Name the ugliest cities/downtowns in the USA

Needledik wrote:

Los Angeles

I think Calif. cities (San Diego, LA, and SF) will become even worse nasty shitholes once the waves of illegals get there. If you think the homeless problem is bad now....housing,feeding and caring for millions of uneducated, disease carrying, non-English speaking families will become a "humanitarian crisis."

Oh well.

Gary, IN...basically anywhere in SE Chicago/NW Indiana

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These places are actual time portals. There is no societal progress, almost completely industrial, and what isn't industrial is so run down and dilapidated it is crumbling on the ground it is built upon. In all seriousness, I challenge anyone to Google map this area and bring up an area (in the US) that can compete for title of "Area of Greatest Decay".

Another San Francisco vote. This was just yesterday-

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qm4bo3t8Ga8

“America has only three cities: New York, San Francisco, and New Orleans. Everywhere else is Cleveland.”

Tennessee Williams

East St. Louis Illinois

West Memphis Arkansas

Gary Indiana

Anytime a large metro city has a river and borders another state with different tax infrastructure the smaller city on the other side has struggled tremendously. Notice Vancouver WA is nice compared to Portland OR due to no state income tax, and people leaving Oregon.

Frisco.Frisco wrote:

Another San Francisco vote. This was just yesterday-

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qm4bo3t8Ga8

Awesome!

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DIIIRecruit wrote:

Feces literally runs down the street in SF. It is truly a disgusting place to visit, and not just because of the liberal bias.

San Francisco's nastiness is magnified by how great some people think it is.

On the flip side, people that visit Philadelphia are surprised how nice the downtown area is.

400IH wrote:

Gary, IN...basically anywhere in SE Chicago/NW Indiana

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These places are actual time portals. There is no societal progress, almost completely industrial, and what isn't industrial is so run down and dilapidated it is crumbling on the ground it is built upon. In all seriousness, I challenge anyone to Google map this area and bring up an area (in the US) that can compete for title of "Area of Greatest Decay".

I'd argue that Gary is actually one of the cooler downtowns nowadays because of this. It's pretty unique and definitely interesting/cool to see. Of course no one would want to live there...

400IH wrote:

Gary, IN...basically anywhere in SE Chicago/NW Indiana

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These places are actual time portals. There is no societal progress, almost completely industrial, and what isn't industrial is so run down and dilapidated it is crumbling on the ground it is built upon. In all seriousness, I challenge anyone to Google map this area and bring up an area (in the US) that can compete for title of "Area of Greatest Decay".

This is correct. Gary and Detroit are the only places I've ever been that have been worse than what people described or images and video could ever convey. Even Google Street View does not fully show the sheer ugliness of these locations.

What are we defining as “downtown”?

San Francisco has a ton of defined neighbors. If we are talking the Tenderloin then yeah... LA where are the skyscraper/businesses are... yes that area is ugly.

Also, as an Ohioan I will say Cleveland is better in the sense that it’s not a mess of empty lots and building anymore. But it’s still pretty damn ugly.

NYC is pretty bad. In many places they pile trash out front on the sidewalk for pickup. Unappealing.

Ssay whhat? wrote:

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

But the interstates don't converge downtown at all (hello, Richmond), they form a ring. Sprawl is true, but very very few places in US that don't endlessly sprawl into suburban hellholes. Columbia is generally poorly laid out with its excessively wide streets, but Main Street/Cayce areas are really booming and there's a nice greenway system developing along the Congaree. Way worse places out there

The obvious answer is Lafayette, LA

It's not bad overall, but yes this trash sidewalk thing is abhorrent and I don't get how the heck it is a thing. Disgusting, and unbecoming of a world capital. Would it kill the city to figure out a less disgusting way to do this?

Bio Dome wrote:

NYC is pretty bad. In many places they pile trash out front on the sidewalk for pickup. Unappealing.

San Francisco

NYC

Austin

Lafayette, La

Frisco.Frisco wrote:

Another San Francisco vote. This was just yesterday-

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qm4bo3t8Ga8

More Frisco action yesterday-

Google pictures of East Cleveland, Ohio, man.

I was born just outside of Gary and I still visit family there yearly.

It is horrible. There really is no way to accurately describe how run-down the place is without being there.

The bad parts of Baltimore far outweigh the good parts of Baltimore. When driving by Pittsburgh or Philadelphia I'm constantly surprised by just how bad the cities look. Washington DC looks beautiful compared to those ones. While I'm talking about east cost cities, I'll also mention that it's hard to appreciate New York if you've visited DC. The air policies in DC somewhat assured that none of the buildings got too tall and the result is that you feel like everything is fairly open. Once you go to New York you could get claustrophobia from never seeing the sun when surrounded by all the buildings.