ZackieChan
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My guess would be that they've been only a few places, just happened to have a bad experience in LA, or some other goofy reason.
And Bangkok? No way, this city is the best!
Worst City You've Ever Been To?
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My guess would be that they've been only a few places, just happened to have a bad experience in LA, or some other goofy reason.
And Bangkok? No way, this city is the best!
Shai-Tan
Banned
yeah, someone earlier said Vancouver. I guess they live there and never went anywhere else
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OiJsbXXq-AY
even if there were a lot of terrible people I think it's a good trade off
ZackieChan
Member
I mean, I get it - most of the travel-related threads are full of people bitching that they can't afford to travel.
CherryWoodFuton
Member
Sounds like you only went to downtown
SF is so diverse in such a real small area it blows my mind that you didn't even actually try to go to other beautiful areas like Castro/Dolores, Presidio, Golden Gate Park, Crissy Field etc
riskybusinesstomcruise
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I would say Port Hardy, BC. But I haven't really traveled outside of British Columbia so what the fuck do I know.
TickleMeElbow
Member
Yeah I was gonna say Gary as well.
The coolest thing I saw was this gas station was selling Master P brand potato chips.
lastplayed
Member
Probably Auckland. I don't know why specifically, I just never enjoy being there. I lived in England for a while but at least their worst cities have a bit of history.
FireBeaver
Banned
The "city" I'm living in now unfortunately.
To Far Away Times
Member
Detroit. Collapsed roofs and bullet holes in buildings. Like something out of a post apocalyptic movie, but it was actually real life.
Manila
Horrendous traffic all over the city and no worthwhile sightseeing spots.
Had junkies getting high on I guess heroin next to our hotel which was in the business district.
Beijing
Close second. The Forbidden City and Tiananmen Square were cool but the rest were ugly socialist buildings. Fortunately, the smog wasn't super bad when I was there.
I was there 15 years ago though.
Horrendous traffic all over the city and no worthwhile sightseeing spots.
Had junkies getting high on I guess heroin next to our hotel which was in the business district.
Beijing
Close second. The Forbidden City and Tiananmen Square were cool but the rest were ugly socialist buildings. Fortunately, the smog wasn't super bad when I was there.
I was there 15 years ago though.
TickleMeElbow
Member
Dude if you're gonna imply that a city sucks, at least be accurate about what sucks about it lol.
Columbus has been growing for awhile now.
"Barely maintaining" lol.
Valkerionseven
Member
Tokyo - Kinda boring in my opinion. People are not really all that interesting then again I did not really know anyone there. Need to do it again at some point and see if I can find a better time. Also it's on tv all the time no matter what country you are in, especially if you live in Japan. Feel like I've seen everything about that city and have no need to actually go and try the various things like akihabara, robot restaurant, and what not that specifically try to pander and sell to tourists these days. I'll take Osaka anytime. Though Ultra and Tokyo Gameshow last year was fun and I guess I should do the tourist spots at some point like the shrines. But the first time exploring the city did not impress me, enjoyed the 5 hour walk from Shibuya to Ueno though starting at 2:30am haha. Peaceful city that early.
mmmm now that I think about it, not the worst city, just pretty uninteresting for me.
Atlanta - From Georgia, and hate this place. Terrible traffic, nice enough people but man the city part of it is just bleh. Good food too. Like a weird middle ground of GA city folk lol.
mmmm now that I think about it, not the worst city, just pretty uninteresting for me.
Atlanta - From Georgia, and hate this place. Terrible traffic, nice enough people but man the city part of it is just bleh. Good food too. Like a weird middle ground of GA city folk lol.
Rawr Its Ry
Member
Hamilton, Ontario. I didn't think it was baaaad but it felt kinda soulless?
Maybe some random town in the Philippines that we drove past but it's been 10+ years since I've been back so idk
Maybe some random town in the Philippines that we drove past but it's been 10+ years since I've been back so idk
Hamilton has an awesome music scene, record number of water falls, great food too.
neighboring Burlington and oakville feel soul less imo.
GhostWriter24
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Sounds like you haven't been to the nicer areas of NJ. To my knowledge, there are no real ::cities:: unless you count Newark/Atlantic City/Trenton (which admittedly aren't the best). Mostly just sprawling suburbia and some more industrialized areas.
