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In reply to the discussion: Flipside: What is the worst city you ever visited and why? [View all]pintobean
(18,101 posts)294. Navy.
We were basically doing a beer run for the embassy. I'm sure they needed it.
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When's the last time you were there? It's clean and full of life. Noisy, yep, part of the charm.
HERVEPA
Aug 2012
#28
New York is great - yes it's dirty and noisy, but it's also the most alive, exciting
smirkymonkey
Aug 2012
#52
I liven in Dayton Ohio for a few months in 1978 whilegoing to grad school @ UD.
MarianJack
Aug 2012
#106
My vote goes for Camden, NJ. Eons and eons ago it was bad, haven't been there for
RKP5637
Aug 2012
#56
That was a few years back. Have you read The Abortion by Richard Brautigan?
slackmaster
Aug 2012
#19
I chose cities that I've visited with combinations of crappy features
taught_me_patience
Aug 2012
#201
The part I stumbled on was dramatic. One block had well-maintained Victorian row houses,
slackmaster
Aug 2012
#22
My cousin bought and renovated several rowhouses in a part of B-more called Canton
crimson77
Aug 2012
#26
Yup, that's what I remember. Blocks and blocks of boarded-up houses in Baltimore.
E-Z-B
Aug 2012
#203
Ogden, Utah....sorry but where we went was absolutely filthy..The nice city/county Park Ranger...
Tikki
Aug 2012
#23
Well, in Camden's case it's greedpolitics and politicians which have caused so many of the problems.
nc4bo
Aug 2012
#63
But what about the feelings of the other people who expect but don't see their hometown on the list?
AnotherMcIntosh
Aug 2012
#71
Just about the only place in the city you can get away from it is Chinatown. I won't
kelly1mm
Aug 2012
#87
Do tell. I lived in that shithole for too many years, but my experiences in TX put them below
Egalitarian Thug
Aug 2012
#95
Houston, TX. Filthy, smelled it long before we saw it, the 2nd worst drivers I've ever encountered,
Egalitarian Thug
Aug 2012
#92
I was standing on the sea wall in Alexandria, looked down on the beach and there was a rat king
DonRedwood
Aug 2012
#178
UCLA has a beautiful campus, and like you say, there are nice enclaves and so forth there ...
Arugula Latte
Aug 2012
#283
Most of the beautiful old homes along Hwy 90, which parallels the coast, were wiped out by Katrina
fleur-de-lisa
Aug 2012
#180
a weird little boonie town in idaho that consisted of a dirt road cut through a narrow canyon
HiPointDem
Aug 2012
#119
really? most of the towns in central idaho look like that one i saw? weird. i would like to see
HiPointDem
Aug 2012
#320
There are three towns in south Idaho that still have one telephone line for the whole community
jmowreader
Aug 2012
#333
Someone tried to run my DH down in NC! I know a state not a city let me explain
Heather MC
Aug 2012
#133
I've done a lot of travelling and I can't honestly think of a city that I hated. Every city has...
Locut0s
Aug 2012
#134
Houston: Governor of Texas, George W Bush, & Mayor of Houston sued Feds to stop clean air act
twins.fan
Aug 2012
#156
I would never nominate Orlando as the most beautiful city in the world, however....
steve2470
Aug 2012
#250
I have to agree. Lived near Ogden, attended college there for a little while--
TwilightGardener
Aug 2012
#196
Thank you for your opinion enjoy visiting the places, I will never go back to either place.
FAHQ69_7
Aug 2012
#193
The Oakland Hills and adjacent Piedmont rival anything in SF in terms of beauty and scenic splendor
spiderpig
Aug 2012
#287
it *used* to be a nice working class town. now it's yuppie central with all its quirks commer-
HiPointDem
Aug 2012
#319