The Secret to Happiness

Yesterday was one of those Oprah episodes that I desperately hope is true, but it’s very difficult to hunt down actual facts about it. Happiness is very hard to quantify, but yesterday’s show was trying to do exactly that. At the end someone said something like “It comes down to where you live”. In fact, that is a good summary of the ideas of shorter commutes and knowing your neighbors leads to happiness. I think it’s a package deal. They also cited that happiness is 60 percent genetic and 40 percent learned behavior. I still don’t know what the secret is, but surely living somewhere you truly love can’t hurt.