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Gary, Indiana's crime statistics must be skewed as is any other city, but Gary is one helluva a dangerous place. More so than those statistics point to. Also, Gary has one of the highest per capita murder rates in the country consistently every year. In the last 10 years it has had a rate of over 70/100,000. Also, where do you get your crime stats? Not from this site, because on here it shows different numbers for both cities and it shows Gary to be higher.
my stats for Gary are from the Bureau of Justice website/FBI.
For SF, it's violent crime rate is a good deal higher than any stats on the internet will show you... because it was just two months ago the SFPD revealed that they have been submitting crime stats to the FBI wrong (as in under counting SF's assault rate by an average of 1,200 incidents a year...so while old/"current" FBI stats show SF's violent crime rate for 2007 as 874/100k residents, it's actually 1,037/100k residents, going by the SFPD's own revised numbers).
As far as the crime numbers from city data being different, that's because city data uses it's own crime index that's different than what the FBI, BoJ, and thus Forbes, Walletpop, CQ, Morgan Quitno, etc uses.
Really...?? Using the local sports team as an attribute if it's miserable or not? Give me a break. I do however agree with more than half the cities listed.
Really...?? Using the local sports team as an attribute if it's miserable or not? Give me a break. I do however agree with more than half the cities listed.
I would never defend a Forbes list, but I can say for sure that having professional sports teams that win definitely makes the city a more fun place to be. I imagine that life in New Orleans is pretty fancy right now.
Many residents live and die by local professional sports, and when they lose consistently the atmosphere can seem pretty miserable.
These mooks seriously used the performance of local sports franchises as part of their criteria to rank a city's misery? Even by Forbes standards, this "list" is spectacularly useless.
I agree with most of the list and I unfortunately am living and going to school in one of them currently.
Are you miserable?
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