The so-called “happy city” is, in essence, a highly expensive asset exchange—trading one asset for another.

Just look at these lists: exceptionally high benefits are always tied to extreme prices and rent.
In the top three for prices, Copenhagen—housing in Zurich is nearly impossible to get, and even Luxembourg’s middle class can’t afford to live there.
This shows that the so-called sense of happiness is maintained only after the bottom layers have been filtered out through extremely high economic barriers.
You think you can move over and enjoy those high benefits, but in reality, without enough assets as backing, you don’t even have the qualification to be treated as expendable—something to be consumed in the process.
Happiness has never cared about latitude and longitude; it only cares how many chips you’re holding in your hand.