Apartment living is the recipe for happiness.
That’s what the happy experts at the University of Michigan are saying, at least in a round about way. Apparently, wealth, riches and huge homes do not make you happy.
In fact, in the U.S. home-ownership has been trending upward for decades, but as a nation, we are not getting happier. The whole country is stuck in a rut and our happiness scores haven’t budged in 50 years! Plus with the overwhelming number of houses being foreclosed on because of inappropriate lending, folks are itching to move into apartments.
So if expansive lawns and big mansions don’t make you happy…what does? Well, according to the Happy Experts (not sure if that means the experts are happy and dang it’s pretty funny isn’t it that one could go to school and major in Happy and then get paid by big Universities to discover what makes people happy. And what is your day like as a Happy Expert? “Sorry Honey..I’ll be working late tonight, I am going to the tavern to see if drinking beer and playing pool with my friends makes me happy…) but I am rambling now…you’re reading this paragraph, because you want to know what the experts said makes you happy.
Well, according to the experts “Time to enjoy friends and family” is what makes you happy. “Well, Duh!” you say and that’s just what I said, too.
So the obvious conclusion from all this is that Apartment Residents are happier. We don’t have to mow a lawn, rake the leaves, or clean the pool. And time is happiness – or so I’ve read.
