{"id":655302,"date":"2026-03-14T15:07:23","date_gmt":"2026-03-14T15:07:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/655302\/"},"modified":"2026-03-14T15:07:23","modified_gmt":"2026-03-14T15:07:23","slug":"richest-people-in-dallas-lead-this-weeks-top-stories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/655302\/","title":{"rendered":"Richest people in Dallas lead this week&#8217;s top stories"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A new happiness <a href=\"https:\/\/wallethub.com\/edu\/happiest-places-to-live\/32619\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">study<\/a> has ranked <strong>Plano<\/strong> one of the happiest cities in America this year, and it once again landed on top as the happiest city in Texas.<\/p>\n<p>Plano has moved up on the list and ranks as the 16th happiest U.S. city in 2026. Last year, it was <a href=\"https:\/\/dallas.culturemap.com\/news\/city-life\/happiest-cities-plano-2025\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">17th<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>WalletHub determined the happiest cities in America based on 29 relevant metrics based on &#8220;positive-psychology research&#8221; across three main categories: emotional and physical wellbeing, income and employment, and community and environment. As with most WalletHub studies, it compared the 182 most populous U.S. cities. <\/p>\n<p>Fremont, California claimed the top spot as the happiest city nationwide for another year. Bismark, North Dakota and Scottsdale, Arizona, respectfully, rounded out the top three.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s how WalletHub ranked Plano across the three key dimensions:<\/p>\n<ul class=\"ee-ul\">\n<li>No. 15 \u2013 Emotional and physical wellbeing<\/li>\n<li>No. 22 \u2013 Community and environment<\/li>\n<li>No. 72 \u2013 Income and employment<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Plano&#8217;s happiness far outshines the rest of North Texas; according to WalletHub, <strong>Irving<\/strong> is the 70th happiest city in the country, the third-happiest in Texas, and the second-happiest city in the Dallas-Fort Worth metro. <strong>Garland<\/strong> ranked farther behind as No. 92 nationally, and more DFW cities ranked even lower: <strong>Grand Prairie<\/strong> (No. 106), <strong>Dallas<\/strong> (No. 111), <strong>Fort Worth<\/strong> (No. 113), and <strong>Arlington<\/strong> (No. 119). <\/p>\n<p>The report additionally found that Dallasites spend the third-most amount of time at work in the nation. The city ranked No. 180 in the national analysis of U.S. cities with the &#8220;fewest work hours.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>WalletHub also emphasized that money doesn&#8217;t buy happiness \u2014 after a certain point. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;For decades, researchers have explored the science of happiness and identified several core factors, including mental well-being, physical health, strong social ties, job satisfaction, and financial stability,&#8221; the report said. &#8220;Still, income has its limits \u2014 studies show that earning more than <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pnas.org\/doi\/10.1073\/pnas.1011492107\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">$75,000 a year<\/a> does not lead to greater happiness.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Six-figure earners in Plano aren&#8217;t necessarily as happy as those who don&#8217;t make as much, as a separate financial study from SmartAsset revealed these big earners are only taking home about <a href=\"https:\/\/dallas.culturemap.com\/news\/city-life\/100k-salary-dallas-report\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">$72,653<\/a> after taxes and adjusted for the cost of living.<\/p>\n<p>This is how other Texas cities ranked in the report:<\/p>\n<ul class=\"ee-ul\">\n<li>No. 39 \u2013 Austin<\/li>\n<li>No. 128 \u2013 Houston<\/li>\n<li>No. 135 \u2013 Lubbock<\/li>\n<li>No. 137 \u2013 El Paso<\/li>\n<li>No. 140 \u2013 Laredo<\/li>\n<li>No. 143 \u2013 Amarillo<\/li>\n<li>No. 150 \u2013 Brownsville<\/li>\n<li>No. 154 \u2013 San Antonio<\/li>\n<li>No. 155 \u2013 Corpus Christi<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A new happiness study has ranked Plano one of the happiest cities in America this year, and it&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":655303,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5135],"tags":[5229,1596,271566,20337,50027,20335,358,3187,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":["post-655302","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-dallas","tag-america","tag-dallas","tag-easter-brunch","tag-hot-headlines","tag-jerry-jones","tag-most-popular-stories","tag-texas","tag-tx","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116228158152954551","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/655302","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=655302"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/655302\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/655303"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=655302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=655302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=655302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}