Seattle most literate US city: study

[ms. anthrope]

Sun Dec 4, 5:01 PM ET

WASHINGTON (AFP) - Seattle, the west coast haven of coffee, culture and the Arts has been named America's most literate city.

A study put Seattle directly ahead of Minneapolis, Washington D.C., Atlanta and San Francisco in terms of literacy, which researchers said was critical to a city's long term economic and social success.

Researchers at Central Connecticut State University surveyed the literacy of 69 of America's largest cities in terms of newspaper circulation, number of bookstores, library resources, periodical publishing resources, educational attainment and internet use.

Author Dr. John Miller said the purpose of the research was to help improve the quality of life in American cities, noting that El Paso, Texas, had launched a literacy program after faring poorly in the survey a year ago.

"I hope other cities follow suit, invest in libraries, and do other things to promote literacy," he said.

"At the family level, even the simple step of turning on the closed captioning of TV sets can significantly improve literacy."

 

[the phish]

Nevermore is from seattle, so i already knew that. Though jeff is from wisconsin, so i dont know what that means.


Just kidding.

 

[DarkNoise]

*prowd 2 bee frum Seattle*

Ai ar lurneded

 

[Sinister Mephisto]

My uncle lives in seattle.







AND HE CAN READ!!!!

 

[derek]

I think the levels of illiteracy in Glasgow would probably make half of American look like genius-wizards!

 

[Sanctums]

Seatle still sucks. Its the city that killed rock-and-roll.

Bastards.

 

[Det Som Engang Var]

Well I'll be damned. I'd sure like to go to Seatle one day, it's got to be better then this dump of a state.

 

[Dead_Lioness]

good for you Seattle folks!

 

[Brett]

It's because of all the rain. It rains so much they just stay inside and read.

am i rite guyz?

 

[neal]

yes. and kansas has so much fun activity that keeps everyone so busy that they dont have time to read or worry about the severe lack of hills and mountains.

 

[Shpongled]

Neal, next time you visit Seattle, beers and bowls on me!

 

[neal]

id really like to check out seattle and vancouver sometime. i need somewhere else to live, california is too expensive. and ya know, west coast is the best coast.

 

[Brett]

yes. and kansas has so much fun activity that keeps everyone so busy that they dont have time to read or worry about the severe lack of hills and mountains.

Can you not understand when someone is kidding?

 

[Necromunchkin]

i need somewhere else to live, california is too expensive. and ya know, west coast is the best coast

Not sure if Seattle is your answer. Perhaps the natives can put this into better perspective, but Seattle has consistently beat out many cities in Northern California for high cost of living to income ratio.

 

[Dead_Lioness]

yes. and kansas has so much fun activity that keeps everyone so busy that they dont have time to read or worry about the severe lack of hills and mountains.

*slams her fist on the table and cracks up*

 

[neal]

Can you not understand when someone is kidding?

dude, come on...

Not sure if Seattle is your answer. Perhaps the natives can put this into better perspective, but Seattle has consistently beat out many cities in Northern California for high cost of living to income ratio.

d'oh. what about the 'burbs?

*slams her fist on the table and cracks up*

 

[Brett]

dude, come on...

Sorry about that. Was a mix of me misunderstanding you and me being very pissed off at the time.

 

[Chromatose]

have you been to that place in Kansas with the giant Van Gogh sunflower painting?

driving straight across kansas and thats all that ever stuck out for me, other than the endless fields of sunflowers... it's creepy.

 

[descendencyfw]

I still prefer Delaware. It's poor, flat, boring, non-cultural, and yet we still find no time to read and edumacate (thanks Popeye!) ourselves, therefore we are still stupid. ...and to prove it we have a Governor that quit community college and never got her Associate's Degree!
But at least Nevermore always plays shows in our state...oh wait a minute, nevermind.

 

[Brett]

have you been to that place in Kansas with the giant Van Gogh sunflower painting?

driving straight across kansas and thats all that ever stuck out for me, other than the endless fields of sunflowers... it's creepy.

Can't say I have.

Kansas is creepy. Sometimes in a good way, more often in a bad.