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FYI... Moncton made the 1996 Reader's Digest Top 10 of Everything for annual snow accumulation in North America. We receive 3,360 mm (132.3 inches) of snow. (9 of the 10 locations were in eastern Canada, the other one was in Blue Canyon City, California. Moncton also became famous for receiving five feet of snow in a single snow storm in 1993.) In the 1997 Reader's Digest honesty test, where wallets with cash and I.D. were randomly dropped in towns and cities across North America and around the world, Moncton was rated "The most honest place in North America" Out of 10 wallets dropped, all ten were returned! (No American locations returned all, the only two other places that did were Oslo and Odense in Denmark) The National Geograhpic Society listed two Canadian destinations in it's 1999 listing of the planet's 50 greatest places to visit. Editor Keith Bellows calls the fifty spots on the list the world's "most remarkable" places at the turn of the century. "These are destinations we believe no curious traveller should miss. Not only do they capture the spirit and diversity of our world, but each of them marks you indelibly when you experience it." The Maritime provinces (New Brunswick, Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island) was placed in the "country unbound division" in the company of places such as the fiords of Norway. The country unbound category groups the places which are the best examples of "where nature and man coincide harmoniously." (The western Rockies was the other Canadian location, in the wild places category together with such spots as Antartica, the Amazon and the Australian Outback.) Moncton, N.B., is the most polite city, according to a courtesy test of Canada's 15 largest cities conducted by Reader's Digest (2007). The magazine sent two undercover reporters across the country to carry out an informal survey that marked each city on whether people held the doors open for its journalists, whether salesclerks thanked them for purchases and whether people would pick up a dropped folder in busy locations. Moncton earned an 80 percent rating, with other Canadian cities ranging from 77 to 50 percent. Where's the happiest place in Canada to live? In the province of New Brunswick, according to a couple of studies about the nation's happiest places. Moncton, N.B., (along with Saint John, N.B.) were in the top five Canadian cities whose citizens were satisfied with their quality of life by two of the more recent studies. The other studies showed New Brunswickers in general are a happy lot. All based on elements such as trust in neighbors, health, work and engagement in local activities. (Best of Canada, Reader's Digest June 2008).