Worst major city you're forced to visit for work or family

I travel for work about 100 nights a year, I also travel for pleasure another 30-50.

Worst Cities:

-Dallas (to sum up the people of Dallas $30,000 "millionaires" City believes it is LA... But it is Dallas)

-Philly (City is actually amazing, so much to do, well planned out, great schools, great night life, the worst humans I have ever met)

-Wichita Falls, TX (nothing more needs to be said, don't go)

-Mississippi (Yes, the whole state sucks. The best part has casino's and a beach, but if you are there for more then 5 days you will try and drown yourself in the sea)

- Arkansas especially Fayettenam (The stories I can tell about this backwoods place. Rednecks, ugly people, dumb ugly people, and did I mention fat people yet?)

Surprisingly Awesome Cities:

-Lafayette, LA (Everyone there is happy and just wants to have a beer with you)

-Murfreesboro, TN (It has everything from old money to new money with great trails and a ton of history)

- Houston, TX (Great food, people, high paying jobs, breweries, art scene, coffee shops, though its music scene is very average)

Mobile, AL (on the ocean, cheap to live, beautiful place, intelligent people, the only negative is racism)

You "lump it with DFW"??? How astute of you. You do realize that the freakin' "FW" stands for Fort Worth? Looks like it was already "lumped" by someone else.

crete wrote:

bae area wrote:

-usually sunny

-not always windy

-too hilly? just because you're bad at running hills doesn't mean there are too many of thme

- real people do not use cable cars, only tourists

- GG bridge attracts mostly runners and cyclists. you are uninformed

- 3rd world highway system means you should get your butt out of your car. this is a city, not LA.

you got trolled

To appreciate Portland, you need to be here during the summer months. After July 4 to the end of September, the weather is generally fantastic. Exception is 2015 when it was the hottest on record (for Portland folk).

The key is to only "do Portland" for 1 day. Get out to the coast for a long day, maybe two. Then head to to Eugene for a day. Then on to Mt. Hood for a couple of days. Drive back to Portland via the Columbia Gorge.

Believe me if you do those things during the summer, you'll see why the area is so nice.

Stiff Upper Lips wrote:

Portland, Oregon is a piss hole full of white aboriginal case studies for Anthropology researchers without the budget to travel to filthy England.

Hilarious! I live here and think this all the time but could never put it so eloquently. Bravo!

But, see me previous post to be fair about the surrounding area.

Roger Jolly wrote:

What's with all the hate on Boston?

Too many hobby joggers who cannot qualify for Boston.

very impressed with el paso wrote:

best city- EL PASO by far. wonderful economy, no panhandlers there, lots of 5 star hotels, less than 1 percent African American, healthiest large city in America, happiest large city in America, voted cleanest large city in America, safest city in America since 1990, great running community, everyone is employeed, great place to raise a family, great trails and hiking and scenery, great weather year round, pretty much the best place in America to live and visit.

worst city- Okc by far.

Hilarious. Thanks for the laugh.

Elton john wrote:

Reading this thread makes me glad I'm in the UK. Admittedly we also have some shit holes (e.g. Birmingham and Liverpool ) but most UK cities are pretty nice. Edinburgh, Bristol, Newcastle, and Glasgow (despite its problems ) are all fun places.

Have you been to Birmingham? It's an extremely large place and like anywhere, it's what you make of it really - and which parts you go to. There's certainly lots of good areas and things to do.

Houston has friendly people who are not interesting, an astounding number of darn good restaurants but no great ones, a downtown with dozens of bars that are mostly the same plus La Carafe, and tons of other very good but not great bars where you can sit outside, make new friends, and look for prostitutes. Plus some serviceable running options.

If you're sort of a boring person and you're ok with that, Houston is your girl. Otherwise, it's going to be a long trip.

Zombie wrote:

You've never been to a third world country, have you?

Random Dude Bro wrote:

My vote goes to San Francisco:

- no real summer

- always foggy

- quite windy

- sealocked

- too hilly

- third world highway system

- public transport is an embarrassment - I mean, really, cable cars? WTF.

- GG Bridge attracts mostly suicidal people

- and the list goes on

Hard to believe that Seattle was only mentioned once in this resurrected thread from a few years ago.

A few bad points:

Traffic nightmare

Homelessness taking over the downtown area (and expanding outwards)

Home prices unaffordable

Too many gray days

Constant drizzle

Increase in crime

Good points

We've got Jamin and Seattle Prattle?

agree with all of this. I'm sure there are worse cities in the US but I haven't been to one.

The funny thing about Atlanta is people in the south seem to love it.....nearly every Uber driver I had there would ask;

"So how you like Atlanta? I mean you love it, i'm sure....It's Atlanta! I've only been here three years but been trying to move here all my life from (some other city in the South)"

OKC (Oklahoma City)

1 2 3 green wrote:

Ft worth is not much better. I lump it in with DFW, and all of DFW is devoid of identity in my opinion. It's 3,000 square miles of boring. But I shouldn't talk, I live in Nowhere, Tx. a 3 hour drive to any city people have actually heard of.

You mean DFW, as for Dallas-Fort Worth, the two "metroplex" cities?

If you didn't knew that...Do us a favor, for the good of mankind stay in nowhere Texas.

St Louis

When I used to work for SEARS they sent me to Chicago.

I don't know how they get around. Traffic is not unlike LA, jams in every direction all the time. There's supposedly a pretty developed public transit...unless you try to actually ride the "L" and find out that it has delays all the time. The least reliable public transit I've ever seen really. The way the city is laid out you can't really live next to work unless you're rather rich.

The food is kinda fun with everything deep-fried in grease but I cannot imagine eating this midwestern stuff every day.

Baltimore, the worst. The end.

crab fest wrote:

Baltimore, the worst. The end.

Baltimore is an oasis in comparison to...............Camden NJ.

NYC or Boston. You’d have to be out of your mind to move to either.

Well, I'm not sure Camden qualifies as major, but if it does, yeah, it probably wins. Although at that level of majorness (sic), you gotta consider plenty of places in Indiana and Michigan and even a place like Bridgeport, Connecticut.