HARDminute factoid 34 Misery

Top Ten Most Miserable
Cities in America


Forbes.com recently released its index of Most Miserable Cities.
They looked at nine criteria:
1. commute times,
2. sales taxes,
3. income taxes,
4. violent crime,
5. Superfund sites,
6. sports teams,
7. weather
8. unemployment
9. corruption

The TOP TEN most miserable cities are:

1. Stockton: 15% college degrees; 15% unemployment. The SAME 15%?? Unsure.
2. Memphis: 9.3% sales tax. FEDEX is largest employer with 30,000.
3. Chicago: 10.3% sales tax. Rumors of corruption!!
4. Cleveland: LeBron is a free agent in July 2010.
5. Modesto: 16.7% unemployed. Highest car theft rate in USA.
6. Flint MI: GM employs 10% of what it did in 1970’s.
7. Detroit MI: Lions go without one win in past season.
8. Buffalo: 90” of snow.
9. Miami: 26% of mortgages in default; crime and corruption.
10. St Louis MO: was in bottom half of all nine categories.

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