{"id":1945,"date":"2009-03-13T08:18:00","date_gmt":"2009-03-13T13:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2009\/03\/happiness-is-outstate\/"},"modified":"2009-03-12T09:20:20","modified_gmt":"2009-03-12T14:20:20","slug":"happiness-is-outstate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2009\/03\/happiness-is-outstate\/","title":{"rendered":"Happiness Is Outstate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ok, I\u2019m confused \u2013 from our local <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bizjournals.com\/twincities\/stories\/2009\/03\/09\/daily32.html?ana=from_rss\" target=\"_blank\">Minneapolis-St. Paul Business Journal:<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Gallup, Healthways and America\u2019s Health Insurance Plans earlier this week ranked Minnesota as fifth in the country for the overall health of its people. In the case of emotional health, Minnesotans were ranked fourth.<\/p>\n<p>The ranking, derived from the Gallup-Healthways Well-Being Index, comes about a week after the <a href=\"http:\/\/twincities.bizjournals.com\/twincities\/stories\/2009\/03\/02\/daily10.html\">Minneapolis metro area came in 19th<\/a> in BusinessWeek.com\u2019s list of the 20 unhappiest cities in the United States.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>In Minnesota, we refer to the Twin Cities as the \u201cmetro area\u201d and the rest of the state as \u201coutstate.\u201d\u00a0 Apparently happiness is found in the outstate areas.\u00a0 This distinction is even more pronounced this weekend as our state high school hockey tournament is underway.\u00a0 You have to live here to appreciate the enormity of this tournament.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, isn\u2019t this a sign that we have <em>way too many<\/em> polls occurring in this country?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ok, I\u2019m confused \u2013 from our local Minneapolis-St. Paul Business Journal: Gallup, Healthways and America\u2019s Health Insurance Plans earlier this week ranked Minnesota as fifth in the country for the overall health of its people. In the case of emotional health, Minnesotans were ranked fourth. The ranking, derived from the Gallup-Healthways Well-Being Index, comes about a week after the Minneapolis metro area came in 19th in BusinessWeek.com\u2019s list of the 20 unhappiest cities in the United States. In Minnesota, we refer to the Twin Cities as the \u201cmetro area\u201d and the rest of the state as \u201coutstate.\u201d\u00a0 Apparently happiness is found in the outstate areas.\u00a0 This distinction is even more&hellip; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2009\/03\/happiness-is-outstate\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"bgseo_title":"","bgseo_description":"","bgseo_robots_index":"","bgseo_robots_follow":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[12,5],"tags":[1248,1250,1249],"class_list":["post-1945","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anecdotes","category-trends","tag-happiness-poll","tag-happy-cities","tag-happy-states"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5Oho-vn","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1482,"url":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2008\/03\/the-cleanest-cities-in-america\/","url_meta":{"origin":1945,"position":0},"title":"The Cleanest Cities In America","author":"Derrick Moe","date":"March 25, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"Maybe the list from Forbes.com (via ABCNews.com) provides some assistance in recruiting candidates for relocation?\u00a0 The Twin Cities is ranked no. 9 on the list.\u00a0 A definite advantage until weather (i.e. winter) is discussed. \u00a0 Miami, FL Seattle, WA Jacksonville, FL Orlando, FL Portland, OR San Francisco, CA Oklahoma City,\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Sourcing&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Sourcing","link":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/category\/hiring\/sourcing\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":424,"url":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2006\/11\/best-cities-for-relocating\/","url_meta":{"origin":1945,"position":1},"title":"Best Cities for Relocating","author":"Lee Fratzke","date":"November 7, 2006","format":false,"excerpt":"Through some of my sourcing efforts this past week I came across several lists for the top cities for relocating. The Employee Relocation Council (ERC) and Primacy Relocation have been conducting these survey's for a few years. From what I found, they publish a yearly list of the top 50\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Trends&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Trends","link":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/category\/hiring\/trends\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1727,"url":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2008\/09\/best-cities-to-build-wealth\/","url_meta":{"origin":1945,"position":2},"title":"Best Cities To Build Wealth","author":"Derrick Moe","date":"September 5, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"From Justsell.com's daily newsletter: Looking to build long-term wealth? According to a recent salary.com survey*, the best American cities in which to build wealth include: Plano, Texas Aurora, Colorado Omaha, Nebraska Minneapolis, Minnesota Albuquerque, New Mexico I don't know about that fourth one.\u00a0 The way they tax up here makes\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Economy&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Economy","link":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/category\/economy\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":365,"url":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2006\/10\/cue-up\/","url_meta":{"origin":1945,"position":3},"title":"Cue Up","author":"Derrick Moe","date":"October 13, 2006","format":false,"excerpt":"According to Inc.com, if you live in Baltimore, you spend more time in line than any other major metropolitan city. With an average wait time of 5 minutes, 13 seconds, Baltimore ranked last in the comparison of customer service speed in the 25 most-populous U.S. cities. I suppose what really\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;General&quot;","block_context":{"text":"General","link":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/category\/general\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":2056,"url":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2009\/06\/for-gen-y-jobs-are-secondary\/","url_meta":{"origin":1945,"position":4},"title":"For Gen Y, Jobs Are Secondary","author":"Derrick Moe","date":"June 16, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"I\u2019m beginning to think Gen Y is the most overanalyzed generation in\u2026a generation.\u00a0 BusinessWeek.com offers up this article - Why Certain Cities Attract Gen Ys.\u00a0 The big city has a general appeal to the Millennials which is probably true for most young generations.\u00a0 However, Gen Y does face a difficult\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Generations&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Generations","link":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/category\/generations\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":20,"url":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2006\/05\/top-10-cities-for-career-advancement\/","url_meta":{"origin":1945,"position":5},"title":"Top 10 Cities for Career Advancement","author":"Derrick Moe","date":"May 11, 2006","format":false,"excerpt":"Readers of this blog know that we are suckers for lists. This one popped up today and had to be shared. One thought, the author mentions that the government's OMB office has split up towns like Raleigh-Durham in to two separate towns. This seems strange - especially living in the\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;General&quot;","block_context":{"text":"General","link":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/category\/general\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]}],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1945","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1945"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1945\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1947,"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1945\/revisions\/1947"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- WP Super Cache is installed but broken. The path to wp-cache-phase1.php in wp-content/advanced-cache.php must be fixed! -->