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Wow, we must be amongst a bunch of walking time bombs!

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If you got stuck in the "It's a Small World" ride you'd be angry too...those damned singing dolls can make one homicidal.

JC may be one of the least angry cities, but it is also one of the most stressful cities (#19)! I guess holding all that anger in has its disadvantages.

100 Largest Metro Areas
(Ranked in order from most stressful to least stressful)

Rank Metro Area
1 Tacoma, WA
2 Miami, FL
3 New Orleans, LA
4 Las Vegas, NV-AZ
5 New York, NY
6 Portland-Vancouver, OR-WA
7 Mobile, AL
8 Stockton-Lodi, CA
9 Detroit, MI
10 Dallas, TX
11 Seattle-Bellevue-Everett, WA
12 West Palm Beach-Boca Raton, FL
13 Houston, TX
14 Fort Lauderdale, FL
15 Riverside-San Bernardino, CA
16 St. Louis, MO-IL
17 Denver, CO
18 Jacksonville, FL
19 Jersey City, NJ
20 Phoenix-Mesa, AZ
21 Orlando, FL
22 Charlotte-Gastonia-Rock Hill, NC-SC
23 Fort Worth-Arlington, TX
24 Oakland, CA
25 Kansas City, MO-KS
26 Chicago, IL
27 Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater, FL
28 San Antonio, TX
29 Albuquerque, NM
30 Tucson, AZ
31 Gary, IN
32 Los Angeles-Long Beach, CA
33 Baton Rouge, LA
34 Bakersfield, CA
35 Baltimore, MD
36 Sacramento, CA
37 Tulsa, OK
38 Memphis, TN-AR-MS
39 Nashville, TN
40 Birmingham, AL
41 Greenville-Spartanburg-Anderson, SC
42 San Francisco, CA
43 Atlanta, GA
44 Colorado Springs, CO
45 Fresno, CA
46 Milwaukee-Waukesha, WI
47 Toledo, OH
48 Indianapolis, IN
49 Philadelphia, PA-NJ
50 Cleveland-Lorain-Elyria, OH
51 Youngstown-Warren, OH
52 Wilmington-Newark, DE-MD
53 Dayton-Springfield, OH
54 Little Rock-North Little Rock, AR
55 Newark, NJ
56 San Jose, CA
57 Greensboro-Winston-Salem-High Point, NC
58 Wichita, KS
59 El Paso, TX
60 Austin-San Marcos, TX
61 Oklahoma City, OK
62 Louisville, KY-IN
63 Springfield, MA
64 Salt Lake City-Ogden, UT
65 Cincinnati, OH-KY-IN
66 Grand Rapids-Muskegon-Holland, MI
67 McAllen-Edinburg-Mission, TX
68 Sarasota-Bradenton, FL
69 Richmond-Petersburg, VA
70 Bergen-Passaic, NJ
71 Charleston-North Charleston, SC
72 Monmouth-Ocean, NJ
73 Akron, OH
74 Pittsburgh, PA
75 San Diego, CA
76 Knoxville, TN
77 Boston, MA-NH-ME
78 Hartford, CT
79 Columbia, SC
80 Ventura, CA
81 Allentown-Bethlehem-Easton, PA
82 Columbus, OH
83 Washington, DC-MD-VA-WV
84 Middlesex-Somerset-Hunterdon, NJ
85 Providence-Fall River-Warwick, RI-MA
86 Buffalo-Niagara Falls, NY
87 Syracuse, NY
88 New Haven-Meriden, CT
89 Rochester, NY
90 Scranton-Wilkes-Barre-Hazleton, PA
91 Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill, NC
92 Honolulu, HI
93 Norfolk-Virginia Beach-Newport News, VA-NC
94 Omaha, NE-IA
95 Ann Arbor, MI
96 Minneapolis-St. Paul, MN-WI
97 Nassau-Suffolk, NY
98 Orange County, CA
99 Harrisburg-Lebanon-Carlisle, PA
100 Albany-Schenectady-Troy, NY

So we have one of the fastest growing crime rates in the US, yet are the LEAST angriest?

Well at least the muggings a shootings are happy ones, no?

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Appropriate since they quarter your head!

