I'd have a beer, but even that doesn't sound good.
Posted on 03/03/2009 9:47:04 AM PST by Abathar
PORTLAND, Ore. -- Portland is the unhappiest city America, according to a new ranking by BusinessWeek magazine.
The publication said it ranked 50 of the country's largest metropolitan areas based on a variety of factors, including depression rates, suicide rates, divorce rates, crime, unemployment, population loss, job loss, weather, and green space. The most heavily weighted factors were the depression, suicide, unemployment and crime rates.
Leslie Storm, director of Oregon Partnership's crisis prevention line, said calls for help are up 71 percent from January 2008 to this year.
Fallout from the rotten economy is the main topic for callers, but she doesn't rule out the weather, either. Counselors and volunteers who handle the hot lines are aware of Seasonal Affective Disorder that can lead to depression, she said.
"I think a lot of it's the economy. I think people are calling us that wouldn't have called us in the past because there are fewer resources. And because there are fewer resources, people who are using alcohol and drugs can't get into a treatment center," Storm said.
While some said the Rose City's reputation for livability, green awareness and creativity ought to keep its residents happier, Storm said that all the people who have moved here for that reason may have left families behind and don't have a built-in support system.
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Well there's your problem in a nutshell...
Too many Liberals!!
They should do a relationship to misery and political position. Ah, screw it, I want to kill myself. Look at the weather. It’s raining, no it’s snowing. Ah crap, the traffic is backed up again.
Don’t forget about the self admitted pederast homosexual mayor Sam Adams.
I'd have a beer, but even that doesn't sound good.
I think that’s been done: there are surveys that show conservatives are much happier than ‘liberals’ (dash it, I want the word back—let them be ‘progressives’ or ‘socialists’, we’re the ones who defend liberty, but I digress). It is a corollary that leftists are more miserable than conservatives.
BTW we also have better senses of humor and are more generous (also confirmed by large-scale survey research, much to the annoyance of the researchers who conducted the surveys).
“Too many Liberals!!”
You are’nt joking there. I work in Portland and am inundated with the “lifestyle” of the “keep Portland wierd” crowd. Even the Mayor is a lying shiftless ped. sodomite.
I would be out of Portland in a heartbeat if I could find a better job in Vancouver. (where I live currently)
You hit it just right. To many Californians moved to Oregon and changed a great state into a mini-California with all their liberal ideas. Along with that, when things go bad with the economics, the weather gets to people real fast. Californians have a hard time with rainy weather all the time. They don’t seem to adjust as well as others. It use to be that Californians would move back to their home state within two years. That’s one reason they found it hard to find a job. Companies knew this fact and didn’t want to go to the expense of hiring them.
Vitamin D deficiency, 2/3 of the days, they go without the sun.
Brought to you by another bunch of useful idiots, who will now move on to another red city, and then fowl the new nest once more.
Excellent graphic!
But they are so “creative” and “imaginative,” particularly about making up things that are not so, such as that the One has the skill and character to lead this country.
I lived there for 2 years.....rain & clouds 7 months out of the year. Almost drove me crazy....so I moved 4 hours south. More sun and less liberals....
Cocktail-party twaddle. Just for laughs (and for a reality check), they should do it for some genuinely unhappy places like Detroit, East Saint Lewis, Camden NJ, et al.
Too many liberals, you are right. Portland is also a sanctuary city for illegal aliens.
Keep your chin down, Cleveland, there’s always next year!
oddly enough, portland is home to some of the best tasting microbrews.
You’re talking about Vancouver, Washingtion, right? Is that a much different town than Portland? Just curious... They’re right next to one another.
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