I don’t know why, but I’m fascinated by the Top 10 lists that Yahoo does quite often. They are usually things like the top 10 environmental cities or the top 10 cities with horrible traffic. Today’s installment isn’t a list that no city’s chamber of commerce wants to make — America’s Most Miserable Cities. What makes a city miserable? Violent crime, high unemployment and let’s throw in a little toxic waste just for the heck of it. So which city tops the list? Looks like the Motor City of Detroit might have to change it’s name to Misery City.
The others on the list aren’t too surprising except No. 9, Charlotte, N.C. Charlotte mainly made the list because employment hasn’t kept up with its skyrocketing population growth.
If you had to place a city on the misery list, what would it be and why?
February 12th, 2008 at 3:28 pm
On the very top of my misery list would be Casper, Wyoming. Its so winding that you can’t make yourself look nice. One day it almost blew my little ones into a busy intersection, thank god I was fast enough to catch them. It is so dry that you hair gets split ends right away. And if you are prone to nose bleeds it is not a place for you to live (to dry). And there is nothing for kids to do but have sex and do drugs. Every place that there was for kids to go to closed down. And going up to the mountian gets boring pretty fast.
February 12th, 2008 at 11:02 pm
Casper, huh? I’ve only driven through Casper once. Do you live in Wyoming now? I really love Wyoming, particularly the western part of the state — Cody, Yellowstone, Jackson, the Wind River Canyon area.
February 13th, 2008 at 10:30 am
I don’t live in Casper anymore. I moved to Colorado about three years ago, which I absolutely love. Jackson and Yellowstone are very beautiful, I just always felt that Casper was horrible.