what is the worst city you have ever been to

In the USA?

I rate Philadelphia as the cesspool of the USA.

Memphis

Wylie TX

Philly

New Orleans

Carrollton, MO.

Wichita KS

Houston

Well Houston is the only town I have got to watch an actual shoot out in a gas station parking lot.

Aledo is a close second.

Rantoul Illinois.

Atlanta

I lived there two years. It was a horrible place.

East StLouis.

Memphis is kind of a dump. Was there this week and it reminded me of a large scale Aledo. Bunch of crack heads and run down buildings. I went to try some Gus's "World Famous" Fried Chicken and thought I might get mugged.

My wife grew up there before her step dad was transferred to Sheppard in Wichita Falls. She said it's a dump.

Beaumont, Midland and Oklahoma as a whole. Newark definitely sucks too.

I dont like chicago

Chicago

Ennis

Pittsburgh, Pa

In the USA - Russellville, AR

International = Manila, Philippines

Lived there in the late 60's-70's. It WAS a great place to grow up as a kid. Not so much over the last 30 yrs. Makes south oakcliff look crime free!

When is the last time you were there pa'? It used to be a dump years ago but it has turned into a beautiful city.

New Orleans

Los Angeles

Longview

Newark, New Jersey

Midland and Demopolis, AL

I went to Dallas once, I didn't like it.

Only went once, but Detroit would be high on my list. Las Vegas would be pretty high also.

So many good choices here

this or philly. SE D.C. is no gem either

No kidding. Longview. Wichita Falls. Philly. El Paso.

Texas I would choose Wichita Falls or Orange. Both are just depressing to me.

N.O. or Houston, it's a tie

Those are all high end neighborhoods compared the flint Michigan.

WF sucks out loud. Midland and WF are basically the same place.

Topeka, Kansas

St. Louis

Hoboken or Gary, Indiana.

Gary, IN........thought I was in Lagos, Nigeria!

Killeen Tx. And Dallas. If God was to give the world an enema Dallas is where he would put the hose.

Fayetteville nc

Memphis, New Orleans, Thibodaux,La, Louisville

Buffalo, NY and Philly. They are both in a race to the bottom.

Chicago, Detroit, Cleveland

Yep! But I was going to throw out that most of the state is a dump.

NOLA!!!!

Odessa

The Woodlands. You can't see anything in that damn city.

New Orleans in August, everywhere I went smelled like urine and vomit. Guess that's why they have Mari Gras there when it's cold. Keeps the smell down. LOL!!!

Philly

Jackson MS

Pripyat, Ukraine.

hard to argue with this

Cleveland

Detroit

if there are more than 10,000 people in the city I don't like it.


from a driving aspect,
chicago
detroit
san fran cisco (spelled that way on purpose)
la
houston dfw
oh heck, the list is huge.

New Orleans, Houston, Santa Fe, Kansas City MO, Little Rock, Chicago, Clarksville Tx, and the the list could go on, but the worst I've ever been to was Vacherie Louisiana. Didn't make it 10 steps from the car before we were being cussed at and gang signs tossed up at. Went straight back to the car and grabbed my pistol. Only place I've actually ever been were I absolutely felt it 110% necessary to carry a pistol.... and an extra mag... okay two. Ghhheeeeettttttooooooooo!!

I've been all over the great US of A and Philly is absolutely the worst city in this country. It's trashy and the folks who live there obviously have no pride cause they'll just throw their cans, bottles, sacks, etc. down on the sidewalks and streets. And the people are the rudest in the country as well.

OKC

This is also my experience. Been to most of the places that have been posted and in my opinion Philly takes the cake.

^^This^^

I was in New Orleans for Cisco Networkers 2 weeks before Katrina hit. We were in the Convention Center all week, and in the Superdome for the final night. That place was a heaping pile of dump, and smelled horrible. The Riverfront Mall next to the convention center was huge, and had a few lower levels to it. Seemed so odd to see all of this on the new 2 weeks later totally looted, and the folks packed into the convention center and Superdome, where I had just been.

