Nation's Angriest Cities

[IChing]

POSTED: 10:59 am CDT August 15, 2006

A study conducted by Men's Health magazine has found that Orlando, Fla., ranks No. 1 on a list of the angriest cities in the nation.
Top 100: Angriest Cities

"Orlando has never been a strategic military target, and yet the folks there are furious," the magazine said.
The magazine looked at the percentage of men with high blood pressure, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and FBI rates for aggravated assaults, as well as workplace deaths from assaults and other violence.
Those numbers were compiled by the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

Top 10 Angriest Cities

Top 10 Angriest Cities
1-Orlando, Fla.------------------------------(what has Mickey been doing and what is with Florida)?
2-St. Petersburg, Fla.
3-Detroit
4-Baltimore
5-Nashville, Tenn.
6-Wilmington, Del.
7-Miami
8-Memphis, Tenn.
9-Jacksonville, Fla.
10-St.Louis
snip: http://www.wsmv.com/health/9681978/detail.html


The complete list is here:http://www.wsmv.com/health/9682434/detail.html

[etherealtruth]

1. I am actually surprised Detroit is not #1

Detroit is the nations poorest city (in it's size class) the economy (for lack of a better term) sucks in Michigan and is even worse in Detroit proper.

[meganmonkey]

26. I think Detroit is more

sad than it is angry... :(

[PassingFair]

29. We've been down so long...

it looks like up from here....

[Tesha]

71. That's because Omni Consumer Products has things well in hand.

[kenny blankenship]

2. WTF Florida? You have 4 of the 10 angriest cities in America

What is going on with you?
(And I thought Georgia was full of hateful angry people. Now I'm scared to even look in a southerly direction knowing Florida is sulking down there, just waiting for an excuse to tee off on me.)

[MrCoffee]

9. Right you are, Ken.

[RebelOne]

15. I live up here in North Georgia and believe me,

it is nowhere as angry as South Florida. I moved up here to the Atlanta area from Miami in 1989, one of the reasons was that I was angry with all the changes in South Florida since I was a child and grew up there.

[Mojorabbit]

48. It's the heat and the traffic IMO eom

[CollegeDUer]

49. As a Georgian I concur

I guess we're getting it from florida, time to sell it back to spain.

[krispos42]

56. It's the elderly drivers

doing 45 in the left lane, blinker on, seat belt caught in the door, buckle making sparks on the pavement, only proof of human control is knuckles ont he steering wheel.

I'd laugh, but its probably true!

[AnneD]

67. Well...

If you had a President named Bush and a Gov named Bush, Harris was your Rep, and wages were low but cost of living was high(after all, you're paid in sunshine).....you'd be pissed to. Everything I have seen going on in Fla. makes Texas look down right progressive. I never hear anything good from the Nurses I know that live there.

[sutz12]

3. Wow! Four Florida cities on the top 10!?!?!

Maybe they're finally getting pissed for being bamboozled in the 2k elections. :banghead:

[indepat]

5. Welcome to Jebbie's world

[sweetheart]

4. boiling insanity exportable to a neighborhood near you

Thanks to the drugs war, the police state presence in inner cities, combined with
race and poverty concentrations make for a rich mixture to cook. Then add economic
pressures of the downward collapsing middle class, crushed under a collapsing concrete slab,
and people become desperate and angry like snapping dogs, ferile to survive.

The insanity of empire spills out in to the streets, militarism no longer containable
to "over there", but over here, in every heart, in every voter disposessed, in every
liberty stolen from the divine peaceful public.

[AX10]

6. Florida has 40% of the top angriest cities!

That's very telling about the condition of that sad excuse a state.

[AndrewJacksonFaction]

33. Easy! Can't you tell by the study? I am already pissed off!!! LOL

No reason to deride the Great State of Jackson.

