Worst City You've Ever Been To?

shadowkat said:
It's not nonsense. People have different experiences.

Of the places I've visited, I did not care for Rome at all. It was a complete disappointment. I didn't hate it, but I have little desire to go back. Other places I've been I would love to go back.
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Rome is also pretty low on my list. However the history behind that place in addition to all of the great art there prevents it from being the worst city.
 
Sir Abacus said:
Adelaide.

Roads are ridiculously stupid, it takes ages to get anywhere in the city, and they have a one way freeway that goes from the outer suburbs to the middle of nowhere. Never have I been to a more ridiculous city.
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It does take ages to go anywhere, it's spread out but it has a reasonable city centre with plenty of bars and restaurants, great beaches, beautiful vineyards and hills around the city.
It has a nice climate, is pretty safe and the people are friendly.
Another "worst city, really?" example.
 
Blackquill said:
What's the deal with Tijuana ?
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Crooked police, a lot of drugs, and the lineup to get back across the border after a night there is insane

To give an example, two of my friends (male and a female) stepped outside a nightclub for a cigarette. Local cops bundled them into the back of a cop car, took his passport and demanded he hand over $200 or they'd rip it up

When he asked what they'd done, cop claimed he'd seen them "having sex" outside the club

I mean wtf
 
SDCowboy said:
What do you mean?
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It was probably the most named city in this thread, so I was curious on how it's bad

Dazzler said:
Crooked police, a lot of drugs, and the lineup to get back across the border after a night there is insane

To give an example, two of my friends (male and a female) stepped outside a nightclub for a cigarette. Local cops bundled them into the back of a cop car, took his passport and demanded he hand over $200 or they'd rip it up

When he asked what they'd done, cop claimed he'd seen them "having sex" outside the club

I mean wtf
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Holy shit now I understand
 
Syracuse, NY - was on a bus passing through, so many shady people there. Also desolate.

Coventry, UK - not even that bad but quite industrial and clustered.

Birmingham, UK - lived there for a long time. Some really nice parts but also had its share of abandoned houses and ghetto/run-down areas.
 
Iceternal said:
Those are just examples. And shouldn't I be treated with respect anywhere ?

If I have to go to expensive stores to get as much as a "hello" then fuck that city.

Like I said, I never experienced something like that in France.
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I live in NYC and yes, people here can be more blunt and on the nose, however if I use your logic and visit France and have an unpleasant experience from just a handful of places and try to generalize the entire country, you'd be defensive about it.

"Treated with respect anywhere."

Best hope not a single person is rude to me in France when I visit because I'll blow up your inbox and let you know.

I am sorry you had a bad experience, however.
 
SDCowboy said:
I see Glendale more for it's gorgeous natural beauty. It's hard to beat the AZ deserts. And yes, I love suburbs when it comes to living, so that doesn't bother me. If strip malls and suburbia bother you, I'm not sure what big cities in the US you would enjoy (outside of maybe NYC). lol

Also, I'd argue that if all you see a city for is it's strip malls and neighborhoods, that maybe you need to get out more.
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The sunsets are nice, I'll give it that.

Portland? San Francisco? Boston? Dallas? San Antonio? Seattle? All these places have strip malls and suburbs, but they're not ENTIRELY made of strip malls and suburbs. It wouldn't bother me so much if Glendale didn't feel like it was entirely run by massive corporate chain stores. Seriously, where are the private businesses? There's no local culture in a place like Glendale. It's a place where you go if you want to retire somewhere warm and eat at Outback Steakhouse and PF Chang's for the rest of your life.
 
JoeBoy101 said:
Atlanta.

Stinks of car exhaust, even downtown. The traffic is an eldritch nightmare, the homeless are very aggressive, and the local government is a mess.

Out of the myriad of cities I've gone to... rich... poor... old... new... Atlanta was the worst. This was around 2009 though, so maybe its gotten better.
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It hasn't. It's just as bad today.

Atlanta is that Coke tour building surrounded by endless suburb without any real local culture.
 
I'm sure Boston is often lovely but my one visit there (aside from 2 hours hanging out before flying out of the airport which were fine) was absolutely miserable. It was late March with 3 feet of snow on the ground and absolutely bitterly cold. Everyone was sick of winter and you could feel it. Everywhere I went people seemed ready to fight. I thought a man and woman were going to trade blows over the TV channel when I was getting a slice of pizza. It's the worst city visit I've ever had for sure.

jb1234 said:
Either a cross between Stockton, CA and Rockford, IL. Both are shitholes.
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I think the drive between Rockford and Chicago might be the absolute worst stretch of highway I've ever been on. It's absolutely miserable.

