MSN real estate tends to feature real estate news in bite-sized slide shares with images (and links for home buyers to search properties listed for sale on Realtor.com). A new study, more complicated and comprehensive than would normally be published for consumers to digest,was summarized there from Gallup and Healthways Well-Being Index, known as The American State of Well Being study, a poll of 178,000 people in 2013 across the country. The distilled info is broken down by state, metro area or city and also by congressional district. San Jose – Sunnyvale – Santa Clara (the metro area in Santa Clara County, what we would call Silicon Valley) came in quite strong! MSN picked it up, condensed the info and provided a list displaying a sample of homes for sale in the 10 happiest cities in the U.S., which you can read online here.
Not surprisingly for residents of The Golden State, California landed three of the ten spots. Cites or areas named as where people are the happiest ones in the United States are:
- Provo, Utah
- Boulder, Colorado
- Fort Collins, Colorado
- Honolulu, Hawaii
- San Jose, California
- Ann Arbor, Michigan
- Naples, Florida
- San Luis Obispo, California
- San Francisco, California
- Lincoln, Nebraska
Silicon Valley, Santa Clara County and the San Jose area still are “The Valley of Heart’s Delight“, at least that’s how it seems when the locals are polled!
Because the San Jose – Sunnyvale – Santa Clara area is a “metro” area, it would seem to include these nearby towns and cities: Los Altos, Palo Alto, Los Gatos, Monte Sereno, Saratoga, Cupertino, Mountain View, Campbell, Los Altos Hills and other parts of Santa Clara County. Congrats to the whole South Bay region!
To learn more about this study and its results, please click on the Gallup-Healthways link above.
