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11 January 2002

It appears that money can buy you happiness – up to a point. “Winning just �1,000 can be enough to change a person’s outlook on life”, the BBC reports, based on an academic survey. “However, less than �1m is unlikely to have a lasting effect on a person’s happiness and experts found a strong marriage and good health were more likely to make people feel content than money.” Certainly I’ve been wealthier than I am now but thanks to my finding a wonderful woman to marry I have never been happier.

Other statistics provided at the end were even more interesting – “The research found that women tended to be happier than men, and people in their 30s were least likely to be content… happiness followed a U-shaped pattern, with people beginning life happy but becoming discontented in their early 30s, before their happiness recovered and continued, increasing into their 60s.” I wonder what accounts for that? Being in my mid-30s I suppose I should find this cheering!

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