AMARILLO, TEXAS -- This weekend Amarillo was honored by bring ranked in the top 10 smallest but happiest cities in America.

After telling some of the residents about the ranking, there was a little shock at first but in the end the feelings were mutual.

It something residents all say had a lot to do with the people of the city.

As the saying goes, good things come in small packages and in this case it's right.

But what makes our fair city so appealing?

"I think it's a good community to live in, we have everything here, it's kind of small but it's not as big as Dallas, it's just the right size," said George Parrie.

But Amarillo also has a lot more to offer than just the community and it's size, there is also the people.

"You know they're just more curious, they're nice, they're more generous than most places, they seem to care and they like to have fun," said James Falkey.

"Everyone's super nice and there's always something to do, it's nice other than the wind but you learn to love that," said Cristall Cann.

And that's exactly what people on facebook had to say.

D.W posted, "Because we serve and believe, we are truly blessed by God."

And Luan posted, "One of the several reasons we are one of the happiest cities in the U.S. is that we help each other. We have the most caring bunch of people in Amarillo and the surrounding area towns that really care about their neighbors, their military folks and their friends."

To come up with the rankings, Gallup did more than 300,000 interviews asking people a series of questions grouped into six categories.

Including: life evaluation, physical health, healthy behavior, emotion, work and basic access.