If you are looking to move to a happy place, you may want to check the north of Puerto Sarasota-Bradenton, Florida area: The region reported the highest well-being of the 100 most populous communities in the country according to a new survey.
The five happiest metropolitan areas also included urban Honolulu, Hawaii; Raleigh, North Carolina; Oxnard-Thousand Oaks-Ventura, California; and El Paso, Texas, according to the Index wellness Gallup-Healthways, a measure based on factors such as feelings of purpose and physical health.
Metropolitan areas with the lowest score being were Youngstown-Warren-Boardman, Ohio and Pennsylvania; Toledo, Ohio; and Knoxville, Tennessee, according to the survey. Ohio also had three other communities that ranked in the top 10 for the welfare of Dayton, Columbus and Cincinnati. [See the complete list of the happiest metropolitan areas of the United States]
From January to December 2014, Gallup-Healthways researchers conducted telephone interviews with a random sample of more than 176,000 adults living in metropolitan areas in 50 states and the District of Columbia. These areas were defined by the Office of Management and Budget.
Welfare has been calculated on a scale from 0 to 100 (where 0 represents the lowest possible welfare and 100 representing the highest). The measure has been taken into account the welfare, plus five essential elements of wellbeing, including feelings of that day, relationships, financial security, safety and pride in one's community, and physical health.happy poems
The survey revealed great differences between the communities with the highest and lowest scores being. Compared to people living in the most prolific areas, regions lowest score were 55 percent less likely to love what they do every day, and 58 percent more likely to not be proud of their community.
The inhabitants of these "sad" communities also have 35 percent more likely than those who have the greatest being that has experienced food insecurity in the past year, and 32 percent less likely to have someone in their lives, encouraging them to make healthy choices. Residents of low-lying areas of welfare were also 26 percent more likely than those with high welfare areas to be obese and 68 percent more likely to smoke, according to survey results.
Although Puerto North Sarasota-Bradenton, Florida had the highest overall score being not score the highest of any single element of wellbeing. El Paso, Texas, scored highest for both objective and physical wellbeing. Provo-Orem, Utah, was the greater good of the community. Urban Honolulu had the greatest financial wellbeing, and Chattanooga, Tennessee and Georgia had the highest welfare, the results of the survey showed.
However, Youngstown-Warren-Boardman, covering Ohio and Pennsylvania reported the welfare of both the target and the lowest welfare, while Toledo had the lowest welfare community. Residents of Columbia, South Carolina, were being lowest for large financial communities and Knoxville was the physical low.
Regional results are consistent with reports of happiness throughout the state, showing that welfare is generally higher in the northern plains, the lowest in the mountainous south west and west, and the Midwest Industrial.
The states with the highest welfare also tend to have lower drug use for relaxation, the survey found.
In general, the inhabitants of the places with greater welfare were more likely to score well on several elements, which probably had a synergistic effect, the researchers said.
"This may reflect what is perhaps the most important factor separating high welfare of the communities in the nation of those who are less well: a holistic vision of being" the researchers said in a statement.happy poems
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