Name the ugliest cities/downtowns in the USA

If you're talking large metro areas, no one beats San Francisco. Otherwise, I'm sure there are small dumps throughout Mississippi that'd make you cry.

Los Angeles

Portland isn’t ugly at all, except for the homeless camps.

How about Newark? Ugly.

Columbia, SC. Nothing but a confluence of interstates and a lot of sprawl.

Portland is not bad at all.

Ever been to downtown Memphis?

Your mom

Sacramento

Pahokee, FL

Portland has changed tremendously in the last five years. All for the worse. It's horrible. Worst downtown of a major city in the country. Nothing else is close.

Gravy wrote:

If you're talking large metro areas, no one beats San Francisco. Otherwise, I'm sure there are small dumps throughout Mississippi that'd make you cry.

What! Impossible! Don't you know ChadBrad lives there? There's no way he would live there if it wasn't The Best Place on Earth. Not sure if he's told you, but he's kind of a big deal.

Wonderin' wrote:

Portland has changed tremendously in the last five years. All for the worse. It's horrible. Worst downtown of a major city in the country. Nothing else is close.

not buying it, was there 2 years ago. It's got some issues but overall was pretty nice.

Atlanta is shittier for sure.

The brown stain of San Francisco.

https://boingboing.net/2018/10/10/san-franciscos-poop-on-the-s.html

Are we talking ugliest city as far as cleanliness and architecture or are we talking ugliest people? Either way it's Baltimore.

Yonkers, NY is a nice place but the downtown is the worst.

Detroit

Eureka

Gary

must have been a quick fire.... wrote:

Wonderin' wrote:

Portland has changed tremendously in the last five years. All for the worse. It's horrible. Worst downtown of a major city in the country. Nothing else is close.

not buying it, was there 2 years ago. It's got some issues but overall was pretty nice.

Atlanta is shittier for sure.

Ugly and nice aren't mutually exclusive for the sake of this topic. Aesthetically downtown Portland is butt ugly.

Definitely not SF, but LA and Sacramento yes.

an honest assessment wrote:

must have been a quick fire.... wrote:

not buying it, was there 2 years ago. It's got some issues but overall was pretty nice.

Atlanta is shittier for sure.

Ugly and nice aren't mutually exclusive for the sake of this topic. Aesthetically downtown Portland is butt ugly.

sorry for the confusion. By 'nice' i meant 'not butt ugly.'

SMDH at anyone who says Portland or Atlanta. srsly?!?

I love my Ravens, but come on now, Baltimore is skankybad. Ugh.

It's been awhile since I've been to Detroit, but yeah they'd compete with Balmer. As would half the damn state of Joisey.

I forgot about Richmond VA. Also horrible. It's the mini-Balmer of the south.

Downtown Atlanta is freakin' heavin compared to half the megalopoli in the states. Portland is too.

All y'alls hafta git out more. Travel.

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Hands down, it's Buffalo, NY as both city and a downtown. Even downtown Detroit is more appealing (historically and architecturally-wise)

I spent probably 30 weeks over 2 years on a project in this city, but for a "downtown" in a "city" the absolute saddest has to be Virginia Beach, VA.

Their downtown consists of about 10 buildings that are all pre-fab construction and were "created" about 10 years ago, when the city leaders said "We are the largest city in Virginia. We need a downtown." They also have the "tallest" building in Virginia, which is a hotel/condo building that looks god-awful ridiculous, given there are no other tall buildings around it. Again it was a "We are the largest city in Virginia, we should have the tallest building!" mentality. No mass transit. Not very walkable, at all. Traffic is atrocious in the area of their "Downtown" (which they actually call Town Center).