Tyler Oaks, author of Ruby Rest and regular columnist at WritersNewsWeekly.com, recently wrote about her home town Modesto, California...
"Before driving back to give a speech at my alma mater, Grace M. Davis High School, I read that Forbes Magazine ranked Modesto, California as the nation's eighth most miserable city. In fact, according to last year's edition of Cities Ranked and Rated, Modesto was the nation's least desirable place to live. Authors Bert Sperling and Peter Sander gave the Central California city where I spent several years of my life zero points.
Statistics aside, rejected cities are ripe with people who know how to create fascinating spheres around them. If the recent conversations I've had in snubbed cities are any of indication of the kind of company misery brings, I'm in. In fact, the writer in me was born in Modesto. Artisans, artists, designers, people who create and inspire, this is the Modesto surveys do not communicate. Whatever a city's rank, imagination is born and can be expressed."
Read the Full Article Here
Do you agree with Tyler? What's your take on "Miserable" Cities and their ability to inspire?
rate
email
print
link to this page
