America's Happiest and Most Depressed Cities - Page 3

winnieb · #1 06-21-2005, 05:30 PM

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Originally posted by Tom Earp

alpahgam_alum lives in the ghetto of KC Metro area, I did, but is in sweeping changes.

WTF????????????? Why am I just now seeing this?

I don't live in the ghetto-- I happen to work in a not good area of town, not techically ghetto but commonly referred to it as the ghetto---run down, deserted, police helicopters frequently flying over-- but that is the office neighborhood-- NOT MY HOME!!!!!!!! I live in the suburbs--- use to be rural but is now full of very nice homes---no where near ghetto----- Tom, your area is more ghetto than my little town would ever be!!!

Tom Earp · #2 06-21-2005, 05:38 PM

honeykiss, I hate to say it, But, Not!!!!

Lives off of the AirLine Building Indistury and it anint happen now, once again.

Nothing wrong with Kansas City, More Fountains than Gay Pari, More blvds also.

At one time, KC Mo was the largest Land Masses in the USA for a Major City.

Well, guess still is for a Major Metro Area. Hell, Drive the I-435 Loop, take a lunch.

Anchored by The Chiefs/KC Royals on the East and The Kansas Speedway on the West oh and the New Arena Down Town, NHL, and NBA may be coming.

Guess What, you can get to about anywhere in KC Metro in regular traffic in @ 20 Min.

Oh 2 things, a lot of Killings going on now but gang related in the wrong part of town

and a whole lot of s*it to do!

Oh, Please do not think about moving here. Like it like it is!!!!

#3 06-22-2005, 06:13 PM

i've been to laredo, el paso and corpus.... i've never seen anything happy about those places

AGDee · #4 06-22-2005, 10:04 PM

Detroit will be the happiest place on earth tomorrow night, if the Pistons beat the Spurs!

aggieAXO · #5 06-23-2005, 12:20 AM

I have been to El Paso-went for 36 hrs, it was depressing.

Elisamar08 · #6 03-04-2009, 07:22 PM

I live in Laredo, TX. it is a nice town to live in. =D i've done my share of traveling and people in other places aren't as friendly as in Laredo. i know this is based on anti depressants sold and stuff. All i can say is that we are a border town with Mexico and people go and see doctors over there because it's cheaper.. so im sure some people will buy their anti depressants over there too....

PeppyGPhiB · #7 03-04-2009, 07:36 PM

You bump this four-year-old thread to make your first post, and it's about that? Do you work for the Loredo Tourism Board or something?

Fleur de Lis · #8 03-04-2009, 11:37 PM

Businessweek came out with the 20 Unhappiest Cities List today, and here it is:

1. Portland, OR
2. St. Louis, MO
3. New Orleans, LA
4. Detroit, MI
5. Cleveland, OH
6. Jacksonville, FL
7. Las Vegas, NV
8. Nashville, TN
9. Cincinnati, OH
10. Atlanta, GA
11. Milwaukee, WI
12. Sacramento, CA
13. Kansas City, MO
14. Pittsburgh, PA
15. Memphis, TN
16. Indianapolis City, IN (typo?)
17. Louisville, KY
18. Tuscon, AZ
19. Minneapolis, MN
20. Seattle, WA

*Editor's Note: BusinessWeek.com ranked 50 of the largest metros based on a variety of factors including depression rates, suicide rates, divorce rates, crime, unemployment, population loss, job loss, weather, and green space. The most heavily weighted factors were the depression, suicide, jobs (unemployment and job loss), and crime rates

I'm honestly surprised that Nashville is ranked so high on these lists. I think we have the perfect weather and a general atmosphere of creativity and optimism.

flirt5721 · #9 03-04-2009, 11:43 PM

El Paso as #2 happiest. NO. There are some good things about EP but with all the stuff going on across the boarder and spilling over it is not happy.

honeychile · #10 03-05-2009, 12:17 AM

If Pittsburgh's so unhappy, it's because so few people and publications spell the name right. It's Pittsburgh with an "h", people, to commemorate our Scots-Irish heritage!

ta kala · #11 03-05-2009, 01:16 AM

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Originally Posted by honeychile

If Pittsburgh's so unhappy, it's because so few people and publications spell the name right. It's Pittsburgh with an "h", people, to commemorate our Scots-Irish heritage!

Thank you! I feel like I am constantly correcting people on the spelling of Pittsburgh!

AGDee · #12 03-05-2009, 06:26 AM

If it weren't for the snow and the economic situation here, we'd be very happy in Detroit!

knight_shadow · #13 03-05-2009, 06:41 AM

I'm surprised to see Atlanta on the list. Visiting the city was wonderful, and everyone I know who lives there seems to enjoy it.

I'm not surprised, though, that Texas is not on this list. We're supposedly missing most of the economic heat.

sugar and spice · #14 03-05-2009, 09:49 AM

Haha, I live in Portland. And the city I moved here from was on the "twenty happiest cities" list, at least in 2005.

Obviously these polls are unscientific, but this seems even less credible than most. They only take the negative factors into account, not balancing them out with the positive ones. So a city with the best restaurants and entertainment in the entire world would score badly if it was regularly cloudy and the unemployment rate was higher than other comparable cities. And a city in the middle of the desert with nothing in it but concrete boxes for housing would rank pretty highly as long as the concrete house-building trade was steady.

Not to mention, when you look at their stats a little more closely--depression rates, for example, are based on sales of anti-depressants. So Portland doesn't have more depressed people, it has more people taking anti-depressants, which would arguably make them . . . less depressed. Right?

Besides, I kind of like the rain.

Munchkin03 · #15 03-05-2009, 10:05 AM

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Originally Posted by sugar and spice

Haha, I live in Portland. And the city I moved here from was on the "twenty happiest cities" list, at least in 2005.

I was surprised that Portland was on the list--I've heard nothing but good things about it. A lot of people leave the East Coast for Portland, and they're really happy.

None of the other cities surprise me, though, since they depress me.