Worst City You've Ever Been To?

Speaking of shit cities, I'm tempted to apply and pursue a job in Stockton, but the inclusion of it on many times this question is answered online is making me do a double take. What specifically makes it one of the worst cities for many?
 
Gotta be Kolkata.
It super run down and there are homeless people everywhere you walk.

No wonder mother Theressa got a nobel prize for staying there.
 
Andrew Korenchkin said:
Speaking of shit cities, I'm tempted to apply and pursue a job in Stockton, but the inclusion of it on many times this question is answered online is making me do a double take. What specifically makes it one of the worst cities for many?
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It's dirty. Very high crime, no culture. Just an unpleasant place. Don't move there.
 
Personally Manila, the vibes there were just so tense. The airport don't even have an arrival hall. Folks were waiting on the streets to pick ppl up. It was 6 yrs ago so maybe things have changed but man... That was not a good impression.
 
Juarez, Mexico. From what I remember there were very few paved roads, huge pot holes all over. Extreme poverty, people had 50 gallon drums filled with water and that was their source of water for the week for washing clothes, cooking, drinking etc.
 
McLovin said:
Came in expecting Bridgeport, CT I'm pleasantly surprised. Also I like NYC but it is overhyped AF so dont act all surprised. Its like a super huge circle jerk for a place that charges more for rent for a tiny apartment then you would pay for a full house anywhere else. The foods amazing but the official NYC smell is urine. The only really cool part is manhattan but its full of tourists and people trying to get money out of you, mostly everything els is just meh.
Also the GWB can eat a ****.
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Oh man, I forgot about Bridgeport! I live right across the sound, near Port Jeff, and my first time taking the ferry, I was expecting BP to be a quaint little harborside town as well... what I got was post industrial ruin, trashy people in wifebeaters driving clunker cars with a beer in their hand, run down housing, and lots of traffic.
 
Don't think I've really been to a shithole so I'll just say the city that disappointed me the most. Osaka. For all the hype about it being a kind of anti-Tokyo, it's really just a seedy, poor man's Tokyo. There's not much to do re: sightseeing and shopping is subpar. The best part of my trip was going to Universal Studios.
 
iamaustrian said:
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.
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The last time I got back to Oregon from Jakarta, I spent about 10 minutes just breathing the wonderful morning air we have here. I like Jakarta overall, but yeah those are all VERY valid complaints. The traffic is a fucking nightmare, and everyone just throws their trash on the ground.

Qblivion said:
The only big cities ive been to are SF, Portland and Seattle and none of them are bad. Kinda over rated, but still enjoyable places to be.

I live in southern Oregon and all the cities here are shit.
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Pfff, Ashland is great if you can afford it. Medford, Klamath Falls, and Grants Pass are all disgusting, meth-ridden shitholes full of fat, dumb conservatives. I'm currently looking at getting a house in Ashland and doing everything I possibly can to avoid living elsewhere.
 
Of the ones I've personally been to, probably Birmingham, AL

I've been to Cleveland and Detroit, and lived in Baltimore, and for all their problems at least those three have their upsides.
 
Piggus said:
Pfff, Ashland is great if you can afford it. Medford, Klamath Falls, and Grants Pass are all disgusting, meth-ridden shitholes full of fat, dumb conservatives. I'm currently looking at getting a house in Ashland and doing everything I possibly can to avoid living elsewhere.
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Yeah, Ashland is great, if a bit touristy. But it's a pretty charming place overall; nice college town. Everything else in Southern Oregon though... yeesh.
 
Piggus said:
The last time I got back to Oregon from Jakarta, I spent about 10 minutes just breathing the wonderful morning air we have here. I like Jakarta overall, but yeah those are all VERY valid complaints. The traffic is a fucking nightmare, and everyone just throws their trash on the ground.
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I was very surprised and kinda disgusted when I saw the "garbage hatchways" in fences and walls of rich(er) peolpe's properties.
I asked our tourmanager/guide what purpose these holes have. He said it's for getting rid of smaller pieces of trash. Apparently you throw your empty cans,batteries, plastic bags etc through those holes directly into the small flood control channels next to the streets.
After heavy rainfall all the waste will be washed directly into the rivers and creeks. makes sense if you consider the very poor condition of jakartas waterways.
I took photos of that special way of garbage disposal when I was jakarta (2 times). I will post em when I find them.
no one seems to give a fuck about nature at all

tbh I don't know what was worse. dumping trash basicly directly into rivers in jakarta or people burning all their trash onto the streets of medan. it's just so unbelievable and surreal as an european guy
 
I also forgot I went to Ensenada one time, but when I went, I remember feeling....uneasy. But I've never been to Mexico so the situation was completely alien. Is it really as bad as I tried to make it feel?
 
I'd like to pick East St. Louis.

My Dad grew up there in the 30s and 40s. It went down hill really fast after that. At one point my Dad's company was the last none consumer based company there, and he moved it out of E.STL in `97. There was one rule in my family, "Anyone besides Dad was not allowed in East St. Louis after dark."

