Board 8 > Which city/area in the United States is the worst that you've personally seen?

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"Worst" can mean trashiest, rudest, most unsafe, or whatever negative criteria you would typically use to judge this.

I haven't seen much of the country, but my vote goes to Stockon in northern California. Drove my brother there for a grad school interview and immediately told him "yeah, don't pick this place." Very trashy and run down.

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Flint, MI.

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Oakland.

Anywhere, AL

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Barry Farms in Washington D.C., or by extension all of D.C. south of the Anacostia river. Feared for my life in broad daylight.

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TheRock1525 posted...
Flint, MI.


*blastin' off, yo*

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New Orleans, except for the small part they keep nice for the tourists

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None of them.

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Gary, Indiana - hands down. the crotch of Lake Michigan.

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Macon, GA

http://www.macon.com/2009/10/20/885629/forbes-macon-has-seventh-poorest.html

Note that this isn't "poorest of it's size" as it usually is, such as when we got third most dangerous, but just flat out seventh.

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cyko posted...
Gary, Indiana - hands down. the crotch of Lake Michigan.

Gary is bad, I always make sure to avoid it when going to Chicago.

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While there are certainly extremely nice parts of North Carolina (and I'm lucky enough to live in one of them), some of the middle of nowhere towns are downright depressing.

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Pine Ridge Indian Reservation

I win.

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Inglewood

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Bumble****, NC
Harrisburg, PA
Bridgeport, CT (in terms of danger)

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Richmond, CA


I am afraid of Richmond, CA

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Highland Park, Michigan.

Henderson, North Carolina.

Lot's of crack heads and gangs. Also everyone is so poor and the houses are so bad that everything is payed for on welfare. It also holds the distinguished honor of having the first recorded murder of 2007. Saw a drive by shooting, guy didn't die instantly, paramedics trying to save him, shooters roll back through and finish him off in front of the paramedics. Lot's of people with missing limbs. Some stupid girl drunk drove into a house.

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Wyandanch, NY.

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West Philadelphia

it is not a fun place

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actually no i think north is worse

i dont like either but at least west has university city

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Harlem.

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Luke, MD

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camden, nj

and it's not even close

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I've been there. It's bad.

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I dont know much about Camden, but Richmond was ranked the #3 most dangerous city in the US like last year or something.....and its usually up there with the top ones. (I think Camden is as well, I remember thinking of it as the East Coast Richmond)

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I don't think I've ever visited a place that I didn't like.

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SE DC

although tempted to say the entire state of jersey

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Probably Baltimore or southeast DC.

Richmond, VA is also really awful.

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rocket157 posted...
TheRock1525 posted...
Flint, MI.


*blastin' off, yo*

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UltimaterializerX posted...
Camden, NJ

I think this place goes back and forth with Washington as the most crime-filled city in the world. Cops literally tell you to run red lights so you don't get killed.

Exactly why I have never been to Camden despite really great concerts being held there for some reason

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I dunno if I've ever really been to a place that's really bad and trashy.

Well, other than just driving through it, that is.

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flint michigan and it isnt even close.

And this is talking to somebody whose lived around the entire rust belt for 14 years.

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lawrence massachusetts

Liquid Wind posted...
lawrence massachusetts

Just curious, could you give details why? That's the only place near me so far, and it's possible I'd end up going through there.

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it's almost otherworldly how ghetto it is. it also has something called the "staples fulfillment center" which I have no idea wtf that is but it just sounds all kinds of creepy

Man me and my old roomate were driving along and somehow ended up in Richmond, the guy at the Gas station said it's better we just leave the town ASAP. He also seemed kinda scary

We did in fact leave.

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i will say this though. Ive lived in atlanta now for the past 8 years, and while the city has its share of ghetto, its really weird in that one side of a street can have mansions while the other side will have a bunch of small, run down homes. Ive lived in Pittsburgh, greater Cleveland, and Toledo for the first 14 years of my life, and i never had seen a city that had streets like that.

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Some place in I I blocked the name out of my memory

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From: Demon HunterX | #040
i will say this though. Ive lived in atlanta now for the past 8 years, and while the city has its share of ghetto, its really weird in that one side of a street can have mansions while the other side will have a bunch of small, run down homes.

Baltimore is almost the same. Except it's not so much one side of a street compared to another, but you hit one block and feel like you're going to get carjacked and the next one has some really nice houses. It's ridiculous.

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Liquid Wind posted...
it's almost otherworldly how ghetto it is. it also has something called the "staples fulfillment center" which I have no idea wtf that is but it just sounds all kinds of creepy

I can believe it. Ha a Staples Fulfillment Center is not very creepy though, its a warehouse that delivers office supplies to various businesses (apparently).

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That's how Houston is too. It is because there are no real nice or bad areas and no restrictions on anything like that, so you'll have random Section 8 housing right beside ridiculously nice homes. Also, to add to the topic : Gary, Indiana.

Exactly why I have never been to Camden despite really great concerts being held there for some reason

this is actually why i was there! it wasn't as bad because everyone left in a huge group but it's still a ****ing scary, crazy ghetto.

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Utah. All of it.

Fresno, CA, is pretty bad too

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I live in NW DC, and I feel obligated to say SE DC.

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flint produced mark ingram so it's awesome

the worst place i've been is either camden or the south side of chicago

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Harlem.

XFD what year is it where you are?

harlem is all rich white people now

worst places in new york are jamaica and bed-stuy

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pine_Ridge_Indian_Reservation#Social_issues_and_economy

Unemployment on the reservation hovers between 80% and 85%, and 49% of the population live below the federal poverty level.[61] Many of the families have no electricity, telephone, running water, or sewage systems; and many use wood stoves to heat their homes, depleting limited wood resources.

The state of education on the reservation is severely lacking in multiple areas. The school drop-out rate is over 70%, and the teacher turnover rate is 800% that of the U.S. national average.

Oh and it's all in a literal wasteland too.

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i think everyone else in the topic is going by crime

except for the racists who picked gary because it has the highest % of black population in the country

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