Sanford Nowlin
Does this seem like an sad metropolis?
Regardless of our fixation with Fiesta and our means to indicate vacationers an excellent time, San Antonio ranks as one of many nation’s unhappiest cities within the nation, in line with a brand new research.
Monetary web site WalletHub — which positive does love this enterprise of rating cities — took a have a look at the happiness of the 182 largest U.S. cities and decided the Alamo Metropolis belongs within the backside 10%. Certainly, we ranked seventeenth within the nation for being bummed out and earned the title of Unhappiest Metropolis in Texas.
WalletHub based mostly its rating utilizing 29 key indicators of happiness, together with every metropolis’s reported fee of melancholy, its income-growth fee and the typical leisure time spent per day. San Antonio ranked within the backside half when it got here to emotional and bodily well-being, group and surroundings, and likewise earnings and employment.
Possibly the poor rating on employment is sensible. The annual Standing of Poverty report revealed this month discovered that almost 20% of San Antonio residents reside in poverty regardless of town’s employment fee being above the nationwide common. Worse, almost half of all Alamo Metropolis residents cannot cowl fundamental bills or are one monetary emergency away from monetary break, that evaluation discovered.
Though cash doesn’t purchase happiness, consultants agree that one’s happiness plateaus at an annual wage of $75,000, in line with a research cited by WalletHub. Nonetheless, with a median earnings of $59,593, San Antonio falls wanting that quantity.
Different components contributing to Alamo Metropolis’s unhappiness embody lack of inexperienced house, meals insecurity, and lengthy commute instances, the WalletHub research stated.
Appears like all of us want a margarita to chase the blues away. Assuming it would not break the financial institution.
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