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> Controlling for... population density of each county,
It's a very weak indicator, I'm living in the densest city I ever lived in and I have less social life than ever. Random 5 seconds search: https://academic.oup.com/innovateage/article/2/suppl_1/19/51... > Follow-up analyses showed there was a significant (p = .005) relationship between population density and isolation in Whites, Hispanics, and others, in that higher population density was associated with greater soci…
I'd say that cities can feel extremely lonely, because you can see all these people all around you but you can't connect with any of them so you kind of feel disconnected or unwanted which heightens the feeling of loneliness. Wheres if you are in a rural location, you might be lonely for lack of people but feel that if you were to find some people that you would get on with them well. Tying this back to the original point, I think if you can take advantage of the huge variety of opportunities the city offers you can easily overcome "city loneliness" whereas "rural loneliness" is much harder to overcome - if you don't get on with the small set of people nearby or don't enjoy any of the small hobby groups available, you're shit out of luck in terms of social interaction and will have to either move, hope someone new moves nearby, attempt to start your own hobby club or get used to your own company.
I don't want to come of as flippant, but I'm genuinely curious: Is there a correlation to how many stories the person's residence has as well? If they live on a 3rd story of an apartment, is there a higher suicide rate than the first floor of an apartment?
Even knowing things like where the final act was committed (at home, not at home, etc) would be super useful, but that data is hard to come by i'm sure, especially at scale.
Altitude as a proxy for isolation, perhaps
> Controlling for... population density of each county,
High altitude is also associated with longevity, reduced heart disease, and more efficient mitochondria.
They do say this: "Despite a negative correlation (r = −0.31, p < 0.001) between county altitude and the all-cause mortality rate, there was a strong positive correlation (r = 0.50, p < 0.001) between altitude and suicide rate at the county level (Fig. 1)."
It'd be funny if it turned out to be that somehow it's safer to live at higher altitude meaning suicides rates would be proportionally higher since you die less of other things. It's something I've mused about in the past, if you extend technological advances long enough into the future, suicide rates would go up because there'd be less other things to die from due to advances in medicine and so on.
> Although there was a negative correlation between county altitude and all-cause mortality (r = −0.31, p < 0.001), there was a strong positive correlation between altitude and suicide rate (r = 0.50, p < 0.001).
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Getting income data from specific people can be hard...
Harder than publishing bogus studies for sure
They don't mention about temperature. Is it controlled for? Winter months are know to be "sadder" than summer months.
Cold is easier to deal with than dark and gloomy when I go to work and dark and gloomy when I come home.