Forbes 10 Most Miserable US Cities`12
 

http://realestate.msn.com/10-most-mi...ties-of-2012#2

1. Miami
2. Detroit
3. Flint, MI
4. West Palm Beach, FL
5. Sacramento
6. Chicago
7. Ft Lauderdale
8. Toledo, OH
9. Rockford, IL
10. Warren, MI

i like lists. granted, nobody wants to be on this one (unless you're buying a house.)

We have Miami on the top of our where to go next list. To each his own.

Chicago and Miami more miserable than Toledo and Rockford?

What a crock of poo.

Aw blerg, #6? and LOL my commute time is double the "average commute" in Chicago.

Miami more miserable than Detroit? Guess I should be glad my mom lives in PA now and escaped city #4 on the list (another one I'm SMH at).

I grew up in Warren, MI. I don't think people are unhappy there. No more than Detroit anyway. They share a border. You might as well just say "the Detroit metropolitan area" and lump us all in together. And, I think people in Flint are probably more unhappy, honestly. There's nothing in Flint worth going there for. Detroit has some great stuff, it just has bad stuff too.

Chicago??? Seriously?

I would have to agree at this stage! Ask me again in another 10 years.

I wonder if West Palm Beach is on the list because my evil grandmother-in-law lives there...

Oh, did I just type that on a public forum? :o

I thought Sacramento was lovely, YMMV I suppose...

:D

Did they not go to Akron?

Correction..."Crackron".

Cincinnati is pretty nasty too...I was there last month and it was all sorts of depressing.

Well that's refreshing.

I'm going there next month to meet a client. Guess I'll be staying in during my time there.

I can't believe Seattle isn't on there. That was the worst 3 years of my life. Damn you, Navy, for sending me to the miserable gray, rainy, cold PACNORWEST.

Though, I will say the 2 weeks of summer they actually had was beautiful.

Sorry, Seattle natives :(

I haven't been to Miami since I was a kid, so I can't say anything about why it is #1. Detroit being rated #2 does not surprize me at all - so many smoking potholes, and I live in Chicago, so I thought that I'd be used to "big city grunge." I will say that Detroit has some of the most beautiful suburbs that I have ever seen, though.

I'm surprized but not shocked about Chicago's ranking. If almost all of my family was not here, I'd definitely move somewhere warm; somewhere south.

I love Cincinnati...at least for the 24 hrs I visited!!

The smoking pot holes are a steam generated electrical system for city power. They keep the homeless warm in the winter. They usually sleep right on top of them to stay warm. I thought they were very strange until I found out what they were. I guess they beat coal.. lol.

AGDee-
Thanks, I always wondered about all those smoking potholes. It's funny what you remember when you visit other areas. :)

I've lived in metro Detroit my whole life and only found out what those were about 10 years ago, when the system went down and the lights around my work were out. I noticed the steam was gone too and someone told me what was up :) (Oh, and they are man holes, not pot holes...lol). The bad thing is, there are places where the steam is so dense it reduces visibility on the road.

It's not terrible...as long as you stay downtown near the major hotels and the stadiums. I found the areas outside downtown to be extremely economically depressed. It was pretty racially segregated, which I'm not used to for even moderately-sized cities.

Yeah...that's where I was.

Exactly!

The only thing I might find depressing about this city is the Cubs. As someone who roots for the Red Sox, I can't help but feel sympathy for their fans.

Other than that, I have NO IDEA what this city is doing on the list.

They list some of the criteria as weather and political corruption. Also, there are some very economically challenged parts of the city so I suspect those come into play. I love Chicago though.

I also adore Chicago, but having been there in snowstorms and heatwaves can understand why weather would be a negative. Still, Chicago is a fantastic city.

Hm.. Bad weather, political corruption, economically challenged, AND horrible sports teams... Why the hell isn't Buffalo on this list?!