New Yorkers are like Marines, they aint happy unless they are complaining.

...You don't need a study to realize the New Yorkers are in fact miserable...just ride a subway car, or a bus, or go into a bank and wait in line for more than 30seconds...

...or read this blog :)

"1010Wins did their own street survey and found plenty of smiling people!"

1010 should have interviewed Mr Clyde Bruckman; when asked about this survey he replied,

"I'm not smiling. I'm wincing."

(Mr Bruckman's outlook has probably improved since dying)

"This X-Files moment has been brought to you by 1010WINS..."

God that was a great episode with Peter Boyle.

wait, wait, wait. being a baseball team fan has anything to do with happiness? gratification, maybe, but happiness i don't know.

... i mean, it's really sad.

Hawaii.. Don Ho,hula girls and beautiful beaches.

Louisiana.. Great hospitality and food.

Colorodo.. Sun sets colors open space and clean air.

Florida.. I'm retired. LOL

Tennessee..Ain't no place where I'd rather be. (does it for me)

NEW YORK...It starts with quality of life. I walk out my door in Sheepshead Bay Brooklyn and I have to avoid a dozen plastic bags of dog poop on my way to the subway.There is graffiti all over buildings.The subway station is being renovated, the trains are filthy and I paid too much fare.

It makes it a lot easier to focus on the negative from that point on.

Not only that but let's face it, you look like shit too.

I never had anything against you before. But you just must be a piece of work with a mouth the way you spew shit.

If you wonder where your run of bad luck comes from, it came from me.

Yeesh, wotta grouch! I was just being nice.

If that's the best you can do. OK. LOL

God, if I was happy, I'd have to throw myself off a building.

Being born in Tennessee I feel qualified to state: I'm quite sure that being miserable in NYC is still infinitely better than being happy in Tennessee.

I completely agree. I grew up in Nashville, but I've been living here for about four years now. I can't think of anything that would make me want to go back to Tennessee. Even a visit to my family for less than a week is almost more than I can stand.

maybe people in those hicklands are happier because we're busy working our asses off to subsidize their states while they smoke meth and fuck without contraception.

google red state socialism.. ugh

i'm happy being miserable.

It's New York State, not New York City, so putting "New Yorkers" in the headline is disingenuous. There are lots of places outside of NYC in NY State that would make me miserable too.

In terms of New Yorkers, we may be miserable, but we would be more miserable somewhere else. Can you imagine having to live in Hoboken or on Long Island? Faced with those options, I'm sure most New Yorkers perk up.

my husband and I have this discussion every time we discuss housing. Friends from "back home" buy large homes for what a studio or 1br apt would cost on Staten Island. my husband's response is, "that's because no one wants to live there." It's not so much about IQ. It's education. People there (MS, specifically) are more concerned with comfort, slow life, enjoying family, low career aspirations (not that they don't have any, it's just different than in other areas we've live in). Sure you have some MDs and lawyers... but we're talking industry. biotech, computers... unless it's military related, it's not there and industry doesn't want to move there b/c for the most part, the people educated for those careers would rather live in CA and the NE. Ignorance is bliss... sure... friends who have visited me here and in Chicagoland area were amazed at the parks and all that the cities have to offer. (trust me, the parks here are incredible compared to the towns my hubby and I grew up in, the schools here are SO far ahead... so for better educated society, I don't mind paying the higher taxes) Do you get that in New Orleans? Hell no. I don't consider Bourbon St and the Quarter to equal in comparison to the cultural diversity you'll find in NYC.

So are people happy there? yeah. My parents were happy with next to nothin' and not traveling. Are people happy here? I think the majority of people I've met here are happy... have they met their goals in life by age 35? most no... but I think that's a driving force to keep a city going in the right direction. Striving for more (and I'm not talking iPhones, not objects... acheivements).

I admit it. I'm fucking miserable. HELP ME FOR CHRISSAKE I CAN'T TAKE IT ANYMORE! HEEEEEELP!

It's interesting that the ranking of happiness by state is inversely proportional to the IQ averages by state.

Ignorance is bliss.