Does the weather where people in the U.S. and around the globe live make them happy? That's what an iPhone weather app's "Happiness Index" seeks to determine. Weathermob has taken how users feel about the weather win their city and ranked the findings from most to least happy. more ›

Disneyland might earn that title if people actually lived in the castle, but a recent happiness study, based on the "life evaluation" of cities--job opportunities, personal finances, physical health, moods, emotions, and communities--has concluded that the West is the best. No major big cities like Los Angeles made the top ten list, but four California ones did: Oxnard-Ventura (#10), San Jose-Sunnyvale (#7), Santa Barbara-Santa Maria (#6) and Santa Rosa-Petaluma (#5). Honolulu came in third and Boulder, where in Stephen King's The Stand the good people were told to go, came in first. more ›