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Haha, I live in Portland. And the city I moved here from was on the "twenty happiest cities" list, at least in 2005.
Obviously these polls are unscientific, but this seems even less credible than most. They only take the negative factors into account, not balancing them out with the positive ones. So a city with the best restaurants and entertainment in the entire world would score badly if it was regularly cloudy and the unemployment rate was higher than other comparable cities. And a city in the middle of the desert with nothing in it but concrete boxes for housing would rank pretty highly as long as the concrete house-building trade was steady.
Not to mention, when you look at their stats a little more closely--depression rates, for example, are based on sales of anti-depressants. So Portland doesn't have more depressed people, it has more people taking anti-depressants, which would arguably make them . . . less depressed. Right?
Besides, I kind of like the rain.
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