Comments about ‘Stress is least in Salt Lake, most in Detroit, report says’

Tried to post this once, but I'll venture again. I had posted hours earlier that SL may have the least stress but also the most prescriptions filled for antidepressants, so I have to wonder if it all evens out or not.

How many of those top 10 stressful cities have democrate mayors? All?

@Snack Pack

What is so telling about your post is that SLC, the least stressful, has a Democrat mayor. I know it is a non-partisan office, but Mayor Becker is most assuredly a Democrat.

@Snack Pack

Since you were too lazy to do your own research, I did it for you. Here you go - most stressful, Detroit (D), Los Angeles (D), Riverside (U), St. Louis (D), New York (R), New Orleans (D), Chicago (D), Birmingham (D), Miami (R).

Least stressful, Salt Lake (D), Virginia Beach (R), Minneapolis (D), Raleigh (D), Austin (D), Oklahoma City (R), Denver (D), San Antonio (D), Kansas City (D), Phoenix (D).

It looks like the D's have a vast majority in both instances. Any more questions?

They are looking at metro areas, so the question of mayor is irrelavent.

@attentive. All the other cities assuredly have exponentially higher "self medication" rates. We call those alcohol and coffee consumption. So "evens out?" Probably not.

@attentive, please give a recent and authoritative source for your post.

to AZRods: I got it from a recent broadcast of KSL news.

to rustopher: "Even with 'exponentially' (why you chose to use that word I cannot fathom - do you think that each person multiplies their drug usage by him or herself?) higher self-medication rates" - I would have to see a study to know if the other cities mentioned have a higher rate of self-medication than SLC. Do you have any information to back up your suggestion?

AZRods: I guess you will have to do a search on your own. DN would not allow my post that included a link. Check out something to the effect of usu.edu and then psycho101 and then, lectures, and then chp2methods followed by study and h, t, m, l.

attentive: We all prove our bias, not excluding myself.

Since we both apparently have way too much time to waste at work, and you brought it up google is a wonderful thing. Look for things like "alcohol consumption per" and you can fill in the blank there (by binge drinkers was interesting). You get similar results as to what you are suggesting to AZRods regarding feel good meds.

And forgive me for using a term you didn't like. Other places I have lived it appeared everyone drank coffee and the occasional libation. (Don't tell me to point to a study because I'm done.) And yet not everyone here takes antidepressants.

I don't know if it's true but from down here in Arizona the word is always how those in Salt Lake and Provo areas are truly in the Happy Valleys with all of the anti depressants! Someone enlighten me please if it's true.

I noticed a comment similar to what I thought to poiny out: don't know about Salt lake, but I have read, twice, that Utah was the biggest consumer of happy pills.

Way to go SLC! There's a lot to love about the city. The trains are great, the trax system is convenient. Temple Square and the neighboring buildings and parks are gorgeous. The streets are wide and relatively uncrowded by comparison to most cities. There're lovely mountains and the airport is convenient and one of the fastest people movers around. Don't let the whiners and complainers get you down. You don't want to rate lower than Phoenix... with its insane heat and kidnapping rates highest in the country or Virginia Beach with its overused oceanfront. :)

@Snack Pack
Regardless how how a well/poorly city is run, generally places with a larger urban area vote democrat. Thats just the way it is.

attentive | 1:15 a.m. Sept. 8, 2010
Tried to post this once, but I'll venture again. I had posted hours earlier that SL may have the least stress but also the most prescriptions filled for antidepressants, so I have to wonder if it all evens out or not.
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Arizona Boy | 11:54 a.m. Sept. 8, 2010
I don't know if it's true but from down here in Arizona the word is always how those in Salt Lake and Provo areas are truly in the Happy Valleys with all of the anti depressants! Someone enlighten me please if it's true.
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It's true,
and it was the first thing I thought of when I read the article as well.

You guys beat me to it.

i dont think phoenix would be stress free, it is the kidnapping city of the world,,, and very high crime, mexican drug lords, not a very safe place to be,,,,

rustopher, may I say, truly without any desire to further incite you that I was not taking off time at work - I am self-employed. And my search engine of choice was Bing. I don't take antidepressants, smoke ANYthing, drink coffee or any other stimulant (and that includes all those energy drinks and/or sodas). I don't have an axe to grind against anyone; I was just stating what I'd read and heard. SLC is as good a place as any to live, work, play. (And I don't live there either.)

"that's thanks to the Utah capital's low levels of crime, easy commutes, high employment and good health standing."

Let's take another look at the criteria for the ranking.

low levels of crime

easy commutes

high employment

good health standing

Nope, I don't see consumption of happy pills among the criteria.

Attentive, Arizona Boy, LDS liberal, happy pills were not listed as part of the criteria. I think your bringing them up says much more about you than it does the residents of SLC.

I don't know enough of Attentive and AZ Boy's posting past to draw any conclusions about them, but LDS lib, aren't liberals supposed to be tolerant and inclusive? I sure don't see that in your demeaning comment. You even admit your first thought was to find fault.

yes Utah has high anti-depressant rates but the statistic means little since it could simply mean that utahns take better care of themselves and are not afraid to ask for help or they use fewer illegal antidepressants. Utah has low alcohol comsumption rates. Most studies are a bit silly; I can prove the world is flat if I pick my statistics well enough.

OK, to any and all, this will be my last post on this topic, but I'm going to bring up something else that I heard on KSL news. It may have been last year, but regardless - a study showed that more people in Utah had cosmetic surgery than in any other state, including CA and FL. Now, say what you want, but that has some meaning. Either that too many people are superficial and vain, or that they don't feel very good about themselves and have the need to "improve" their looks to match the values of others. Run with that.