Survey puts Genesee County in reasonably happy category

Posted by Howard Owens on April 5, 2009 - 9:11am
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The Gallup organization has produced a map indexing a sense of well-being all across the nation.

The map is a result of surveys asking people in all 435 congressional districts 40 questions "to determine people's physical and mental well-being."

In our slice of WNY, we fall right in the middle of the index.  Now that doesn't tell us if we're mostly happy or mostly unhappy, just that relative to the rest of the United States, we're right in the middle 20 percent of well-being and life satisfaction.

The site that contains detailed reports on each district has a very web-unfriendly Javascript in place preventing me from linking directly to the survey results for the 26th Congressional District.  You can search here.  Our index number is: 65.9  For the top-10 states, Arizona trails the list at 66.8. Overall, New York is 64.7.

It might be fair to say that the 26th District is a island of reasonable happiness surrounded by a sea of misery.

Posted by Tom Gilliatt on April 5, 2009 - 4:03pm
This survey must have been done of the rich side of town, NORTHSIDE!
Posted by John Roach on April 5, 2009 - 4:13pm
Gee, I live on the northside. I didn't know I was rich! Don't tell the IRS.
Posted by Mark Potwora on April 5, 2009 - 4:51pm
How much did that cost..who paid for that..what a joke..
Posted by John Roach on April 5, 2009 - 5:29pm
Mark, you live on the Northside, you're rich, why worry anymore about money?
Posted by Tom Gilliatt on April 5, 2009 - 5:35pm
I meant if I remember right the north east part of Batavia I used to work for my old land lord years ago doing his yard and stuff around his house and I remember alot of nice places over there and you could tell they were very well off and for those that live over that way I'm sorry I didn't mean anything by this only to the topic of the post.



Tom
Posted by Tom Gilliatt on April 5, 2009 - 6:07pm
Again sorry I should have thought before I typed!
Posted by Howard Owens on April 5, 2009 - 6:19pm
Rich can sometimes be relative.
Posted by Tom Gilliatt on April 5, 2009 - 6:41pm
Yep put my foot in this one I did.
Posted by Mark Potwora on April 5, 2009 - 6:55pm
Your right John i forgot how well off i am...Its tuff living in a gated community.....you can stop by if you want Tom,,,I'll leave the gate open...
Posted by John Roach on April 5, 2009 - 7:39pm
Tom,
We all had fun over this one and we know what you were saying.
Posted by Tom Gilliatt on April 6, 2009 - 6:56am
Thanks John and Mark