Posted on 08/09/2010 10:41:04 AM PDT by rightwingintelligentsia
You don't need the U.S. Misery Index to tell you that things are bad in the U.S. Unemployment is near or at all-time highs in many parts of the country, foreclosures continue to happen at unprecedented rates and there are some very real indicators that we are heading toward a double-dip recession.
Some of us should count our lucky stars, however. In certain U.S. cities, life is much worse for residents than in other areas of the country. Using a variety of criteria, including unemployment rates, health data, the number of foreclosures, crime statistics, climate and other measures of misery, WalletPop came up with its unofficial list of the 10 worst cities to live in. This list is far from comprehensive, but there are some significant reasons why these cities made the cut. Read on.
(Excerpt) Read more at walletpop.com ...
Sounds like they’ve got way faulty reasoning. Several of these places could be considered some of the best places to live for various reasons: Miami, Phoenix, las Vegas, LA.....
That, and a carry-in-supper culture (buffets, too!) like many places in the South.
We lived near OKC for a little over three years, and then moved to Tulsa. It's an agreeable enough place, aside from the weather, with nice people.
Of course its nasty...
But no where near as bad as El Paso/Juarez area...lol
McKinney is not small....it’s sprawl
I really thought you would be much higher. My husband has a friend who used to live in Memphis. This year, he found out his well paying, fun job was relocating to Memphis, and quit. That bad.
The ten best places are, how shall I say this, rather....undiverse.
I’d be more inclined to throw away any city in Upstate NY simply because there are places in Upstate NY that are not willing to help themselves. I say that because of the recent todo about gas drilling in the Marcellus Shale-Broome County has taken drilling off its agenda and I believe the state has too. As a proponent of “drill here, drill now”(drill everywhere), I think that’s pretty short-sighted when exploration/drilling could be a boon for the Upstate economy. But, no, most of what you see from Upstate is “save the mountain”, “go green’, etc from a bunch of green wienies. Let them reap what they sow.
Oh, no. ROTFLMAO.
I noticed that, too.
Clearly they have never spent a long winter in Minnesota. lol.....
Ya might as well be on some distant frigid outer planet....
How about this—Readers Digest’s Best Places to Live list said that New York City was the healthiest place to live in the United States. It was ranked #1 because . . . it had more hospitals per capita than any other city!
What about Frostbite Falls, MN?
LOL!!
Shaking head...
I think they were right up there with Eden Prairie, MN as a best place to live. /s
This list is predicated on the fact that nobody was willing to transport the compilers of it into Camden NJ, Buffalo NY, Oakland CA or Washington DC.
Not to mention Centralia PA which is still on fire after almost 50 years...but it’s vacant now.
Used to live in Shawnee and went to OKC often. Lovely city, lovely people, lovely state! I loved it so much that I now live just a few minutes from the OK state border in Fort Smith.
Okay, I didn’t move here because it’s close to Oklahoma, but it’s a bonus!
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