The Daily Beast ranked America’s “craziest” cities by psychiatrists per capita, stress, eccentricity, and drinking. Cincinnati ranks first, and New York, San Francisco and Las Vegas all made the top 10. Cincinnati’s resident eccentric, Jim Bonaminio, “won a local contest by creating a suite that looked like a grubby port-a-potty on the outside, but really led to a 10-stall restroom replete with flowers, marble, soft tile and tropical pictures.” Salt Lake City comes in dead last on the crazy scale. [%comments]
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I should think crazy could be better quantified by ranking the city with the most boozy incidents/violent crime & least amount of shrinks… Then they just stay crazy!
Those are unfair parameters – of course somewhere like Salt Lake City is going to come in last on the “craziest” meter. I believe over half the population probably consumes no alcohol…does that automatically disqualify them from being considered “crazy”?
I think a quick look at the tenets and foundations of Mormonism makes it pretty obvious that Salt Lake City may just be the craziest city in the world!
if “talks to invisible friends” was one of the criteria then SLC would have ranked in the top 10. Just sayin’.
The cities most likely to be found “crazy” are the most interesting and vibrant places to live.
Salt Lake City….Puleeeeeeeeze.
So if eccentricity is part of the scale, the authors are taking the position that not-conforming is a sign of mental distress rather than normal variation?
That’s good to know. I’ll have to remember to shore up my mental health by reading the same books, shopping at the same stores, and holding the same opinions as everyone else.
Salt Lake City dead last? Something’s not right with the metrics, then. True, SLC has a whole different style of right-wing crazy all their own, but since it’s largely a shared set of delusions, it’s a much less visible variety.
Less than 1/3 of Salt Lake City’s residents are Latter-Day Saints, but yeah, based on the parameters the survey is stacked in their favor.