Remind Me Why I Live Here
Apparently, my current place of residence is the seventh-most depressing city in the United States. Indy flunked the happy test. According to the article, Men’s Health magazine compiled the list based on antidepressant sales, suicide rates, and the number of days inhabitants reported being depressed. I wondered why, so I decided to follow up on bestplaces.net, one of the sources cited in the article. According to this Chamber of Commerce’s nightmare, Indy is also #7 on the “most expensive city in which to drive” list and #10 on the “Lowest Healthiest Cities Scores” list. On the EPA’s scale of 1-100, with 100 being best, air quality is 9 and water quality is 1. The violent crime rate is more than double the national average. According to the extended forecast I just checked, we can expect rain every day except one at least until May 5th. My curiousity was piqued by the “find your best city” feature, so I went through the survey and my top three cities were 1) Boston, 2) San Francisco, and 3) Long Island, NY. I’ve actually lived in San Francisco, and I would happily go there again. Sure, the cost of living in Indy is low; on the other hand, the statistics seem to indicate that we get what we pay for. Unfortunately, moving is not in the cards, and I’m going to be contributing to our depression rating if I think about it too much.
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April 26th, 2005 at 2:57 pm
I gotta give Indy a positive plug here. For all the
crime, pollution, etc even though it does have an
affordably low cost of living, Indy also has one of
the best local job markets going right now. There
may be other local job markets that rival Indy, but
in my mind, the cost of living way offsets that in
the other places.
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