These 8 Towns In Minnesota Are On Santa's Naughty List This Year
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Jo Magliocco
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In the name of entertainment, and another reason to give some of our neighboring towns a hard time, we decided to see which towns in Minnesota might have earned a spot on Santa’s naughty list this year. From drunkenness to Ashley Madison accounts, we went through some of the silliest rankings of the year to bring you this list of 8 Minnesota towns who have to work on their niceness in 2016 to avoid another year of coal!
Named by RoadSnacks as the drunkest city in MN this year! All that partying lands Red Wing on the Minnesota naughty list!
St. Francis has the most Ashley Madison accounts per capita, earning its place on the naughty list for a high percentage of residents likely to cheat (15%), a whopping 9% higher than the runner up, St. Cloud.
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Lake Elmo was named snobbiest city in MN by RoadSnacks after looking at 6 factors: median home price, median household income, percent of population with a college degree, private schools per capita, theaters per capita, and art galleries per capita.
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The county seat of the unhealthiest county in Minnesota. No presents for those high smoking, obesity and inactivity rates!
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RoadSnacks named Grand Rapids the laziest MN town based on unemployment, hours worked per week, and number of gyms in town. At least work on how you answer the census, Grand Rapids, 22% of you said you work zero hours per week.
Alright, so it's a city, but Minneapolis tied for 10th most dangerous city in the US based on FBI crime reports! Some of the other top ranked cities were St. Louis, Atlanta, Detroit, and Miami.
With the worst drivers in the state (1 accident per 24 people) Arden Hills scores a spot on the naughty list. Don't even try to blame it on the construction!
Cambridge probably didn't do much wrong on purpose, but it was still named the worst place to live in MN this year by RoadSnacks based on population density, unemployment rates, adjusted median income, high housing vacancy rate, education, and high crime.
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