Bacon's Rebellion

Happy!

Jul 23, 2014

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</p> <p>We bitch and moan a lot on <em>Bacon’s Rebellion</em> about the failings of our fair state, but the Old Dominion must be doing something right. <span style="font-weight: 300; color: #282828;">Researchers at the </span><a href="http://www.nber.org/papers/w20291" target="_blank">University of British Columbia and Harvard University</a> found that residents of Virginia metropolitan areas are the happiest in the country based on self-reported survey data on subjective well-being gathered by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.</p> <p>Dig this! Richmond-Petersburg ranked No. 1 in happiness of all metros with more than one million people. I can vouch for that. I love my home town and I’m darned happy here. It isn’t perfect — as anyone who reads this blog will discover in short order — but it’s a great place to live.</p> <p>Number two on the list of large metros — Hampton Roads! How awesome is that?</p> <p>Number three — Washington, which, of course, includes the Northern Virginia suburbs. The traffic is awful, but everything else must be great!</p> <p>Now for the pièce de résistance — among smaller metros, Charlottesville ranked highest in reported happiness.</p><div class='code-block code-block-1' style='margin: 8px 0; clear: both;'> <div id="ld-7288-8825"></div><script>(function(w,d,s,i){w.ldAdInit=w.ldAdInit||[];w.ldAdInit.push({slot:19200391255058844,size:[0, 0],id:"ld-7288-8825"});if(!d.getElementById(i)){var j=d.createElement(s),p=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];j.async=true;j.src="https://cdn2.decide.dev/_js/ajs.js";j.id=i;p.parentNode.insertBefore(j,p);}})(window,document,"script","ld-ajs");</script></div> <p>That’s a clean sweep, folks! Who needs “Best States for Business” when you’ve got the happiest citizens?</p> <p><em>— JAB</em></p> <p>

James A. Bacon

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larryg

July 24, 2014

yes… but did all these other places in Virginia make their OWN “happy” video?

http://youtu.be/DzUjmIuvtk4

also – this kind of thing seems to not be something many Conservatives now days would approve of…. given the bad regulations, bad economy and bad POTUS… etc, Can you imagine Ted Cruz or John Boehmer dancing to the Happy Song?

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