Galveston

+1

Garland, Tx

Prolly Houston....

Anywhere north of I-10

Trump is going to build the wall at I-10.

NOLA

Memphis(locals call it Memphrica),Birmingham,Houston,Atlanta,NYC,Chicago,Philly but the winner/loser is New Orleans by a bunch.

Detroit, Des Moines Iowa.

Hobbs, NM

Lawton Oklahoma.

Way too many meth heads. I've lived in some bad parts of tarrant county. But never been as truly scared for my life.

I'm pretty close to agreement with Mark Perry on this. Orange and Pecos Texas.

Tie between East St. Louis, IL and Newark, NJ.

Toss up between East Saint Louis and Newark NJ

Naknek, Alaska and Minot, North Dakota.

Hands down New Orleans

or is it hands up!

It is the biggest dump I have seen

Ennis.

Fallujah, Iraq

My nephew was there with The Marines.

Cleveland would have to be my vote. Don't go in a liquor store in the wrong area. You will get a whole lot of why is yo *** in this store looks.
However, I have nothing but good things to say about the Cleveland Clinic. Especially the pediatric neurology department.

Quemado Tx. Appropriately named.

2 votes for Ennis, that's surprising. What's wrong with Ennis?
For me traffic wise Denver was the worst. I guess Dallas would be top of my list, but to be fair I haven't stayed in very many big cities. El Paso was pretty dirty.

Boston. Beautiful city full of lousy liberals.

Ennis is known as the Taint of Texas.

It's a [censored] hole. I bet he can verify

Why? Was raised in Ennis and graduated HS there back in 1980, was a fine little town then. Moved away in the summer of 80 and haven't lived there since. Something must have changed I reckon.

Derek happened.

Liberal, Kansas

Homestead, Florida.. on the edge of the Everglades, I believe it is probably still the most preferred location to dump a body in south Florida.

According to statistics:

Homestead, Florida, violent crime, on a scale from 1 (low crime) to 100, is 93. Violent crime is composed of four offenses: murder and nonnegligent manslaughter, forcible rape, robbery, and aggravated assault.
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It didn't look that bad in the daylight but after midnight it was a zombie zone. Used to drive through there between midnight and 4 in the morning to avoid Miami traffic on way to Flamingo Everglades fishing. On a brighter note I did buy a like new Calcutta 400 on a custom snook rod for $40 at a quasi pawn shop/dope house looking place one time.

Boston ... driving the city sux, people from the Northeast do too.

Philthydelphia ... as noted prior.

NOLA ... as noted prior

Newark, NJ ... cesspool

Mexico City

He was just lucky enough to go to Ramadi(however it's spelled) too.

I don't know, I have spent a lot of time out there recently, and the big booty Latina's are in large numbers out there.

Worst town for me is Chicago.

Augustine Texas, I was so glad I had a gun.

Hopkinsville, Ky,,,,aka Hoptown,In the early 50's

This is true. But the town itself sucks.

When I was doing driving a truck I had to go to Chicago Heights. That place is a dump.

Hit, Iraq. Honest to god I don't know how you could live there with the smell.

I am beyond humbled...thank you for your service Moto.

This
My practice wife came from Beaumont and l lived in Midland years ago. I would add Odessa to the list!

^^^^^^^
I think I had a couple of these myself.

Philly or Newark

Very close 2nd to Memphis. I have a very close call in East St Louis one night about 1:00AM. Took an exit hoping for a potty break and quickly ended up if a very bad area. I quickly turned around and drove the wrong way back up the streets to the interstate exit ramp and ran back up it the wrong way to get back on the interstate. Once I saw the thugs on the street corner eyeing me over really good I did not care at that point.

Correct.

This is the right answer.

In the states, Philadelphia. Overseas, Naples, Italy.

Really surprised at how nice Seattle was, overseas Monte Carlo, heck, they even wash the seagull poop off the rocks every night.

