Money doesn't buy happiness, study finds !!!!!!!

Daanyeer · Post by **Daanyeer** » Wed Feb 15, 2006 1:03 pm

Source: Breitbart.com
February 13, 2006

Money doesn't buy happiness, and now there's a study to prove it. Australian researchers found that people in well-off Sydney are among the most miserable in the country, while those in some of the poorest areas are much more satisfied with their lives.

"Only at very, very high levels does money actually have any impact to act as a buffer," said Deakin University researcher Liz Eckerman.

"Money doesn't actually buy happiness and that's what was shown very clearly for the nearly 23,000 people we've interviewed so far," she told ABC radio.

The findings, collated since 2001, show that while there are no extremes of well-being in Australia, the happiest areas had a lower population, more people aged 55 or over, more women, more married people and less income inequality.

The survey assessed a person's satisfaction with their standard of living, health, relationships, life achievement, safety, community connection and future security.

Robert Cummins, a professor of psychology at Deakin who compiled the survey's scorecard, put the difference down to the higher cost of housing and high population density in cities.

"People in these rural electorates often have the advantage of additional disposable income since the cost of living, particularly housing, tends to be reduced outside the cities," he told The Australian newspaper.

Of the 150 national electorates surveyed, one of the nation's poorest, Wide Bay in rural Queensland, was among the happiest.

wesley · Post by **wesley** » Wed Feb 15, 2006 2:55 pm

Indeed, money does not buy happiness. It rents it.

foolxume2005 · Post by **foolxume2005** » Wed Feb 15, 2006 3:07 pm

Bullsh!t give me $80 mil and see if I'm not happy, not only me but every1 that i know will be happy.

Post by **Basra-** » Wed Feb 15, 2006 3:13 pm

[quote="foolxume2005"]Bullsh!t give me $80 mil and see if I'm not happy, not only me but every1 that i know will be happy.[/quote]

Bullcrap!!!

Foolxume aka Lionheart --I concur too. Of course money brings happiness--what y'all talking about! At least if one is pre-disposed to depression like Lionheart--& will not consequently be happy even with Money--at least --money affords him the best psychiatrist. Laughing

Gacalisa · Post by **Gacalisa** » Wed Feb 15, 2006 8:10 pm

really money dont buy happiness, in fact is buys more misery, majority of people that commit suicide come from the rich and those that live in the subarbs, i mean think about it all rich people have like one kid, and that kid becomes so miserable, tha t he ends up shooting the school.

these rich people are miserable, except the black ones, they know how to work with money, and party with it.

SomaliLight · Post by **SomaliLight** » Wed Feb 15, 2006 8:16 pm

^^oh please, we are all gonna die of some misery, we might as well buy whatever happiness our money can afford us. You know how it goes..."money can't buy me happiness, but i am happy if can buy what i want, drive what i want".

foolxume2005 · Post by **foolxume2005** » Wed Feb 15, 2006 9:01 pm

[quote="Basra-"][quote="foolxume2005"]Bullsh!t give me $80 mil and see if I'm not happy, not only me but every1 that i know will be happy.[/quote]

Bullcrap!!!

Foolxume aka Lionheart
nayaa never ever call me lionheart,walaahi that kid is sick in the head.

Basra, · Post by **Basra,** » Wed Feb 15, 2006 9:13 pm

Bullcrap!!!

Foolxume aka Lionheart --I concur too. Of course money brings happiness--what y'all talking about! At least if one is pre-disposed to depression like Lionheart--& will not consequently be happy even with Money--at least --money affords him the best psychiatrist Rolling Eyes

you are not lionheart but a chieckenheart Laughing