Tucson is the saddest city in AZ. Gilbert happiest.

[Crippledtrigger]

According to a study of "tweets" Tucson is the saddest city in AZ.

Here’s what they found after looking at nearly 130,000 tweets from Arizona, according to spokesperson Karina Tissnés:

Tucson is the saddest and angriest city in the state, tweeting #sad and #angry more frequently than any other city (531 angry tweets, 4,071 sad tweets).
Gilbert is the happiest city in the state, tweeting #happy more frequently than any other city (9,186 tweets).
Sunday is the happiest day of the week, with users averaging five #happy tweets for every sad tweet; 2 p.m. is the happiest hour — users average 7.1 happy tweets for every sad tweet.
Arizona sees a ratio of roughly four happy tweets for every three sad tweets.

How Arizona compares nationwide
Arizona ranked in the middle of the road when it came to users wearing their hearts on their Twitter accounts — at least as far as hashtags were concerned. We didn’t appear in lists of states with the most happy, sad or angry tweets, according to Byte.

https://tucson.com/news/local/what-...97c446d8-4881-5681-a461-9a1f3c2a8a56.amp.html

 

[xerts1191]

The city that votes blue, stays blue!

 

[Solar_Empire]

Well I guess that's something. I leave my house by the 202 and the mall and between people weaving in and out of traffic, then slamming on their brakes, getting cut off, and having to deal with the heinous traffic when the catholics and mormons mad max their way out of church blocking entrance to my neighborhood on sundays (apparently the happiest day of the week), my blood pressure mimics Jupiter's atmosphere.

My neighborhood used to be small and completely surrounded by farmland. I used to watch coyotes catch field mice and feed the pups. No 202, no mall, little traffic. Counting down the years until I can retire and go back to living in the middle of nowhere.

 

[tunnug]

With my job on the railroad I used to travel back and forth between Phoenix and Tucson, I've never had so many close calls almost running over people than in Gilbert, I guess the old saying is correct, "Not smart enough to be anything but happy".

 

[RandyTF]

Well I guess that's something. I leave my house by the 202 and the mall and between people weaving in and out of traffic, then slamming on their brakes, getting cut off, and having to deal with the heinous traffic when the catholics and mormons mad max their way out of church blocking entrance to my neighborhood on sundays (apparently the happiest day of the week), my blood pressure mimics Jupiter's atmosphere.

My neighborhood used to be small and completely surrounded by farmland. I used to watch coyotes catch field mice and feed the pups. No 202, no mall, little traffic. Counting down the years until I can retire and go back to living in the middle of nowhere.

Thing about retiring is, you are usually old at that point. When you are old, you need to stay close to doctors and hospitals so "living in the middle of nowhere" is risky business. Living on the outskirts of somewhere works for me.

 

[Pale Rider]

"Living on the outskirts" doesn't work with all the scum from Commiefornia pouring into AZ. I moved to the outskirts an 3 acres and it didn't take any time at all to be surrounded by assholes. I feel like I'm in the center of town now. The worst part is my property taxes have more than tripled to go along with being overrun with idiots.

 

[Ballistic Therapy]

I don't live in Tucson but my address say's Tucson and I would rather live here than in Phoenix or anywhere near Phoenix or any of it's suburbs.
I could care less what people post on twitter. I don't read or use it anyway.

 

[Harrier]

^^^ What Pale Rider said ^^^
We even have liberals pretending to be conservatives...
We're looking to move also but everywhere desirable has been inundated with Kalifornicans, become un-affordable and turned blue to boot...

 

[RandyTF]

I'm afraid there are just too many people retiring and moving to our warmer climate to find a nice place here anymore. And it's not going to get better.

 

[Steve_In_29]

^^^ What Pale Rider said ^^^
We even have liberals pretending to be conservatives...
We're looking to move also but everywhere desirable has been inundated with Kalifornicans, become un-affordable and turned blue to boot...

Define "desirable".

We quite like our 36 acres outside St John's and found it to be very desirable for us. We also don't have to worry about being over run by any body.

 

[Steve_In_29]

Thing about retiring is, you are usually old at that point. When you are old, you need to stay close to doctors and hospitals so "living in the middle of nowhere" is risky business. Living on the outskirts of somewhere works for me.

Or you simply make the conscious decision to accept the risks of not being 5 minutes away from a doctor in order to not have to deal with overcrowding, traffic and crime.

We will take this view from our front porch over convenience ANY day of the week.

 

[Steve_In_29]

According to a study of "tweets" Tucson is the saddest city in AZ....

The "tweets" part makes it pretty much irrelevant. I would venture people living in smaller AZ towns who aren't worried about "tweeting" are pretty happy.

