Researchers have found that where you live is a significant indicator of how satisfied you will be with your life.
And after interviewing 177,000 Americans from the 100 most populous communities in the US, researchers at Gallup concluded that residents living in Florida's Sarasota metropolitan area were the most physically, financially, and socially well-off in 2014.
Also in the top five were Honolulu; Raleigh, North Carolina; and El Paso, Texas.
The ranking reflects residents' responses to survey questions asking how well their communities fulfilled their financial, emotional, social, safety, and physical needs. Residents were also asked to describe how their community had strengthened or diminished their sense of purpose.
Residents of high well-being communities are 12% more likely to learn new and interesting things, 6% more likely to get positive energy from family and friends, 16% less likely to worry about money, and 25% less likely to suffer from depression over their lifetime, according to the report.
Residents of the communities with the lowest well-being, on the other hand — many of which are in Ohio — are 68% more likely to smoke and 58% more likely not to feel pride in their community.
Since measurements began in 2008, the large communities of Urban Honolulu, Provo-Orem, San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, San Francisco-Oakland-Hayward, and Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington have consistently ranked high in well-being.
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