Forbes Says Living In The Midwest Sucks
By Chuck Sudo in News on Feb 22, 2013 6:40PM
Forbes doesn’t think highly of life in the Midwest, if their new list of America’s most miserable cities is to be believed.
Forbes used metrics including unemployment, income and property tax rates, violent crime data, home values and foreclosure rates to determine their list. Chicago ranked fourth behind Rockford, Flint, Michigan and Detroit, which topped the list.
Here’s what Forbes had to say about living in Chicago.
”Chicago has passionate supporters, but residents must endure the misery of long commutes, plummeting home prices, brutal winters and high foreclosure rates. The migration rate out of Chicago is the sixth worst among the 200 largest metros.”
Sure. Rub it in.
Forbes apparently didn’t buy all those Chrysler commercials touting the Motor City’s rebirth. High as Chicago’s homicide rate has been the past 14 months, violent crime in Detroit is still the highest in the nation with 1,052 incidents per 100,000 people.
In fact, Forbes' list is littered with Midwestern cities. Warren, Mich., ranks seventh on the list, St. Louis, Gary and Milwaukee earned spots and even the mean streets of Lake County ranked ninth on the list for its falling home prices (home values declined 29 percent in the last five years), long commutes and bitter winters. It ain’t easy being a bourgie in Highland Park these days.