NationStates Jolt Archive

Post the city in your own country that you think is the worst, and why you think it's so bad.

Coober Pedy, South Australia. Full of drunks and bums, and in the middle of feckin nowhere. Entire town is built on gravel.

Cleveland, Ohio. The Cuyahoga River caught on fire, the sports teams suck, we're called "the mistake on the lake", and we also have the honor of being the Poorest City in America!

Cleveland, Ohio. The Cuyahoga River caught on fire, the sports teams suck, we're called "the mistake on the lake", and we also have the honor of being the Poorest City in America!

Wow, you don't live too far away from me, I live in Columbus.

Newark, New Jersey. The place is a hole, it smells to high heaven, the streets are filthy, the crime is sky high, and the schools are crap.

Wow, you don't live too far away from me, I live in Columbus.

Yeah, I used to live in Cincinnati but moved up here. I just went down to Columbus not too long ago. The mall just outside the city (Is it Polaris?) is great. I go there whenever I'm heading down to Cincinnati for the weekend.

Gore. It's the biggest hole within the super hole that is the south island.


Out of places I've actually been, probably Westport.


Or, I could go for the comedy 'hutt valley' option.

Gary, Indiana. You can see it and smell it from miles away because of the ring of eternal slag fires burning at all the rusted-out steel mills that surround it.

Gary, Indiana. You can see it and smell it from miles away because of the ring of eternal slag fires burning at all the rusted-out steel mills that surround it.
Anything like Johnstown, PA, where the acid rain etches every piece of metal in sight, including the bridges and cars?

Hull, Great Britain:

Winner of crap town of the year 2003 (with good reason)

There is a constant whiff of death in the air (no joke)!

The locals are not walking on their hind legs yet.

Poor education standards.

Two of Europe's largest housing estates are here.

About 18% unemploymnet rate.

It's full of F**king Chavs!

Coober Pedy, South Australia. Full of drunks and bums, and in the middle of feckin nowhere. Entire town is built on gravel.

What about Woomera? A refugee camp built upon a nuclear testing ground. I'm sure we're all waiting to play the game "Escape from Woomera (http://www.escapefromwoomera.org/)."

Anywhere in Britain full of either chavs or people whodislike foreigners, or both. They're generally cesspool council estates with 0 prospects for recovery, mainly because nobody wants to recover. It's like a ghetto, only without even the drive to be a pimp.

Failing that, Blackpool. My Christ, I've never seen anything as tacky and chav-friendly in my entire life. And obscenity laws do not apply there, apparently. It's so disgusting I almost threw up...

Colonial question: What is a Chav?

I don't move around much, even in my own coutnry, so I'm going to say Braintree, simply as the worst place I know. Full of chavs, local teen pregnancy capital.

Kentucky has got to be the worst place to live... it's sooo boring! Nothing ever happens here.

Hull, Great Britain:

Winner of crap town of the year 2003 (with good reason)

There is a constant whiff of death in the air (no joke)!

The locals are not walking on their hind legs yet.

Poor education standards.

Two of Europe's largest housing estates are here.

About 18% unemploymnet rate.

It's full of F**king Chavs!

Eliza Carthy is from Hull... it's not all bad

Mexico City is the armpit of North America. Don't visit if you value your lungs.

Alabama.
Ultimate redneck state. If I wasn't worried about the African Americans, I'd have it nuked.

Colonial question: What is a Chav?
http://www.chavscum.co.uk/

Ultimate redneck state. If I wasn't worried about the African Americans, I'd have it nuked.

I had to drive the backroads during a trip to Florida... it was terrible. I swear, there were more Confederate flags than US. I'd probably take down Mississippi too, they're even worse.

Any city in Ohio

Any city in Ohio

Except Columbus, and maybe the Cincinnati suburbs. Just maybe.

http://www.chavscum.co.uk/

This "User guide to britan's new ruling class" isn't helpful. So Chavs are rich people then?

This "User guide to britan's new ruling class" isn't helpful. So Chavs are rich people then?

Thanks for the link. Being a Yank I had no idea what the term meant.

I think we just call them white trash here.

The Kamagaseki district of Osaka (http://www.icpress.com/Gallery/Kama/) (also known by the dreadful euphomistical name "Airin" or "lovely town") is probably the worst slum in Japan.

However I'd say greater Tokyo is even worse in many respects. At least Kamagaseki has soul, culture, and a very human face. My visit's to Tokyo make me think of hell on earth because of the utter lack of humanity.

Eliza Carthy is from Hull... it's not all bad

Who?

