America's Most Sinful Cities

[donheld]

http://www.forbes.com/2008/02/14/cities-sinful-lander-forbeslife-cx_lm_0213sinful_land.html?feed=rss_popstories


Forbes.com staff, 02.14.08, 6:00 PM ET

They say geography is destiny, but perhaps it is damnation as well.

We have unveiled the American city that has fallen the farthest from grace in each of the seven deadly sins ( lust, gluttony, avarice, sloth, wrath, envy and pride). For each sin we stretched our imagination to find a workable proxy--murder rates for wrath, per capita billionaires for avarice--then culled the available data sources to rank the cities. Some of the results were surprising: Salt Lake City as America's Vainest City. Some were not: Detroit as America's Most Murderous.

To view them on our interactive map, simply click on a cardinal sin, and the 10 worst (or best, depending on your point of view) cities for that particular vice will be displayed.

[Solly Mack]

1. Somebody at Forbes making vacation plans?

[Warpy]

2. Damn, they couldn't find any sinners in New Mexico

They sure didn't look very hard!

[hobbit709]

3. Damn, Austin's not on any of them.

I guess "Keeping Austin Weird" doesn't count.

[Yavin4]

4. Gee Whiz, You Denver DUers! Wow!

You're the most lustful city based on condom sales! Thin air makes you horny I guess.

[flamingyouth]

5. Yep - Seattle's on Envy, Lust & Avarice.

Sounds about right.

[Z.e.r.o]

6. forbes needs to check their facts better.

a few inconsistencies there.

also i didn't see sin city listed on the map except for being obese!? :wtf:

then about lust:
"Metropolitan areas one might expect to see ranked, like New York, Los Angeles and Las Vegas, had average or below average indexes."

later in another section about vegas:
"Indeed, the city scored in the top 10 for every category we measured."

oh well. fun read though, ty. after this i feel like going to the strip tomorrow at 6AM and watching the daily, mass "walk of shame" :evilgrin:

[donheld]

8. Welcome to DU Z.e.r.o

:toast:

[MADem]

7. Gee, with the exception of RI, New England escaped all the lists! nt

[Fox Mulder]

9. Woah...

I'm moving to San Antonio or Cincinnati. They're the most lustful cities. :D

[ColbertWatcher]

10. Does this include airport bathroom hook-ups? n/t

[donheld]

12. It would, but Senator Craig never sticks to one bathroom

operative word - sticks :eyes: :evilgrin:

[ColbertWatcher]

14. Ugh. n/t

[Greyhound]

11. Lots of sex going on in the Pacific Northwest...

:evilgrin:

[Initech]

13. I'm surprised LA wasn't ranked #1 for pride.

Although I like Vegas - laziest city in America!