Florida.
Florida.
Precious Roy wrote:
So, the town looks like it was preserved in formaldehyde in about 1975.
Great expression
hippocratic hypocrites wrote:
Covefeffist wrote:I can't find this word in the dictionary.
The poster is referring to the physicians in NYC. Although they promise to do no harm they are in fact striving to injure people whenever possible.
asdfg34 wrote:
Gravy wrote:New York, NY
People pay millions of dollars to live amongst piles of garbage and feces. Icky!
Supply and demand - you pay a premium for living among brilliant, attractive, ambitious people and have easy access to world-class culture and unlimited career opportunities.
But I suppose one could be happy living in a 100k vinyl siding house in Oklahoma eating cheese sandwiches and spending time with low-IQ whites.
so I pay how much and I get to live next to cringy douchebags like you?
The Villages, FL gets my vote. Probably not unique for that state, but was bizarro world for me with golf cart trails, golf cart parking spaces, and lots of tanned 60+ year old people.
Canada Girl wrote:
I'm Canadian but I've been to every state except 3, so my vote goes to Eureka,CA. There are some huge, beautiful Victorian mansions ( that also look like they could be haunted) but the rest of the town is a DIVE. They even have a prison on Main Street! Such a creepy place.
To the person who voted for Solvang: I have to disagree on that one. I thought all the Danish-style homes, hotels and candy stores were charming, and BEAUTIFUL scenery for running in and around the town â¤ï¸
Canada Girl, My take on the word weird is different than yours. I took it as something unusual. Something can still be charming and yet weird. I don't think the OP made a clause that weird only means creepy.
As someone who also has lived a bit in the real Denmark, I found the town of Solvang CA cute, interesting, and yet irritating all at the same time.
Leavenworth, WA is similar. It's in the Cascade mts and the entire town center tries to look like a Bavarian (German) village. Lots of tourists flock there.
There's something odd about people artificially trying to make an entire AMERICAN town look like a European town.
Rich Piana wrote:
Atlantic City
You aren't kidding. Abandoned ocean front casinos and crackheads... its f'n weird.
Any Mormon stronghold in Utah
San Francisco. Despite being beautiful and economically vibrant it's like every bad idea entertained by any nutjob is put front and center there. I think it's the place where weirdos from other parts of the country end up when they run out of gas.
Plus it leads the charge in pretending that 1960s counterculture is still countercultural.
The Skid Row area south of downtown Los Angeles ....
DaveWottleyess wrote:
Bhabhi wrote:You think Pre is the second most famous runner ever?
Jesse Owens? Roger Bannister? FloJo?
Carl Lewis, Abebe Bikila, Haile G, El G, Allyson Felix, Frank Shorter, Mo Farah, Jackie Joyner Kersee...
Not many people outside of running have heard of any of those people!
Distance running and Track & Field in general needs a lot of work when it comes to publicizing our sports!!! How people, including those in the sport, have heard of Dave Wottle?
Carl Lewis was a household name in America from the 80s through the end of the century. Same w/ Flo Jo. Jesse Owens is obviously more well-known than Pre.
Honestly, I had no idea who Prefontaine was until I saw his meet on TV when I was in my twenties, but everybody I knew growing up knew of Owens, Lewis, Michael Johnson, Flo Jo, even JJK. I doubt many people of color in America know who Pre was.
Stillwater, MN. It's just like every other suburb of the Twin Cities, except that every person from there is absolutely bonkers. Not a single normal person. I mean every person I've ever met from Stillwater is nuts. And I know about 30 people from that town. It's absolutely impossible to describe unless you experience it. Everyone in the Twin Cities knows about how weird Stillwater is. Good track team, though. Nice people. Just different.
From a hitchhiker's perspective, Reserve, NM is a very creepy town.
Battle Mountain, NV yeah, it rates right up there. It's not quaint, more like dead.
Roseburg, OR deserves a mention as does Snowflake, AZ.
Agree with the votes for the little Mormon towns in Utah, but for an only-in-America style of weirdness, I would choose:
(1) Gatlinburg, Tennessee
(2) Branson, Missouri
Gotta be that place in Montana that elected congressman the day after he assaulted someone.
Key West
Mom's basements
Crestone, CO.
As websites are a place located in cyberspace it has to be Letsrun.com as it's visiters are mostly American.
Wherever people in the middle of nowhere live who have no trespassing signs and no soliciting signs out front their homes. Must be weird to live in those places with the amount of foot traffic and vandals they must get