The 'Most Miserable' Places To Live In New York State

It looks like a lot of New Yorkers, especially right here in the Hudson Valley, are living in what one new report calls “misery.”

Find out if your hometown is on it.

These Are The 'Most Miserable' Places To Live In New York State

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RoadSnacks created a list of the 10 most miserable places to live in New York.

Sadly, half are in the Hudson Valley. See the full list below.

New York's Most Miserable Cities

According to Road Snacks, these are New York's 10 most miserable cities because apparently everything is going wrong there.

As for what determines how miserable a city is, Road Snacks compared 169 cities using Census data and other scientific stuff from other "legitimate" sources. They looked into divorce rates, commute times, cost of living, and other statistics to whip up this "fun" new list.

In the end, these 10 cities were deemed to be the gloomiest in New York State.

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Rockland, Orange, and Sullivan counties all landed cities on the list.

If you live in the following: Do you agree?

Hempstead
Haverstraw
Albion
West Haverstraw
Monticello
Newburgh
Freeport
Woodbury
Valley Stream
Middletown

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Our friends at Roadsnacks ranked 169 cities across New York State with at least 5,000 residents.

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Top factors include poverty, unemployment, income, commute times, and the cost of living. The results paint a rough picture for a lot of Hudson Valley residents.

Roadsnacks says its tongue-in-cheek list aims to "provide insights your real estate agent would neglect to mention."