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Burlington ranked as the happiest small city in America

Smiling in Burlington:

The Burlington metro area is the happiest small city in the country, according to a recent Gallup poll. The survey considered the health, lifestyle choices, and optimism of residents. Huntington, West Virginia, was ranked the saddest place to live, while Boulder, Colorado, ranked as the happiest large city in the nation. Burlington ranked high in exercise and healthy eating, while having a very low number of people with diabetes and obesity.

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Men’s Health magazine ranked the most socially networked cities in America, and Burlington came in 13th. The rankings were calculated on the number of Facebook and LinkedIn users per capita, followed by overall Twitter usage. The magazine also looked at overall traffic generated by services such as Myspace, Friendster, Reddit, and Digg and the percentage of households that check out chat rooms and blogs. All those #campchamp tweets must have helped!

Top 10 Ranking:

For the second year in a row, The Princeton Review and GamePro Media, the publisher of GamePro magazine, a video gamer’s bible, have joined forces to list what they consider the “Top 10” undergraduate and graduate programs in video game design. Champlain College came in eighth. The Princeton Review and GamePro made their selections based on the results of surveys of administrators at 150 colleges and universities that offer video game design courses (and in some cases degrees). The full list appeared in the April issue of GamePro magazine.