Top 10 Leasy/Most Stressful Cities

[vansmack]

Top 10 Most Stressful Cities
 
 Tacoma, WA
 Miami, FL
 New Orleans, LA
 Las Vegas, NV
 New York, NY
 Portland-Vancouver, OR-WA
 Mobile, AL
 Stockton-Lodi, CA
 Detroit, MI
 Dallas, TX
 
 Top 10 Low-Stress Cities
 
 Albany-Schenectady, NY
 Harrisburg-Lebanon-Carlisle, PA
 Orange County, CA
 Nassau-Suffolk, NY
 Minneapolis-St. Paul, MN-WI
 Ann Arbor, MI
 Omaha, NE-IA
 Norfolk, VA-Virginia Beach, VA-NC
 Honolulu, HI
 Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill, NC
 
 
 In keeping with the new bizaar moniker, Orange County has become a city all to itself.  I feel as though my whole childhood was taken from me.

[sonickteam2]

well, shit i guess Omaha is pretty stress free.
 
  all you have to do is worry about when the next big 311 homecoming is!

[kosmo vinyl]

i guess they didn't survey dc area commuters who drive... i'm so glad that i work from home now, having had to commute, like mankie, out towards dulles.  friday afternoon's are the worst and i know exactly where road rage can come from.

[Dandy01]

Where is DC?  I thought for sure it'd be on the Stressful Cities list.

[Samantha]

how were they chosen?

[Celeste]

Originally posted by Samantha:
  how were they chosen?

excellent question, young lady

[ggw]

Originally posted by vansmack:
 Top 10 Low-Stress Cities
 
 Orange County, CA
 

I don't know about that. This sounds pretty damn stressful to me.

[Random Citizen]

You can read the full details on the cities at the following link: http://houseandhome.msn.com/Move/TheMostandLeastStressfulCities.aspx
 
 

Methodology
 The Sperling Stress Index is based on the most currently available data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics (unemployment rate), Census Bureau (divorce rate and commute time), FBI Uniform Crime Reports (crime statistics), Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (suicide rate, alcohol consumption, and poor mental health), and the National Climatic Data Center (cloudy days).
 
 
 The data was assigned point values to rank each city with others in each category, while preserving the proportionality. The point values for each city were then summed for all categories.

[vansmack]

Originally posted by Samantha:
  how were they chosen?

Sorry about that:
 
 "Our "Sperling Stress Index" is comprised of nine different factors that are associated with stress: unemployment rate, divorce rate, commute time, violent and property crime rates, suicide rate, alcohol consumption, self-reported "poor mental health," and number of cloudy days."

[vansmack]

Originally posted by ggwâ?¢:
  I don't know about that. This sounds pretty damn stressful to me.

That would suck.  That article mentions Laura Small - my family's law firm represented her.

[thirsty moore]

Those MSN articles never include DC.

[sonickteam2]

Originally posted by Dandy01:
  Where is DC?

i think its between Maryland and Virginia.

[Random Citizen]

Actually, DC did make on one list...Top 25 Fattest Cities
 
 
 

Originally posted by thirsty moore:
  Those MSN articles never include DC.

[vansmack]

Originally posted by Random Citizen:
  Actually, DC did make on one list...Top 25 Fattest Cities
   

Top 25 Fittest cities.....
 
 2. San Francisco
 
 No thanks to me and my lazy arse, I can assure you of that.

[Charlie Nakatestes, Japanese Golfer]

That's rather shocking, given all of the skinny twentysomethings you see roaming around NW. Must be the folks in the other quadrants.
 
 

Originally posted by Random Citizen:
  Actually, DC did make on one list...Top 25 Fattest Cities
 
 
   

Originally posted by thirsty moore:
  Those MSN articles never include DC.

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