What is the Worst City You've Visited and Why?

[Raskolnikov 889]

London. Overly expensive shithole, venues are so fucking paranoid with petty security expecting you to commit violent crime and METAL detectors (WTF?), and tbh I ALMOST can't blame them with the sheer amount of Londoners with neuroses on the streets. I grew up in the suburb of a capital and I never felt as unsafe as in that hellhole, what is in the WATER?! Besides copious amounts of cocaine... Baffles me why anyone visits that place lol... but I guess I didn't know either. The real mystery is when people willingly visit after the first experience...

[Envy 6,310]

Naturally, I'm not a fan of any city I've visited or lived in in the south. Because it's the south. But with that said, if somewhere is a city, chances are I haven't been to it often and don't feel like I can give a lot of insight. I'm not a city person. Even though technically I think my past home was technically a city (which was a suburb of Tulsa? Make it make sense. It makes sense I know, but still) and some things call my current home a city, again a suburb of a larger city.

I can pick on one city in my beloved state: Waterbury. When my dad and I first visited the state, we went to Waterbury just to check it out and my dad was like "This isn't a place I want my daughter walking around alone in" and he's completely right. The place is pretty run down. Kinda sad. It has a neat city-line when driving by on the highway, but any time I have visited there I'm a little uneasy. Also, it has the cursed abandoned Holy Land project, which means when you drive through an area of it there at night there's a creepy worn down giant lit-up cross up there on the mountains (hills?), which is something that just feels like a reminder of the disturbing direction the country is taking. Giant crosses shoved in your face, but no loving thy neighbor. 

Also, there was a shooting in the mall the other day. Yikes.

Of course, Hartford also has its rough places. I barely even considered living in the city proper because I'm not a city person, though, so I wasn't shocked. Cities be cities.

[Iforgotmybrain 6,329]

I have a hard time coming up with an answer because most of the "worst cities (or towns)" I've been to were suffering under abject poverty and it doesn't really feel fair or right to make light of the struggles people might be dealing with in those towns. Even if said people are some of the worst people you might meet. And none of the big cities I've been to even come close to fitting the name "worst city" moniker.

[Megas 28,002]

San Bernardino is the textbook definition of a Ghetto Shithole. I went to the (admittedly very nice)University over there for 5 years, and every time I went by bus, not once did I ever feel safe going.

When you Google the city, one of the first things to show up on the search is shootings, inmate locators or court cases.

I have not gone back there since I was done with school in 2016 and I do not miss it at all, nor do I plan on ever going back

[Dreambiscuit 10,882]

Hard to pin down just one when there are so many vying for that dubious honor. So here’s the dishonor roll of notable sinkholes of habitation:

Tijuana, Mexico: It’s filthy, plain and simple. Whatever the poverty level is, there’s no excuse for dumping garbage on your own doorstep; they make receptacles for that sort of thing. And the people I met there were uniformly rude. No thanks.

San Francisco, CA: For a city that’s so well-known for its beauty, this place is a toilet and you wouldn’t want to see it up close. It’s ugly, run-down and everything about it makes me feel like I need to delouse after I leave. And every imaginable form of human degeneracy seems to congregate there.

Little Rock, AR: Speaking of the great un-flushed! This place gets a special prize for filth, crime and the feeling that you can never get out of your locked car for fear of being accosted in one way or another. And there’s nothing scenic about it to justify this place. Hard pass.

[Retro*Derpy 3,207]

East St Louis is extremely rough. I used to make deliveries out there and the crime is bad. Most of the locals I've delivered to told me to ignore traffic lights and just move through quickly.

[Clawdeen 16,282]

All the older posts saying Baltimore lol. Like I’ve been there tons of times in my life, even as a kid. Unless you’re planning on wandering down an alley way you’ll be fine. Stick to public places and you’ll be fine. 

Now Camden. That was an unsafe experience. 

[ExplosionMare 18,805]

Corbin Kentucky. I only went there for a concert. There's absolutely nothing to do there anyways and the only options for food around where the concert venue was were Wendy's and McDonald's. The city was so drab that I would never go again, even if there was another concert opportunity.