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Feeling Blue? Magazine Grades Cities On Depression (Texas Cities Found To Be Happiest)
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| March 9, 2005
Posted on 03/09/2005 6:15:37 PM PST by Stoat
Feeling Blue? Magazine Grades Cities On Depression
Texas Cities Found To Be Happiest
POSTED: 12:15 pm EST March 9, 2005
Even before the Super Bowl, Philadelphia was a depressed town. The city of brotherly love comes in last in Men's Health's rankings of 101 cities on depression. Philly is joined at the bottom by Detroit, St. Louis and St. Petersburg and Tampa, Fla., according to a news release. People are much more jolly in Texas. Laredo tops the list, one of four cities earning an "A+" from the magazine. The other least depressed cities include El Paso and Corpus Christi, Texas, and Jersey City, N.J. Criteria for the rankings included information on antidepressant sales from NDC Health, suicide rates from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and information from the CDC's Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System. The rankings are published in the April issue of Men's Health, which will be on newsstands March 15.
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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: cities; depression; health; topten
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To: bboop
the partying did not stop all night long. And it was gross. You partied all night long and it was gross?
What kind of party did you go to?
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posted on
03/09/2005 7:35:12 PM PST
by
Jorge
To: hispanarepublicana
Lubbock is a c+? This is the city that considered buying a billboard in Austin at hwy 183 and 290 stating: "Today in Lubbock it's 85 degrees with 10% humidity. Your friend that lives there got to work in 15 minutes this morning. Wouldn't you rather be in Lubbock ?"
Today it was 75 degrees with no wind, no humidity and clear skys....lots of Republicans too...and
San Antonio is just a c+? Just the margaritas and food alone ought to bump it to a B!
Considering your comments as well as post # 8, I'm thinking that Texas must be an awfully nice place to live (I'm worried about the fire ants and grackles mentioned by others though)
I was born in Seattle and have lived here most of my life, and I am so completely unhappy here I can hardly express it....our state and city governments are utterly corrupt and hard-Left, cars with pro-Bush bumper stickers are routinely vandalized, and the Leftist mentality permeates much of the state like a cancer. "sigh"
One of the few things that make life here livable are the GREAT Freepers who are about the only sane ones around.....
42
posted on
03/09/2005 7:36:08 PM PST
by
Stoat
(Rice / Coulter 2008: Smart Ladies for a Strong America)
To: clamper1797
Stockton is a B ???? Stockton is a pit filled with gang membersPerhaps the fear and lowered quality of life as a result of the gangs is something that longtime residents have simply come to accept and have gotten used to, and so it doesn't manifest itself as clinical depression? Perhaps there are other aspects of the city that create a balance? I haven't been to Stockton so I'm only guessing.
Curiously, Detroit is near the bottom of the list, and although I haven't been to Detroit either I've heard that it's also overrun with gangs. .....
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posted on
03/09/2005 7:44:48 PM PST
by
Stoat
(Rice / Coulter 2008: Smart Ladies for a Strong America)
To: nhoward14
They're just happy to be here. Being a FREE country and all.
44
posted on
03/09/2005 7:47:23 PM PST
by
unixfox
(AMERICA - 20 Million ILLEGALS Can't Be Wrong!)
To: Stoat
In my area of Texas (bottom of the Panhandle) fireants are more rare than liberals. There's more to Texas than Austin and the overrated Hill Country. As for the grackles, buy a bb gun and a house with a private backyard.
45
posted on
03/09/2005 7:48:33 PM PST
by
hispanarepublicana
(I was Lucy Ramirez when being Lucy Ramirez was't cool.)
To: Jorge
Filthadelphia is merely Newark, NJ with more historical monuments.
46
posted on
03/09/2005 7:50:16 PM PST
by
Clemenza
(Alcohol Tobacco & Firearms: The Other Holy Trinity)
To: Stoat
Today it was 75 degrees with no wind, no humidity and clear skys....lots of Republicans too... I remember that day, years ago. It happened once in Midland too.
47
posted on
03/09/2005 7:50:53 PM PST
by
unixfox
(AMERICA - 20 Million ILLEGALS Can't Be Wrong!)
To: Stoat
I have a question. I've been in Seattle 4 years now. I can take the cloudiness. I can take the rain. I welcome it.
