Munsonville?

Cleveland, Ohio, you've earned that unfortunate distinction - at least according to Forbes Magazine. Forbes just released their top 20 list of "America's Most Miserable Cities," which should more aptly be titled "Cities in Ohio." Ohio gets blown up with 5 of the 20 most miserable cities and half of the cities on the list are in the Mid-West, mainly the rust belt. Forbes took the following inputs into account to reach their conclusions:

Our Misery Measure takes into account unemployment, as well as eight other issues that cause people anguish. The metrics include taxes (both sales and income), commute times, violent crime and how its pro sports teams have fared over the past two years. We also factored in two indexes put together by Portland, Ore., researcher Bert Sperling that gauge weather and Superfund pollution sites. Lastly we considered corruption based on convictions of public officials in each area as tracked by the Public Integrity Section of the U.S. Department of Justice

Yup. Pretty miserable inputs. Though you get your usual suspects in Detroit, the state of Ohio and Gary, Indiana, I was surprised to see world class cities like NYC and Chi-Town in there. Forbes justified placing those two cities on the list with commute times and taxes. I have a hard time putting commutes and taxes on par with a homicide rate and rates of unemployment, but thats just the opinion of Snipes. Anyway, see the full list here.