However the Anderson Gardens are really great to visit. Too bad they're in Rockford.
 
fluffydelusions said:
Back when I lived in NYC and people still watched this show people talked about how all the jersey shore cast is from NY. No idea how true it is as I never cared enough to look it up. But jersey shore (as in the place not the show) is filled with people from NYC during the summer anyway.
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Hollywood Duo said:
You sure? Did you know people on The Real World weren't from those cities originally?
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Snooki lives in NJ now and before the show filmed, and JWow was residing in upstate NY near Albany when they filmed the show, born in Nassau county, lives in New Jersey now. Both not NYC dwellers. Not sure of the person in the background, lol.

After researching the entire cast (something I thought I'd never do), 4 are from the city proper, of those 3 are from Staten Island (practically New Jersey).
 
Blackquill said:
It was probably the most named city in this thread, so I was curious on how it's bad
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Super dangerous with high crime, tons of drugs, corrupt police, people surrounding your car to sell you cheap trinkets... and parts of it almost look post-apocalyptic.
 
DiscoJer said:
Chattanooga

I've been to pretty much everywhere in the US save the NW. I'm from St. Louis and used to live in Florida. But Chattanooga is the worst.

And Americans visit Tijuana because it's literally right next to San Diego (where my mother is from, so I'm familiar with both places) and it has a strange appeal, sort of like a really seedy Las Vegas or Atlantic City or something.
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Chattanooga the worst? That's so weird. I have friends that live there. Everyone gets Gigabit Internet. Lots of good music, restaurants, and their aquarium's pretty fantastic too. I'm not buying it. Go to Gary, Indiana and get back to me.
 
Philly is the literal dump of the USA. Just looks like trash even from the airplane and has so many trash people living in it. Their sports teams are all garbage as well.

Outside of USA, multiple cities in Brazil made me feel uncomfortable just for being a white American. Wanted to get out of that country as fast I could.
 
pretty done said:
Philly is the literal dump of the USA. Just looks like trash even from the airplane and has so many trash people living in it. Their sports teams are all garbage as well.

Outside of USA, multiple cities in Brazil made me feel uncomfortable just for being a white American. Wanted to get out of that country as fast I could.
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Think it looks quite beautiful.

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I hate the Eagles tho.
 
stn said:
Syracuse, NY - was on a bus passing through, so many shady people there. Also desolate.
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Not really to defend Syracuse, but don't think you can judge a city by passing through on a bus... Bus stations are almost always in the worst parts of town and are almost always really shitty.

Also if you're passing through Syracuse on a bus, it's a good guess the destination is probably worse.

pretty done said:
Philly is the literal dump of the USA. Just looks like trash even from the airplane and has so many trash people living in it. Their sports teams are all garbage as well.

Outside of USA, multiple cities in Brazil made me feel uncomfortable just for being a white American. Wanted to get out of that country as fast I could.
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Philly is probably my "Worst of the major North East corridor" cities, but it's still pretty cool... Gotten better over the last 15 years IMO too. Went to Philly for work in like 2006 and was thoroughly unimpressed, went back 10 years later and thought a lot more highly of it.
 
I honestly hate passing judgment because I haven't actually spent any time there. But I've gone through Gary, Indiana on numerous occasions and that's my pick. The place (at least the parts I have seen on my way through) is just railways and smokestacks and old deteriorating industrial complex with pockets of old old dilapidated (or abandoned?) houses. I dunno ...it was just depressing...
 
i had to travel to st louis for a national conference for 5 days. the conference center is downtown, so i took the metrolink from the airport to the hotel downtown i was staying at. during the ride, it felt like a post-industrial dying city or something; the metro passes through this rail yard that looked ancient with it's decaying train cars and rail lines, and the city's downtown centers were practically empty after 5 pm. the hotel was pretty terrible with sticky floors and smelled of disinfectant. oh yeah, and a sinkhole opened up in front of it.

interestingly, two years ago my brother moved to los angeles for work and i decided to visit him. i thought i would hate the city, but i ended up really enjoying it and going back to visit him last year. i have given a lot of thought to moving there since i had so much fun.
 
In the US, I would be New Burgh . It's not terrible but its a very sad city.

The cross Hudson river bridge basically killed the river business and the whole town looks so sad.

In China, I would say Zhengzhou. It was 30 years ago so I may be bias.
 
Probably Niagara Falls, NY, It's amazing how despite being built right next to the Falls the place is an absolute dump, with the only reason to go is for the Seneca Casino. Besides that the only successful businesses are all tourist traps with blocks of haunted houses and sovenior shops. The rest of the city is in poverty much like other rust belt cities, and has one of the largest crime problems in the area.

I lived in Western New York for 18 years and only went to Niagara Falls maybe three times, and it's something that the shitshow of a city makes you appreciate Buffalo much more.
 