No problem sir......you paid me to boat ramp the hell out of dbags.....I loved it! And it was my pleasure.

My father died in the Hospital at Carrollton. No fond memories of there for sure.

Monterrey mexico

New Orleans......Cesspool. Lots of other good (bad) ones mentioned but others.

I spent an eternity once in Chicago(compressed into 4 months) while in training school.....and to make matters worse,company I worked for sent me to Detroit for 2 weeks including Thanksgiving week which I spent in a downtown hotel that was barely above a flop house....this was in the mid 60's and I'm sure everything in those two cities has gone downhill since....

You can tell by some selections they haven't been to a lot of cities across the US.

You're from Georgia dude

You can put the redneck in the big city but they're still redneck

Levelland, Texas and Kilgore.

Every city that I drive through on the way to Gulf Shores that one time

New Orleans overall was the sorriest city I've ever stepped foot in

Compton, CA....one big hood

In Texas Small-Mid Size cities !
1.Springtown
2.Balch Springs
3.Mesquite
4.The Colony
5.Quinlan

Big city
1.Houston

In Texas Small-Mid Size cities !
1.Springtown = Guy tried to steal a lawn tractor out my pickup as I sit inside a Tex Mex restaurant & saw him (RAN OUT & HE STOPPED)
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2.Balch Springs = (Dad owned a rental house *20 years before I was born & till I was 18 & at age 16 I signed for a over grown lot citation , they threatened a warrant for my arrest if I didn't appear (never had my name on any part of that hell hole they call a city )

3.Mesquite = (Looked at a couple homes to possibly buy witness 1 assault of husband & ex wife / 2 copper thefts ) *4 hrs in city limits* That was my end of that town & the race war at the city Christmas production was proof I need not live in that crapper of a town !

4.The Colony = Meth fires weekly at the budget suites , crack sold from the smoke shops , a Mexican restaurant involved in dealing & the ghetto of North Colony the slum lords that rent the duplexes & my sister went to school there & there's a lot of bad things for a town of only 30k.

5.Quinlan = Meth capital of Texas / The residents have cut the power & phone lines to steal copper !

Big city
1.Houston = Witnessed knifes & guns being pulled at a Walmart parking lot.

Belize City, Belize. After that Philly. Horrible city.

In the US - Houston

Outside the US - Lagos, Nigeria

I almost said Belize City, Belize but stuck to the U.S. I got jacked at the border by customs, almost didn't get into the country from Mexico until customs officer made me agree to come back out of the country the same way I came in so he could jack me again. Arrived late at night and when my hotel was overbooked had to find another hotel in downtown. Taxi driver took me and a buddy to what must have been his brother in laws place, thank god I had a sleeping bag. Termites had beds completely covered in sawdust. Had three or four block walk through downtown to Chinese restaurant that was still open after midnight. Rastas on every corner and one approached with his eyes rolled back in his head saying he was with the Belize tourism bureau and would provide safe escort to eatery. We declined but he followed. Met a group of 10 guys from the Royal Candian Air Force that told us it wasn't safe to be on the streets as they had been in the country for a while and only traveled in attack formation while walking at night. See big rat run in front of Chinese eatery as we approached. Tourism dude follows us into restaurant and demands payment. Owner of restaurant seems afraid to tell Tourism dude to get lost. I didn't know until later but my bud gave him 10 bucks to leave. One of patrons in eatery tells us the guy is bad news and shows recent knife wound in stomach he had received two nights before from him and some of his Rasta friends. Dude comes back in while we are eating and throws two packs of aluminum foil on table that he says we ordered and tells us we owe him 20 more for the "silver bullets". I'm guessing it was weed, never opened them and left soon after. Rasta dude says he is going to have us beat up. We weren't sure what was going to happen as he followed us as we watched to see if any of the bands of dudes would join him. They didn't and as we approached termite hotel we threatened to throw him over the bridge. Make it into hotel room when we hear the loudest banging of trash cans. Go outside and our little friend has knocked over three of the hotel's trash cans and dumped it all over the place. Hotel has police officer that lives in Hotel for security and he comes out to figure out what is going on. Tourism dude tells police officer we didn't pay for the drugs we ordered. I turned around and went to bed. First thing next morning I go to American Embassy and tell them the whole ordeal. Just wanted to make sure they knew I was in the country and when where I had to leave according to customs officer that ripped me off. All I requested of Embassy person was not to say anything until I was out of the country. He was on the phone with them while I was there. Now I really feel bad. I was there for about a week.. made it off the mainland and over to Ambergris, which was totally different and absolutely beautiful. Made it out of the country alive... customs guy had been fired as I found out when I left through same border check point later on, the rest of the staff was the same and looked like they feared I might have ratted them out as well. But I made it out. What a relief. Oh, and I was offered a job by the largest time share/real estate company owned by a lady whose husband was in prison for smuggling cocaine into Houston by packing it in the pistons/motors of cars somehow. Don't know why she chose to tell me that part. And last but not least... overall the ugliest women in the world call Belize home.

