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I wonder if the people who live in them really know it. Are they really places to avoid or are they diamonds in the rough despite the negative aspects compiled?
That's bizarre.... almost every single one of them is in the south or on the cusp of the south. I was expecting to see at least one Rust Belt city (i.e. Detroit?). Sort of weird criteria too... I've met plenty of people with college degrees (and above) that are plenty miserable. Also met a lot of miserable nonsmokers. There has got to be better indicia of misery than those things.
I wonder if the people who live in them really know it. Are they really places to avoid or are they diamonds in the rough despite the negative aspects compiled?
I has started looking at this out of idle curiosity and then got somewhat interested as I had spent time in Columbus, GA while stationed at Ft. Benning in the 60s, Hickory, NC in the 70s taking Army Mobile Training Teams there from the 1st Cavalry Division to help train some of their National Guard's Armor folks, Redding, CA in the early 90s evaluating and training local programs for the state and we considered West Virginia when thinking about retirement.
Columbus was a fairly typical GI town with not a lot to recommend it as I recall. Hickory was a cute, small southern city with a burgeoning furniture industry, now dried up and gone as I'm sure is the local economy. Redding failed to impress but didn't seem all that bad but for the summer heat. West Virginia I've only driven through and where not scarred by strip mining has some beautiful country. More than that I really don't know and certainly not first-hand.
So according to the article if you didn't complete college and smoke that makes you miserable? Seems like a rather odd criteria for measuring happiness. Add in low incomes and then they categorize the city as something to avoid???
Maybe that also results in low prices and taxes, and unpretentious folks who are also sociable????
So according to the article if you didn't complete college and smoke that makes you miserable? Seems like a rather odd criteria for measuring happiness. Add in low incomes and then they categorize the city as something to avoid???
Maybe that also results in low prices and taxes, and unpretentious folks who are also sociable????
Kinda like where we live and the people are great.
Kinda like where we live and the people are great.
Exactly.
I've known a lot of folks through the years, and some of the nicest were folks with modest incomes who didn't graduate from college and smoked. In fact, though a non-smoker myself I have gone out and socialized a bit in the smoking area and have had great conversations with very friendly individuals.
I'd also say that the two nicest and happiest relatives I have smoke, and neither graduated college.
Just seems like a dumb criteria to measure miserable cities.
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