What makes Happy Valley Happy Valley? And is it really that happy?

Found on Wikipedia:

"Happy Valley" is - especially when used with air quotes - sometimes used in a pejorative or ironic sense when describing Utah County, for a number of reasons:

Some studies and antecdotal evidence suggest Utah County residents have higher than average use of anti-depressant medications, especially Prozac [4], [5] Note that other researchers have questioned the accuracy of such reports. [6] The large number of Latter-day Saints - arguably the highest concentration of the faith in the world - has led some Utah County residents to charge that some Latter-day Saints practice overt or tacit religious discrimination against non-LDS individuals, against persons who have chosen to no longer practice the LDS faith, or against critics of the LDS church. [7] The fervently conservative atmosphere of the region has found more culturally non-native and liberal Latter-day Saints complaining of discrimination by the more conservative locally-rooted Utah Mormon culture.

In more local and recent items of discussion that have been the topics around town:

I heard that the firework display at the Freedom Festival held at the BYU stadium, in yes,no other than Happy Valley, was presented on Saturday night in lieu of Monday being "Family Home Evening."

Isn't celebrating our nation's birthday as a family good enough to count as an evening spent together with lessons to learn? Although not at home, couldn't you arrive home afterward and then have a lesson and a prayer in relation to what you had just experienced at the festival?
Isn't staying at home on Sundays enough? A local community barred a grocery chain from entering business because they planned to be open 7 days a week and would also sell beer and wine spirits on Sundays.

Ooooh, provide no temptation and there will be none? Isn't it a much stronger person to resist letting go of the rod, than to never have a real test and being able to simply ignore what's evil and in front of them by not putting it there?

Many say the LDS community is much different in the communities throughout the rest of the states. Utah must create some sort of ingenuity that none other can. People think this is the promised land that they themselves are the judgers being so concerned of others
actions yet are hypocritical of their teachings. I know of these people. To give you an example, one I used to be related to. She stated recently not to judge someone until you knew them. Yet she has already made judgements on me and my family. Do these people have eyes and ears of their own? Why are they so oblivious to their own hypocrite behavior? Are they that righteous? What's your view point?