Genius rebuttal: Chicago is NOT miserable
Forbes has kindly tagged Chicago as being third on the list of most miserable cities in the United States. Neil Steinberg has kindly disputed that claim.
In his own witty way, Steinberg makes enough of a valid point to warrant a rather large mentioning on the front page of yesterday’s Sun-Times. According to Steinberg:
“What the Forbes study overlooks is that Chicago is not populated by Manhattan scribes nor Boulder mountain climbers, but Chicagoans. We are a hearty tribe, made of stronger stuff, and delight in challenges that only seem miserable to those who don’t know any better. Calling our city miserable is like an agoraphobic calling baseball awful because it takes place outside. It says a lot more about the complainer than the thing being complained about. We love it here, and pity those whose appreciation of life is so constricted that they fail to see why.”
The final decisions on our ranking as a city fell into place after considering our weather, high taxes, corruption, unemployment and even traffic.
I must say I whole-heartedly agree with Mr. Steinberg and I look forward to proving anyone who sides with the writers of the Forbes list and all of their “scientific” research wrong.
