[Snowden352]

Found this article. Kind of funny.

Link:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29491306/

whoops!
Here's the link to the real article:
http://images.businessweek.com/ss/09/02/0226_miserable_cities/10.htm

[philopdx]

Was that picture from when Obama spoke last summer?

[MarkDaMan]

stupid

[pdxman]

Numbers don't tell the whole story. It seems like they are running out of "Most _______ city in America!" lists. What they should really do is actually ask people what they think of their city, instead of crunching numbers. I mean, if Portland is such a miserable place then why do so many people continue to move here? Same with Las Vegas and other cities on the list. Portland is far from perfect but the most unhappy city in the country? I, along with many other I'm sure, beg to differ.

[nobody]

Sometimes I just wake up, have a delicious cup of coffee, go for a nice bike ride, come home and have a fantastic beer and just want to blow my brains out.

[urbanlife]

Sometimes I just wake up, have a delicious cup of coffee, go for a nice bike ride, come home and have a fantastic beer and just want to blow my brains out.

wow, that is so portland. :yes:

[alexjon]

What about suicide rankings? It seems unhappiness is completely inverse to suicide rates in reality.

[MR. Cosmopolitan]

What about suicide rankings? It seems unhappiness is completely inverse to suicide rates in reality.

If that's so then Esatern Europeans and Russians must be the happyest people in the world; do we also kill people, prostitute ourselves and drink vodka when were happy?

[RoseCtyRoks]

Good! This will keep the authors of these articles, and some of their readers, from moving here.... I've never been happier, being so miserable!! :haha:

[RED_PDXer]

city rankings sell magazines... so i'm sure we'll continue to see shit like this..

I'm not suggesting there's anything correct or scientific about this type of analysis, but they forgot to include traffic congestion, which seems like a pretty huge one.. having lived in LA and being stuck in traffic so frequently, I've never been happier than when I moved here. Also, each day I have real choices to take transit where I need to go, or ride a bike safely to my destination, or walk to a store in comfort, I'm thankful i live here.. I guess freeways make other people happy, so maybe those people will stay away?

[Sioux612]

What about suicide rankings? It seems unhappiness is completely inverse to suicide rates in reality.

I wonder if this poll took into account that Oregon is one of the only states to have the assisted suicide law - the "Death With Dignity Act". Thus, driving up the number of suicides substantially. :shrug:

[65MAX]

I wonder if this poll took into account that Oregon is one of the only states to have the assisted suicide law - the "Death With Dignity Act". Thus, driving up the number of suicides substantially. :shrug:

The number of DWD suicides is very minor compared to true suicides. Regardless, this poll is garbage.

[LucasS6]

.

[tworivers]

Sometimes I just wake up, have a delicious cup of coffee, go for a nice bike ride, come home and have a fantastic beer and just want to blow my brains out.

I am tempted to make that my signature...

[jaxg8r1]

The number of DWD suicides is very minor compared to true suicides. Regardless, this poll is garbage.

Yeah, only 401 in 14-15 years. And the avg age of those patients was over 70, so hardly any impact on this at all. And besides, with such strict case review, and the limitations placed on DWD, these barely qualify as suicide.

[MarkDaMan]

Well, now that PAW is being scaled back I'm depressed!

[zilfondel]

Don't be depressed!

Its beer drinking and gardening season, folks. And soon it'll be time to break out the BBQs and bbq some.. umm, tofu? :(

[downtownpdx]

Ya know as I was reading the PAW news, NBC News was interviewing people in L'Aquila Italy in the aftermath of an earthqauke that all but destroyed their historic architecture. Kinda put everything in perspective. Things could be worse.

[TANGELD_SLC]

How could Portland be unhappy?

It's one of the few cities in the U.S. I would consider moving to because it seems like such an upbeat beautiful place to live :yes:

Don't pay attention to the lists. Salt Lake City just topped a "Most Happy Cities" list, and I don't think Portland could be very far behind us.

[holladay]

I am tempted to make that my signature...

Haha, me too.

[pylon]

Sometimes I just wake up, have a delicious cup of coffee, go for a nice bike ride, come home and have a fantastic beer and just want to blow my brains out.

Wait!! Medical marijuana can help with that! :)

[Chicago3rd]

So why don't they include murder? They show violent crime....but why isn't murder...and high murder rates counted as a sign of unhappiness?

Suicide thing is the weather....that has been noted for years....and years.

[Okstate]

As for weather all you have to do is drive eastbound for 90 miles & you're almost certain to find sunnier environs. I don't understand why people feel so trapped.

[tworivers]

As for weather all you have to do is drive eastbound for 90 miles & you're almost certain to find sunnier environs. I don't understand why people feel so trapped.

No car, for one thing. That's a mostly happy choice that I make, and I wouldn't exactly say that I feel trapped, except maybe on the very worst days when riding my bike sounds awful... kind of like this morning... and then I find myself fantasizing about living in a truly walkable city with a killer transit system. I can't remember the last time I got in a car and drove 90 miles for anything.

[Okstate]

I am going to assume most people that kill themselves as a result of the weather have some form of access to transportation. As for the people that don't have that option...they probably lack a wealth of other options in life as well & probably have much more working against them than the daily forecast. Just my 2 cents.