Most stressful cities in the United States according to MSN survey

http://houseandhome.msn.com/Move/The...fulCities.aspx

Here are this year's most stressful cities, chosen from the 100 largest metro areas.

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

Itr amazes me that Portland is on this list. I live in San Francisco and
go there occassionally when I need a getaway that's urban but beautiful,
smallish and majorly unstressful- for both me and it appears for the
residents too who seem rather mellow. I wonder what this list looked at?

Susan

Leah wrote:

http://houseandhome.msn.com/Move/The...fulCities.aspx

Here are this year's most stressful cities, chosen from the 100 largest metro areas.

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

Susan Wachob with the help of 999 monkeys
eventually managed to type:

Itr amazes me that Portland is on this list. I live in San Francisco and
go there occassionally when I need a getaway that's urban but beautiful,
smallish and majorly unstressful- for both me and it appears for the
residents too who seem rather mellow. I wonder what this list looked at?

According to the MSN article the ranking is based on: 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.

I suspect that Portland scored poorly on number of cloudy days and
perhaps alcohol consumption (there are some good beers made in the
area). I don't know about the other criteria.


--
A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to
get its pants on, but what was the truth doing with no pants on in the
first place? --Winston Churchill

I guess the things it mentioned wouldn't be apparant to a visitor.

Susan

Itr amazes me that Portland is on this list. I live in San Francisco and
go there occassionally when I need a getaway that's urban but beautiful,
smallish and majorly unstressful- for both me and it appears for the
residents too who seem rather mellow. I wonder what this list looked at?


According to the MSN article the ranking is based on: 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.

I suspect that Portland scored poorly on number of cloudy days and
perhaps alcohol consumption (there are some good beers made in the
area). I don't know about the other criteria.

Susan Wachob wrote:
Itr amazes me that Portland is on this list. I live in San Francisco and
go there occassionally when I need a getaway that's urban but beautiful,
smallish and majorly unstressful- for both me and it appears for the
residents too who seem rather mellow. I wonder what this list looked at?


I agree with your assessment of Portland. I live near Seattle and
Portland always seems much more laid back to me. However, I recognize
that there are major traffic problems; particularly because of all the
people who live in Washington (where property taxes are lower) and
commute across the bridges to Portland.