Corpus Christi fourth least angry city in U.S.

[Maroon87]

Come on, get happy
Corpus Christi fourth least angry city in U.S.

By Caller.com staff
August 11, 2006

Men’s Health magazine ranks Corpus Christi as the fourth least angry city in America.

One of only five U.S. cities to earn an A, Corpus Christi was judged on the percentage of men with high blood pressure from the CDC’s Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System; the FBI rates of aggravated assaults; the Bureau of Labor’s number of workplace deaths from assaults or other violence; traffic congestion data from the Texas Transportation Institute; and speeding citations per state from the Governors Highway Safety Association.

The least angry city, and the only one to earn an A+, is Manchester, N.H. No. 2 is Bangor, Maine, followed by Fargo, N.D.

The angriest city is home to the "Happiest Place on Earth" -- Orlando.

[YBS]

Anyone notice how none of the top cities are within 100 miles of a large metropolitan area?

[shankbear]

I could kill all these wackos who rate cities on anger. I could bash their skulls in with a frying pan. Oh wait.....that sounds like an angry response. They are soo sweet showing us the light as to places of relative peace and quiet. Anger bites.

[Maroon87]

Originally posted by shankbear
I could kill all these wackos who rate cities on anger. I could bash their skulls in with a frying pan. Oh wait.....that sounds like an angry response. They are soo sweet showing us the light as to places of relative peace and quiet. Anger bites.


Shank you obviously need to move to CC and hang out on the beach...;)

[shankbear]

Is the beach nice at CC? I like South Padre a lot but have never spent any time up at CC. Changes in latitudes, changes in atitudes.

[Maroon87]

Originally posted by shankbear
Is the beach nice at CC? I like South Padre a lot but have never spent any time up at CC. Changes in latitudes, changes in atitudes.


Yeah I love it there, but of course I'm biased.;)

[CalallenWildcat]

Originally posted by shankbear
Is the beach nice at CC? I like South Padre a lot but have never spent any time up at CC. Changes in latitudes, changes in atitudes.

Our beach is probably the worst on the Gulf Coast :mad:

But our beach areas have much better restaurants, etc than South Padre does IMO :)

[Maroon87]

Originally posted by CalallenWildcat
Our beach is probably the worst on the Gulf Coast :mad:

Galveston gets my vote for that honor.

[District303aPastPlayer]

you know what bugs me... does it bother anyone else that a small group of people are going to totally kill off Spring Break, C-Sculptures, and the Beach Volleyball Tourney that goes with it.... and lose a crap load of revenue, and its that SMALL group of people that are controlling the decisions for the rest of the area?

[Maroon87]

Originally posted by District303aPastPlayer
you know what bugs me... does it bother anyone else that a small group of people are going to totally kill off Spring Break, C-Sculptures, and the Beach Volleyball Tourney that goes with it.... and lose a crap load of revenue, and its that SMALL group of people that are controlling the decisions for the rest of the area?


They're thinking of doing away with C-Sculptures? That's messed up.:mad:

[District303aPastPlayer]

Originally posted by Maroon87
They're thinking of doing away with C-Sculptures? That's messed up.:mad:

no, they are going to shut off the beach from vehicle access...which in turn would totlaly shut down people accessing the beach to get to C-Sculptures and Spring Break

[shankbear]

Wait, have you guys ever had to go to Sea Rim beach out of Sabine Pass? Don't say your old beach is worse than that old beach. Quit beachin about your beach.

[big daddy russ]

Originally posted by CalallenWildcat
Our beach is probably the worst on the Gulf Coast :mad:

But our beach areas have much better restaurants, etc than South Padre does IMO :)
No way. We have the second-nicest beaches on the American Gulf Coast this side of Alabama (only to South Padre). You have to go down to Florida or South Padre before you get to better Gulf beaches than Corpus... at least here in the US.

Sure, it has problems with seaweed and some of the sediment from the Mississip, but catch it just about anytime during the winter or when the currents change in the summer. I have a picture on my phone from last year when the beach between Fish Pass and Port A was as clean as any I've ever seen, and I've been to a' Ticla, Mexico; Rio Nexpa, Mexico; Honolulu, Hawai'i; South Padre; Destin, Florida; Pensacola, Florida; and Jacksonville, Florida. I was standing in waist-deep water and took a picture of my feet with my camera phone. They were clear as a bell. I'll see if I can't somehow download that onto the Downlow.

That was also one of the nicest days surfing I've ever had. JP Luby was trashed with nastiness and seaweed, so all the Corpus 'casual beachers' stayed at home while that stretch from just north of Fish Pass all the way down to the edge of Port A was absolutely perfect. I drove by maybe three cars from that second beach access road all the way down to Port A, and 4' waves coming in hard and barreling to the left-- perfect conditions for a longboard.

You just have to realize that the beach from Saint Joe's down to Malaquite is entirely different from spot to spot. Sure, some days during the summer it'll all suck (it's usually prettiest from January-May), but more often than not there's at least one spot that's a nice spot to set up a chaise lounge, a cooler, and some tunes. You'll just have to drive to find it.

[CalallenWildcat]

Originally posted by big daddy russ
No way. We have the second-nicest beaches on the American Gulf Coast this side of Alabama (only to South Padre). You have to go down to Florida or South Padre before you get to better Gulf beaches than Corpus... at least here in the US.

Gulfport, Mississippi has us beat too.

[Maroon87]

Originally posted by CalallenWildcat
Gulfport, Mississippi has us beat too.


After Katrina, do they still have a beach there?:confused:

[Sweetwater Red]

Originally posted by CalallenWildcat
Gulfport, Mississippi has us beat too.


How do they have room for beaches with all those casinos along
the coast?:thinking: :D :thinking:

[CalallenWildcat]

Originally posted by Maroon87
After Katrina, do they still have a beach there?:confused:

Don't know


How do they have room for beaches with all those casinos along the coast?

They find room :D

[big daddy russ]

Originally posted by CalallenWildcat
Gulfport, Mississippi has us beat too.
No way. They don't even have dunes. Or maybe that's Biloxi???

Either way, I've been all up and down the Mississippi and Alabama coasts, and there's no way in hell that they're better than Corpus. My dad's originally from the Mobile/Pascagoula area, and we visited there at least twice a year up until 2002, when my grandmother passed away.

Visited all those beaches multiple times. My dad got his first real job at Ingalls shipyard in Pascagoula. Spent a lot of his time on the beaches down there. None of those beaches are even in the same stratosphere as ours. They're mostly man-made, man-maintained boardwalks. Our beaches are much prettier.