 

[Solar_Empire]

Well I guess that's something. I leave my house by the 202 and the mall and between people weaving in and out of traffic, then slamming on their brakes, getting cut off, and having to deal with the heinous traffic when the catholics and mormons mad max their way out of church blocking entrance to my neighborhood on sundays (apparently the happiest day of the week), my blood pressure mimics Jupiter's atmosphere.

My neighborhood used to be small and completely surrounded by farmland. I used to watch coyotes catch field mice and feed the pups. No 202, no mall, little traffic. Counting down the years until I can retire and go back to living in the middle of nowhere.

Thing about retiring is, you are usually old at that point. When you are old, you need to stay close to doctors and hospitals so "living in the middle of nowhere" is risky business. Living on the outskirts of somewhere works for me.

I still have a long way to go. As for the doctors, when I die, I die. I don't take any medication except for the occasional aspirin for a headache. Having my moms side of the family in medical, nothing good comes from the ICU or ER or healthcare in general.

 

[RandyTF]

Well I guess that's something. I leave my house by the 202 and the mall and between people weaving in and out of traffic, then slamming on their brakes, getting cut off, and having to deal with the heinous traffic when the catholics and mormons mad max their way out of church blocking entrance to my neighborhood on sundays (apparently the happiest day of the week), my blood pressure mimics Jupiter's atmosphere.

My neighborhood used to be small and completely surrounded by farmland. I used to watch coyotes catch field mice and feed the pups. No 202, no mall, little traffic. Counting down the years until I can retire and go back to living in the middle of nowhere.

Thing about retiring is, you are usually old at that point. When you are old, you need to stay close to doctors and hospitals so "living in the middle of nowhere" is risky business. Living on the outskirts of somewhere works for me.

I still have a long way to go. As for the doctors, when I die, I die. I don't take any medication except for the occasional aspirin for a headache. Having my moms side of the family in medical, nothing good comes from the ICU or ER or healthcare in general.

You might take on a different attitude once you do get old. Stuff like high blood pressure and high cholesterol or other health issues that can be helped by taking meds will put you in need of a doctor to give them to you. Pain issues that old age brings can also require surgeries. Once things like these happen to you, you might find them difficult if not foolish to ignore. It's easy when you are young to say "when I die, I die". But you may not be quite ready to go when something can be taken care of medically.

 

[Flash]

You've just got to read all you can read as there are a ton of doctors out there who see older patients as being stupid and cash cows. I've fired 3 in the last few years.

The last one was trying to get me to take cholesterol medication on a regular prescription basis. I told him he was nuts. For those who are wondering, my LDL is 131 and I pursue animal fats, Triglycerides are 75 and my HDL is 99. The only way they'd prescribe medication for me is to get the monthly co-pay from my insurance.

 

[What]

With my job on the railroad I used to travel back and forth between Phoenix and Tucson, I've never had so many close calls almost running over people than in Gilbert, I guess the old saying is correct, "Not smart enough to be anything but happy".

Never heard of that quote. That make sense in a way

 

[Flash]

With my job on the railroad I used to travel back and forth between Phoenix and Tucson, I've never had so many close calls almost running over people than in Gilbert, I guess the old saying is correct, "Not smart enough to be anything but happy".

Never heard of that quote. That make sense in a way

I think the old "Ignorance is bliss" quote is essentially the same thing and more common.

 

[RandyTF]

You've just got to read all you can read as there are a ton of doctors out there who see older patients as being stupid and cash cows. I've fired 3 in the last few years.

The last one was trying to get me to take cholesterol medication on a regular prescription basis. I told him he was nuts. For those who are wondering, my LDL is 131 and I pursue animal fats, Triglycerides are 75 and my HDL is 99. The only way they'd prescribe medication for me is to get the monthly co-pay from my insurance.

Hey Flash, I've had high cholesterol forever. Started taking high doses of Niacin and the LDL dropped below 100. Then went in for my annual check up not long ago and the doc said there was no proof that Niacin prevents heart disease. Said the numbers are good but I needed a statin drug to be more sure of not having heart problems. So I went online and read (like you mentioned) and found doctors who were POd at physicians who took a bogus study as fact and are telling their patients to take statins. I agree with that. How else can the numbers go down? I mean the numbers are all they use to prove you have high cholesterol. Yup. Just the kick back from scripts.

 

[Doc Holliday]

One day, all of that will be homes as far as you can see.

 

[Flash]

Hey Flash, I've had high cholesterol forever. Started taking high doses of Niacin and the LDL dropped below 100. Then went in for my annual check up not long ago and the doc said there was no proof that Niacin prevents heart disease. Said the numbers are good but I needed a statin drug to be more sure of not having heart problems. So I went online and read (like you mentioned) and found doctors who were POd at physicians who took a bogus study as fact and are telling their patients to take statins. I agree with that. How else can the numbers go down? I mean the numbers are all they use to prove you have high cholesterol. Yup. Just the kick back from scripts.

Good for you. There are HUGE downsides to taking statins and I really want no part of them.