The Saddest Place

Why would St. Petersburg, Florida, top the list of saddest places to live?  It has beautiful beaches and holds the record for once having 768 straight days of sunshine.  Three days ago, Men's Health magazine posted an article named "Frown Towns" that lists St. Petersburg as the saddest place to live in America.  They calculated suicide rates and unemployment rates, along with statistics on the percentage of households that use antidepressants and the number of people who report feeling blue.  Sounds like good science, but the result is crazy.  This place is surrounded by warm water, plenty of vegetation, miles of white sand beaches, sunshine almost everyday, and many of the people were successful enough to allow them retirement here.  To go one step further, the article listed Fargo, North Dakota, as the third happiest place to live.  Definitely, common sense was lacking.  Right now I am sitting in shorts and a t-shirt, with the heat off and the windows open, feeling the fresh breeze, and looking at sunshine on green vegetation and blue water.  People in Fargo are worrying about the coming winter, occasionally thinking that it would be nice to escape and sit on a beach in Florida.  But people here are not sitting around wishing they were in Fargo.  The article is at:  http://www.menshealth.com/best-life/frown-towns  In the meantime, I will be reporting live from the saddest place in America.