If you feel strangely happy and at peace, you’re not alone. Gallup reports today that the D.C. metropolitan area leads all of the 52 metropolitan areas in the country with populations above one million in well-being. If that sounds like a particularly squishy term, especially for a polling organization like Gallup, here’s how they define it:

The Gallup-Healthways Well-Being Index score is an average of six sub-indexes, which individually examine life evaluation, emotional health, work environment, physical health, healthy behaviors, and access to basic necessities. The overall score and each of the six sub-index scores are calculated on a scale from 0 to 100, where a score of 100 represents the ideal. Gallup and Healthways have been tracking these measures daily since January 2008.

On that scale of 100, our region came in at 71.3, ahead of second-place San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont (71.0) and third-place San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara (70.8).

That’s good, right? Yeah, but when compared to smaller metropolitan area, we fall to ninth on the list, which is topped by Lincoln, NE; Boulder, CO; and Burlington, VT. Charleston, WV came in last, scoring a mere 60.8.