LEAST favorite city in the USA

guy not from there wrote:

[quote]roboto wrote:

Harrisburg, PA: I challenge you to find a decent restaurant there that is not a chain. This place just saps the life right out of you in general.

I'm not from Harrisburg but have visited a lot thanks to family in the area. I've had some good greek and italian and some spectacular sushi. There's at least one good brew pub in town as well. Places like these are not on every corner, but they're there. Not far outside the city is the Appalachian Trail and tons of state gamelands. It's not the Sierra Madre but good, moderately challenging hiking and trail running. I've had more fun in other cities, but you can do a lot worse.

any city that is not located within 100 miles of the east coast or west coast

hrunner wrote: any city that is not located within 100 miles of the east coast or west coast

Heh, except ABQ.

problemsolver wrote:

Hartford, CT. all-time worst.

Worse than New Haven, CT?

Baltimore is up there. Along with NYC. Manhattan, specifically - dog feces everywhere.

I live in Manhattan. There is not "dog feces everywhere." That may have been true in, like....1977.

New Haven has a lot to recommend it and is nowhere near as bad as Hartford.

Any city in Mississippi...The racism, sexism, ageism, and discrimination against minorities and women and the elderly is beyond what any of you outside the state can even imagine.

marijuologist wrote:

Tacoma, WA.

The whole place is literally covered with shit.

Second that. It's barely better than Gillette, WY, truly the armpit of the world.

I can't decide between my picks of anywhere in Texas and Birmingham, AL.

Camoo wrote:

I live in Manhattan. There is not "dog feces everywhere." That may have been true in, like....1977.

New Haven has a lot to recommend it and is nowhere near as bad as Hartford.

Hmmm... I was there most recently in early 2002. Dog feces everywhere. Sorry. I'll admit that my time there was restricted to the East Village, Chinatown, and the Bowery.

Philadelphia would kick any other city's ass in a fist fight

TUSCON Arizona, place is horrible. not to mention the wildcats suck.

Hartford is bad, I agree, but it's not even the worst city in Connecticut. Bridgeport is horrible. New Haven might even bump Hartford down to #3 for worst Connecticut city. There are nice parts of both cities, but Bridgeport is bad from city limit to city limit.

By the way, Connecticut doesn't get a bad enough rap for having awful cities!

New York is Philadelphia\'s ugly cousin....I found L.A. to be a pretty unattractive city

yeah with those white beaches, mountains that are 10x more majestic than anything on the east coast and seventy degree days throughout the year it really must suck to live in l.a.

opopj wrote:

New York is Philadelphia\'s ugly cousin....I found L.A. to be a pretty unattractive city

I vote for Bin Ladin to take care of CT next. Then NY afterwards.

BEREA F***ING KENTUCKY

the city and I don't need to say what city is incredibly expensive and the people are often arrogant for good reason.

for example:

metropolitan museum of art

whitney

guggenheim

museum of modern art

(four of the top 20 museums in the country, probably, and then hundreds of others, more non-tourist art galleries than any other city in the country, the center of the art world)

center of magazine publishing, best newspaper in the country (times), best free weekly (voice), best magazines in the country, center of advertising, financial, television, and on and on.

best restaurants in the country (other than san francisco, but much more variety). only place you can have your choice of, say, guinean restaurants (brooklyn/harlem) or four varieties of thai cuisine (say, woodside and jackson heights, queens) or burmese food (jackson heights, qns) or a district of korean restaurants (midtown), or kazakh food (brooklyn), or a dozen places with a real claim to the best pizza in the country (e.g. nick's qns, patty's, totonno's coney island, ...).

then the night life, the majority women, central park to run and races every week, cheap fares around the world, ...

it's a joke to even try to justify the city, because it is by far the greatest (not the most beautiful--sf) american city.

among the worst, there are dozens of smaller cities and obvious choices, such as gary, baltimore (does have a nice harbor and some parks), newark, yonkers, bridgeport, detroit, ...

but among the less obvious, what I saw of dallas in downtown and around, from running at night, was pretty damn hideous, empty, dirty and dangerous. atlanta convention center area was the most racially polarized city I've seen next to Cincinnati all the way from the hill beyond the university of cincinnati to the downtown and across the river beyond the stadiums. in both places, the only people on the street were poor, black men, as if women and whites were afraid to walk on the street.

Holy crap. I just skimmed this entire thread and I don't think anyone has mentioned the obvious yet! I just thought of it, and I'll have to retract my pick of NYC in favor of......LAS VEGAS! What a godforsaken hellhole -- when an entire city is based on illegal activity (and legalized gambling of course) it obviously has to be the worst city in the USA.

You people think the mob's influence in NJ is bad? What about Vegas? Plus it has an awful climate for most of the year.

tie between Dallas and Houston