Posted on 04/01/2013 6:55:09 AM PDT by Morgana
Gallup is out with its latest batch of "well-being" data, and a new city has fallen to the lowest spot in the rankings.
This year, Charleston, W.Va. ranked lowest on the pollster's index of well-being in metropolitan areas. It displaced Huntington-Ashland, W.Va.-Ky.-Ohio, which came in last place the previous two years.
The index ranks well-being by averaging scores in six categories: Life evaluation, emotional health, work environment, physical health, healthy behaviors, and access to basic necessities.
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Worse than Chicago? I don’t think so.
I think they mean by business and economics not by crime and Amish.
Well, I see the town I grew up in made the list for worst cities—Beaumont, TX.
It was a great place to grow up in back in the 40’s and 50’s, if you did’t mind air that you could see and smell. Of course the townspeople referred to it as the “smell of money”, as the pollution was from all the refineries and a large paper mill. This is where the majority of the population got their jobs.
Detroit not on list?
Detroit not on list?
No...that’d be racist.
Ahh, ok. Well, gotta go. Time for milking.....
Remember it’s “The Business Insider”. A ridiculous excuse for journalism if there ever was one.
Yes, gosh darn it, it looks like a lot of the cities on the list just don’t have the huge traffic snarls, noise, mobs of people, and high violent crime rates that many wonderful big cities have. Also they must be missing one of the key ingredients beloved by liberal scribblers everywhere: lots of foreign restaurants where you can eat breaded swamp roots or diced gerbils or some other foreign “delicacy.” As conservative readers have grasped, many of these lists are made up by big city libs who detest middle-class Americans and their tastes.
How many are run by Democrat administrations? < /sarc >
Gary and Calumet City, Ind. should have been on the list.
If such lists have any merit, these cities would have achieved lifetime emeritus status by now, and removed from competition so as to not skew it for the aspirants.
This was pre-tornado Joplin.
I was driving cross-country and this was even before GPS because we had the Rand McNally on our laps, tracing our route across the country with a number 2 pencil (so we could erase for our next trip).
We were heading east by way of Oklahoma on I-44 and as the sun was coming up, we decided it was time to have breakfast so we pulled into this breakfast joint that looked sort of like a Waffle House. Maybe it was a disenfranchised Waffle House under new ownership but it was in a rough part of town hard by a set of railroad tracks and a laundromat.
They had this thing on the menu called a "garbage pail" which was evidently remnants from the grill that they normally would have thrown away. Bits of egg, ham, bacon, fried potatoes, hash, and whatnot, all tossed into a small silver pail that was set by your plate with a plate of toast and a cup of scalding black coffee.
It seemed to go down okay but as we were leaving the restaurant, I started to feel nauseous and suddenly I let it all loose on the sidewalk outside. I felt bad I could not make it to a toilet or at least a trash can to hurl into. But no, it splattered all over the sidewalk and a little bit got on my shoes and pants too..
I was so disgusted by the whole scene that I jumped into my car and burned rubber to get out of there. However, I misjudged the height of the curbing getting out of the parking lot and scraped the underside of my car on the sidewalk getting out of there. I then ran a stop light and got pulled over by the Joplin police, who were quite rude, even though they did let me off with a warning.
I couldn't wait to get out of that two-bit town and I'm shocked it did not appear on this list.
You’re blaming poor Joplin for making a bad breakfast choice at a dive ? :-P
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