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“Big-City Rush Hour Blues Now Afflict Smaller Cities: 36 hours. That’s the additional time the average U.S. urban traveler spends on the road per year because of rush-hour congestion, according to the Texas Transportation Institute. What’s more, commuters in medium-size cities now face about the same delays that residents of “very large” cities experienced a quarter-century ago, the TTI says”.

Related:
* Follow Up [1]: Les Misérables
* Les Misérables
* Rural Clusters and Relative Rurality
* Cost of Living and Higher Education

America’s 10 Most Miserable Cities
1 Cleveland, Ohio
2 Stockton, Calif.
3 Memphis, Tennessee
4 Detroit, Mich.
5 Flint, Mich.
6 Miami, Fla.
7 St. Louis, Mo.
8 Buffalo, N.Y.
9 Canton, Ohio
10 Chicago, Ill.

Related:
* Cost of Living and Higher Education
* Rural Clusters and Relative Rurality
* Les Misérables by Victor Hugo – Project Gutenberg

CO2 emissions per capita: Carbon dioxide emissions in metric tons per capita

Population: Midyear estimates of the resident population

Related:
* Total Area:
#COUNTRY RANK
1 Russia 1
2 Canada 2
3 United States 3
4 China 4
5 Brazil 5
6 India 7
7 France 43
7 Japan 61
8 Germany 62
9 United Kingdom 79
* Follow Up [1]: Unshared Sacrifice
* BRIC
* IBSA