Mumbai Unhappiest City In The World To Buy House; Chandigarh, Jaipur Happiest In India

While the millennium city may be the most expensive city in India to buy a house, it is also the least happy place to buy a house in the world.

Atlanta in the US and Sydney in Australia were the second and the third most unhappy places to buy a house globally, a survey by a UK firm, Online Mortgage Advisor, has revealed.

Paris was at number 7 and Dubai at number 19.

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Among the top 20 happiest cities in the world to buy a home, Chandigarh came fifth followed by Jaipur at the 10th spot, Chennai came in 13th, whereas Indore and Lucknow came in 17th and 20th place respectively.

Barcelona in Spain and Florence in Italy were the happiest places to buy property in the world, according to the survey.

Interestingly, Barcelona¡¯s homebuyer photos scored an average happiness score of 95.4 out of a possible 100 -- 15.6 per cent over the global average happiness level of homebuyers.

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Chandigarh scored 13 percent, Jaipur 10.8 percent, Chennai 8.9 percent, Indore 7.4 percent, and Lucknow 7.1 percent, the survey said.

The firm used artificial intelligence to analyse the happiness levels of geotagged photos on Instagram.

¡°We began our study by sorting through hundreds of thousands of geotagged Instagram posts from all over the world to find out how the happiness levels of the average Instagram user compared to those who have recently purchased a home. We then used an AI facial recognition tool to discover the most dominant emotions displayed in the faces in every photo," the study said.

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