Get Out the Straight Jacket

Yet another dubious distinction has been bestowed upon our fair state. Website The Daily Beast has named Providence the third craziest city in all the land. We make the cut just behind the apparently absolutely cuckoo city of Cincinnati, and the slightly less so San Francisco.

According to the Beast, they compiled their results using stats on stress, psychiatrists per capita, eccentricity, and drinking. Of the fifty-seven cities that made the list, we're number seven for drinking, which is surprising in its own right, but even more so considering that New Orleans is forty-ninth. Another shocker: Number seven on the list, New York City, is only reported to have four psychiatrists per capita, a pittance compared to San Francisco's one-to-one ratio. Maybe that old cliche that everyone in the city has a therapist is more urban legend than truth.

Regardless, we're not sure how much stock to put into this whole thing, but at the very least maybe it helps explain the quality of driving around here? 

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