Escape Goat
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Paris was filthy. More trash in the street than most US cities. Road rules werent rules as much as they were suggestions. And our 3 star hotel had an amazing view of the alley and all the cockroaches you could want. But seeing all the historical sights was cool but I'd never want to live there.
BlastProcessing
Member
The insane wealth disparity on display in such a tiny area makes it worse, not better.
Megalosaro
Banned
Something about Fresno rubs me the wrong way
CherryWoodFuton
Member
As a tourist why would you care
Besides wealth disparity isn't the problem in SF since it's expensive to live anywhere in that city
BlastProcessing
Member
As a tourist, I did care. Seeing such human suffering a block away from ostentatious displays of wealthy sickened me. I have lived and visited a good number of places and San Fransisco was by far, the worst when it came to wealth disparity. It was a gross technocratic dystopia.
DukeSilverHaze
Banned
Can I just pick the entire state of Missouri?
I regret not finding a place that serves snake blood
If you felt a culture gap in shanghai, which is the most progressive, modern, and "western" city in china, I can't imagine what you felt if you traveled to other places in china.
Also I know everyone has different opinions and they aren't wrong, but goddam your feelings on shanghai are so different from mine and pretty much every other person I've ever met. It's amazing here. I'm nearing 5 years and still in love with this place. Pollution is not really a thing, there is incredible architecture everywhere, and the people are pretty damn friendly, as they are in the majority of china. It's a wonderful place.
Andrew Korenchkin
Member
Yeah, I'm surprised that people are saying Shanghai, it seems like a great city. Its a modern metropolis and it does a good job of being one with plenty to offer, including a high quality of life.
Electret
Member
Longview, WA is a good contender.
Ashland is nice. Other than that, yeah, pretty much. Roseburg is kinda shitty, and Klamath Falls, from what I hear, is a hell hole.
Ashland is nice. Other than that, yeah, pretty much. Roseburg is kinda shitty, and Klamath Falls, from what I hear, is a hell hole.
Lol my mother still drags me there. Thankfully I have a job now
SliChillax
Member
Coventry, England. Lived there for two years, I never want to even think about that depressing shit hole again.
I've had fun and met cool people in both of my least favorites but:
Dallas - everything was the freeway
Atlanta - the land of southern hospitality oh wait I mean rude bad tempered assholes at every place except The Vortex. I might have just been unlucky but every node of service from airport to cab to hotel to restaurant was disinterested at best and frequently borderline hostile.
Dallas - everything was the freeway
Atlanta - the land of southern hospitality oh wait I mean rude bad tempered assholes at every place except The Vortex. I might have just been unlucky but every node of service from airport to cab to hotel to restaurant was disinterested at best and frequently borderline hostile.
Roronoa Zoro
Gold Member
San Fran. Staying at my uncles for a family reunion in the country side it was perfect. 90 dry heat by the pool was fantastic. Then we stayed 2 days in San Fran. Did not see the sun for 48 hours and the people were so pompous
Vault Dweller 111
Member
Vegas
Gary, Indiana, the saddest lakefront in America. Paper mills, refineries, and steel plants line the coast of Lake Michigan, emitting noxious fumes and a sickly yellow light that is reflected in dead retention pools by the Calumet River. People trash the New Jersey port facilities but the Meadowlands are still very alive and, at least, decent wildlife habitats.
Southside Chicago is more immediately terrifying. Bad roads, shifty stuff, and it goes goes on and on. Chicago in general is just way too large, without the benefit of mountains to break it up a little. The bums in the city center are unusually aggressive.
Fort Worth, Texas has shitty city planning. Many of the Rust Belt cities have legitimately interesting architectural elements but the outer belt of the city is a wasteland of abandoned strip malls and a ramshackle network of state highways. It's almost that way all the way to Denton, which at least has something of a town center making it something in the middle of nothing.
The southern belt of Alabama has a string of mid sized towns which have real gothic beauty but are basically empty shells. Couldn't walk around many of these places without a least one good old boy keeping an eye on me. Unnerving.
Kingsport, TN smells like butt.
Southside Chicago is more immediately terrifying. Bad roads, shifty stuff, and it goes goes on and on. Chicago in general is just way too large, without the benefit of mountains to break it up a little. The bums in the city center are unusually aggressive.