What I can't take is the summer sun. The unrelenting, clear, cloudless days. I find no joy or comfort in them at all.
Is it possible to have reverse SAD? My son and I both seem to have this problem. I truly don't even want to leave the house when it is a bright day. This was never a problem when I lived on the east coast, where I really think the light was a bit dimmer than it is out here, but maybe that's just the comparison between the usual greyness and the summer.
Do other Seattlites have a problem w/the sun?
48
posted on
03/09/2005 7:50:59 PM PST
by
radiohead
(revote in washington state)
To: Stoat
I'm guessing that you're citing these as a negative because they exist in such numbers that they've become pests in Texas? That's it.
49
posted on
03/09/2005 7:52:01 PM PST
by
FreedomCalls
(It's the "Statue of Liberty," not the "Statue of Security.")
To: Stoat
Despite the fact that there has been nothing but sunshine here for the past three months, while Phoenix and LA get heavy rains, I will be out of here (Seattle) as soon as I get a good job offer elsewhere.
50
posted on
03/09/2005 7:52:10 PM PST
by
Clemenza
(Alcohol Tobacco & Firearms: The Other Holy Trinity)
To: Fred Nerks; jan in Colorado; ariamne; Former Dodger; Dark Skies; RS; TexasCowboy
Jersey-City-is-third-least-depressed-city-on-Men's-Health-List Ping
51
posted on
03/09/2005 7:52:49 PM PST
by
Gondring
(They can have my Bill of Rights when they pry it from my cold, dead hands!)
To: unixfox
It's been like that here all week! And, the Lady Raiders won today!
52
posted on
03/09/2005 7:54:34 PM PST
by
hispanarepublicana
(I was Lucy Ramirez when being Lucy Ramirez was't cool.)
To: NYC GOP Chick; chris1
So Chris, what is up with Yonkers that makes people there so happy? Is it the Cross Country Mall? The Raceway? The fact that you can deal smack, crack or crank at the local public schools and get away with it?
53
posted on
03/09/2005 7:55:27 PM PST
by
Clemenza
(Alcohol Tobacco & Firearms: The Other Holy Trinity)
To: bboop
Philadelphia was RANK. We stayed downtown in a B&B, Who stays at a B&B in a northeastern city? No wonder it was "RANK".
In any case, center city Philly has really been cleaned up and revitalized over the past 10-20 years.
I've done quite a bit of photography in Philly in recent years. Much of the city is really beautiful and clean these days. It has really improved.
54
posted on
03/09/2005 7:56:19 PM PST
by
Jorge
To: Clemenza
Proximity to the Bronx is what cheers them up, perhaps?
55
posted on
03/09/2005 7:56:35 PM PST
by
NYC GOP Chick
(www.Hillary-Watch.org)
To: Jorge
I love Fairmount Park and the art museaum myself. Much of the city is either a ghetto (West Philly and the near north) or stuck in a time warp (South Philly and the NE). Cheap housing and good food, however, but I can get that in my dad's old nabe in Newark while still being in commuting distance of NYC.
56
posted on
03/09/2005 7:58:16 PM PST
by
Clemenza
(Alcohol Tobacco & Firearms: The Other Holy Trinity)
To: Clemenza
Filthadelphia is merely Newark, NJ with more historical monuments. You're joking right?
Nobody who's actually been to Philly and Newark could make such an absurd comparison.
Philly is much bigger.
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posted on
03/09/2005 7:58:40 PM PST
by
Jorge
To: Stoat
99. St. Petersburg, FL -- FAbsolute nonsense!! I don't live there, but travel to St. Petersburg often on business and it's a perfectly delightful town.
To: NYC GOP Chick
"Yonkers: At least we're not Mount Vermin, er, Vernon."
or
"Yonkers: Gateway to White Plains"
Aside from certain Freepers (you know who you are), most inhabitants of Yonkers that I have met have a chip on their shoulder. I wouldn't think that they would be the type who would consider seeing a therapist however, although maybe the Sopranos has changed that.
59
posted on
03/09/2005 8:02:14 PM PST
by
Clemenza
(Alcohol Tobacco & Firearms: The Other Holy Trinity)
To: Rodney King
Shouldn't Tuna TX top all of them?
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