[nolabels]

38. If the bush clan don't get you then your high blood pressure will

Dang, wasn't that florida place long ago where people went to relax and or retire :shrug:

[ButtScratchinMike]

74. Of course Floridians are angry.

Wouldn't you be if you lived in "America's Wang?" (props to Homer Simpson

[Robb]

7. I remember being astounded the Baltimore free weekly paper

...had a column devoted exclusively to the shootings in the police blotter. Murder Ink, I believe it was called.

Holy crap, I said aloud. And left. :wow:

[THX1138]

32. Hey!

I take issue with the description of Bawlmer as "angry". We are known as Charm City, and for the record, we are far less angry than DC is. I find the locals to be quite friendly here honestly. They call you "hon", as opposed to "asswipe" or "jerk-off".

Btw, that "column" called Murder, Inc isn't really a column at all, it's an alternative free weekly's version of a Police Blotter, which most every newspaper in a big town has. Same info, but written with more words, in that edgey neo-urbanite style that all alternative free weeklies have. You misoverestimated the impact dude.

[Robb]

43. Well, our newspaper has a blotter too

...but a shooting not related to hunting gets the front page. ;)

[THX1138]

64. Do shootings in NYC or LA

make the front page of the NYT or LAT? Where do you live anyway, Boise? :evilgrin:

[xchrom]

8. lol -- florida must be a state of mind.

[Demobrat]

10. That's what happens when

you pave paradise.

[rzemanfl]

11. I wonder if they have figures from 1999 or 2000. I was never

angry before *, now I am pissed most of the time.

[bpeale]

46. pissed off

I'm pissed off too ... especially when someone tries to engage me in republican political discussions. I can hardly contain myself.

[rzemanfl]

50. Welcome to DU. The discourse here will help with the pissed off

feeling.

[Monkeyman]

12. Dam no Chicago

[WePurrsevere]

13. Chicago is #11... I was rather surprised at some of the top 10. n/t

[IChing]

14. Loser

Doesn't that make you angry??? lol

[WePurrsevere]

18. Since I'm not from Chicago or any place within 100+ miles of one of the

100 angriest cities... no. ;) Although... from all we heard at our Yard sale last weekend folks up here in rural NNY more po'd then I've seen before and it's at mostly with Bush and the Repulicans in office... and this is mostly Republican leaning up here.

It would have been interesting to see them take this study to the next level and delve into "why" these people are "angry". Is there a common denominator? Although I can easily do a SWAG it may be more biased then accurate. :evilgrin:

[IChing]

24. I was curious on the next level also

How many have mega churches and a strong fundamentalist base
Discrepancies between education and population, rich and poor
environmental and urban planning, race and age, etc.

[depakid]

16. I've found people in Chicago to be rather kind

as long as they're not in their cars!

Jekyl & Hyde.

Also, I have noted that there seem to be an awful lot of martial arts studies in the neighborhoods around the city.

[WePurrsevere]

20. When we visited Chicago a couple of years ago I found folks....

fairly pleasant but then again I've found Boston, Providence and NYC to be rather similar.

Folks are folks... city or country... I think perhaps the energy of living in a city versus rural may effect different folks differently. I know I don't do well in a big city for long and my body relaxes in the country... others I know thrive on city life and the things that would stress me out horribly. So perhaps some of the anger stems from being stressed because they're not where their bodies and minds are happiest... it would be have been iteresting to see what the cause(s) are and if there is a constant.

[Bridget Dooley]

65. We're pleasant...

...but rough around the edges! I am suprised Chi isn't on this list!

[HockeyMom]

17. Living under TWO Bush's

would make anyone very angry.

[NotGivingUp]

44. you got THAT right!! it sucks!!!

[Ezlivin]

19. Florida - The Shoot-Me State

New state motto, I believe.

"You have the right to carry a loaded weapon. If you refuse this right, we will suspect you."

[AnneD]

69. Texas-the 'I'll whup your ass" state...

We use to be the Friendship State, named for the friendly Indians that lived and greeted the early Spanish explorers. But we killed them off years ago so actually-the new motto is more a truth in advertising. Texas-where packing isn't just for suitcases anymore.

