Wonder How Vancouver Would Rate?
March 18th, 2009 Posted in All about Vancouver
A surprising ranking of America’s most depressing cities by BusinessWeek.com. They came up with the list of the 20 unhappiest major cities ranked by rates of suicide, depression, divorce, unemployment, job loss, population loss, crime, amount of green space, and cloudy days.
Emphasis was given to suicide and depression rates, crime, and economic factors.
The city with the highest overall score was Portland, with very high depression and suicide rates.
1) Portland, Ore.
Overall rank: 1*
Depression rank: 1
Suicide rank: 12
Crime (property and violent) rank: 24
Divorce rate rank: 4
Cloudy days: 222
Unemployment rate (December 2008): 7.8%
You can see the standings here…
To put it into perspective, New Orleans is number 3.
photo credit: Aaron Michael Brown
