Sunday, July 2, 2017

I Didn't See A Single Iowa City On This List

THE 50 WORST CITIES IN AMERICA 

Below - from most to least awful - are America's worst cities to live in, according to 24/7 Wall St
The site used 2015 data classed into nine major categories: crime, demography, economy, education, environment, health, housing, infrastructure, and leisure.
It then examined specific elements within those categories - such as unemployment levels, availability of public transportation and mortality rates due to illness - to create total scores for the cities.
Only cities that had populations of more than 65,000 in 2015 were included in the list.
  1. Detroit, Michigan
  2. Birmingham, Alabama
  3. Flint, Michigan
  4. St Louis, Missouri
  5. Memphis, Tennessee
  6. Milwaukee, Wisconsin
  7. Albany, Georgia
  8. Hartford, Connecticut
  9. Merced, California
  10. Wilmington, Delaware 
  11. San Bernardino, California
  12. Springfield, Missouri
  13. Stockton, California
  14. Baltimore, Maryland
  15. Jackson, Mississippi
  16. Rockford, Illinois
  17. Miami Beach, Florida
  18. Springfield, Massachusetts
  19. Pueblo, Colorado
  20. Canton, Ohio
  21. Youngstown, Ohio
  22. Buffalo, New York
  23. Knoxville, Tennessee
  24. Fort Smith, Arkansas
  25. Cincinnati, Ohio
  26. Little Rock, Arkansas
  27. Paterson, New Jersey
  28. Tucson, Arizona
  29. Gary, Indiana
  30. Chattanooga, Tennessee
  31. Syracuse, New York
  32. Salt Lake City, Utah
  33. Reading, Pennsylvania
  34. Rochester, New York
  35. Lansing, Michigan
  36. Waterbury, Connecticut
  37. Atlanta, Georgia
  38. Fall River, Massachusetts
  39. Indianapolis, Indiana
  40. Medford, Oregon
  41. Lubbock, Texas
  42. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
  43. Lawrence, Massachusetts
  44. Albuquerque, New Mexico
  45. Gastonia, North Carolina
  46. Shreveport, Louisiana
  47. South Bend, Indiana
  48. Camden, New Jersey
  49. Kansas City, Kansas
  50. Columbus, Georgia


Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4659604/Worst-cities-America-revealed-Detroit-No-1.html#ixzz4liRRx9zy

I'm not completely buying this. Where's Chicago, Los Angeles, New York City and a host of other American cesspools?

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