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It's been a few months now since this annual report was release that listed the top cities in the United States as far as safety. Unfortunately, Cincinnati was on the bad end of this list being listed at #16 just below Youngstown, OH and above Gary, Indiana.

We've been living here in the Cincinnati area for awhile now (since November, which is coincidentally when this report was released), and we've never really felt particularly unsafe at any point while walking around downtown. Granted, we don't actually live in the more urban locales of the Cincinnati valley, but the city of Hamilton is not exactly far from the downtown scene or Kentucky for that matter.

A post at the blog of Marenda outlines the cities listed in the Safe and Dangerous categories. I find it interesting that so many cities in Ohio are listed on the Dangerous side. Thankfully none of them cracked the Top 10.

Dangerous:

• Cleveland, OH (#10)
• Youngstown, OH (#15)
• Cincinnati, OH (#16)
• Dayton, OH (#19)

Safest:

• Parma, OH (#23)

We can only hope that these cities drop off the list in the near future, as it is a rather annoying blemish to have on the record of your state. On a side note, way to go Columbus for not making the list. It's a bummer that you didn't make the Safest list, but at least you didn't add to the Dangerousness (… that can't be a word) of Ohio cities. On a side-side note, poor Detriot. The loss of many major auto manufacturing facilities from their economy really put a strain on the city as a whole. It shows in something like this.

The effects of selling merchandise for less than $10 means you may not be around to continue doing that for very long unless you've got an ingenious way of "making money" by not making money.

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