I mean I was not some protected kid living in a suburb, I lived in Shaw neighborhood in STL, while not the worst, it was riddled with gang activity (my house backed up to mostly section 8 properties, nothing wrong with the properties existing and the majority of the people, but because of their economical standing, they would've been easy pray for the less than honest folk out there), and out of the majority of my friends, I am surprised not more of them went the gang route.

But all in all, out of the states I have lived in, I have not come across another completely run-down city like East St. Louis. Imagine Detroit (right after the crash), that is how East St. Louis looked to me.
 
Youngstown,Ohio.

Every other building in the city was an abandoned shit hole, with the centerpiece being a run down asbestos factory.

Apparently it was mafia central during the 80's.
 
outunderthestars said:
Pretty much every city in NJ. I cannot find words to properly express how awful this place is. My wife and I have a countdown timer set up for when her assignment ends and we can move away from this dumpster fire of a place.
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I came into this thread to see if anyone would mention one of the wonderful cities in my home / birth state. Lo and behold not only was one mentioned, but every single one. Damn.

Peltz said:
Newark, New Jersey.
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And I knew someone would mention the city of my birth. It had to be mentioned.


Personally, I would have to give another nod to Camden. It is damn sad.
 
Stupid thread. You are bored and complain one town its the worst. You expect someone to come and entertain you for free and make your trip always sunny. Weather has nothing to do with that, that would mean places like England or Scotland are the worst.
 
SchrodingerC said:
I'm not going to get into the details, but I'll just say just because I'm an american woman doesn't mean i'll jump the bones of any guy an accent. Being cornered when you're 19 makes for a bad trip into a shitty one.
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Sorry you had to experience that. I can assure you it's not the norm, though. It's definitely a party city for younger people and having lived it myself at those ages I know how some guys can be. I feel like it's that way in pretty much every big city. Not defending it at all. I've never acted like that and absolutely hated going out with any girl I was dating because of the way a lot of guys will act in clubs/bars. In general.

That said, as a guy who grew up in NYC and eventually moved to Montreal and learned the language, the culture, made a ton of Quebecois friends (and gf/life partner), I really can say it's a gorgeous and fantastic city. It's high on any list for a variety of reasons. I hope you get to experience it properly at some point. =)

While here, I'll add my list:

Newark, Camden, Trenton. And so many parts of Philly. It's like one awesome area surrounded by a few decent ones and then utter trash. Like a minefield. The first three I want nothing to do with. I have to drive through/near Newark occasionally still, and Trenton is the easiest access train to certain areas of Bucks County from NYC unless I wanna take a bus, but I'd rather just drive. Those three NJ cities aren't good at all.

Haven't seen many in Quebec. Amqui was trashy and lame, but was a quick stop on our journey back from home from Gaspésie. Only Quebecers will be aware of that one. There are certain parts of cities around here I'd rather not hang out in, but in general it's pretty good.
 
I'd have to say Kandahar. Sure, most of the people were lovely, but the people who weren't really, really weren't.
 
London, Ontario.

I was there a weekend for a wedding about 20 years ago.
Teenagers panhandling on every street corner, third graders panhandling in the hotel lobby.
I'm sure I saw more US flags there than in any US city I've visited.
 
Maybe I just went to the wrong parts, but of major cities, Dallas has to be the worst place I have been to. I think this can be said of a lot of cities in Texas, but everything is just so far apart. It's not very walkable and the heat is unbearable 70% of the year. People there are very nice and I have nothing bad to say about them.
 
On our honeymoon, my wife and I drove through a town in California called Adelanto. (This was about ten years ago.) It billed itself as "The City of Endless Possibilities." And it sure was. As far as I was able to see, it had a magnificent looking visitor's center, a gas station, a dirt bike track, and then miles and miles of empty dirt.
 
Grande Prairie, Alberta.

A dirty and ugly town full of oil and forestry guys. Like many resource towns, it served only to house and feed gatherings of resource workers and their families. It had the sense of community that you might find in an empty parking lot. Everyone we met was living only to make a buck. Most of them seemed to be white males under 35 with a new pickup and a coke habit. People actively and aggressively picked fights in the bar at a rate I have never seen before. The police were quick to taze and our hotel room had a syringe sticking out of the light fixture when we came in.

A sawmill was on fire when I drove out of town and I hoped that it took the whole city with it.
 
Warner Robins, GA and Barstow, CA.

Lived in WR for 3 years. Nothing to fucking do there except get hammered.

Thankfully I only had to visit Barstow when my parents were stationed at Ft. Irwin.
 
I dunno... Regina?


I was gonna say Iqaluit since it's the capital city of Nunavut but it has less than 10,000 people. It probably doesn't qualify.
 
iamaustrian said:
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I took photos of that special way of garbage disposal when I was jakarta (2 times). I will post em when I find them.
no one seems to give a fuck about nature at all
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Runcorn

My God it was grim

Surrounded entirely by a bypass.

Had to teach there for a few months. You could feel your soul die driving over the bridge.
 
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