Tuesday, March 9, 2010
Meaningless Rankings, Part Deux
Posted by Bruce VanWyngarden on Tue, Mar 9, 2010 at 5:53 PM
Now will you believe me when I say business magazines create these stupid and meaningless city rankings only to create controversy and sell magazines and website hits?
Today, Forbes magazine competitor Business Week did its own version of America's "most miserable cities." It's called "America's Unhappiest Cities." Yes, that's right. And do you know what the unhappiest city in America is? Portland, Oregon. Yep, that groovy, green jewel in the Great Northwest is a miserable, er, unhappy place to live. As you can see by the picture, it's a real craphole.Business Week said so. It must be true. Wonder if the mayor will write a letter?
Read the survey here. According to Business Week, Memphis is only the 16th unhappiest city. We're happier than lots of supposedly cooler places, including, yes, Nashville.
Oh happy day.
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The Flyer should do one - America's Most Banal Business Magazines. Based on how often they have a numeral or the words "Top," "Most" or "Hot" on the cover.
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Bruce: you forgot to highlight that we even beat Pittsburgh. Oh happy day!
I love Memphis, but putting it ahead of Seattle and Portland, in just about anything having to do with quality of life, is more than a little f'd up.
I think you should rank America's funniest-sounding state names. (#1: "Kentucky.") A list like that would be every bit as vital and useful as these are.
More lists that just came out over the past couple of days: Apparently Memphis is #42 out of 43 cities on the Green Cities Index and Memphis ranked #62 out of 67 metropolitan areas in the country with populations greater than 750,000 in market appeal for young adults.
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