This list is bunk. Here is a better one:
http://www.babble.com/CS/blogs/strollerd...e-u-s.aspx
There's nothing like raising your kids in one of the 10 most miserable cities in the U.S. There, you get the pleasure of paying really high sales tax, losing your job, probably losing your house and/or having a super long commute. Oh, and becoming the victim of a violent crime.
All that and more was what Forbes magazine used to come up with this year's 10 most squalid -- assuming it had a population of more than about 380,000.
Morning News already revealed the winner (actually, loser, right?): Stockton, Calif., which pushed Detroit off the misery pedastal, where that city sat at the top last year.
Here's the rest of the list.
2. Memphis (crime really did this city in)
3. Chicago (now that the Obamas are no longer there ...)
4. Cleveland, Ohio (the magazine cites snow, but come on. It's Cleveland! Wait, didn't Cleveland use to rock?)
5. Modesto, Calif. (unemployment and high car theft)
6. Flint, Michigan (unemployment, unemployment, unemployment)
7. Detroit (no longer the most miserable ... so this is actually good new for the Motor City.)
8. Buffalo, N.Y. (too much snow and a shrinking population)
9. Miami, Fla. (27 percent of the cities mortgages are delinquent. Uh oh.)
10. St. Louis, Mo. (ranked in the bottom half in all the categories. Still, the Arch! What about the Arch?)