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San Diego and Carlsbad Named Among ‘Happiest' Cities in US

San Diego ranks No. 23 on the index of the 25 "Happiest Places" in the United States, according to National Geographic Fellow and author Dan Buettner

NBC 7 morning anchors Marianne Kushi and Greg Bledsoe speak with National Geographic Fellow and author Dan Buettner about his research into the World’s Happiest Cities. San Diego and Carlsbad are among those happiest places — and here’s why.

Here’s a reason to smile, San Diego: with proximity to the water and residents who practice healthy habits, San Diego and Carlsbad have been named among the happiest cities in the United States.

National Geographic Fellow Dan Buettner, author of the new National Geographic book, “The Blue Zones of Happiness,” has spent years traveling the globe and researching places where people live long, happy, healthy lives. According to his research, geography plays a major factor in living joyfully.

On Wednesday, Buettner discussed his findings on NBC’s “Today,” releasing an index of the 25 “Happiest Places” in the U.S. San Diego and Carlsbad ranked No. 23 on the list of 25 cities.

The index findings are based on nearly 250,000 interviews with adults living in 190 metro areas across the nation, Today reports.

Buettner spoke with NBC 7 about why San Diego ranks so high on the happiness scale. He said three main indicators of happiness are present in daily life in America’s Finest City: water, a healthy diet and job/personal satisfaction.

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Half way up Mount Miguel.
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“If you live near water, you’re 10 percent more likely to be happy,” he explained.

He also said 70 percent of people in San Diego say they ate healthy yesterday, and 70 percent say they use their strengths every day in doing what they do best.

When asked if money buys happiness, Buettner said that while healthy finances certainly help one’s quality of life, it’s not everything.

“Money does buy happiness – but only to a certain point,” he told NBC 7. “On average, in America, you want to be making money until you hit about $75,000 a year. But after that, money really doesn’t buy that much happiness. After you’re making that money, you should pull back on the number of hours you work. Focus on getting healthy, focus on doing the things you love, focus on your family.”

Buettner said the happiest cities in the nation share an emphasis on healthy food rather than fast food, are bike-friendly and have easy access to recreation and green spaces. These spaces are not sprawling but rather “coming inward,” creating social spaces.

“The happiest Americans, research found, are socially interacting about six hours a day, so you really want to be spending time with people with whom you can have a meaningful conversation,” he added.

Buettner told NBC 7 that when it comes to happiness and aging, the process unfolds in a “U-shaped curve,” meaning we tend to be happy in our teens and 20s, but less happy between the ages of 45 and 50. After that hump, happiness increases, and it continues until your 100s.

“As long as you stay healthy, your happiness is just going to get better,” he explained.

In addition to San Diego, these places in the U.S. also made the happiness index:

  1. Boulder, Colorado
  2. Santa Cruz-Watsonville, California
  3. Charlottesville, Virginia
  4. Fort Collins, Colorado
  5. San Luis Obispo-Paso Robles Arroyo Grande, California
  6. San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, California
  7. Provo-Orem, Utah
  8. Bridgeport-Stamford-Norwalk, Connecticut
  9. Barnstable Town, Massachusetts
  10. Anchorage, Alaska
  11. Naples-Imokalee-Marco Island, Florida
  12. Santa Maria-Santa Barbara, California
  13. Salinas, California
  14. North Port-Sarasota-Bradenton, Florida
  15. Honolulu, Hawaii
  16. Ann Arbor, Michigan
  17. San Francisco-Oakland-Hayward, California
  18. Colorado Springs, Colorado
  19. Manchester-Nashua, New Hampshire
  20. Oxnard-Thousand Oaks-Ventura, California
  21. Washington, D.C.- Arlington and Alexandria, Virginia
  22. Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington, Minnesota-Wisconsin
  23. San Diego-Carlsbad, California
  24. Portland-South Portland, Maine
  25. Austin-Round Rock, Texas
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