Posted on 09/30/2006 1:07:37 PM PDT by Cagey
Atlanta named worst city for sleeping, followed by Nashville, Houston, New York and St. Louis
AP) Atlanta has been the named the worst city for sleeping, according to a pharmaceutical company-funded report. The Big Peach was the pits in a ranking based on survey data and on factors that deprived people of sleep like commute times, divorce and unemployment rates.
Atlanta residents reported an average of 9.7 days of poor sleep each month, more than the 8.4 average reported for the 50 metropolitan areas studied. The commute time was about 34 minutes in Atlanta, above the 30 minute average. Divorce and unemployment rates were slightly above average as well.
Nashville, Houston, New York and St. Louis followed Atlanta at the top of the list of worst places to snooze.
The best cities for sleep were in California _ Anaheim and Los Angeles were No. 1 and No. 2. Raleigh-Durham, N.C., Minneapolis and Chicago rounded out the best list.
It was mildly surprising to see traffic-clogged Los Angeles near the top of the list of best places to sleep, said Bert Sperling, the Oregon-based researcher who put together the report.
"We don't know exactly why" some cities ranked where they did, he said.
Sperling has compiled lists of "best places" to work, live and play for Money and Newsweek magazines and other publications. For this report, he drew information from a national telephone survey done by the federal government and from a demographic research firm and from government statistics.
Sanofi-Aventis, a drug company that makes a sleeping pill, funded this latest report.
General Sherman's fault.
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." -Manuel II Paleologus
Reminds me of the NYC apartment scene in BIG with Tom Hanks. He can't take the noise outside of gunshots, screams, and sirens... so he turns up the TV to the sound of gunshots, screams, and sirens.
I live in suburban Atlanta agree with this report. Why, just last night I was up at 3:45 am to feed Jordan, our 4 month old daughter. Only got about 5 hours sleep since I couldn't go back to sleep after feeding her and putting her back down.
Not a bad way to lose sleep.
Congratulations!
Minneapolis is a good city for sleep?
The person who wrote this story obviously doesn't live on MY street in Minneapolis!
there's nothing like curling up under the covers and listening
to a heavy rainfall for a good nights sleep. :)
Open windows. All the places where people sleep well, they sleep with open windows.
you can hear the storm outside better too ;)
I like waking up, hearing the rain, realizing I don't have to go out if I don't want to, and rolling back over. Being a grad student in Seattle, that happens a lot!
I also live in Cobb county and only get about 4-5 hours of sleep a night. Of course, I work and go to school so this would be happening no matter where I live. I used to live in some lofts near Grady Hospital where there was always ambulances and bums having shouting matches at night, but I got used to it pretty fast.
We live in a quiet suburb (except for the trains that roll through 15-20 times a day . . . and night, and pull the whistle for the crossing two blocks from our house.) We sleep with all the windows open, the eaves are deep enough to keep the windows up even in a heavy rain. We have two Siamese cats and a Labrador on the bed.
We sleep like rocks. Even the trains don't wake us up any more (you do get used to them.)
That hellacious line of thunderstorms that blew through about a month back - the thunder was shaking the house. We all woke up, the dog picked up her head and looked around, we all said, "Ah, just thunder," and all went back to sleep to the sound of rain on the roof.
Things are gonna change, though, because a new 7 week old Labrador puppy is arriving on Wednesday. Then I'm going to spend a lot of time up with the new baby . . . if you want to get 'em housebroken quickly, you have to take them out every 2-3 hours during the first few nights.
rain = no school?
thats a new one.
i trudged across campus many a time in downpours.
the tidewater region in va., obviously, lives up to
it's name. lots of tides, lots of water!
Not that school is cancelled (esp. in Seattle, we don't cancel because of rain), but because at this stage of the PhD game, my schedule is my own and I don't have to leave the house unless I want to or to put in my little 20 hours at my campus job, which I can also do on my schedule.
ah, flex schedule. excellent!
Betcha you'd luv my wifes story bout "sleeping with eyes open at your desk" syndrome............and being a minority, you never got 'caught.'
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