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Is Your Mood a Result of Where You Live?

Posted by samzenpus on from the home-is-where-the-misery-is dept.

Ed writes "Apparently, the Centers for Disease Control released a study indicating that geography can have a significant impact on mood. You may not be surprised to learn that Kentucky is more depressing than Hawaii. However, ranking up there with Hawaii are Minnesota, the Dakotas and Wisconsin. Frustratingly, they have not yet published the study on the web, so it is left as an exercise for the reader to find the original study and post a link for the rest of us."

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  1. Hmmm ... by Xaemyl · · Score: 4, Funny

    Live in a crappy neighborhood makes for crappy moods? Lemme be the first to tell the CDC: DUUUH!

    1. Re:Hmmm ... by aliquis · · Score: 5, Funny

      Since crappy neighborhood probably mean you are there for a reason, such as unemployed / low income and such, yes.

      Personally I live in Sweden and the lack of light and low d-vitamine levels probably don't help much either.

      That and virgin at 30.

    2. Re:Hmmm ... by HTH+NE1 · · Score: 5, Funny

      Still, even in what the popular consensus holds to be the happiest of places, the following quotation could still apply:

      Ursa Minor is almost certainly the most appalling place in the universe. Though it is excruciatingly rich, horrifyingly sunny and more full of wonderfully exciting people than a pomegranate is of pips, it can hardly be insignificant that when a recent edition of the magazine Play-Being headlined an article with the words "When You Are Tired of Ursa Minor You Are Tired of Life" the suicide rate in the constellation quadrupled overnight.

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    3. Re:Hmmm ... by Nutria · · Score: 4, Funny

      Personally I live in Sweden and ... virgin at 30.

      But Anheuser-Busch says that all Swedish babes are hot and will jump in bed with you if you drink Bud-wei-ser?

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    4. Re:Hmmm ... by Jah-Wren+Ryel · · Score: 3, Funny

      Nah, they must have got that wrong, you let them drink beer, and then they may have sex with you.

      And the ones that will look like Mimi Bobeck.

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    5. Re:Hmmm ... by BeanThere · · Score: 4, Funny

      Hehe ... you should've seen me before!

    6. Re:Hmmm ... by rumith · · Score: 3, Funny

      A "well-run city"? What is that? :-) More importantly, where is that?

  2. I live in the United States of America... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    and I'm in a shitty mood. Whats your point?

    1. Re:I live in the United States of America... by Kell+Bengal · · Score: 3, Funny

      You have a point - I moved here recently and now I'm not just cranky, but I'm -paranoid- and cranky.

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  3. My wife lives in the same place I do by syousef · · Score: 5, Funny

    ...not in post natal PMS Hells-ville, so I don't think the article quite holds.

    If you're reading this honey, just kidding! Love you! Let's go shopping for an eternity ring... ;-)

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  4. Missing from survey by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    I'm from the Internet. How do I fare in this survey?

  5. Parents' basement by line-bundle · · Score: 3, Funny

    If you live in your parents's basement you will have a crappy mood.

  6. Re:My mood? by francium+de+neobie · · Score: 3, Funny

    I live in Hong Kong. The noise, pollution and traffic in the urban area sucks. The stupid consumerist culture sucks. You can buy a noise canceling headphone or in-canal earphone to eliminate the noise, but you can't eliminate the pollution and wasted time caused by the traffic. You also can't stop your friends from showing you "bling" even though they actually earn less than you. Oh, and even my mom is wasting MY money for those useless bling, fuck.

  7. Re:Hm, I dunno. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    That summarises my experience with many people in the US. They are convinced that their country, their way of doing things, their existence is the ultimate mode of being. Having come here from Australia, I can tell you that there is plenty of room for improvement; it seems that they believe they have/are the best of everything simply because they've never looked (let alone lived) outside of their own backyard.

    The way you describe Americans sounds a lot like one of the Australians who posts here on Slashdot.

  8. Re:My mood? by maugle · · Score: 4, Funny

    xkcd has a better solution to your problem.

  9. Re:Dakotas? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    I spent a week there one day

  10. Re:My mood? by nametaken · · Score: 4, Funny

    Jesus. Sounds like you win the "most depressed" award in a thread about depression.