It may be hidden behind all the smiles and nonaggressive driving, but Denver is the nation’s angriest city.
So says The Daily Beast website, which combined the number of protesters who showed up for a 2009 Tea Party event and the number of Occupy Denver marchers from Oct. 15, then divided that figure (7,000) by the population (582,447). The number was then extrapolated to arrive at a number of protesters per million residents (if Denver had a million residents).
The result: Denver, with 12,018 protesters per million residents, tops Portland, Ore.’s 8,197 per million to capture the title of America’s Angriest City.
Now, even if you divide the number of protesters by Denver’s population from the 2010 census (600,158), you would still come out on top — far ahead of New York City’s 1,024.
Meanwhile, to the northwest, another survey says Boulder boasts the happiest residents of any U.S. city.
The ranking by the Gallup-Healthways Well-Being Index showed that in surveys taken throughout 2010, Boulder residents had the highest Well-Being Index composite scores in the nation.
Scores were given based on residents’ answers to questions in six categories: life evaluation, emotional health, physical health, healthy behavior, work environment and basic access to quality-of- life necessities.
Boulder was joined in the Top 5 cities by Fort-Collins-Loveland, which placed third. Colorado as a state was ranked fifth. Hawaii was ranked first.
The Denver Post and the Daily Camera
