LEAST favorite city in the USA

Why don't you do a search for the threads that other morons started on this subject and save us from more boredom.

Any city in central Indiana

I can't say I've ever been to a city I outright hated.

But on second thought, Riverside, CA and Sarasota, FL come pretty close.

Gary, IN is the ugliest place I've ever seen, and I took the Greyhound through there from downtown Detroit.

Dude, Boulder sucks so much. Yuppies, dudes who think they are too good and stuck up chicks. It sucks.

Yeah, this is hardly a new topic.

I think, though, that the worst cities are actually the secondary ones that are actually close to bigger cities. So that would include East St. Louis, Illinois; Gary, Indiana, Paterson and Elizabeth, NJ (near NYC) and Camden, NJ (near Philly)

Svelte Guy wrote:

Yeah, this is hardly a new topic.

I think, though, that the worst cities are actually the secondary ones that are actually close to bigger cities. So that would include East St. Louis, Illinois; Gary, Indiana, Paterson and Elizabeth, NJ (near NYC) and Camden, NJ (near Philly)

I agree. The worst cities are low-density, adding a sense of hopelessness and isolation to the danger and boredom. It's hopeless if you get in trouble because there aren't any stores, businesses or people around.

guy not from there wrote:

Gary, IN is the ugliest place I've ever seen, and I took the Greyhound through there from downtown Detroit.

Detroit aint no postergirl for urban beauty!

El Paso, TX. Hands down.

I think Marshawn Lynch would beg to differ...

http://youtube.com/watch?v=pSO-kdWLFes

metro gnome wrote:Detroit aint no postergirl for urban beauty!

Gary, Indiana is like some sci-fi city of the future-where everything has gone wrong and mutants rule.

Try a long CA Highway 99 roadtrip and try:

Bakersfield, CA

Fresno, CA

Stockton, CA

Yuba City, CA

Let me know.

all terrible places... but modesto was a surprisingly nice city when i was there a month ago... i wasn't expecting much after driving through the others. further north, chico is decent. yuba city is just hell on earth.

Medium-smallish type cities in general are pretty hit and miss and some of the worst cities are in this category. Small cities have a slower pace, which can be nice, and they don't tend to have a lot of the typical city problems. Larger cities are simply big enough that they all have nice areas even if the city in general isn't great. For example, I think of Philly as a generally pretty ugly city, but there are certainly parts of the city that I'd be happy to live/spend time in. Cities that are somewhere in between often have the worst of both worlds. They've started to have the big city problems, but they haven't yet developed all the things that make cities attractive.

NYC. For a couple years after 9-11 I felt guilty about despising it, but not so much anymore.

I've also heard Baltimore is pretty horrible, as well as LA obviously.

Chicago is pretty nice for big it is. Downtown Detroit is not half bad these days, it just has a terrible reputation. Same goes for Cleveland. Another city I thought was fairly nice for being fairly large was Indianapolis.

For "small" cities, Duluth MN and Grand Rapids MI are nice. (Course I'm a little biased toward GR.)

LUBBOCK, TEXAS IS NO DOUBT THE MOST HIDEOUS CITY IN THIS GREAT NATION. IT ALSO REAKS OF ASS.

gv10k wrote:

NYC. For a couple years after 9-11 I felt guilty about despising it, but not so much anymore.

I personally can't imagine disliking NYC just because it's such a huge and diverse city. I feel like no matter what a person wants in a city, there is a neighborhood that would appeal to their desires.

I live in NY and am actually in an area that is neighborly and smalltownish yet has everything convenient close by and is less than a mile from midtown. It's the best of everything. It can be like that here. Frankly, people who say they despise NYC have absolutely no idea what they are talking about and need to get out of the obvious touristy areas that most of us avoid.

I think Waterbury and Bridgeport, both in Connecticut, are pretty hideous.