Story at a glance
- San Francisco was ranked the healthiest city in the U.S. in a new WalletHub analysis.
- Brownsville, Texas came in last place in the ranking.
- San Francisco earned the title of healthiest city in part due to its population’s low obesity rate and easy access to green spaces.
Most Americans are unhealthy, but location matters when it comes to just how unhealthy.
A new WalletHub analysis of 182 of the largest cities in the U.S. and found that San Francisco, Calif. Is the healthiest city in the country.
WalletHub analysts compared the cities across four areas — healthcare, food, fitness and green space — to come up with their ranking.
It comes from a finance writer from a site littered with paid adverts. Of course it is gonna hype one of the least affordable cities to live as the healthiest. Surely they’re financed in some way by real estate interests. The writer failed to get opinions from people who lost their housing there due to the monstrous speculative housing prices or those who struggle to make a living from the silicon valley induced precarity there.
That’s true, but I also know people who are struggling who make it by sharing spaces. The prices in SF are high, but honestly not that different from the rest of the bay area.
Plus the notorious existence of unhoused people in SF. I wonder if the unhoused people are included in this data.
SF is also just one of the most walkable cities in the US, and has two huge parks inside the city as well as many smaller ones.