[lbo-talk] America's unhappiest cities

Miles Jackson cqmv at pdx.edu
Wed Mar 4 12:19:07 PST 2009


Doug Henwood wrote:
> To get a sense of where the pain points are greatest, BusinessWeek.com
> came up with a list of the 20 unhappiest cities. These are major
> cities that were ranked based on their rates of suicide, depression,
> divorce, unemployment, job loss, population loss, crime, amount of
> green space and cloudy days. BusinessWeek.com gave most emphasis to
> suicide and depression rates, crime and economic factors. The city
> with the highest overall score in our index was Portland, the
> beautiful Oregon city that also has very high depression and suicide
> rates. St. Louis, New Orleans and Detroit were high on the list,
> largely because of their rates of crime, unemployment and population
> loss. Other cities such as Las Vegas and Jacksonville, Fla., ranked
> high because of their suicide rates and difficult economic conditions.
Cloudy days are an indicator of unhappiness!? We like cloudy days in Portland!

Miles



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