Ugliest Cities, Texas made it twice (Houston, El Paso: sales, pharmacy, stats)

[piyf]

El Paso Men Ranked Ugliest In U.S., Says Web Site - News Story - KFOX El Paso

TotalBeauty.com studied education stats, contraceptive and erotica sales, the number of gyms, the population's health, exercise habits, obesity and smoking rates in every city in the U.S.

No. 1: El Paso, Texas
No. 2: Hagerstown, Md.
No. 3: Miami, Fla.
No. 4: Greensboro, N.C.
No. 5: Mobile, Ala. and Huntington, W.Va. (tie)
No. 6: Detroit, Mich.
No. 7: Philadelphia, Pa.
No. 8: Houston, Texas

[love roses]

But didn't actually set foot in any of them, did they?

[TXNGL]

Originally Posted by love roses

But didn't actually set foot in any of them, did they?

And contraceptive and erotica sales? What the h is that?

[doss1]

Wow, you'd think Miami would not be on that list.

[Topaz]

Totally bizarre methodology.

[SouthmoreAve]

Originally Posted by TexasNick

Wow, you'd think Miami would not be on that list.

Well, imo, Miami is seen only as having attractive people because of all the tourists on their beaches. Sure, it may have attractive people, but the hot tourists can be mistaken as natives.

[momof2dfw]

Originally Posted by SouthmoreAve

Well, imo, Miami is seen only as having attractive people because of all the tourists on their beaches. Sure, it may have attractive people, but the hot tourists can be mistaken as natives.

True. Go a block or two off of the main road on South Beach and go into any business, gas station, pharmacy, etc and the "people" are NOT "attractive".

[momof2dfw]

Originally Posted by TXNGL

And contraceptive and erotica sales? What the h is that?

If they were to REALLY do some research into the demographics of some of those cities like El Paso they might just find that the majority of the citizens are probably Catholic and hold to the strong church opinion that birth control is a no-no and sales of erortica are not that high on the list of "needs" or "wants". Does that mean that the people of that city are "unattractive"? NO! Just shows that the "research" is flawed.

[Trainwreck20]

contraceptive and erotica sales

omg, that is funny! Personally, I would be very careful to use some protection if she was ugly, and wouldn't need any 'erotica' if she was good looking .

Edit: Oh, I see it only applies to guys? Not sure how they differentiated there, but whatever, same logic applies . The lower your education level, the uglier you are, too, I see......

[hoffdano]

Originally Posted by momof2dfw

If they were to REALLY do some research into the demographics of some of those cities like El Paso they might just find that the majority of the citizens are probably Catholic and hold to the strong church opinion that birth control is a no-no and sales of erortica are not that high on the list of "needs" or "wants". Does that mean that the people of that city are "unattractive"? NO! Just shows that the "research" is flawed.

It seems the scoring included a number of things didn't it?

Could it be that regardless of the scoring for erotica El Paso might also score poorly on general health and things like obesity?

According to the American Obesity Association El Paso is a regular on the top 20 list of cities with the most overweight people.

American Obesity Association - AOA Fact Sheets (http://obesity1.tempdomainname.com/subs/fastfacts/cities.shtml - broken link)

BTW Houston, Philadelphia, Miami, and Detroit are also on their list.