All The Happy People

Apparently they do not live in The South. USA Today story ranks the top metro areas on a variety of factors that are supposed to add up to happiness. They rank 162 cities in all. Huntington, West Virginia, is at the very bottom. Boulder, Colorado is at the top. And Alabama?

Here are the rankings for the state's largest cities:

Huntsville  #40

Birmingham #117

Montgomery #118

Mobile #146

.....a couple of things come to mind immediately. The first is that I'm glad Huntsville is ranked at the top after what they've gone through the past two weeks. And second: are we sure they didn't just rank the cities by distance from the Gulf of Mexico? What are the odds that they would be in geographic order?

You have to wonder if these never-ending rankings have any true meaning. Happiness is in the heart, after all. And that knows no geography.