Ever frolicked questioning about what’s the happiest metropolis in America?
Yeah, neither have we.
However apparently some of us at HouseFresh.com — a web site devoted to serving to individuals enhance the air high quality of their properties — apparently has.
The corporate has sponsored a research to search out out what’s the jolliest metropolis within the 50 states and the highest prize goes to:
Harmony.
Yup, that’s proper — Harmony, the house of the Harmony Pavilion, Six Flags Hurricane Harbor and Luigi’s Italian Delicatessen, takes the crown because the “Happiest Metropolis within the U.S.”
That’s fascinating, partly as a result of we had been instructed a couple of months again that it was truly Fremont that's tops in terms of happiness.
But, that Alameda County metropolis — which got here in at No. 1 in a 2022 report by the private finance web site WalletHub rating Happiest Cities in America in 2022 — doesn’t even make the highest 20 of this present score.
Did Fremont all of a sudden get unhappy? Perhaps the fact of the Saddle Rack’s closing is simply beginning to decide on the nation music followers in that metropolis? Really feel higher, Fremont! You’ve nonetheless received Strizzi’s.
Filling out the highest 5 simply behind Harmony on the present checklist had been (in descending order) Provo, Utah; Knoxville, Tennessee; Charleston, South Carolina; and Mesa, Arizona.
In addition to chart-topper Harmony, the one different Bay Space metropolis to make the highest 20 was San Francisco, which ranked in at No. 15.
The happiness rating was primarily based on, properly, smiles. No, we’re completely severe.
HouseFresh used “Microsoft’s face recognition API, Azure, to investigate a database of Instagram selfies from each state and the 100 greatest U.S. cities to see that are the happiest locations to dwell,” in response to the research. “This facial recognition software locations numerical estimates on feelings primarily based on traits and expressions. To work out the happiest cities and states, we used the FaceAPI happiness rating, averaging all of the scores in every location. For the smiliest cities and states, we thought of that a face has a smile if its smile rating was better than 0.75. The places had been ranked by the share of individuals smiling.”
Seems that just about 75 % of the individuals within the Harmony pictures had been smiling. That makes Harmony the “smiliest” — wait, is that an actual phrase? oh, properly, simply go together with it — metropolis in America.