Okeechobee Florida. Had to stay there for about six months for a work project. All there is to do is the Walmart parking lot or the Taco Bell parking lot. There's a low income area that looks something straight out of the Jim Crow era. The prison right outside the town Is convenient for the random fugitives that escape every once in a while, and there's a high concentration of sex offenders.
 
I'm gonna say Manila, Philippines. You can find cool stuff to see/do but you really have to look. If you're middle/upper class there, you turn a blind eye to the millions living in slums literally right next door to you. It's hot/humid. The pollution and traffic is horrible. You reek of diesel at the end of the day and pollution literally washes off of you at night. Highest population density in the world and probably one of the largest wage gaps in the world. There is no trash pickups really so trash is all over the place. People are openly killing each other in the streets thanks to their president, meanwhile you drive by and see missing person posters plastered on lamp posts. It's not a fun place to be.

I feel like the spirit of this thread is actually, "most disappointing city you've been to". Paris? Philly? C'mon breh I promise you there are MUCH worse places in the world.
 
I was in Paris over the weekend and have to say it gets my vote as well. There's a ton of nice architecture, but that's just about the only thing I like about it.
 
Bernbaum said:
In Australia, the capital cities are all pretty slick. Perth is a bit plain and Sydney has a lot of jerks but they're perfectly enjoyable. Beneath the capital cities, Newcastle is a bit gross but not as gross as the Gold Coast. I hate my birth town of Rockhampton, such a fucking shithole and I'm thankful I never really lived there.

In America, I lived in Houston and loved it even though it is objectively a concrete wasteland. Los Angeles can be amazing or an absolute dump, depending where you are or what you're doing.

In the U.K., Aberdeen is a bit shit but it had amazing kebabs and booze.

I'm gonna say the cities I like the least are Kuala Lumpur and Cancun. KL was hot, it stank, and apart from unreal food had nothing to offer the tourist. Cancun didn't feel like Mexico and we were only there for a flight. It reminded me of the worst parts of the Gold Coast and there were much more interesting places to visit in Mexico.
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Cancun was definitely in the top three worst cities I've visited. The humidity was terrible and it just felt like one gigantic tourist trap.
Commanche Raisin Toast said:
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.
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I remember Corpus and how crazy non-stop the wind was when we visited there. Such an ugly and dreadful place. The coast full of flesh eating bacteria and high counts of fecal bacteria sure was the icing on that shit cake.
 
Two pages in and nobody said Atlanta - makes me happy!

I love it, but I figured at least somebody would complain about traffic/crowded-ness.

For me personally it is the entire state of Mississippi. Jackson, Starkville, Tupelo, Columbus (I did a lot of IT work out there and traveled through it visiting wife's family in TX).

Mississippi is literally what America would become after 50 years of Republican rule.

Just poor people, half abandoned strip-malls, crumbling infrastructure, and a general feeling of hopelessness.
 
boredofcanada said:
Okeechobee Florida. Had to stay there for about six months for a work project. All there is to do is the Walmart parking lot or the Taco Bell parking lot. There's a low income area that looks something straight out the Jim Crow era. The prison right outside the town Is convenient for the random fugitives that escape every once in a while, and there's a high concentration of sex offenders.
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Think i have found my paradise on earth!

http://okeechobeefest.com/

Has festival too.
 
Little Rock, Arkansas. Filthy and smells. It's worse than NYC. I've driven through worse but staying a night in a Holiday Inn there was a pretty grim experience :(
 
Waslala, Nicaragua. Worked as a professor for a year there.

Old men raping young kids. Teenagers without child are the exception, many 12 year olds with child. No clean water or reliable electricity. People stabbing each other on the street. Environmental pollution. Useless health-care system. Terrible working conditions. Corrupt police and politics.

Great sense of community though, and got to know many great friends. Lots of change ongoing.
Plus one of the worlds best coffee and chocolate.
 
Sao Paulo (sorry Brazilian friends). Went there a few times last year for work. Had to have a private driver and bulletproof car everywhere we went. The only real sightseeing draw was a big park (a cool park, but a park, nonetheless). Great food, though!
 
iPorygon said:
Probably Niagara Falls, NY, It's amazing how despite being built right next to the Falls the place is an absolute dump, with the only reason to go is for the Seneca Casino. Besides that the only successful businesses are all tourist traps with blocks of haunted houses and sovenior shops. The rest of the city is in poverty much like other rust belt cities, and has one of the largest crime problems in the area.

I lived in Western New York for 18 years and only went to Niagara Falls maybe three times, and it's something that the shitshow of a city makes you appreciate Buffalo much more.
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Niagara Falls is indeed a shit hole. It's like the Americans gave up on competing for tourism dollars and let the Canadian side have all the nice stuff.
 
I found Da Nang to be incredibly boring. But nothing really wrong with the place.

Closer to home I really dislike Dartford
 
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