Fat Tuesday is here, so get gluttonous. As we prepare for Mardi Gras, we think of what’s in with sin. Or, more specifically, how sinful is Toledo?
According to Trulia, a Real Estate website, Toledo is more sinful than Las Vegas. What happens in Toledo stays in Toledo? Who knows. We didn’t think our heavy drinking, heavy snacking, heavy flirting, heavy everything was that heavy, but hey, apparently someone who doesn’t live in Toledo knows better. I guess.
How did Trulia tell us that Toledo is the 5th Most Sinful Cities in The United States? By following the 7 Deadly Sins. Trulia checked out metro areas to determine Overall Vice Rank, Wrath Rank, Envy Rank, Gluttony Rank, Greed Rank, Lust Rank, Pride Rank and Sloth Rank. Frankly, this is just getting me excited to invite my out-of-town friends to visit. Text Message Draft: Yo, we pop off. Come visit.
Besides an overall high sin ranking, Toledo’s hit out of the parks with:
The 5th Overall Vice Rank
The 19th Wrath Rank
The 14th Envy Rank
The 19th Gluttony Rank
The 79th Greed Rank
The 28th Lust Rank
The 118th Pride Rank
The 40th Sloth Rank.
How did they do this? According to Trulia:
"Methodology
In the creation of our Vice Index, we took a hedonic1 approach. We use the seven deadly sins, or cardinal sins, codified by Pope Gregory I in 590. The seven individual sin categories were first indexed and then ranked. The overall rankings were based off of the average rank of each the seven sin indexes per metro area. The seven individual sin category indexes are composed of the following inputs:
Lust: Yelp-defined Adult Entertainment Establishments per 10,000 households.
Gluttony: A composite of metro-level Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) data on obesity rates, binge-drinking2 rates, heavy drinking rates, and smoking rates.
Greed: Yelp-defined horse and/or dog racing and gambling establishments per 10,000 households and county-level IRS charitable contributions data from itemized tax filings.
Sloth: Metro-level CDC data on proportion of residents who report having not exercised at least once in the past 30 days.
Wrath: Violent crime data per capita as reported in FBI crime statistics
Envy: The difference between the 25th and 75th percentiles of listing prices as a proportion of the median listing price in each metro area
Vanity: Yelp-defined beauty and tanning salons, as well as plastic surgery offices per 10,000 households
1 Hedonic – of, relating to, or characterized by pleasure=
2 Binge drinking is when men consume 5 or more drinks, and women consume 4 or more drinks, in about 2 hours.
3 For men, heavy drinking is typically defined as consuming 15 drinks or more per week. For women, heavy drinking is typically defined as consuming 8 drinks or more per week."
Who did we beat? Well, pretty much everyone, except New Orleans (#1), Atlantic City (#2), Philly (#3) and Tampa (#4).
Who else is excited for the weekend?
Cheers.