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If you think the city you live in sucks, maybe you should take a minute to realize how #blessed you really are. There are cities across the country that are flat out miserable. Horrendous municipalities with unemployment rates in the teens, sub-$40k/year median incomes and uneducated citizens. Market Watch came up with the “Well-Being Index” to figure out which cities in the US are the most miserable. So, let’s take a look at where you should definitely not be moving ever:
10. Evansville, IN
9. Mobile, AL
8. Shreveport-Bossier City, LA
7. Columbus, GA
6. Beaumont-Port Arthur, TX
5. Hickory-Lenoir-Morgantown, NC
4. Spartanburg, SC
3. Redding, CA
2. Charleston, WV
1. Huntington, WV
West Virginia rounds out the top of the list, which should surprise no one. The list factored in the percentage of smokers living in each city, percentage of citizens with a college degree and the median income of each city. Evansville’s median income sits around $45,000 a year and Huntington’s was a paltry $39,000 a year. Only 19% of the citizens of Huntington, WV have a college degree. Woof. The list on MarketWatch goes deeper into detail and you can read it HERE.
Don’t move to any of these places.
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Born in Hickory, went to High School in Lenoir
Mobile is anything but miserable.
In case anyone was wondering, Evansville, IN is pretty much Pawnee from Parks and Rec.
Eh. I don’t know if I’d go THAT far.
Evansville is shittier Louisville which is shittier Cincinnati.
Beautiful view of the Beaumont skyline…
Almost all of them are cities in the South… Ouch.
Stockton, Bakersfield, Fresno, Modesto, etc. They might not have gotten into the top ten according to the criteria for this article but Central California deserves some representation when we’re talking misery.
I don’t know if you’ve been here, but Redding is pretty miserable. It’s been 118 Degrees here before… And close to 100 days every year being over 90 degrees.
Bakersfield. That place straight up sucks.
Whoever wrote this has never been to Watertown, NY.
Decent place to be a kid, shitty place to be an adult.
This is a hard list to quantify. Huntington is probably my favorite place I’ve lived, and I’d put it far and away ahead of Charleston. This list probably only takes into account permanent residents, and Huntington is 1/3 Marshall students.
Mobile, AL born and raised. Most Alabama grads move back to Mobile. It’s also a big Industrial city, especially ship and plane building, so there is a lot of blue collar workers.
Hmmm, must have just missed the list at #11.