According to a new study conducted by the New York Magazine in an article entitled "Is Urban Loneliness a Myth?", 50.7% of the population of New York City are single-individual households. In Manhattan, 57% of those single-individuals are women as opposed to Brooklyn, where it is only 29.5%.

Mark Twain once said, "the coldest winter I ever spent was summer in San Francisco." But the heat wave in SF these past few summers was stifling.

Mark Twain also once said that New York City is a "a splendid desert — a domed and steepled solitude, where the stranger is lonely in the midst of a million of his race." But in the wake of quantifying human emotion (a study was recently done by the Citizens Committee of New York City on which borough of New York is "happiest"), loneliness is now so much the norm that it is no longer lonely. Lonely, it seems, is the new happy.

Mark Twain is so yesterday. And in case you were wondering, the happiest boroughs of New York City are (in order from happiest to least-happy): Queens, Staten Island, Manhattan, Brooklyn, and sadly (literally) the Bronx.