The "Sperling Stress Index" is comprised of nine different factors that are associated with stress: 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 thought it was just me who got stressed when the sun wasn't out!)
Top 10 Most Stressful Cities
1.Tacoma, WA
2.Miami, FL
3.New Orleans, LA
4.Las Vegas, NV
5.New York, NY
6.Portland-Vancouver, OR-WA
7.Mobile, AL
8.Stockton-Lodi, CA
9.Detroit, MI
10.Dallas, TX
Top 10 Low-Stress Cities
1.Albany-Schenectady, NY
2.Harrisburg-Lebanon-Carlisle, PA
3.Orange County, CA
4.Nassau-Suffolk, NY
5.Minneapolis-St. Paul, MN-WI
6.Ann Arbor, MI
7.Omaha, NE-IA
8.Norfolk, VA-Virginia Beach, VA-NC
9.Honolulu, HI
10.Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill, NC
I promise I'm not making this up & including Harrisburg on purpose! I got this from msn.com. In fact, they said Harrisburg has one of the lowest unemployment rates in the country, low divorce rates, short average commute times, a low overall crime rate & low rates of suicide. The downside? Often cloudy skies & dreary winters.
Dallas on the other hand is just stressful, but at least there's plenty of sun (expect from March- mid May) and we're only in the top 10, not the top 5 :)
posted by Chris O. @ 4/24/2004 09:32:00 AM
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