Worst US cities to live in

[The Decimator]

Troy, NY seemingly has an arson fire every night.

 

[Reynard]

Anywhere in Kentucky. Doesn't mater how good it is, you're still in Kentucky.

 

[Kiwi Lime Pie]

I've been to Detroit once when I was still in high school, I was afraid I was going to die there.

As others have said, the city of Detroit has its share of decent neighborhoods, neighborhoods that should be avoided at all costs, and some neighborhoods that look rough enough that one needs to be street smart and aware of one's surroundings if there is a need to be there.

Due to bad directions, I once got lost in what seemed like a rough section of Detroit at dusk. To say I was nervous would be an understatement. I still recall how the police mini-station mere blocks away from my destination couldn't tell me where the site was. In fact, they acted as if they hadn't even heard of it. Then again, DPD hasn't had a stellar reputation over the years - decent officers on the force notwithstanding - despite recent efforts to address that.

Thankfully, I found my destination on my own while shaking my head in disbelief that the police couldn't find a building that was two blocks east and one block north from their mini-station.

 

[Diana Moon Glampers]

Aberdeen, Washington may be the most depressing. The only famous people to ever come out of there killed either themselves or other people. I think three serial killers came from there.

It could be beautiful, it's in a part of the country with great scenery, but the reality is that it's a depressed former logging town the money's probably never coming back to, so it's incredibly economically depressed. It's far away from everything, with few services or businesses to recommend it. Activities for children are minimal to the point of nonexistence, and the local educational facilities are lackluster at best.

However, there's one worse US city to live in that's just half an hour away from Aberdeen, and that's Ocean Shores, Washington.

Ocean Shores is nicer in terms of day-to-day life than Aberdeen will ever be.

But if there's ever a tsunami in that area (and there will be, the whole thing is next to the Cascadia Subduction Zone and that fucker gives off huge earthquakes), there is no viable tsunami plan for about 90% of residential addresses in Ocean Shores. If you feel an earthquake, put your head between your knees and kiss your ass goodbye, that's as much of a "plan" as you can reasonably get together. If you ever hear that the CSZ has had an earthquake and you start thinking about Seattle, that's all well and good, I'm sure the scale of destruction there will be epic. But spare a thought for the people of Ocean Shores, because their community just won't be there the next day.

 

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Anywhere in Kentucky. Doesn't mater how good it is, you're still in Kentucky.

Nah, it's just the "flyover state" personified. There aren't many states more boring than Kentucky. It's like Tennessee, but with little culture, no highlights, and no lowlights. There's no shitholes like Memphis, and the Kentucky shitholes (white people towns full of inbreds and meth addicts) are just knockoffs of what's in West Virginia and Tennessee. Louisville is boring, and I can't imagine Lexington is any better, and that's the only two cities of note in Kentucky.

 

[Francis E. Dec Esc.]

Amarillo is probably the worst city to live in Texas. 105 degrees in the summer, freezing cold and tons of snow in the winter, lots of drug trafficking crime from being on I-40, they're moving in Somalis by the planeload to work in meat packing plants, and the whole town smells like cow shit.

 

[CWCchange]

East St. Louis makes Detroit look like a beautiful modern utopia. You can see East St. Louis from the interstate, it's full of bombed out buildings, including this tower which is falling apart and is usually coated in grafitti. It's been named the most violent city in the US several times in the past few years alone. Fun fact, the entire city sits on top of what was once one of the largest Indian towns in the US, and I bet the reason the city is such a shithole is because all the dead Indians are pissed at the filth that goes on a few feet above their graves. Like Memphis above, it will also fall into the river in that same earthquake, and even less of value will be lost.

Cahokia was a Mississippian civilization before the so-called "Native American" Red Indians took over and sacked it. Indeed, history does repeat itself.

Miami Gardens shows up a lot on Miami episodes of The First 48, along with Overtown, Little Haiti, and Pork and Beans. The fact that Little Haiti has a statue of the guy who led the uprising in Haiti that massacred all the white people on the island should tell you something.

Little Haiti isn't even Haitian anymore as they're all leaving to shit up declining neighborhoods and because gentrification. "Community leaders" were REEEEing a couple years ago for its name to officially be that as opposed to "Lemon City," which is what it was called for decades and over 100 years ago before it was even part of Miami. Never mind Haitians have done nothing to actually make the community a better place, in fact let it go further to shit, within the thirty-something years of their mud colony.

To the south, there's a middle school formerly named after Robert E. Lee that was renamed after Jose de Diego, ironically in a neighborhood formerly called "Little San Juan" until reverting back to Wynwood because gentrification.

Liberty City and Pork and Beans (IIRC is being rebuilt as if that would solve any problems) is partially why Miami Gardens and everything between (especially Opa-locka and Little River) went to shit like falling dominoes after most of Overtown was cleared to build I-95 in the 60s, and the east side pretty much absorbed into Downtown with recent redevelopment.

