The process
Per the website, “This article is an opinion based on facts and is meant as infotainment. Don’t freak out.”To arrive at the cheeky findings, the list compilers used “a complex algorithm that factors in things [they] generally think make people exciting, and then [they] figure[d] out which cities have the least number of those exciting people.”In each of the categories below, the higher the number, the more boring a town was deemed to be:Percentage of population over 35Percentage of married householdAverage agePercentage of households with kidsPercentage of households with people over 65The study also looked at population density, with lower meaning more boring.
The list
1. Tyrone2. Peachtree City3. Jefferson4. Fort Oglethorpe5. Braselton6. Snellville7. Bremen8. Milton9. Jesup10. Adel
Fort Oglethorpe is the fourth most boring city in Georgia, according to roadsnacks.net.
Citing the city’s proximity to the Chickamauga-Chattanooga National Military Park and Lake Winnepesaukah as proof to the contrary, Mayor Earl Gray said he invites the makers of the Durham, N.C.-based website to come spend a week in Fort Oglethorpe to see what they think. From Rock City to Ruby Falls to the parks, he said, it’s not boring at all.
“The Chickamauga-Chattanooga Battlefield Park’s million visitors to the park annually probably don’t think Fort Oglethorpe is the most boring,” agreed Fort Oglethorpe Downtown Development Authority Director Jeff Epperson. “There is not a whole lot here, but we are trying to work on that. That’s part of what they are doing with the canoe launches and the trails to try to change that.”