Misery loves company

Forbes Magazine has done a survey of the most miserable cities in the United States, and not surprisingly, Detroit finished #1: http://www.forbes.com/business/2008/01/29/detroit-stockton-flint-biz-cz_kb_0130miserable.html. What surprised me was that Philadelphia was NOT on the list. Philadelphians really are miserable, and to be honest, they revel in their misery. It's a bad of honour to them. It stems from the collective lack of success of their sports teams, and goes downhill from there. I was only in Detroit once, and even that visit was a brief one. Detroit natives, for all of the travails facing their city, didn't seem to be as fundamentally unhappy as Philadelphians...............