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03-05-2009, 02:14 AM
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Tucson Ranked #18 Most Unhappy City
America’s Unhappiest Cities: Tucson, Ariz. - BusinessWeek
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Tucson, Ariz.
Overall rank: 18
Depression rank: 24
Suicide rank: 3
Crime (property and violent) rank: 27
Divorce rate rank: 10
Cloudy days: 81
Unemployment rate (December 2008): 6.9%
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That suicide rate really stands out...I didn't think it was that high. Thoughts?
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03-05-2009, 08:41 AM
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Well, I don't get it. It really does seem like people either love the place or hate it. Wonder what it is that is making people so unhappy. |
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03-05-2009, 09:01 AM
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suicide ranked 3.  Could have something to do with the large drug and homeless population of Tucson? I would drive to work and see an easy of 10 people sleeping in the park. Then drive home at 2AM and see all the druggies tripping out near the highway near downtown.
Even though i was living on $600 a month, the entire time i lived there, i didn't feel suicidal, i felt good. Though a lot one of the small businesses that relocated me to Tucson, from Sacramento,ca, was shady and fired me within a month. Bastards. |
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03-05-2009, 10:11 AM
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Unfulfilled expectations typical of a city with newer residents.
Tucson would rank much worse without abundant sunshine. For a sunbelt city this is a pretty dismal assessment but hey, keep reading this thread, you'll see more of the "I'm happy" crowd coming to its defense as always. |
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03-05-2009, 10:50 AM
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The Tucson know it all.
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Eh, not really new to me. With all of us losing our nice high paying jobs for low wage very stressful jobs, it comes to no surprise to me that it shows in the numbers of unhappiness and even SUICIDES! #3 for suicides, YIKES!
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03-05-2009, 10:53 AM
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The Tucson know it all.
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Originally Posted by actinic
Unfulfilled expectations typical of a city with newer residents.
Tucson would rank much worse without abundant sunshine. For a sunbelt city this is a pretty dismal assessment but hey, keep reading this thread, you'll see more of the "I'm happy" crowd coming to its defense as always.
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I think the only "happy" ones coming to this city's defense would be either the snowbirders and the retirees. Probably will not see much for people between the 22-50 age bracket. |
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03-05-2009, 11:02 AM
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Originally Posted by azhiker
Well, I don't get it. It really does seem like people either love the place or hate it. Wonder what it is that is making people so unhappy.
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The "unhappy" we will always have with us. I've stopped trying to figure them out. They will continue living their most horrid and miserable lives on a daily basis without fail, regardless of what anyone else does. What is even more amazing is that some of them have this need to then go online and broadcast to the entire planet how "unhappy" they are! Cases in point to follow. Bank on it! 
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suicide ranked 3. Could have something to do with the large drug and homeless population of Tucson? I would drive to work and see an easy of 10 people sleeping in the park. Then drive home at 2AM and see all the druggies tripping out near the highway near downtown.
Even though i was living on $600 a month, the entire time i lived there, i didn't feel suicidal, i felt good. Though a lot one of the small businesses that relocated me to Tucson, from Sacramento,ca, was shady and fired me within a month. Bastards. |
Way to stay tough, Wingster! You're one of the RARE exceptions! 
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Originally Posted by actinic
Unfulfilled expectations typical of a city with newer residents.
Tucson would rank much worse without abundant sunshine. For a sunbelt city this is a pretty dismal assessment but hey, keep reading this thread, you'll see more of the "I'm happy" crowd coming to its defense as always.
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I LOVE this abundant sunshine! It makes me HAPPY! Tucson makes me abundantly HAPPY and I will always HAPPILY and abundantly defend it! "Unhappy" cases in point to follow. Bank on it!
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03-05-2009, 02:27 PM
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Oh no,I guess I'll have to run out and commit Suicide.
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03-05-2009, 02:55 PM
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Originally Posted by ihatetucson
I think the only "happy" ones coming to this city's defense would be either the snowbirders and the retirees. Probably will not see much for people between the 22-50 age bracket.
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I wish i was a snow bird or retiree. I was 25 and made $600 a month. You would think someone with such a low monthly wage would be miserable. I was 25 when i was there. That experience of cleaning bars after throwing newspapers gave me a new view on life and to never want to need to do such things again. It's the smell that drove me up the wall. Bars are nasty places. Currently going to school.
My grandparents live there, my father was born and raised there, i was born there and partially raised there. None of my family from Tucson have a problem with Tucson. The people that are happy in Tucson like the fact its not like Phoenix. It's not a giant flat piece of paved land. Sure, Phoenix has more urban mountains, but Tucson is built on rolling hills full of sonora desert.
When jobs are short sometimes you have to leave and come back, its life and you don't have to commit suicide over such a thing. 
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03-05-2009, 04:00 PM
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Tucson would rank much worse without abundant sunshine.
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Probably true. That and the wonderful low humidity, and the beautiful mountains.
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For a sunbelt city this is a pretty dismal assessment but hey, keep reading this thread, you'll see more of the "I'm happy" crowd coming to its defense as always.
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Yeah, truly some bad figures coming out. Go figure.
Well, love the place or hate it, guaranteed that the truly miserable will soon be spreading their good cheer throughout this thread, that is, if they're off suicide watch long enough to post.
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