CNNMoney ranks the nation’s biggest cities by commute times, hours worked, crime, unemployment and more.
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New York |
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Detroit |
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Los Angeles |
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Riverside/San Bernardino, CA |
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Houston |
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Chicago |
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Miami |
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New Orleans |
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Atlanta |
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Memphis, TN |
Using statistics from government and non-profit sources, CNNMoney analyzed 15 different stress factors for 55 major metropolitan statistical areas and divisions with populations of 1 million or more.
The factors were then broken up into five categories: the economy and money, work, family, lifestyle and crime. All factors were normalized, grouped into categories, weighted and then added together to create an overall ranking.
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