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Aha! so you admit to mouse-a-cide.

-M

There are benefits to 'fudging' or 'ignoring' crime rates and statistics!

??? St. Petersburg is the HQ of scientology!

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I don't know, I was down there and I thought about killing that mouse!

And those tourists -- what's up with them!

"1. Orlando, FL

2. St. Petersburg, FL

3. Detroit, MI"

- So, the area around disneyland is angrier than detroit. I guess epcot center lines = rage.

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It is probably not that the citizenry of Jersey City is
cool, calm and collected; more likely just apathetic.
A few of us may needle and rankle and rancor, but
I bet the majority could basically care less.

(just opining out loud.)

Angry? Who's angry?

SCREW YOU!

What tosh! Florida ranked 1 & 2 worst. Might be because they have a higher percentage of older residents and older people statiscally have higher blood pressure.

People get paid to produce this drivel?

It's not called Chilltown for nothing.

This is a tough one to believe because of the use of high blood pressure stats. Isn't JC 2/3 Black or Hispanic, and aren't those two demographic groups more prone to hypertension? Maybe our good ranking reflects the poor medical care people are getting - their numbers aren't in the computer.

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Rising fast up the charts with a bullet!


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Photo courtesy of Dick Clark Productions, Inc.

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From Men' s Health Magazine

How Angry Is Your City?
A side-by-side ranking of where residents are the most steamed

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.

Does your city's rank rankle you? We kind of figured it would.

(From most to least angry cities)

1. Orlando, FL

2. St. Petersburg, FL

3. Detroit, MI

4. Baltimore, MD

5. Nashville, TN

6. Wilmington, DE

7. Miami, FL

8. Memphis, TN

9. Jacksonville, FL

10. St. Louis, MO

11. Chicago, IL

12. Tampa, FL

13. Jackson, MS

14. Albuquerque, NM

15. Charlotte, NC

16. Dallas, TX

17. Houston, TX

18. Tucson, AZ

19. Indianapolis, IN

20. Wichita, KS

21. Birmingham, AL

22. Providence, RI

23. Durham , NC

24. Altanta, GA

25. Washington, DC

26. Denver, CO

27. Philadelphia, PA

28. Baton Rouge, LA

29. Fort Worth, TX

30. Phoenix, AZ

31. Lubbock, TX

32. Cleveland, OH

33. Greensboro, NC

34. Cincinnati, OH

35. Arlington, TX

36. Los Angeles, CA

37. Buffalo, NY

38. Grand Rapids, MI

39. Boston, MA

40. Columbia, SC

41. Tulsa, OK

42. Aurora, CO

43. Seattle, WA

44. Sacramento, CA

45. San Diego, CA

46. Montgomery, AL

47. Raleigh, NC

48. Yonkers, NY

49. Oakland, CA

50. Fort Wayne, IN

51. Newark, NJ

52. Las Vegas, NV

53. Columbus, OH

54. St. Paul, MN

55. Charleston, WV

56. Kansas City, MO

57. New York, NY

58. Oklahoma, OK

59. Toledo, OH

60. San Antonio, TX

61. Riverside, CA

62. Modesto, CA

63. Louisville, KY

64. Honolulu, HI

65. Richmond, VA

66. San Francisco, CA

67. Bakersfield, CA

68. Spokane, WA

69. Milwaukee, WI

70. Jersey City, NJ

71. Lexington, KY

72. Little Rock, AR

73. Lincoln, NE

74. Billings, MT

75. San Jose, CA

76. Hartford, CT

77. Minneapolis, MN

78. Boise, ID

79. Anaheim, CA

80. Norfolk, VA

81. Austin, TX

82. Fremont, CA

83. Fresno, CA

84. Anchorage, AK

85. Cheyenne, WY

86. Rochester, NY

87. Madison, WI

88. Salt Lake City, UT

89. Omaha, NE

90. Pittsburgh, PA

91. Colorado Springs, CO

92. El Paso, TX

93. Sioux Falls, SD

94. Des Moines, IA

95. Burlington, VT

96. Portland, OR

97. Corpus Christi, TX

98. Fargo, ND

99. Bangor, ME

100. Manchester, NH