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[ecosse_011172]

It's just an opinion, that differs from yours

No, it's nonsense.
It's like saying NYC isn't one the most exciting places in the world, it's actually an enormous shithole because Donald Trump lived there and there's some graffiti in places.

If you're going to talk about places that are "the worst cities in the world', look at places that are bleak, polluted, have nothing to do, are dangerous, have shit food, nothing to see etc.

 

[Charles Brandon]

getting the runs gotta be a ritual every tourist goes through in india.

Aye and fully deserved in our case. Should have known better.

 

[KorrZ]

Not really the worst city I've EVER been to (that'd be Detroit) but out of my recent Europe trip this year London was by far my least favourite.

Super crowded, cold and cloudy the entire time. Everything was way too spread out and I never saw anything that matched the beauty of Paris and Rome. It sticks out in my mind enough to post in this thread because it was such a huge disappointment at the end of my trip.

 

[danowat]

No, it's nonsense.
It's like saying NYC isn't one the most exciting places in the world, it's actually an enormous shithole because Donald Trump lived there and there's some graffiti in places.

If you're going to talk about places that are "the worst cities in the world', look at places that are bleak, polluted, have nothing to do, are dangerous, have shit food, nothing to see etc.

Well, it seems that a few people in this very thread agree, so.........

Like I said, I've been to hundreds of cites in the world, and Naples was the worse, for me, I've visited.

 

[ExVicis]

It has some crappy suburbs like most large cities but it's an amazing place.

Rome is fine, it has problems like most cities but it's totally fine. At least it's not a giant fucking mess like goddamn Napoli.

I don't think I even mentioned the problems living on or near a Volcano give, at random points in the city you just have to endure heavy sulfur smells just assaulting all your senses. People who think Rome is the worst Italy has to offer really just need to take a 2 hour trip South to see what a real bad city looks like.

 

[PillarEN]

I might say Indianapolis just because of how dead that city feels whenever I'm there. Its eerie walking around the middle of downtown and having so few other people on the streets



Houston would be my other choice. Just nothing but modern development, in the worst way.

I was too young to remember my time in Indianapolis, but my mom absolutely hated having to live there for about a year. I don't think I've ever heard her speak of that city unless she was talking bad about it lol.

 

[MrS]

Sheffield is particularly depressing. It's just a horrible place really with a lot of homelessness (not the people's fault) and a drab climate.

 

[ecosse_011172]

Naples is sadly very bad. When garbage collectors go on strikes (which is basically every other month) city goes literally full of trash on the streets. Also, most everyone I met was pretty rude.

North Italy was much more welcoming. Loved Bologna, Modena, Milan, Turin, Venice, pretty much all of Emiglia Romana .

I was in Naples in January, the garbage collectors weren't on strike, everyone was extremely friendly, the food was spectacular, the city is run down in places but still beautiful in others and has an amazing setting.

I get the impression that a lot of the rudeness that people experience in places like this and Paris is in part due to people barking English and differing perceptions of rudeness feeding a vicious circle.

 

[ecosse_011172]

Aye and fully deserved in our case. Should have known better.

I did everything you should, constantly disinfecting hands, only mineral water etc. and still got the shits.
When a country gives no importance to hygiene, you're fucked.

 

[theepicoftyler]

I spent a few days in South Bend, Indiana for work awhile back and I was depressed the whole time.

 

[Commanche Raisin Toast]

I'm not going to post things small enough to consider "towns" because it would be a long list, but if I had to choose an actual city, it would be Corpus Christi, TX.

Stayed there for a weekend while my gf was at some bootcamp events, and it was such a shithole.

Dirty, beat up roads, old worn down buildings, terrible food, factories and refineries everywhere, and was just straight up unpleasant in every way.

Remove all the people and replace the greenery with sand and it would look like something out of the Mad Max game.

 

[Jill Sandwich]

Cleveland. The entire downtown literally smelled like feces all 3 times I've been there years apart.

The people are rude and dumb as fuck as well.

The cops are all racist cunts.

LeBron is the only good thing to ever be from Cleveland and he's actually from Akron.

