111. Would You Be Happier if You Lived Someplace Else?

No Stupid Questions

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🗓️ 21 August 2022

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Will Angela finally break up with Philadelphia? Is New York really the unhappiest city in the U.S.? And are there trash tornadoes in the metaverse?

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0:00.0	Do you punch him in the face?
0:03.5	Do you throw a snowball at him?
0:05.1	I'm Antela Ducworth.
0:07.1	I'm Steven Dubner.
0:08.1	And you're listening to no stupid questions.
0:11.5	Today on the show, why do people stay in places that make them unhappy?
0:16.8	We are number one, including unhappiness, dammit.
0:26.3	Angela, I know you to not be a big complainer, but there is something I hear you complain
0:33.9	about quite often, which is the place you live, Philadelphia, or as you more commonly call
0:40.1	it, Philadelphia.
0:41.2	So my question is, if you're so darn unhappy with the place you live, why don't you just
0:47.7	leave?
0:48.7	I'll tell you what I think about Philadelphia.
0:50.4	Philadelphia, to me, is like a trash tornado.
0:54.3	You put out your trash in Philadelphia.
0:56.2	It's generally collected once a week, whatever the day is for your block.
1:00.2	It's supposed to get picked up on that day, but there are definitely long stretches of
1:04.0	time and reason history that it doesn't get picked up for days.
1:08.5	Am I wrong to remember that Philadelphia, thanks to Ben Franklin, was the first city in
1:13.9	America with public trash pickup?
1:16.8	Oh my God.
1:17.8	Is that another Ben Franklin first?
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