Fort Worth, Texas has shitty city planning. Many of the Rust Belt cities have legitimately interesting architectural elements but the outer belt of the city is a wasteland of abandoned strip malls and a ramshackle network of state highways. It's almost that way all the way to Denton, which at least has something of a town center making it something in the middle of nothing.
The southern belt of Alabama has a string of mid sized towns which have real gothic beauty but are basically empty shells. Couldn't walk around many of these places without a least one good old boy keeping an eye on me. Unnerving.
Kingsport, TN smells like butt.
Maybe. Not my case though. I have an Italian citizenship and speak decent Italian.
Loved Pisa by the way !
Andrew Korenchkin
Member
On another note, I did a little Google tour of East St. Louis, Camden, Stockton, and Gary. Man, those cities are insanely depressing.
Antananarivo, the capital of Madagascar.
It's dangerous to say the least. Tourist are advised to stay indoors at night.
We (me and one of my best friends) 'almost' got robbed by 10 year old's in broad daylight.
Think it was one of the first time I didn't feel comfortable while traveling and I couldn't wait to get the fuck out of the city (I would consider myself an experienced traveler).
Luckily the rest of the country was beautiful and most of the people we met were very friendly.
It's dangerous to say the least. Tourist are advised to stay indoors at night.
We (me and one of my best friends) 'almost' got robbed by 10 year old's in broad daylight.
Think it was one of the first time I didn't feel comfortable while traveling and I couldn't wait to get the fuck out of the city (I would consider myself an experienced traveler).
Luckily the rest of the country was beautiful and most of the people we met were very friendly.
The Interrobanger
Member
Vancouver is my least favorite city I've spent any significant time in. It's pretty though.
Thunder Bay also completely sucked.
Paris, France was also severely underwhelming.
Thunder Bay also completely sucked.
Paris, France was also severely underwhelming.
iamaustrian
Member
Jakarta (Indonesia)
I've been to many shitholes but Jakarta has a special place on my shit-list.
Tropical climate mixed with off-the-roof (air) pollution, laughable public transport, slums (really bad ones), probably the worst traffic (and drivers, sorry folks) in the world, corruption, mosquitos with dengue, diesel(!) power planst etc etc
I will never forget the constant smell of overused deep-frying oil mixed with exhaust gases.
plus sides: good and cheap food, some cultural sights and I freaking LOVED the harbour district and it's offerings.
Although the water was so filled with trash that I could literally walk from one boat to another without even getting wet.
I've been to many shitholes but Jakarta has a special place on my shit-list.
Tropical climate mixed with off-the-roof (air) pollution, laughable public transport, slums (really bad ones), probably the worst traffic (and drivers, sorry folks) in the world, corruption, mosquitos with dengue, diesel(!) power planst etc etc
I will never forget the constant smell of overused deep-frying oil mixed with exhaust gases.
plus sides: good and cheap food, some cultural sights and I freaking LOVED the harbour district and it's offerings.
Although the water was so filled with trash that I could literally walk from one boat to another without even getting wet.
I've been to pretty much every major world city, and probably 100 or so other cities, and Shanghai would be a lot closer to the top than the bottom of any list I put together. I mean, every other city besides Kunming in China is worse than Shanghai (imo of course)... different strokes for different folks I guess.
This. This, this, this. I was in Jackson last week, and it was disgusting. It's been a ghost town every time I have gone, and the few people who are out and about are homeless. It is smelly, the weather from the Mississippi Gulf sucks, the roads are shockingly terrible, and there seems to be no effort made in maintaining the city. The tall grass and weeds everywhere make it look like a desolated, post-apocalyptic city at times. As someone who lives in a notorious city (Memphis, TN), I have to say that Jackson is the worst by far.
WiseguyMVP
Member
Sorry you had a bad experience. You have to remember that most of the rude people you most likely are encountering are transplants. They have that "I live in the big city now, I gotta be tough" attitude. Dumbasses.
It is crowded and it does smell like heavy industry. Only ever notice the smell when coming back from a vacation to a cleaner place.
There's also a lot of old infrastructure that needs to be fixed. And I'd argue that some of the worst places I've ever been are parts of Chicago. Just a bad vibe from some areas. Like the ghosts are still haunting it.