Whitecastle, LA is horrible....it is over about an hour from any major city.....it smells like a bog since it sits on a tributary of the mississippi river....the only thing there is sugar cane, and they burn the fields between plantings, and when they do there is a thick smoke in the air that chokes you....and you can't see...visiblity on any given morning of the year is approximately 20 feet since it sits by the water. The main part of the city is a drug trafficking area. Drunks habitually sit on the traintracks and get run over. No cell phone service, you can't even get XM radio very well there (i can;t explain that one for the life of me since it is satellite operated).

The only thing good about it is the fact that my fiance's lives there...other then that...it is utter crap and the most worthless city in the world.....(even thought roughly 35% of the US sugar cane production comes from the area....)

HERE!!

In Mississippi.

No, I'm telling the truth. Lowest quality o' life in the US.

Alabama.
Ultimate redneck state. If I wasn't worried about the African Americans, I'd have it nuked.
I agree. From what I hear it's got way more than it's share of bible thumpers, racists, and ignorant rednecks. Between Alabama and Mississippi we've got our own little third world fundamentalist hell-hole.

I agree. From what I hear it's got way more than it's share of bible thumpers, racists, and ignorant rednecks. Between Alabama and Mississippi we've got our own little third world fundamentalist hell-hole.

Awwww...

What about me? I'm an atheist libertarian, and I supported Kerry in the last election. The southern accent actually seems to have disappeared from my little section of Mississippi... the southern part, ironically enough. We also have the highest quality of life in the state, due to legalised gambling. The souther part of Mississippi might even beat out 2 or 3 states in quality of life if we weren't lumped together with the northeast and west...

Actually, the northwest is about 60% black, and you've expressed a desire not to nuke the black people, so only the center and eastern parts, please ;) .

Awwww...

What about me? I'm an atheist libertarian, and I supported Kerry in the last election. The southern accent actually seems to have disappeared from my little section of Mississippi... the southern part, ironically enough. We also have the highest quality of life in the state, due to legalised gambling. The souther part of Mississippi might even beat out 2 or 3 states in quality of life if we weren't lumped together with the northeast and west...

Actually, the northwest is about 60% black, and you've expressed a desire not to nuke the black people, so only the center and eastern parts, please ;) .
I haven't expressed a desire to nuke anyone (except maybe N. Korea). Yeah, there's alot of good people in the bible belt, but there's a ton of primitives too.

Rio de Janeiro

Stupid tourists, corrupt politicians and drug gangs. The geography is beautiful, but which idiot put that rat hole of city there. Even the hospitals have to be ruin by the military now, as the locals just embezeled the money.

One significant difference between this and the other places mentioned. The others are not international tourist resorts. They do not represent the country to foreigners. Please do not judge Brazil by Rio. It would be like judging all of the USA by the gang riddled districts of Washington, or the UK by Moss Side in Manchester.

Ottawa - filled to the brim with arrogant self-serving French politicians, narrow-minded anal twats who make up the population of South-end Ottawa; bursting at the seams with sickening levels of hypocrisy. It is nothing more than a mass of wannabes who can't have a real city because it's bloody cold in the winter and sweltering hot in the summer, with the square root of nothing to do because everything shuts down at 6pm except for the mall!

Ottawa - filled to the brim with arrogant self-serving French politicians, narrow-minded anal twats who make up the population of South-end Ottawa; bursting at the seams with sickening levels of hypocrisy. It is nothing more than a mass of wannabes who can't have a real city because it's bloody cold in the winter and sweltering hot in the summer, with the square root of nothing to do because everything shuts down at 6pm except for the mall!


I would think the territories. Or somewhere in Alberta with the conservatives. :Puke:
Dang, why can't there be a puking emoticon? :gunge: is alright, but still, a green, sick emoticon would be perfect.

I would think the territories. Or somewhere in Alberta with the conservatives. :Puke:
Dang, why can't there be a puking emoticon? :gunge: is alright, but still, a green, sick emoticon would be perfect.
Alberta is pretty bad, but I can't write a scathing rant about it, having never been there. So, right now, Ottawa (Canada's hellhole) remains my number one most hated city.

Who?

Eliza Carthy http://www.informatik.uni-hamburg.de/~zierke/eliza.carthy/

Mmm... looks a bit crap. Just like Hull really

Mmm... looks a bit crap. Just like Hull really
Hull is pretty bad.

Newton Texas, I lived there for three years. 8th-10th grade,1987-1990
Bunch of brain dead hicks that don't know there @$$ from a hole in the ground.
Then one day in 88 or 89 someone named Brian Bailey killed his mother. It was of course blamed on Satan and then EVERYTHING that was not church related was satanic. Two of the more outrageous examples of this are:
1. They said the peace sign satanic; they said it was made from a broken cross.
2. Skateboards were a trick from Satan to get kids killed in accidents.


Now I live in dallas and I love it!!