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1 - sic winters
2 - like any uber large city Gangs, crime, and pollution
3 - bone jarring potholes
4 - ridiculous traffic
5 - scary schools
6 - killer real estate taxes
7 - worst drivers outside of tjuana
8 - parking, what's that ?
9 - foreign nationals driving down down the street waiving
their flag honking the horn (if mexico, puerto rico, and
poland are so great, why are they here ?)
10- having to pay full price for a AAA baseball team (not family friendly;
unless your kids watch HBO)
Don't make fun of Chicago! I figured it out since the Tjuana reference is a common joke. It's one of the most beautiful and vibrant cities in the world. The lakefront attracts people to live there.
i nominate Jessup, GA. I've never laid eyes on the town - didn't have to, the smell alone nearly killed me. Woke me up from a deep sleep on an Amtrak to FL - I thought there were rotting bodies under my seat. To the conductor's credit - he did warn us.
And I grew up in the "smelly" part of NJ! NJ's industrial smell had NOTHING on this hellhole.
Somebody challenged people to say bad things about Hawaii --
OK, how about:
Unaffordable
Isolated
Crappy schools
Racism
Poverty
Interesting! I have been told these things before about Hawaii, along with the famous "Kill Haole Day", but found them so hard to believe. I mean, one always hears that Hawaii is paradise.
Grand Island, Nebraska wouldnt be so bad, if not for the locals who have crummy amazingly mean attitude. I went to a restaurant in Grand Island and I couldnt have chicken or steak because the cook was tired. Also in Grand Island I went to a restaurant and was served coffee that looked and tasted like dish-water and then asked for a re-fill because I was tired and waitress looked at me like I was crazy.
LOL! Maybe it was dish-water because whoever prepared it was too tired to make real coffee?
Instead of Crummiest Freaking town in America, I want to add a whole REGION - namely The ENTIRE Lower Mississippi River Valley between Memphis and Natchez, Miss. This is the location of the Infamous Mississippi Delta region (along with the likewise named Arkansas Delta and Louisiana Delta). I can't even begin to list all the statistics related to poverty, illegitimacy, poor education, and so forth - so I'll just say this: I perfectly admire one scholar's description of the region as "a rural ghetto" - all the problems associated with the poor inner city copied-and-pasted to the middle of nowhere. No, worse than that! The URBAN poor have incredible opportunities compared the Delta's poor.
Job Opportunities in the Delta - Guess?
Schools - most public schools are are the statistical bottom of the barrel. Even the private schools here are average at best.
Race Relations - about what you'd expect for this part of the country. Calling this region "The South Africa of America" would not be far off the mark.
Homophobia - let's just say that you shouldn't expect a PFLAG chapter anywhere around here any time soon
In short, it's obvious that any referecne to progressive ANYTHING is looked at with skepticism, suspicion, or contempt. If you have any values or attitudes that stray even slightly into the liberal end - this is NOT the place to be. The only way to find even slight relief from this oppressive mentality is to drive to the older middle class neighborhoods of Jackson, MS; Little Rock; or Memphis (even these aren't exactly known as progressive cities, but at least they have small islets of openness where you can find progressive-minded people).
Conclusion: The paper statistics are bad enough but my experience tells me that the Lower Mississippi Valley between Natchez and Memphis (a.k.a. "The Delta") is xenophobic, racist, homophibic, and antiprogressive; not to mention closed-minded and open-mouthed. Sorry, that's just my opinion as someone who lived in the Louisiana Delta in my youth.
Not a lot there - nice tourist towns and beautiful battlefield site and beautiful houses in Vicksburg and in Natchez. Tunica was dirt poor until it got the casinos. The Delta is the least developed part of Mississippi but it could be worse.
My vote goes for Waukegan, Illinois to Kenosha, Wisconsin corridor-- industrial plants on ground, huge illegal mexican population, bitter cold, corrupt city government, ugly frozen tundra look, highly overpriced housing and property taxes, chain stores, crappy mall, high gas prices, long long long high traffic commute to Chicago or major city. God beat it with an ugly stick. Saw some stupid sign in Zion, Illinois that had pictures of bee downtown and corny slogan. Zion its a great place to Bee. Yeah a great place to bee cutting your wrists out of depression lol.
Well actually Northern Indiana is bad too -- not only is it ugly, rust belt, Gary Indiana corridor is dangerous, huge factories, cold weather, lack of jobs/long commute. Totally depressing. More legal citizens though. Lower cost of living at least than Waukegan.
Just had to insert my two cents worth into this great thread! As far as I'm concerned Las Vegas tops the list... truly an armpit! A toilet waiting to be flushed! Smelly, dirty, gray, hot as can be... 115-125 in the Summer! Wind always blowing. I lasted less than nine months. All these huge resorts building canals, oceans, lakes, rivers, fountains, etc and I was on water rationing! Could barely keep my lawn green while on the strip there was a pirate ship or two, floating on thousands of gallons of water!
While I'm with you on the "Las Vegas is a wasteland" comment, I was surprised to read that you tried to maintain a green lawn in the desert.
Hey Everyone,
I was born and raised in Chelsea,ma. I currently reside in Detroit,mi.But,I must say this to you. You could talk about alot places around this country Miami city,fl ,ST.Louis,mo ,etc.. Hell Detroit looks like Beirut,lebanon
All this is directly related to how you vote and whom you have voted into office.
GATT,NAFTA,Driving foreighn cars,shopping at Walmart,Who mows your lawn and many other factors.
( Joe Smith started the day early having set his alarm clock (MADE IN JAPAN) for 6 a.m. While his coffeepot (MADE IN CHINA ) was perking, he shaved with his electric razor (MADE IN HONG KONG ). He put on a dress shirt ( MADE IN SRI LANKA ), designer jeans ( MADE IN SINGAPORE ) and tennis shoes (MADE IN KOREA ). After cooking his breakfast in his new electric skillet (MADE IN INDIA ) he sat down with his calculator ( MADE IN MEXICO ) to see how much he could spend today. After setting his watch (MADE IN TAIWAN ) to the radio (MADE IN INDIA ) he got in his car ( MADE IN GERMANY ) filled it with GAS from Saudi Arabia and continued his search for a good paying AMERICAN JOB At the end of yet another discouraging and fruitless day checking his Computer (Made In Malaysia ), Joe decided to relax for a while. He put on his sandals (MADE IN BRAZIL ) poured himself a glass of wine ( MADE IN FRANCE.! France!! ) and turned on his TV (MADE IN INDONESIA ), and then wondered why he can't find a good paying job in .. AMERICA.....
Y'all gotta keep this one circulating, please! )
There are those that complain and those that do!!!
Troy
This is among the most ignorant threads on this board (and that is saying something).
This is America. Cities have crime, but most of us are not in the areas that have crime, so explaining crime as major issue in your life in the city is laughable at best. Downtowns and other popular areas of most cities are not the crime areas, it's poor neighorhoods.
Most city schools are not good, but most cities have suburbs with good to excellent schools and good to excellent private schools within the city and burbs.
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