Imagine if Detroit was 25% less fucked but the people were 5 times more fucked. That's Cleveland, oh plus feces smell EVERYWHERE

Is this 8 year old video still relevant?

 

[ExVicis]

I was in Naples in January, the garbage collectors weren't on strike, everyone was extremely friendly, the food was spectacular, the city is run down in places but still beautiful in others and has an amazing setting.

I get the impression that a lot of the rudeness that people experience in places like this and Paris is in part due to people barking English and differing perceptions of rudeness feeding a vicious circle.

I lived in Naples for two years in a house that you had to drive down 4 alleys to get to that was also a walk away from where Carnivale parades happened. I lived in the thick of it and I can tell you right now that area of the city did not feel planned. It felt like people plopped concrete any and everywhere and made a building with whatever space they had. Architecture there was terrible.


You're probably thinking of the Coast when you think of Naples, which I also have problems with but it's much nicer than everywhere else.

 

[TheCochese]

No, it's nonsense.
It's like saying NYC isn't one the most exciting places in the world, it's actually an enormous shithole because Donald Trump lived there and there's some graffiti in places.

If you're going to talk about places that are "the worst cities in the world', look at places that are bleak, polluted, have nothing to do, are dangerous, have shit food, nothing to see etc.

This is always going to be subjective, compounded by the fact that people don't travel everywhere everyone else does. Someone said SF, and that's my favorite place in the whole world after I visited. It's okay, calm down.


I think for me it's OKC. I was only there briefly, but the personality seemed directly proportional to it's landscape - flat, square, uninteresting.

 

[Skellig Gra]

Columbus Ohio. My family is from there and its just such a depressing place.

I've always understood that NJ is seen by New Yorkers as Essex is seen by Londoners but unless you're English that won't mean much to you either.

That is a pretty good analogy. I grew up in NJ but lived in NYC for awhile. Most people who make fun of NJ do it out of a false sense of superiority and only take a superfluous look at what the area has to offer.

 

[Charles Brandon]

Is this 8 year old video still relevant?

For added lols, presumably the name Cleveland comes indirectly from the area in the UK of the same name, which is also a post-industrial shite-hole hinterland, featuring such delights as Middlesbrough.

 

[JoJoShabadoo]

We need a best city thread with pictures

 

[TheGameshark]

I'm from Baltimore and while its gots plenty of shit against it with crime and all that, I've never necessarilly hated it. The one city I went through that I thought completely sucked and was a lot scarier than average Baltimore was Hartford, Connecticut. Stayed in a hotel there and was woken up to a whole bunch of fighting. You could just tell the type of place you were in based on the type of establishments around you. City looked boring with no character. Just seemed like shitty place.

 

[Aces&Eights]

Literally the first place available after crossing the border?

That, and you only have to be 18 to drink. Since its 21 in CA, lots of youth go there on the weekend.

My vote is Detroit. Holy hell what a depressing city. It's like it has just been abandoned and left to die like something out of The Last Of Us.

 

[pirateluigi]

I feel like the people saying Detroit probably haven't visited in the last few years. It's still not paradise but the city is on a serious upswing.

Pontiac MI however, is a post apocalyptic nightmare with no redeeming qualities. I'd take Flint with their poison water over Pontiac any day of the week.

 

[Tevious]

Cairo. Place is a shit-hole and everyone wants your money every two steps you take.

 

[PillarEN]

I feel like the people saying Detroit probably haven't visited in the last few years. It's still not paradise but the city is on a serious upswing.

Pontiac MI however, is a post apocalyptic nightmare with no redeeming qualities. I'd take Flint with their poison water over Pontiac any day of the week.

I think the only thing Pontiac has going for it is that it's got some music venues. Otherwise I've never been there for any reason.

 

[BstnRich]

Maybe not the worst, but Boston is extremely boring and has very little going on (relatively speaking).

First off, I'm from there so spare me. Secondly, it is a beautiful city worth visiting, however there just really isn't much going on outside of the visit to the aquarium, museums and parks.

Boston needs to embrace diversity more and move away from its puritan roots. No Happy Hour? Really? Reverse the shrinking of Chinatown and embrace the mixed demographics.

