America's Most Miserable Cities

Feeling miserable today? Maybe you live in Miami, Florida. The city - famous for mega-million mansions and South Beach clubs - has just gotten the unenviable title of America's Most Miserable City.

Forbes Magazine took a look at 10 factors (including violent crimes, unemployment rates, and foreclosures) for the 200 largest metro areas in the United States to find the 10 most miserable cities in America. See if yours make the list:

Miami, Florida
The housing crisis has devastated Miami with 47% of homeowners sitting on underwater mortgages. Foreclosures have been rampant with 364,000 properties in the Miami area entering the foreclosure process since 2008 according to RealtyTrac.

Detroit, Michigan
Detroit has closed schools and laid off police in an effort to avoid a bankruptcy filing this year. Home prices are down 54% the past three years, worst in the U.S. The median price was $38,000 last year in the Detroit-Livonia-Dearborn metro division.

Flint, Michigan
Flint razed 775 abandoned homes in the year ending October 2011, to try and change the city landscape. The state of Michigan appointed an emergency manager last year to take over Flint's budget and operations. Crime remains a severe problem with the violent crime rate the third worst in the U.S.

West Palm Beach, Florida
South Florida has long been stained by corruption. One of the latest examples: Jose Rodriguez, the mayor of Boynton Beach (part of the West Palm metropolitan division) was suspended from his office last month by Gov. Rick Scott after he was arrested for allegedly using his position to obstruct a child abuse probe involving his wife's estranged daughter. Home prices in the West Palm area are off 50% since 2006.

See the rest at Forbes: Link (Photo: Shutterstock)


Wow, the Forbes website is even worse than the Reuters website. What is it with the media dinosaurs and the horrible websites that split the content onto new pages by paragraphs???
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Yaaaay! I live within driving distance like of half this list! If I was SUPER motivated I could even walk to Gary. ::pours another drink:: Oh well...could be worse. ::shrug::
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