The ranking raised hackles and ruffled feathers throughout Yuba-Sutter.

When the gavel rang down in early March 1985, designating Yuba City the worst place to live in the United States, the proclamation was met with outrage, disbelief and amusement. Rand McNally's second edition of "Places Rated Almanac" had ranked the Yuba City metropolitan statistical area, which includes Yuba and Sutter counties, No. 329 out of 329 metro areas.

Many people hadn't even realized the region was an MSA, said Chuck Smith, Sutter County spokesman who worked as a reporter for the Appeal-Democrat in 1985. Yuba-Sutter had only crossed the 100,000 population threshold five years earlier in the U.S. Census.

"That was the first surprise for people — 'We're a metropolitan area?'" Smith said. "And the surprise for Marysville people was: 'And they're calling it Yuba City?'"

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