Silicon Valley is America’s happiest big metro-region and Washington, D.C. is second, according to a new survey of America’s 52 largest metro regions by the Gallup-Healthways Well-Being Index [2].

The regional breakdown in well-being scores is largely consistent with Gallup-Healthways state-level findings, which find higher than average scoring cities in the West and lower than average scoring cities in the South.
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Sui Zhang [3]
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[1] http://www.library.northwestern.edu/data-geospatial-business-services
[2] http://www.gallup.com/poll/125849/Hawaii-Tops-Utah-Nation-Best.aspx
[3] http://twitter.com/bluedpiggy