Why does the BBC care?
Because Brits have even more dismal lives than Americans do and are always looking for something we do wrong, in their minds, to lift their esteem.
Please don’t tell me you see something negative in this. Come on.
For heavens sake, its just a mildly interesting story on US culture, you cannot seriously be reading this as criticism.
Oh, and we Brits are quite fine thanks. Happy, not ‘dismal’. We after all live in a great and beautiful country with good people.