20 Most Miserable U.S. Cities to Live In

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20 Most Miserable U.S. Cities to Live In

Forbes magazine released its dubious 2013 list of the most miserable cities in the United States of America. With the new list for the new year came a new city listed at the top of the list as Detroit, Michigan replaces last year’s most miserable city of Miami, Florida.

The magazine cites Detroit’s high unemployment, violent crimes, shrinking population, and its financial crisis as reasons for giving the city the title.

The list created by Forbes involves the scrutiny of the country’s largest urban areas which are then ranked via factors such as the city’s crime rates, foreclosures, taxes, home prices, commute times, weather, and decreasing populations.

Here are the United States’ 20 Most Miserable Cities of 2013:

1. Detroit, Michigan

2. Flint, Michigan

3. Rockford, Illinois

4. Chicago, Illinois

5. Modesto, California

6. Vallejo, California

7. Warren, Michigan

8. Stockton, California

9. Lake County, Illinois

10. New York City, New York

11. Toledo, Ohio

12. St. Louis, Missouri

13. Camden, New Jersey

14. Milwaukee, Wisconsin

15. Atlantic City, New Jersey

16. Atlanta, Georgia

17. Cleveland, Ohio

18. Poughkeepsie, New York

19. Gary, Indiana

20. Youngstown, Ohio

[BBell]

Wooooo hooooo. Nawleans did not make the list. Nawleans may have it's trouble but it's not Miserable. Except when that late summer heat and humidity start knocking at your door.

[kearnyirish2]

Newark was hoping for a revitalization along the lines of Jersey City, but wasn’t able to expel the undesirables in the same way. As long as they have that albatross around their neck, they’ll never be anything.

Newark’s only hope is the growing Hispanic population; not ideal but certainly better. In their neighborhoods business is transacted and money changes hands (not just drugs; they have supermarkets where others couldn’t make a go of it and such). Booker is better than his predecessor but still a lib; at least he knows no amount of government money will ever make whites want to stay in the city spending money after dark.

[driftless2]

Some cities on the list are dubious. Milwaukee is hardly a horrible city to live in. Even if it’s been run by Dems for decades if not for a century. And Rockford? Can somebody tell me what’s so horrible about Rockford? Other than it being run by Dems I’m assuming.

[nd76]

Why is St. Louis on the list while East St. Louis is not?

Some other really sad, miserable places:

Muskegon, Michigan
Harrisburg, PA
Baltimore, MD
Bridgeport, CT
Syracuse, NY

[Fiji Hill]

I would place Frisco at number one.