Some people say you make your own luck, but Florida isn't doing that, according to recent rankings in a national magazine.
Men's Health Magazine ranked five Florida cities among the most unhappy and unluckiest places in the U.S.
Tampa, Miami and St. Petersburg were among the top 10 saddest and unluckiest places to live in the country. Jacksonville and Orlando also made the lists, but neither were in the top 10.
The magazine based the happiness rankings on suicide and unemployment rates. It based luck on the number of lottery winners, the amount of money lost in gambling and bets, the number of lightning strikes and the number of deaths from falling objects.
Sarah Fowler, a 21-year-old political science senior, moved to Tampa during high school, the fourth saddest city and second unluckiest.
"There are lots of families and kids [in Tampa], and if that doesn't seem like a happy environment, I don't know what is," Fowler said.
Senior lecturer Steven Noll, a professor in the history department, disagreed with suicide rates being used as a measurement and didn't associate the number of suicides with a particular state.
"People come looking for opportunity, especially because of the nice weather," he said.
Noll was shocked St. Petersburg was listed as America's saddest city.
"My son lives there," he said. "It is a great place."
Fowler said she doesn't understand how people could call the "‘Sunshine State" an unhappy place.
"People come here for a good time," she said.
