100 Largest Metro Areas (Ranked in order from most stressful to least stressful) Rank Metro Area 1 Tacoma, WA 2 Miami, FL 3 New Orleans, LA 4 Las Vegas, NV-AZ 5 New York, NY 6 Portland-Vancouver, OR-WA 7 Mobile, AL 8 Stockton-Lodi, CA 9 Detroit, MI 10 Dallas, TX 11 Seattle-Bellevue-Everett, WA 12 West Palm Beach-Boca Raton, FL 13 Houston, TX 14 Fort Lauderdale, FL 15 Riverside-San Bernardino, CA 16 St. Louis, MO-IL 17 Denver, CO 18 Jacksonville, FL 19 Jersey City, NJ 20 Phoenix-Mesa, AZ