“Not surprisingly, places with high crime rates rank low on the happiness scale…The reasons are less obvious than you might think. Someone who has been robbed or assaulted, of course, is not likely to be happy, but crime victims still make up a tiny part of the population (in most countries at least). It’s not the crime per se that makes a place unhappy. It’s the creeping sense of fear that permeates everyone’s lives, even those who have never been–and probably never will be–victims of a crime.”

− Eric Weiner −