[maxsolomon]

21. if other places are angrier than seattle, i'm glad i'm not there

because i wake up pissed off & it just gets worse every hour.

[BushOut06]

22. Try living in Orlando

If you have a job, chances are it's in the low-paying service industry. Maybe you're lucky, and work in the construction industry (still much less than what they pay up North), where you are creating new subdivisions as far as the eye can see. Cookie-cutter houses, we call them. You get to sit in gridlock on I-4, which is pretty much *the* only major north-south freeway in Orlando. If you decide not to take I-4, then you get to sit in even worse gridlock on our piss-poor planned network of roads. Orlando's crime rate is skyrocketing - we've set a new record for homicides, and the year is barely halfway over. Almost everyone comes from somewhere else, therefore there is no local identity here.

Yeah, Orlando is a real paradise, ain't it?

[Demobrat]

30. Creating new subdivisions

for who to live in? If there's no work who can buy the houses? Retirees?

[gorekerrydreamticket]

61. Not to mention it's usually 100 degrees and ...

very humid, since it was built on swampland...

[seasat]

23. In defense of my state, I'm not sure if their criteria are accurate.

Our search for evidence of urban anger began with the percentage of men with high blood pressure, from the CDC's Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (as calculated by Sperling's BestPlaces). We then factored in FBI rates of aggravated assaults and Bureau of Labor Statistics numbers on workplace deaths from assaults and other violence. And because rage and the road often go hand in hand, we also included traffic-congestion data from the Texas Transportation Institute, as well as speeding citations per state from the Governors Highway Safety Association.

The cities listed in Florida have a load of retirees. Elderly fat men living in hot weather are probably more likely to have high blood pressure. Traffic and speeding tickets are two other criteria. Heck, we're a tourist destination, not all that congestion and speeding are Floridians. However, I'll second the point about living under two Bushes. It greatly pisses me off.

[Acadia Blue]

25. Many of those statistics about best place to live ect are wrong

becaue of the criteria they use to rate them.

[Janice325]

27. I'm surprised New Orleans isn't on the list.

Oh, yeah. There's not enough people there to take into consideration. :sarcasm:
(no snark intended. I lived in New Orleans most of my life-I left 11 years pre-Katrina).

[hedgehog]

28. I'd have to call this study at least semi-bogus.

Someone would have to prove to me that high blood pressure is tied to anger. Also,work place assaults generally are hold-ups at the 7-11, not someone going postal.

[WePurrsevere]

37. True, although high BP can be brought on by anger it can also be caused...

by other factors such as medical issues such as diet, etc and stress such as not being able to support your family, etc.

Work place assualts can also be caused by the stress of working for a boss who's a major jerk and the constant stress and fear of losing one's job to downsizing, someone younger or outsourcing, losing one's benefits, trying to reach next to impossible quota's, etc. There are of course other reasons... politics is one of them and tensions have been pretty high these past few years. ;)

[MysteryToMyself]

39. I would have to call this study totally bogus

A total waste of time and someone's money. What was the point of it all?

[Drum]

31. Bwaaaa!!! This NYCer is happy not to be in that Top Ten n/t

[slampoet]

34. Whenever I get an asshole calling into my job.......

90% of the time they are from Florida, Tennesee, Indiana, or Upstate NY.

But mostly Florida.

[ikojo]

35. It doesn't surprise me to see St Louis on the list

The schools in the city suck...if anyone wants a job that pays a living wage, and they don't have a car then they must endure a long commute by bus to the suburbs.

[leftofthedial]

36. all of the anger in Nashville is due to the great Dixie Chicks

fiasco . . .

[WePurrsevere]

40. I wonder if a study were done on women if the list would be the same. Also

they used speeding as an anger indicator?

