NY Post: Ten most stressful cities and ten least stressful cities in the US

[Anti Federalist]

Most Stressful.

1. Cleveland, Ohio

2. Detroit, Michigan

3. Gulfport, Mississippi

4. Baltimore, Maryland

5. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

6. Memphis, Tennessee

7. New Orleans, Louisiana

8. Birmingham, Alabama

9. St. Louis, Missouri

10. Toledo, Ohio

Least Stressful:

173. Burlington, Vermont

174. Sioux Falls, South Dakota

175. Bismarck, North Dakota

176. San Jose, California

177. Columbia, Maryland

178. Fargo, North Dakota

179. Overland Park, Kansas

180. Madison, Wisconsin

181. South Burlington, Vermont

182. Fremont, California

https://nypost.com/2022/07/12/the-most-least-stressed-cities-in-america-in-2022-new-report/

 

[Anti Globalist]

With all the gun violence in Chicago, I would expect they would easily top the most stressful list.

 

[Invisible Man]

There is something very fishy about Columbia, Maryland, showing up as one of the least stressful.

 

[CaptUSA]

There is something very fishy about Columbia, Maryland, showing up as one of the least stressful.

Right? I lived outside Columbia. Also, outside Cleveland. Columbia was way worse.

(I've also camped in Burlington, VT... That was one of the most stressful campsites ever. I don't usually like campgrounds anyway, but campgrounds among a bunch of socialists is especially unnerving.)

 

[Invisible Man]

Right? I lived outside Columbia. Also, outside Cleveland. Columbia was way worse.

(I've also camped in Burlington, VT... That was one of the most stressful campsites ever. I don't usually like campgrounds anyway, but campgrounds among a bunch of socialists is especially unnerving.)

From the article in the OP:

On Monday, WalletHub published a report that found the most and least stressed cities in the U.S., based on work stress, financial stress, family stress and stress related to health and safety.

You don't have to think very long about various causes of stress to think of things that aren't included in those 4, in addition to being able to question what evidences they used to measure those 4. But notice, for example, that they don't say anything about stress from dealing with the government. I can assure you that any visit to the DMV anywhere in Maryland is more stressful than the equivalent experience in most other states.

I can easily imagine some journalist keeping a straight face and saying that places that had stricter COVID lockdowns and stricter gun control laws had lower levels of "health and safety related stress" on account of viewing those things through the lens of their own biases.

 

[Invisible Man]

It looks like the WalletHub study was more objective than I gave it credit for in my last post.
https://wallethub.com/edu/most-least-stressed-cities/22759

However, I still see a lot of problems. For example, for measuring financial stress it counts median household income. But it doesn't count overall cost of living (just housing affordability). I'm sure Columbia, for example, has pretty high median income. But it also has a higher cost of living.

Also, sure enough, in health related stress, they count percent of residents who are fully vaccinated.

There's also a very vague "community well-being index," which is defined as follows:

Note: This metric is based on Sharecare’s Community Well-Being Index Score, which is a measure that evaluates health risk across 10 domains, five domains to represent well-being tied to individuals and five domains to contextualize the social determinants of health that define environment and surroundings.

Who knows what that includes. But it looks like a great way to factor in biases.

And there's still nothing about stress from dealing with the government.