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

Milwaukee, WI

Was cool before 1980 when the city got hit by deindustrialization.

Baltimore. Heroin capital of the United States and one of the highest murder rates. Drug deals happen out in the open during the day and still aren't stopped. Tons of poor people and abandoned buildings

PDXBasher wrote:

Portland and the Eug. Both have awful weather, terrible traffic, and insane liberals. Full of millennials who are too obsessed with their perceived hipster persona to actually power a viable economy. And don't get me started on foolish urban growth boundaries.

I always mystified when LRC'ers bash the state that most embodies the idea of 'Track Fans'. Do we have to list how many important track meets will occur in Oregon this year?

Whatever the makeup of Portland-Eugene is you can only conclude that we need more of that.

Portland? Super trendy, super expensive, but also super polluted. Enjoy your $500k house next to an cadmiom and arsanic spewing, hipster alternative glass factory while your neighbors burn massive PM2.5 producing stacks of firewood all winter.

http://www.kgw.com/news/health/toxins-in-southeast-portland-what-you-need-to-know/39643147

http://portlandtribune.com/sl/227475-86841-woodstoves-may-be-as-toxic-as-cigarettes-

http://www.oregonlive.com/pacific-northwest-news/index.ssf/2015/03/northwest_among_top_polluters.html

Boston. Please go somewhere nice; like LA.

Worcester, MA. Many live, who the heck would visit?

Complete lack of outdoor recreation oppurtunities within or close to city limits. Residents and everyone else think Boston is the only major city in Mass. Worst drivers in the country - no downtown of any sort.

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.

Agreed. Your girlfriend was an awesome lay.

Ferguson on August 9, 2014

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I had to laugh when I saw Columbus, OH mentioned, as well as the repeated references to cities in New Jersey. I know someone who lives in New Jersey (close to Newark) and dreams about moving to Columbus, OH. As the John Gorka song goes: "I'm from New Jersey, it's like Ohio, but even more so, imagine that."

Of places I have visited, though, I think northern Indiana has to rank pretty high as the worst of the worst.

All of the West Coast states are super expensive, super crowded, super liberal, and the weather is crap. Stay away. Consider instead the friendly and exciting Midwest states such as North Dakota, South Dakota, and Iowa. Plenty of land and not a lot of people. And the people who are there are the right kind of people.

Nowhere in the US is it safe for children

sjt wrote:

Worcester, MA. Many live, who the heck would visit?

Complete lack of outdoor recreation oppurtunities within or close to city limits. Residents and everyone else think Boston is the only major city in Mass. Worst drivers in the country - no downtown of any sort.

Worcester just doesn't compare to the places mentioned elsewhere in the thread. Camden, Newark, Gary, etc are far worse. It's a meh city, threadbare for sure, but it isn't a dangerous place, and it doesn't have anything even remotely close to the urban blight these other cities have. And your comment about no outdoor recreation opportunities close to city limits just isn't true. It's surrounded by towns with great cycling roads, good mountain biking trails, even a little skiing (Mt Wachusett). Sure, it's not Boulder, but try to find nice outdoor activities near Newark. If you want to pick a nasty place in MA, you've got to go with Springfield.

OLD SMTC SOB wrote:

heheheh wrote:

Camden NJ.

Agreed. I traveled there on business monthly for several years, its like driving through Beirut in the mid 1980's . Nasty, nasty place.

I'm disgusted you would make such a comparison. You will be hearing from our lawyers.

- Beirut Tourism

"Beirut - we are the bomb!"

I think Africa is by far the worst. When I was there is was flat out terrible. /EOT

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Newburgh, NY

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.

I have been to East St. Louis, it is as bad as you have heard it is.

Ashland, KY. my car broke down there on the way cross country - what a s*&t hole

New York, NY

There are literally no parking spots for a decent sized truck that project manliness (Ford F-350, Doge RAM, etc.).

I concur. To include Worcester with hell holes like Camden, Atlantic City, Gary... is absurd. Recreational resources in the surrounding Worcester area are plentiful. BTW, New Haven, CT is a dirty toilet with any Ivy League school.