Downtown Tacoma and near the park west of the city were very nice.
Good places to eat and run.
Downtown Tacoma and near the park west of the city were very nice.
Good places to eat and run.
Flagpole Willy wrote:
Detroit has to be on the list.
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PARTS of Washington DC are super bad.
Re: Detroit, it doesn't *have* to be on the list. It's got plenty of problems, sure, but it also has a lot going for it. Like some great cultural institutions, fine music venues, interesting mix of ethnicities, a rich industrial/labor/civil rights history...and a decent running scene, to boot. I think there's an element of piling on in threads like this, leading people to mention some cities as "obvious" choices (even if they don't know much about them). Hey, at least I offered to keep an open mind should someone care to defend Lima!
Re: the super bad PARTS of Washington, I assume you're talking about the areas where the lobbyists and Bush Administration apparatchiks hang out, right? Because I know you're not a racist who hates poor people.
Humbled - Southeast DC is horrible - also known as Ward 8. There's just little positive to say about it, although I think Mayor Fenty is really trying to do something about it. Great hope is being placed on the new baseball stadium - which while not in Southeast per se, will hopefully revitalize the area.
But heck, let's be fair - whatever the urge to pick on "poor people" or to imply "racism" may be, I find inner city Baltimore considerably worse than Southeast DC. Not a racist statement, just a comment on the sad state of affairs.
And to the individual who suggested Gary, Indiana, yes, it is a horrible city. But it is relatively small compared to some of the other disasters being discussed here.
I got lost in Warren, Ohio once in 1963 while driving a Fiat 600. So obviously it sucks.
Outside the US I vote for Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea. Now that's one seriously dangerous city, although the physical setting's quite nice. I lived there in the seventies and it was a little iffy...went back in 2001 and oh yes, Mr. Motel Manager, thanks for the razor wire outside my room. On the plane out to a worn-torn island I was going to, there was a hand-lettered sign "all weapons must be stored in hold."
Barnsley is horrible
[quote]walter wrote:
If you don't want to include Lima, you can't include East St. Louis.
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Beg pardon. Is it pronounced LEE-muh or LIME-uh?
Like Peru, or like the bean?
Phonetics wrote:
Beg pardon. Is it pronounced LEE-muh or LIME-uh?
Like Peru, or like the bean?
Actually, it's lim-a ... lim rhymes with Tim. That's how the locals down at Betty's say it, anyway.
Macomb, Illinois.
End of discussion.
The following Texas towns, unless you're into church, dove hunting, buffet restaurants, arid landscape, and high school football, in which case you will find all of these towns to be paradise:
Wichita Falls,
Midland,
Odessa,
Abilene,
Amarillo,
Lubbock.
Benton Harbor, Michigan
Think of the worst parts of Detroit in one city of 20,000.
I don't think you can really mention any major metro areas on this... I have been to several of the major cities you have mentioned, Boston, New Orleans, Atlanta, LA, etc... They are cities.. They good parts are incredible.. the bad parts are terrible.. enough said its just how it is.
Jackson, Michigan
This town sucks dick. I had to spend three weeks there once!
Stalingrad,1942-1943 WWII
Warsaw, 1943-1945, WWII
London, 1349-1350, Bubonic plague
HowSoonCanIMove? wrote:
Houston.
Happiness is Houston, Texas in my rearview mirror ...
You know those aren't the correct lyrics...
Has no one mentioned Bakersfield yet?
Two worst cities I've been to:
Cincinnati and San Salvador
PHOENIX, I am stuck in this desert crap hole with my SS card and Identification in a lock box
Another vote for Pierre, South Dakota. I have never seen such a depressed and defeated white trash population in my life. Weather is horrible all year round too. The food is God-awful, schools, everyone is a fat and tattooed dog heathen and they hate the Sioux Indians like no other. A horrible, horrible uncultured, uneducated place.
I also have to say Phoenix. God damn brown air to breathe and heat and stupid people everywhere driving like morons. Also had my garage broken into twice in one month and some dumb ass tried to steal my Honda Pilot and cracked the dash all to hell. It's like Mexico won the war down here.
Sure looks like a terrible place to live:
http://personal.lse.ac.uk/thielema/coast-la-jolla.jpg
I understand what you say about the culture in SD, I criticize it too sometimes. But there actually is a funky, artsy scene down here, just not as big as cities like NYC and SF. Look at North Park.
