Even before the Super Bowl, Philadelphia was a depressed town. The city of brotherly love comes in last in Men’s Health’s rankings of 101 cities on depression.

Philly is joined at the bottom by Detroit, St. Louis and St. Petersburg and Tampa, Fla., according to a news release.

People are much more jolly in Texas. Laredo tops the list, one of four cities earning an “A+” from the magazine. The other least depressed cities include El Paso and Corpus Christi, Texas, and Jersey City, N.J.

Criteria for the rankings included information on antidepressant sales from NDC Health, suicide rates from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and information from the CDC’s Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System.

The rankings are published in the April issue of Men’s Health, which will be on newsstands March 15.

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