RANKINGS Happiest State To Live In!!! - Page 5

Mersha · ‎03-10-2010

@bmorechick We can't forget Camden Yards either!

It is a magnificent field.

"My desire to be well informed is currently at odds with my desire to remain sane."

Nonametoday · ‎03-09-2010

I think miserable people migrate from state to state looking for happiness and whoever made these things up probably never lived but one place.

I have had to travel due to both my father's and my husband's career choices. I was always happy where I was planted once the moving van brought my 'stuff.'

I could make my own happiness. People who cannot do that are, unfortunately, unstable. Even in Saudi Arabia where women were not allowed to drive and had to always give up their place in the grocery store line to some male, there is so much to be happy for because of the proximity to so many adventures that most Americans never experience.

I knew the circumstances and I knew those once-in-a-lifetime experiences. I was happy in California although the cost of living was very high and there was slump creep everywhere you traveled but the same is happening in Georgia, so what can I say.

I was happy in Upstate NY although I almost froze at times (LOL). I learned to do lots of things to find my happiness and my children loved meeting new people and new places and learning new customs.

I can't say I have ever lived any place where I was miserable although my mother wished I did so I would return home. I was the baby and all the others had moved to different corners of the country.

In fact, the place in which I was least happy was Hawaii because Hawaii is for the natives or the extremely wealthy. o

Alaska was cold as well but I was a child and did not seem to know to understand it. I just did not like the dark days "when today is tonight."

deepwaterdotter · ‎03-09-2010

@Nonametoday What is "slump creep"? I have never heard of that term.

Nonametoday · ‎03-09-2010

@deepwaterdotter wrote:
@Nonametoday What is "slump creep"? I have never heard of that term.

@deepwaterdotter

Sorry, I mean slum creep. It is where the neighborhood that I can afford, perhaps you are much richer, begins to disintegrate and deteriorate and it soon becomes a less-than-desirable neigbhorhood due to crime.

Texasmouse · ‎09-27-2010

@Nonametoday wrote:
I think miserable people migrate from state to state looking for happiness and whoever made these things up probably never lived but one place.

I have had to travel due to both my father's and my husband's career choices. I was always happy where I was planted once the moving van brought my 'stuff.'

I could make my own happiness. People who cannot do that are, unfortunately, unstable. Even in Saudi Arabia where women were not allowed to drive and had to always give up their place in the grocery store line to some male, there is so much to be happy for because of the proximity to so many adventures that most Americans never experience.

I knew the circumstances and I knew those once-in-a-lifetime experiences. I was happy in California although the cost of living was very high and there was slump creep everywhere you traveled but the same is happening in Georgia, so what can I say.

I was happy in Upstate NY although I almost froze at times (LOL). I learned to do lots of things to find my happiness and my children loved meeting new people and new places and learning new customs.

I can't say I have ever lived any place where I was miserable although my mother wished I did so I would return home. I was the baby and all the others had moved to different corners of the country.

In fact, the place in which I was least happy was Hawaii because Hawaii is for the natives or the extremely wealthy. o

Alaska was cold as well but I was a child and did not seem to know to understand it. I just did not like the dark days "when today is tonight."

@Nonametoday your wonderful attitude is what made it possible for you to be happy, wherever you lived. My mother was like that. So many people feel that the grass is always greener somewhere else. As the saying goes, "bloom where you are planted".

deepwaterdotter · ‎03-09-2010

@Nonametoday wrote:
@deepwaterdotter wrote:
@Nonametoday What is "slump creep"? I have never heard of that term.
@deepwaterdotter

Sorry, I mean slum creep. It is where the neighborhood that I can afford, perhaps you are much richer, begins to disintegrate and deteriorate and it soon becomes a less-than-desirable neigbhorhood due to crime.

Thank you for responding, now I understand your plight. Unfortunately, no one will ever mistake me for being "richer". Living in a rural area we are fortunate to experience crime to a lesser degree, but incidents still occur.

Calcgirl · ‎03-10-2010

@proudlyfromNJ wrote:
@Calcgirl wrote:
From what I hear on the news and a friend who lived in New York, that state should be at the bottom. For those here who live there, I would be interested in your opinion
@Calcgirl I posted on the other state thread. I've lived in southern NY in the Hudson River Valley in the same town for forty years. We are very happy here. NY is a fairly large state so it may be different where your friend lives.
I did not intend to offend you sweet lady, and I am glad you enjoy your beautiful home town, My friends just complained about the high taxes and cost of living there compared to Az. I don't recall the name of the town they lived in. Others from NY I taught with complained about the same issues and crime. But unfortunately crime is everywhere, especially now adays.

FatCatinCT · ‎07-14-2019

@suzyQ3 wrote:
@FatCatinCT wrote:
@suzyQ3 wrote:
@FatCatinCT wrote:
CT is #10. They must have surveyed people that did not own anything and didn't have to pay the high taxes lol
Not necessarily, @FatCatinCT. We own, we pay high taxes, and we love living in California.
Talking about Connecticut, not California
Yes, I know that, @FatCatinCT

lol, got it. CT is a beautiful state but the taxes are horrendous. So many other great places to live but alas, my grandchildren are young and nearby so here we stay unless they move then we will follow.

RedTop · ‎09-01-2010

West Virginia is, and will always be, my only home. I will never leave this beautiful, peaceful place, surrounded by mountains and a gazillion trees. I love everything about this rural life and would not be happy anywhere else.

I don't waste a minute of my life with articles like this.

Sooner · ‎03-10-2010

I sort of have to decide how happy I am going to be. I don't have the luxury of choosing where I live, or what is available to me. Since I don't have family left that is another factor--if we moved it would be just us starting again.

So, I'm about as happy as I make up my mind to be, as the saying goes, and I'd expect that goes for a lot of other people as well.