Brian Lair on WNYC, and as a segue from that, for our last 15 minutes, we'll take your calls now on the happiest place you've ever lived, or what do you think makes a city, or for that matter, a suburb or a rural

area, a happy place to live? 212-433 WNYC, 212-433-9-692 caller text. Why do we ask this today?

Well, each year, something called the Institute for the Quality of Life,

comes out with its Happy Cities Index.

And for background, each year, Nordic countries tend to dominate the top of the list.

No surprise if you've ever caught the headline.

But this year, two American cities were featured on the list,

and within the top 30.

Can you guess what they are?

Okay, time's up.

New York City came in at number 17 and Minneapolis came in at number 30.

So, listeners, we will take your calls on the happiest place and how you define it that you've ever lived. And what makes or would make you happy to live in a place? Not

everybody has that much choice. 212-433, WMIC. And this isn't just happy vibes that they're measuring. They have certain data points.

Indicators are grouped into categories like education and innovation, governance and transparency,

health and well-being, mobility and transport, environment and sustainability, and economy and business.

So based on some of those categories, we want to hear your most favorite place, your happiest place,

if you've lived in multiple cities, and why?

212-433 WNYC, 212, 433-9692. I think it's tough to actually come up with this.

And as somebody who has lived in a few cities, grew up in New York, but I lived in Albany for a while, Columbus, Ohio for a while, Norfolk, Virginia for a while, and then back, For me, it's so dependent on the circumstances of my life more than some of the sort of

larger factors.

But maybe for a lot of people, the intersection of your personal life and these things

really does define when you were happy based on where

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