Saint John (Province of New Brunswick) is the happiest city in Canada
The New Brunswick city was one of several Atlantic Canadian centres to score well in a satisfaction study conducted by the University of British Columbia.
Sponsored by the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research, the findings were based on survey data provided by Statistics Canada.
John Helliwell, an economics professor at UBC (University of British Columbia), examined close to 100,000 responses to Stats Canada’s ETHNIC DIVERSITY survey of 2002 and its general social survey of 2003.
“The magic is to find out, not only how happy people are with their lives, but to situate them in communities (and) explain why people who are happy… are happy,” Helliwell said.
Saint John led the pack with a life satisfaction score of 8.6 out of 10, which Helliwell said makes it among the happiest cities not only in Canada, but the world.
“That’s pretty high,” he said. “Denmark is the highest country and runs about 8.1 or 8.2.
Saint John, N.B. is operating in pretty rarified territory…so something’s going well.”
(Would Saint John’s 97% homogeneous White population that lacks any real “racial diversity” be an important factor in this wellness? Click underlined cities for demographic breakdown. -Editor-]
Quebec City placed 2nd.
Charlottetown (Province of Prince Edward Island) was third.
Moncton (Province of New Brunswick) & Kitchener (Province of Ontario) tied for fourth.
St. John’s (Province of Newfoundland) was sixth.
Rounding out the Top 10, in order, were Saskatoon, Regina, Winnipeg and Halifax.
Helliwell said it’s no coincidence that smaller communities scored higher than bigger ones. He said trusting others is important and those kind of connections are easier to make in smaller cities. >Source
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