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Rockford, IL had the 5th highest property tax rates in the country at 2.3%, or $3.2K on a $136K home??? Here in SHaker Heights, OH, where I live now, a $136K home has annual taxes over $5K in some cases. There's no way Shaker is highest, or even in the top 4, and there's no way a ton has changed since 2010. I am challenging the data from this source!
No way Miami is more miserable then Detroit or Flint....
Then when you get to Sacramento they talk about the Kings basketball team? Yeah a bad basketball team that may relocate is a big reason for the city being "miserable" . How Sacramento can be included on this list over some other Central Valley cities is baffling.
Also, Fort Lauderdale doesn't seem like a miserable city to me at all. Quite the opposite from the brief time I spent. They have a beach, nightlife, restaurants, own airport. Close to Miami to take advantage of it, but away from the chaos. I doubt West Palm Beach qualifies either. Bunk list.
Last edited by Billy Millennium; 12-23-2012 at 12:28 AM..
If one has a pandering media view of certain cities. Miami is one of the least miserable cities in the US. It's a beautiful city with great weather and many friendly people, as is Fort Lauderdale and West Palm Beach. Misery isn't a state of living, it's an individual state of being. The overpaid "journalists" who came up with this piece of crap need to put on their big boy/big girl pants and get to work writing something credible and relevant, versus taglines for a slideshow.
For Chicago, they could have replaced the city with any city in the Northeast given the criteria (high taxes, traffic, winter)...Incidentally, we've only had 0.3" of snow yet this season.
I'm sure there are plenty of people living very happy lives in all of these metros listed...and I'm sure there are plenty of people who are miserable in a list they would make of "the happiest" metros as well. Generally speaking....living one place or another is not going to define a person's happiness.
For Chicago, they could have replaced the city with any city in the Northeast given the criteria (high taxes, traffic, winter)...Incidentally, we've only had 0.3" of snow yet this season.
It's all relative. For Chicago they list bad traffic, cold weather and high property taxes. Almost none of my friends have cars and we all take the train, so I really don't care about traffic, I honestly enjoy winter quite a bit and I pay 1.3% taxes in the city on my condo. I really don't find that much higher than other places. Especially with housing prices quite cheap in the city.
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. How Sacramento can be included on this list over some other Central Valley cities is baffling. 
