Forbes magazine recently placed Toledo on its list of “America’s most miserable cities.” A recent visit to the South Toledo neighborhood where I lived during my high school years shows Forbes doesn’t know what it is talking about; “miserable” does not begin to describe some of South Toledo’s blighted and abandoned areas.

“Wretched” might. “Hellish” might.

Describing parts of South Toledo as “miserable” is like characterizing a gaping, hemorrhaging chest wound as “unpleasant.”

Michael Miller
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