Friday, July 17, 2015
Can You Run A City Based on Happiness?
It’s hard to imagine anyone being unhappy living in Santa Monica, California. The affluent beachfront city, a suburb of Los Angeles, is home to surfers, students, and celebrities mixed with vacationers have a good time.
But not everyone’s doing as well as you’d think. According to the city’s first well-being index—and one of the first put together by any city in the world—many of the city’s 90,000 residents feel disengaged in their civic and social life....