Top 10 most miserable cities.....Democrat states and cities batting .1000

[Drumcollie]

Detroit Michigan

Flint Michigan

Rockford Ill

Chicago Ill

Modesto Ca.

Vallejo Ca.

Warren Mi.

Stockton Ca.

Lake county Ill.

New York, New York

http://homes.yahoo.com/news/the-10-most-miserable-cities-in-america-013618262.html

Democrat failed policies at work here....let guess lefty will tell us how good these cities really have it and how this article is a lie.

 

[marvin martian]

Democrat failed policies at work here....let guess lefty will tell us how good these cities really have it and how this article is a lie.

No, they'll tell you it's the less-liberal cities right next to those cities that are making it too easy for the miserable cities' residents to just go across the town line and get misery and bring it right back to their own city. Same rationale they use for the high rate of gun crime in those same liberal shitholes...lefty "logic" at work again...

 

[Bo-4]

Modesto, CA is a cowtown that ALWAYS votes red.

Lake County, IL is a wealthy area that ALWAYS votes red:

Another collar county where Mr. Romney is likely to find support is Lake County, which includes the North Shore, a string of affluent suburbs along Lake Michigan. The North Shore has long been home to Chicago’s elite. It is an area where everyone has a friend who owns a Nascar team. -Nate Silver

So far, i see about an even split between Republican and Dem districts on your list.

Drummy.. another epic fail.

 

[Corruptbuddha]

Modesto is only on that list due to its foreclosure rate. What happened was a bunch of bay area scumbags bought up a ton of new houses during the 'boom' and dumped them right after.

Real estate there is a MESS.

 

[Arkady]

Detroit Michigan

Flint Michigan

Rockford Ill

Chicago Ill

Modesto Ca.

Vallejo Ca.

Warren Mi.

Stockton Ca.

Lake county Ill.

New York, New York

http://homes.yahoo.com/news/the-10-most-miserable-cities-in-america-013618262.html

Democrat failed policies at work here....let guess lefty will tell us how good these cities really have it and how this article is a lie.

These kinds of lists don't make much sense from a free-market perspective. From that perspective, we all have the right to move anywhere we want any time we want. Within the US, there's free movement of people. So, a free-marketer would assume that people are deciding for themselves how desirable a particular place is to live, and that the prices of homes will reflect that belief. If a particular location is really desirable, people will bid against each other for the limited opportunities to live there, thereby driving up house values and apartment rents. If a location isn't so desirable, then those who sell houses and rent apartments will bid against each other to try to lure the limited number of people interested in living there, thereby driving down house values and apartment rents.

If you use that free market analysis, you'll see that New York, NY is considered such an incredibly desirable place to live that the free market has bid up the price of doing so to the point that you can shell out a million bucks for an extremely modest home. Meanwhile, there are places in this country, out in the rural areas, considered so incredibly undesirable that you can get yourself a McMansion on a big lot for less than $100k, because that's all the market will support before people say "it's just not worth it."

 

[Drumcollie]

These kinds of lists don't make much sense from a free-market perspective. From that perspective, we all have the right to move anywhere we want any time we want. Within the US, there's free movement of people. So, a free-marketer would assume that people are deciding for themselves how desirable a particular place is to live, and that the prices of homes will reflect that belief. If a particular location is really desirable, people will bid against each other for the limited opportunities to live there, thereby driving up house values and apartment rents. If a location isn't so desirable, then those who sell houses and rent apartments will bid against each other to try to lure the limited number of people interested in living there, thereby driving down house values and apartment rents.

If you use that free market analysis, you'll see that New York, NY is considered such an incredibly desirable place to live that the free market has bid up the price of doing so to the point that you can shell out a million bucks for an extremely modest home. Meanwhile, there are places in this country, out in the rural areas, considered so incredibly undesirable that you can get yourself a McMansion on a big lot for less than $100k, because that's all the market will support before people say "it's just not worth it."

It is a misrey index develpoed in th 1960's by an economist...Arthur Okun....Okun is known in particular for promulgating Okun's law, an observed relationship that states that for every 1% increase in the unemployment rate, a country's GDP will be roughly an additional 2% lower than its potential GDP. He is also known as the creator of the misery index.

democrats run those staes or those cities and have destroyed them with democrat policies...after what has been done to these cities why should we listen to lefty at all!

 

[Arkady]

Okun's misery index is just inflation plus unemployment. It strikes me as a silly index, since very low levels of inflation have almost no impact on happiness for anyone, whereas even the lowest levels of unemployment have a large impact on those who happen to be among the unemployed. But that's beside the point, since this article is unrelated to Okun's index. This is the Forbes index, which they invented, and, according to the article, they tweak it from year to year to better appeal to the conservative readership of Forbes magazine. If you invent an index and then change it from year to year, you're just gaming numbers.