Houstonians might not agree on everything (see Houston City Council passes equal rights ordinance), but one thing everyone can agree upon is our traffic is the worst, or is it?

INRIX, a company which provides a variety of Internet services and mobile applications pertaining to road traffic and driver services in North America and Europe doesn’t even put Houston in the top ten of worst cities. According to their analysis, Houston ranks 20^th as the most congested metro in North America. In 2013, Houstonians wasted 27.2 hours in congestion.

Our friends in Austin like to brag about how much better it is live in hippie heaven than H-Town, but they ranked fourth with a whopping 42.1 hours wasted in congested traffic. Dallas barely made the list coming in at 25^th with 22 hours lost in traffic (think their light-rail system has something to do with that?).

In case you’re wondering, Honolulu was ranked as having the worst traffic in an American city followed by Los Angles, San Francisco, Austin and New York.  People living in tropical paradise lost over 60 hours of their life in 2013 battling traffic.

If it makes you feel better (although one wonders why it would), the country with the worst traffic was Belgium followed by the Netherlands, Great Britain and Italy. Italy also boosts having the worst traffic congestion in the world in Milano.

The data reveals it’s a catch-22 when it comes to traffic headaches and the economy.  The better the economy; the worse the traffic is. So next time you’re stuck on highway 290, be sure to count your blessings that you don’t live in Honolulu, or even Austin.