Portland’s been named the unhappiest city in America by Business Week.
To get a sense of where the pain points are greatest, BusinessWeek.com came up with a list of the 20 unhappiest cities. These are major cities that were ranked based on their rates of suicide, depression, divorce, unemployment, job loss, population loss, crime, amount of green space, and cloudy days. We gave most emphasis to suicide and depression rates, crime, and economic factors. The city with the highest overall score in our index was Portland, the beautiful Oregon city that also has very high depression and suicide rates.
Here’s the article.
And here’s their complete list of unhappy cities:
- Portland, Oregon
- St. Louis, Missouri
- New Orleans, Louisiana
- Detroit, Michigan
- Cleveland, Ohio
- Jacksonville, Florida
- Las Vegas, Nevada
- Nashville-Davidson, Tennessee
- Cincinnati, Ohio
- Atlanta, Georgia
- Milwaukee, Wisconsin
- Sacramento, California
- Kansas City, Missouri
- Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
- Memphis, Tennessee
- Indianapolis City, Indiana
- Louisville, Kentucky
- Tucson, Arizona
- Minneapolis, Minnesota
- Seattle, Washington
I’m so depressed over this news. If it hadn’t been such a beautiful, non-cloudy day today I would totally get a divorce and commit a crime.
