(Forbes) Worst Places: America's Most Miserable Cities

Forbes ^ | 1/30/08 | Kurt Badenhausen

[MotleyGirl70]

Imagine living in a city with the country's highest rate for violent crime and the second-highest unemployment rate. As an added kicker you need more Superfund dollars allocated to your city to clean up contaminated toxic waste sites than just about any other metro.

[MotleyGirl70]

Rank: City (Misery Score)

No. 1: Detroit, Mich. (696)
No. 2: Stockton, Calif. (689)
No. 3: Flint, Mich. (675)
No. 4: New York, N.Y. (668)
No. 5: Philadelphia, Pa. (648)
No. 6: Chicago, Ill. (634)
No. 7: Los Angeles, Calif. (632)
No. 8: Modesto, Calif. (631)
No. 9: Charlotte, N.C. (625)
No. 10: Providence, R.I. (611)

Shame on you Eagles fans!

How miserable is Philly? The residents of the City of Brotherly Love once booed Santa Claus and pelted him with snowballs at an Eagles game. Maybe it's the long commutes, violent crime and plethora of toxic waste sites that has people grumpy.

[Red in Blue PA]

Philly is a tough town, even for Santa.

[Slapshot68]

“How miserable is Philly? The residents of the City of Brotherly Love once booed Santa Claus and pelted him with snowballs at an Eagles game.”

As a native of Philly, I can tell you that wasn’t caused by misery rather by idiocy. ;)

[mrsmel]

LOL, before I read past the title I knew that Detroit would be in the top ranks.

[SnakeDoctor]

God Bless Texas!!

H

[Slapshot68]

“Unfortunately, this nightmare is a reality for the residents of Detroit. The Motor City grabs the top spot on Forbes’ inaugural list of America’s Most Miserable Cities.”

So much for the liberal urban utopia experiment.

[SilvieWaldorfMD]

I’m surprised with Modesto, CA... isn’t that where Chandra Levy and Laci Peterson lived?

[dangus]

I’m wondering if Santa wasn’t provocative. Did he come out in rainbow attire to celebrate Gay Pride Day or something?

[Jagman]

I’m frankly pleasantly surprised that Cleveland isn’t in the top ten!

[dangus]

>No. 4: New York<

Uh, oh: Forbes v. Bloomberg!

[Dante3]

I was surprised about Charlotte, NC.

[ryan71]

Charlotte?

Not Boston? Not Miami? Not New Orleans?

[Niteranger68]

Charlotte, NC - I knew it would be here before reading the story.

[mrsmel]

Are any of those cities not dominated by liberal/left policies? And it's funny that California, the spiritual home of econazis, is noted for its bad quality of air.

[Shadow44]

How many years ago was that? I wasn’t alive back then. It kind of irritates me that some stupid incident keeps getting brought up for over 20 years.

[NativeNewYorker]

This is a joke. Flint and Philly are crime-ridden cesspools losing population, while New York has a record-low crime rate and is gaining people.

How does NYC end up between the other two?

[PBRSTREETGANG]

Has New Orleans been granted a recovery exemption or something?

[Slapshot68]

Yeah it was a while ago....80s I believe.

[Revolting cat!]

Incidentally, that happy place Modesto is also known to its residents as 'Motown'!

[Dr.Deth]

In lieu of waterboarding...