- Cities have higher salaries and education and lower unemployment rates
- But they are eight times less joyful than their small-town counterparts
- The Canadian researchers say it lays bare the importance of communities over isolation
People who live in rural areas are happier than city dwellers, new research has found.
The study surveyed 400,000 people across Canada using a widely-recognized happiness scale.
Cities have higher salaries, higher education levels and lower unemployment rates.
However, that meant nothing in terms of joy: people who lived in the countryside were, on average, eight times happier than people in urban areas, the study found.
