Mar
5
2009
America's Unhappiest Cities
“BusinessWeek.com ranked 50 of the largest metros based on a variety of factors including depression rates, suicide rates, divorce rates, crime, unemployment, population loss, job loss, weather, and green space.”
Spoiler: Portland is #1. That’s what they get for drinking so much PBR.
Another cool BusinessWeek list to cross-reference with this one is “The Best Cities for Riding Out a Recession:”
What will be most important will be to find communities where the local economy will be relatively unscathed. That means that in the near term people who work in critical fields such as health care and education are likely to enjoy greater job security than those who work in sectors such as financial services or construction.
