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It seems by a glance that traffic is the big reason most of those cities are on there (Detroit having a more than 6% unemployment rate aside). I wonder if there will be a big exodus out of cities into places like Wichita KS to avoid traffic?
I actually think crime is the biggest reasons. Detroit, Flint and Philadelphia are 3 of the most violent cities. NYC I think is there because of traffic.
I always love these totally subjective lists, ginned up by some hack writer on a deadline. Pretty much, you can cherry pick any set of statistics to validate your list.
Although Flint, Michigan, and Detroit would probably make anybody's list right now, I really don't understand New York.
America's Most Miserable Cities - Forbes.com (http://www.forbes.com/business/2008/01/29/detroit-stockton-flint-biz-cz_kb_0130miserable.html - broken link)
Top 5
1. Detroit, Michigan
2. Stockton, California
3. Flint, Michigan
4. New York, New York
5. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Stockton,CA might be a bit blue collar for CA, but I would hardly call it miserable. Anyone in Detroit would beg to live in Stockton. NYC doesn't belong on this list either. Yes it's expensive, but the goods outweigh the bad.
Although Flint, Michigan, and Detroit would probably make anybody's list right now, I really don't understand New York.
If you are the editor of Forbes do you use Richmond Va. at #4 or NYC as #4. Which is going to garner you 20 million hits to the website, sell an extra 25,000 copies? What a joke. They have to put NYC and LA on there for sheer shock value and to have people click the link.
Last edited by rainrock; 02-01-2008 at 10:05 AM..
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