 

[ThatStupidLion]

Can someone explain to a European why New Jersey is so frowned upon? Is it a fad like the Germans dissing the Netherlands?

The area of jersey right outside nyc is where there are a ton of ports and industrial factories, swamp, and landfills, etc. All of that creates a funky aromatic waft. (People complain about nyc stench all the time too though) This is typically peoples first impression of nj and where the sight and smell stigma comes from.

Once outside those urban areas its a very suburban and rural state with forests, farms, and grassy yards and parks.

The people who shit on jersey typically havent been for more than just a roadtrip, If that. Whats funny is how many Manhattanites shit on nj, until its time for them to settle and raise a family...then they realize NJ is a top option out of the main ones (long island, staten island, westchester, north jersey, Connecticut fringe).

 

[danowat]

Cairo. Place is a shit-hole and everyone wants your money every two steps you take.

I was there in the middle of the arab spring uprising, we had a plain clothes guard carrying a Skorpion SMG.

Of course he wanted tipping at the end of the day, and I wasn't going to argue!

 

[Algebrah]

East St. Louis. My Google Maps took me through there and I noped so hard out of there I didn't stop and any stop lights or stop signs.

 

[TheLastCandle]

There are some places in Baltimore that are super awful, but Fells Point and Inner Harbor make up for it.

Camden, NJ is another bad one. And I've only seen bits and pieces of that one when going to concerts.

 

[constantstatic]

Maybe not the worst, but Boston is extremely boring and has very little going on (relatively speaking).

First off, I'm from there so spare me. Secondly, it is a beautiful city worth visiting, however there just really isn't much going on outside of the visit to the aquarium, museums and parks.

Boston needs to embrace diversity more and move away from its puritan roots. No Happy Hour? Really? Reverse the shrinking of Chinatown and embrace the mixed demographics.

As someone who lives in Cleveland but spends a few weeks in rock port MA every year I always enjoyed the trips to Boston. I was considering moving there but the cost of living is so high and Cleveland has such a cheap cost of living.

I guess when you are stuck in Cleveland most cities seem like a huge step up from this shit hole.

 

[Insane Metal]

São Paulo, Brazil.

Everything about it was pretty much horrible. From the traffic, to the river smell or the inner city constant piss smell and the beggars everywhere.

Since I'm Brazilian and I live 30 miles from SP... I have to agree. I mean, there are some pretty nice places in the city, after all the city is huuuuge. But the Tietê and the Pinheiros rivers do smell bad, the city center smelling like piss and the beggars everywhere are true. 😢

 

[Pedrito]

Tough to say, I've been to a few dirty and disorganized cities in developping countries and while they would probably be shitty places to live, they're still fun to visit and there's usually an energy and optimism that are contagious.

But I'd still say maybe Cairo. It's overpopulated, dirty and smoggy. So many buildings seem like they're about to fall down. It's a nightmare for pedestrians and the driving is terror-inducing. Women are treated poorly and if you get close to a touristic site, it's a scam festival. I went before the Arab spring so things might have changed (probably not for the best).

Other choice: Ciudad del Este, Paraguay. Border towns tend to be seedy and this one is no exception. It's on the border with Brasil and Argentina and people go there to buy cheap electronics and counterfeit stuff. It's also very close to Iguazu Falls so some tourists go there. It's dirty and a bit creepy. It looks like a mini Bangkok in the middle of nowhere, but without the good aspects of Bangkok.

 

[Camoxide]

Luton (UK)

 

[PillarEN]

As someone who lives in Cleveland but spends a few weeks in rock port MA every year I always enjoyed the trips to Boston. I was considering moving there but the cost of living is so high and Cleveland has such a cheap cost of living.

I guess when you are stuck in Cleveland most cities seem like a huge step up from this shit hole.

This is actually something interesting to me. Is the cost of Cleveland generally cheaper than any other decent to great city (subjectivity of course, but I think we have general idea of what cities are considered a little more desirable). If so you might be stuck in Ohio just like that meme says.