Dallas Texas

Go to the Fair Park section around Martin Luther King and Malcom X and behold all the crackheads, dope slinging, hoe selling.

Fort Worth has the Stop Six area, it doesn't hold a candle to Fair Park area.

1. Gary, Indiana - One look and you just know it's one of those places you just don't stop in.
2. New Orleans - The smell says it all.

New Orleans, but you knew what I would say.

Add me for New Orleans.

Globally, Mexico City. It's one giant toilet.

Here in the US it's a big tie:

East St. Louis
Philly
Gary Indiana
Detroit
Cleveland
Chicago

All the places above have areas where you need your windows up, doors locked, and it's best to roll through stop signs.

New Orleans gets an honorable mention. Before my first visit there someone told me I needed "burner shoes." Of course I had to ask what those were. "Shoes you throw away after your visit." They were absolutely correct. My first visit was coincidentally on "Decadence" weekend. I saw things I still can't unsee.

Nasty place, been there many years ago, Didn't know it was still bad.

Mexico in general is a dump, You still can't drink the water there, and the crime is outrageous and supported by the local police.

Can't believe it got this deep into it without a mention of Miami, FL.

In the U.S. --- Jackson, Mississippi
Foreign ------- Maracaibo, Venezuela

South Beach was an eye opener for me. Watching half million dollar cars drive by and beaches where.....well...you know.

Lived in Washington DC for several years, worst place I ever been on this planet!

Cheers,

George

Big Spring, Texas. Anyplace in the U.S. that the water is not drinkable...Hobbs was a close second. I lived in Hobbs some as a kid. Went back a few years ago for my grandfather's funeral. I didn't know how disgusting it really was. El Paso didn't impress me.

Dallas! I hate it! Nasty traffic, nasty city. Saw it all when I worked at Parkland

I shot a man in Reno.

you haven't been very many places in the world, have you?

waco.

Houston and Memphis both sucked for me, the state that looked the poorest I been too was Louisiana, Everywhere I went everything looked old and worn down.

For me it is a tie between Houston and Atlanta. Although New Orleans is way up the list of bad places.

Never been to Philly and have now officially crossed it of my "places to go list".

Philadelphia #1

Atlanta #2

Philly is bad. But, the outlying areas are nothing like Philly. Allentown, etc., the folks are good people.

New Orleans

Probably covered the world more time than you have ever dreamed about

and Fair Park is the worst you can come up with

The slumlords of the ghetto of North Colony who rent the duplexes went to school with your sister?

I can not believe no one put Austin Texas on their list.

truly unbelievable that no one would pick a clean, affluent, culturally diverse, energetic city in Texas as the worst place they've ever been

chicago,detroit,st. louis,baltimore,atlanta,new Orleans,compton,los angeles,newark,memphis or any large city in this country has large areas that are more dangerous than third world countries...and the sad part is that the majority of kids being born into those areas have little or no chance of ever becoming happy,productive and contributing citizens....

New Orleans by far!