How Happy Is New Jersey Compared to the Rest of America?

If you live in New Jersey, our recent ranking for happiness in comparison to all the other states might surprise you.

Is New Jersey A Happy State?

When you think of a typical day in New Jersey, you might feel like you run into more grumpy New Jersey residents than happy ones.

In fairness, if you spend your day driving to work and back, and being at work, you are seeing your neighbors and friends in the most mood-changing places in the state.

Interactions with other drivers in the Garden State tend to be unpleasant, as are most of the gestures you give and receive on the roadways.

New Jersey Ranks As One Of America's Happiest States

But don't let the surface anger fool you. New Jersey is a very happy state. According to a recent report, we are among the happiest states in the country.

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A published report at Ask This claims that the residents of New Jersey are the third-happiest in the nation.

Hawaii is the happiest state, and it would be hard to argue with that. and Maryland, at #2, is the only other state in America with happier people than we have in the Garden State.

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Let's celebrate the fact that, despite the surface impression we get each day, we live in a state full of good people.

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Maybe today, we will see signs of all this happiness on the Garden State Parkway. Then again, maybe not.