 

[bjork]

I only flew over it and stayed in the airport, but Phoenix. I opened the plane window to see what looked like Desert Strike on the Genesis, except more bleak and miserable and dusty. I'm sure there are probably nice people and places there, but it was the first place I went after leaving Maui and I already strongly dislike desert climate, so it was one of the unhappiest places for me.

Also, that's the worst airport, too. I'm at gate x and I need to get to gate y. How do I get there? Oh, that dot on the very edge of the horizon? Then turn and do it again? Whoever designed that place should be exiled to an island where everything is only accessible via 1-mile hallways.

 

[MadJackChurchill]

Scarborough, UK.

The perfect example of the hundreds of by-gone beach side resorts that litter little England. Got nothing going for it. Exceptionally run down. Gross.

 

[SocksAndShoes]

It's not a city specifically but central Ohio is just....nothing. Miles and miles of nothing topped off with gas stations.

 

[Admiral Woofington]

Houston and Dallas aren't exciting cities but if you're telling me these are the worst cities you've been to I need context because if not it just sounds like you're grading cities based on how tourist friendly they are. Houston, Dallas and their surrounding towns/suburbs as far livable cities go aren't too bad. Cost of living is fairly low, plenty of jobs, and they have restaurants/night lives for people who are interested.

Dallas also has a comic con which I enjoy. I'll take cost of living and comfort in a modern setting vs exciting expensive city.

 

[kswiston]

I suppose Puerto Maldonado in Peru, due to it being the poorest city that I have been in.

I have been to Detroit many times. The downtown portion and some of the suburbs are fine. Some other places, not so much.

 

[constantstatic]

This is actually something interesting to me. Is the cost of Cleveland generally cheaper than any other decent to great city (subjectivity of course, but I think we have general idea of what cities are considered a little more desirable). If so you might be stuck in Ohio just like that meme says.

For sure I live in a west side suburb and nice homes go for 150-200k. I rent a house in the suburbs in a nice area for 840$ a month. Even in Columbus the housing prices and rent are a bit higher.

Cleveland isn't all bad we have some nice restaurants and downtown is just a train ride away if I want to go drinking or go watch one of the pro teams.

 

[nintendork666]

I expected Toledo to be more fun than it was

 

[The Albatross]

Really thought about this... and it's probably Newport News, Virginia. A friend of mine married into the military and we visited them like 10 years ago, and for a city of over 180k+, it was probably the shittiest city I've stayed in. Obviously, the temporary nature of military cities (e.g., families rarely live there for longer than a few years before moving elsewhere), made a difference. For a decent sized city, it was just a desolate wash of strip malls, ugly buildings, and no character with nothing to do for civilians. The only restaurants were your typical Applebees or TGIFridays.

 

[jimmypython]

Ottawa.

i happen to think Ottawa is better than Toronto.....

 

[nekkid]

This was probably experience-specific, but I did not enjoy visiting Jacksonville when travelling down the east coast, some years back.

 

[kswiston]

I expected Toledo to be more fun than it was

Toledo has a nice zoo, and at least you can go to nearby Cedar Point when you get sick of the city.

 

[TheAggroCraig]

Cleveland, probably. Yonkers, NY was pretty shitty too but we just stopped for White Castle and regretted every moment of that trip from then on.

 

[Faddy]

Portsmouth (UK)

 

[Mahonay]

Butler, Pennsylvania. Absolute shit hole. About 11 years ago I drove out there with my friends for their hardcore band to play a gig. That place was pure misery.

Cleveland, probably. Yonkers, NY was pretty shitty too but we just stopped for White Castle and regretted every moment of that trip from then on.

Yonkers is a dangerous hell hole.

 

[Amory]

Myrtle Beach is pretty crappy too, come to think of it.

It's not the worst I've ever been to, but what should be a pretty beachside city is just strip mall after strip mall after strip mall.

How many fucking pancake places does a city need

 

[nekkid]

Portsmouth (UK)

What, you don't like grey and pebble-dashed buildings?

 

[Yoda]

St. Louis about ~5 years ago. I don't remember what side of town I was on, but it felt like I was on the set of The Wire.

 

[cruets]

Gonna have to with Stockton also for California. Dirty, depressing. Don't stop