CLEVELAND, Ohio – Ohio cities don’t fare well on recent lists of most romantic places.
Ohioans either don’t like romcoms or maybe we find ourselves doing other things, because no city in the Buckeye state ranked on Redbox’s annual list of most romantic cities based on movie purchases.
The kiosk-movie-rental company determined its most romantic cities list based on rentals of romance and romantic comedy movies. The cities renting the most in those genres last year:
1. Glendive, Montana
2. Columbus, Mississippi*
3. Sherman, Texas
4. Fairbanks, Alaska
5. Lake Charles, Louisiana*
6. Columbia, Missouri*
7. Sioux Falls, South Dakota*
8. Lincoln, Nebraska*
9. Salisbury, Maryland
10. Fargo, North Dakota*
11. Medford, Oregon*
12. St. Joseph, Missouri
13. North Platte, Nebraska
14. Jackson, Tennessee
15. Santa Barbara, California
16. Springfield, Missouri
17. Rapid City, South Dakota
18. Spokane, Washington
19. Sioux City, Iowa
20. Bend, Oregon
* Indicates the city made the 2015 list also.
“The results give us light-hearted insights into where romance lives nationwide,” Ash Eldifrawi, chief marketing and customer experience officer at Redbox, said in a press release. Redbox has more than 40,000 kiosks in 50 states. More than 1 million discs are rented via the kiosks every day, a rep says.
Meanwhile, Cincinnati ranked 22nd on a list of most romantic cities in the country, with San Francisco topping the list, according to the personal-finance website WalletHub. Cleveland finished 97th – behind Columbus (64th) and that bastion of romance, Toledo (94th).
Budget, activities, gift accessibility and weather forecast all figured into WalletHub’s methodology. Surprisingly, Cleveland ranked last in the budget category.
The only cities below Cleveland on this list are Detroit; Newark, New Jersey; and Hialeah, Florida.
Here’s the breakdown.
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