What city is the worst city to live and visit in USA?

feldman wrote:

I have to imagine East St. Louis is worse than Camden. The difference being no one here has actually been to E St. Louis.

East St Louis is definitely a sh*thole. It's also odd to be in the ghetto and looking across the street at corn fields.

For me, it has to be Omaha. Visited it for two days on my travels and after a very boring wander around town, my girlfriend and I decided that we'd have more fun just staying in the motel and screwing each other.

only in my experience wrote:

For me, it has to be Omaha. Visited it for two days on my travels and after a very boring wander around town, my girlfriend and I decided that we'd have more fun just staying in the motel and screwing each other.

To be fair, I've yet to have visited anywhere in the world where that wasn't the better option.

And yes, I'm talking about your girlfriend.

Petersburg VA

Aurora CO

Binghamton, NY

All others are pretenders.

feldman wrote:

I have to imagine East St. Louis is worse than Camden. The difference being no one here has actually been to E St. Louis.

East St. Louis does not meet OP's population cut off. (27,000 in 2010)

Washington, DC. A very expensive cesspool.

Alaska

Wall Street.

chesapeake, va. They promote themselves through tourism by touting their proximity to places ppl would actually want to go. No trails over 2 miles besides some single track in a park or two and a 10ish mile converted road where you can literally see the end 10ish miles away, its so straight. Oh and its walkability index is the 2nd lowest in the nation. Sidewalks to run around the city are sparse. Entertainment wise, there are farms where you can pick pumpkins and corn. Have fun.

Precious Roy wrote:

Fort Wayne, Indiana. Flat. Boring. No good restaurants. Nothing to do. Lots of bible thumpers and tea partiers. Too long a drive to make it to Chicago on a day trip. Surrounded by boring farmland. The mall is the center of social life for the city. Winter is brutal. Summer can be stifling and no one has AC.

Agree with everything here but the restaurants.

Pierre, South Dakota.

I got lost in Warren, Ohio many years ago. It seemed like a terrible town then, and still does.

If you take away the Falls, Niagara Falls NY is seriously awful.

Gallup NM is a must-miss also.

Frisco is dung heap with $500,000 1 bedroom apartments, dog doo doo everywhere, and it's always cold.

Every individual has different views based on their personal likes or dislikes.

I think New Jersey is the worst place to live and visit and I agree all northern Indiana cities are right behind.

South Bend is ok,

The Garden State has several beauties... Newark, Camden, Trenton, Paterson, Elizabeth, Atlantic City.

Being from the area, Niagara Falls, NY is indeed a colossal disaster. It is the perfect example of a city selling out again and again and again for all the wrong reasons (short term profit with no long term vision).

Niagara Falls, ON is a nice city and has a ton of tourist-y things to do. It even has a great exercise path that goes all the way to Lake Ontario. We totally dropped the ball on American side of the border.

And just to seal the deal for a "worst city" candidacy there's this:

http://www.fox5ny.com/local-news/20759844-story

I'd have to say just about any episode of COPS would give you a few ideas. I had to laugh at Gallup. Tucumcari holds down the east side of the state. A lot of crap holes in the southwest.