe they're unusually unhappy, I dunno.

Because people generally just walk around with their emotional state on their sleeves.

[alfred russel]

The only Goddamned useful things about NYC are that it votes Democratic in federal elections and you can blow it up in movies.  Which are largely made by Hollywood in Canada.

You should move there.

[Ideologue]