And, another reason to celebrate....
Move over Detroit and Chicago, my hometown was just given the dubious honor of being the second most miserable [yes, Forbes used that word] place to live in the US. The most miserable? Stockton, CA....
http://www.forbes.com/2009/02/06/mo...usiness-washington_0206_miserable_cities.html
Forbes used factors such as crime, corruption, tax rate, pollution, sports teams[?], and weather [????]...
Ironically that the likes of a Daley, Blago, and Granholm weren't enough to unseat good ole Memphis....
This will be exciting to our hockey fans -- the success of MI's pro teams was what propelled them [Flint and Detroit] to a respectable 6 and 7 in the miserable factor. Chicago, alas, is only 3rd.
Sooooo, this great news allows me bragging rights to one-up anybody who complains about their own city, at least until Forbes comes out with another list next year.
And, it is interesting -- government corruption and taxation - the two big factors in determining misery....from these first two weeks, it sounds as if we have a good long four years of just that coming up....
