There is a common perception that good dining environment makes people happy and more the ambiance, greater will be the happiness. But this theory has been proved wrong by a recent survey on the relationship between happiness and quality of restaurants. It appears that relatively obscure areas score over well reputed cities when it comes to happiness of the resident citizens.
"For instance, citizens of New York State, home of what is generally regarded as America's finest food city, ranked dead last in happiness. Those living in the home states of Boston, Chicago, and LA/SF are rated, respectively, as the 44th, 45th, and 46th glummest humans in the land (out of 51, including District of Columbia). On the other end, such decidedly non-gastronomic centers as Alaska, Wyoming, Alabama, Montana, Mississippi, Maine, Arizona, South Carolina, Tennessee, and Hawaii contain ten of the top dozen happiest citizens".
Good food is supposed to make people happy and why such delightful places like New York could not make people there as happy as others living in lesser known places is a mystery worth unraveling. Could it be due to the hectic pace of living encountered in big cities that is coming in the way of happiness? Or could it be the over crowding factor in restaurants in many big cities make people more tense and consequently less happy? Probably food may not be a critical factor that influences happiness of citizens in urban areas.
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