MESQUITE, Texas \u2014 From Texans bracing for Bertha or the next natural disaster to those having to rebuild yet again in the Hill Country, or even people working their day-to-day jobs, we can all relate to some form of stress.<\/p>\n
Out of nearly 200 cities across the U.S., a new national survey released this month shows 16 Texas cities made the list of most stressed cities in America, with three cities making the top 30.<\/p>\n
This survey has been going on for several years. A WalletHub analyst said it has remained pretty consistent over the years with the number of Texas cities making an appearance.<\/p>\n
Patrice Jones is learning how to navigate this new season in her life.<\/p>\n
\u201cMy forgetfulness that\u2019s stressful to me because I can\u2019t always remember people and their names,\u201d said Jones.<\/p>\n
Last summer, when Spectrum News first met the North Texas-based real estate agent, she was dealing with clients wanting to rent instead of buy their homes.<\/p>\n
Fast forward to this summer, her concerns have skyrocketed.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe didn\u2019t know what was going on with me. And a lot of things, the stress doubled on me because I didn\u2019t know why I was sick, and then it was stressful. Emergency room visit: they sent me home. I guess they thought I was just stressed out,\u201d said Jones.<\/p>\n
Turns out it was a brain tumor.<\/p>\n
After having that removed from her head this spring, she has been homebound, relearned basic skills, and hasn\u2019t been able to work since March.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou\u2019re worried about your finances, worried about trying to get back to work,\u201d said Jones.<\/p>\n
The mixed bag of stress factors she\u2019s dealing with currently is just some of what her fellow Texans across the state can relate to, especially in the southeast.<\/p>\n
\u201cHouston ranks as the most stressed city in all of Texas. And there\u2019s a lot going on in Houston. Again, like Dallas, is a large city,\u201d said Chip Lupo, writer and analyst at WalletHub, a Florida-based personal finance company.<\/p>\n
This month, they ranked 180 major U.S. cities based on stressors like work, finances, family, health and safety based on recent government data.<\/p>\n
\u201cTexas is such a large state; I mean, there\u2019s quite a gap between the most stressed and the least stressed. Dallas is among in that top 50, 31st, just one notch ahead of Brownsville, Brownsville at 30th,\u201d said Lupo.<\/p>\n
Dallas tied with Scottsdale, Arizona, for the second-highest average weekly work hours.<\/p>\n
Out of the 16 Texas cities on that list, North Texas cities made up nearly half of that total with seven cities.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s our hope that policymakers are looking at these studies and saying, OK, we have all kinds of stress issues going on, what can we do?\u201d said Lupo.<\/p>\n
For Jones, while she\u2019s leaning on her faith during this season of stress, she remains hopeful that there\u2019s a light at the end of this dark tunnel.<\/p>\n
Here\u2019s how Texas cities ranked for stress:<\/p>\n
Houston at No. 13
\nSan Antonio at No. 20
\nBrownsville at No. 30
\nDallas at No. 31
\nCorpus Christi at No. 32
\nEl Paso at No. 45
\nArlington at No. 46
\nFort Worth at No. 51
\nLaredo at No. 57
\nGrand Prairie at No. 58
\nGarland at No. 61
\nLubbock at No. 70
\nAmarillo at No. 104
\nIrving at No. 111
\nAustin at No. 126
\nPlano at No. 165<\/p>\n
Plano, in North Texas, was listed as the least stressful city in the state.<\/p>\n
On a national level, Detroit, Mich., ranked as the most stressful city in the U.S., with Fremont, Calif., listed as the least stressful city in the country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MESQUITE, Texas \u2014 From Texans bracing for Bertha or the next natural disaster to those having to rebuild…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":387776,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[3564,132,8455,3565,1570,102,138,223,82,27,29,28,1569,835],"class_list":["post-387775","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-app-community","tag-austin","tag-blessing-iwuchukwu","tag-community-news","tag-ctv","tag-dallas","tag-el-paso","tag-news","tag-san-antonio","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news","tag-texas-what-you-need-to-know","tag-vod"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387775","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=387775"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387775\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/387776"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=387775"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=387775"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=387775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}