My daughter has had a few speeding tickets and she's rather laid back... she just has a lead foot (much like her grandfather & father) and is always in a hurry even to get nowhere. (We tease her about being such an "Aries"). ;) Heck the one time I got a speeding ticket was a few miles from home on the way home with new cans of paint, thinking about how it would look when done, etc and going on "auto pilot". I was almost out of town and the road was a 4 laner... speed limit is 30... not heading up towards 55. (oops)

We live in rural NNY. Folks up here are probably the most laid back I've ever known and yet speeding and passing in foolish areas is more then norm then not.

Speeding can be one indication of anger but I have my doubts that it's a major one.

[w4rma]

41. Angry Florida because of militant pampered Cuban exiles (nt)

[Barkley]

42. Strong Southern Representation - e.o.m.

[bpeale]

45. credit card companies

I'm not surprised that Wilmington is on the list. Home of all the credit card companies. I'd be furious too.

[leesa]

47. Must be a lot of libruls in them towns to make them so angry.

[hogwyld]

51. Yeah! #96 Portland

Portland, libral governor, legislature, mayor. That's why we're happy. Most of the unhappy cities are in RED states!!

[BurgherHoldtheLies]

52. Philadelphia barely cracks the top 30...oh, they're gonna be pissed

and start crackin' some heads for this insult.:grr:

Pittsburgh, on the other hand, is way down at #90.:-)

[harun]

63. It's because everyone pissed has been murdered I think (n/t)

[PretzelzRule]

53. sort of suprising Seattle's not in the top 10

there's some seriously rude, angry people here, as anyone who commutes by car or bus around here can attest. And if you're a pedestrian, watch out...the drivers would just as soon run you over.

[katinmn]

54. I wonder if I'd be happier moving 1/4 mile from St. Paul into Minneapolis

I'm living on the wrong side of the river.

St. Paul -- 54.
Minneapolis -- 77.

[krispos42]

57. LOL Yeah, the two cities touch. Should be Minn/St. Paul

(54+77)/2=65.5

That's where we are lmao

[Bamboo]

55. If You Use A Knife It Means You Still Care.

Rage is a form of emotional deregulation and Florida is a deregulated state.Repression is a force used to hold back rage but the floodwalls are weak.People use alcohol and drugs to regulate rage which have a history in the Bush family.People want deregulation without the side effects but that is the magical thinking that Florida represents.Think of Florida as a test kitchen for what everyone will be eating shortly.

[krispos42]

58. Are most of the cities in Red states?

And does it mean anything? I'd research it but I'm about to pass out from exhaustion. Gotta finish watching Countdown that I taped then pass out!

[redstateblues]

59. A lot of songwriters in Nashville aren't getting any songs cut

and are having to deliver pizzas

[CarlWoodward]

60. I'm astonished

I'm stunned that no Texas cities are in the top 10. Houston, at least, should be up there!

[AnneD]

70. Hey, wazamata...

jealous? Houston is more pleasant than most cities it's size and we keep trying to make it better. Dallas beat us out-but that's ok (they tend to be angry AND anally retentive there-oh and did I mention full of GOP).

[GoddessOfGuinness]

62. Women don't have high blood pressure?

Or do they simply not assault others?
Are all people with high BP angry?
Do all those found guilty of assault suffer from high BP?


Sorry, this sounds like yet another tabloid study...

[MUSTANG_2004]

66. St Pete is # 2? That's insane!

St Petersburg is a very laid back city. Mostly tourists and retirees. Heck, it doesn't even have bad traffic.

[AnneD]

68. I guess there were not enough folks in

NOLA to be counted.

[alarimer]

72. #97- Corpus Christi

I guess we are not as angry as Austin?? When they are trying to privatize our beaches??

[ShortnFiery]

73. We're going to have to try harder in D.C. to make

the top ten. :sarcasm: Only 25th!

I know that none of us D.C. commuters are thinking "Goodwill to men" as we vie for position crossing the 14 Street Bridge. :P