Did I mention Antifa is very active here? Because they are. And they're fucking insane. I used to live downtown and I remember waking up one day to a horde of these malignant cancers to society screeching at the top of their lungs as they shut down a busy street. Why? Because literally 5 guys from Patriot Prayer showed up to give a 10 min speech and leave. I knew a guy who liked to attend their rallies (if you can call 10 people in a plaza a rally) and what should have been a brief event turned into 3 hours of chaos. Antifa regularly antagonize and assault the police only to scream " DISCRIMINATION " when they get detained. Not even arrested a majority of the time. Detained. Even when they ARE arrested, they're let out pretty quickly. One of these faggots brought a gun to the event once and pointed it squarely at Joey Gibson. Several people witnessed this and people posted to Joey's FB and Twitter a pic of the man with his gun. They also sent it to the police to file a complaint but nothing was done. City Council regularly turns a blind eye to their antics, even when they're vandalizing stores or lighting trash fires.

Seattle is home to the predecessor of Antifa in the form of May Day riots every fucking year since 1999. As Portland is full of San Francisco and Seattle transplants, you can put two and two together to see why you get the shit from both worlds mutated into something worse.

 

[Raging Capybara]

Ok, but what are the best (inexpensive) cities?

 

[Zbk3VmLfujjzjxBd43tL]

Ok, but what are the best (inexpensive) cities?

Go live like 30-40 minutes outside cities like Oklahoma City or any other capital of flyover state which hasn't been totally pozzed. You can get a 2K sq ft house with a good yard for like 200-300K, or rent said house for maybe 1,500 a month, you know, the same houses which would cost 10 times that in California. There's usually not much crime besides retarded rednecks getting DUIs and the gas stations nearest the interstate getting robbed every few months, although some towns have a growing infestation of illegals, like one town near me has a growing problem with Mexicans raping people, Mexican pedos (supposedly they hang out at Walmart) and a dog theft ring where Mexicans steal dogs and sell them for dog fights and possibly zoosadism.

 

[RichardMongler]

Framingham, MA.

Woonsocket, RI. It's like the abandoned church and Walmart capital of New England.

Dude, I'll take dull ass Woonsocket or even fucking Wyoming, RI (yes, there's a town in Little Rhody named after a state) to Fall River, New Bedford, Worcester or Springfield, MA. Abandoned mill cities are only good for photographing urban decay. The current residents are a blight.

 

[From The Uncanny Valley]

Dude, I'll take dull ass Woonsocket or even fucking Wyoming, RI (yes, there's a town in Little Rhody named after a state) to Fall River, New Bedford, Worcester or Springfield, MA. Abandoned mill cities are only good for photographing urban decay. The current residents are a blight.

You got a point.

 

[Crunchy Leaf]

Dude, I'll take dull ass Woonsocket or even fucking Wyoming, RI (yes, there's a town in Little Rhody named after a state) to Fall River, New Bedford, Worcester or Springfield, MA. Abandoned mill cities are only good for photographing urban decay. The current residents are a blight.

excuse me, I don't see Taunton on that list

is Framingham really that bad?

also Woonsocket is the town the Washington Post did an article about how the town's economy depends on food stamp money so is it really that okay

 

[bebop]

Baltimore, Philadelphia and Cleveland are the first three that come to mind. Haven't heard much good about any of them

 

[Billy_Sama]

No matter where you go, America is facing the economic decay mix with drug use that creating the new American citizen/mutant.

Welcome to the 21st century America after that 2oth century high.

 

[From The Uncanny Valley]

excuse me, I don't see Taunton on that list

is Framingham really that bad?

also Woonsocket is the town the Washington Post did an article about how the town's economy depends on food stamp money so is it really that okay

The only thing keeping it from going post-apocalyptic is probably the CVS headquarters.

 

[Lackadaisy]

Ok, but what are the best (inexpensive) cities?

Go live like 30-40 minutes outside cities like Oklahoma City or any other capital of flyover state which hasn't been totally pozzed. You can get a 2K sq ft house with a good yard for like 200-300K, or rent said house for maybe 1,500 a month, you know, the same houses which would cost 10 times that in California. There's usually not much crime besides exceptional rednecks getting DUIs and the gas stations nearest the interstate getting robbed every few months, although some towns have a growing infestation of illegals, like one town near me has a growing problem with Mexicans raping people, Mexican pedos (supposedly they hang out at Walmart) and a dog theft ring where Mexicans steal dogs and sell them for dog fights and possibly zoosadism.

Soon there will be no place safe from the gentrification plague. Groups of survivors will wander country highways, stopping in small towns out of desperation, only to be turned back by "New Housing, starting in the high $400s".

 

[Shadfan666xxx000]

Thankfully it will fall into the river come the next major earthquake, but sadly they will make sure the country pays for it

Memphis will never fall from the bluff, just the rest of the county. We'll get the money just fine.

 

[AF 802]

Indianapolis, if you're anywhere away from the major roads (Meridian, etc). The worst part is probably south of 38th Street and north of 16th or 10th Street.

Lawrence is getting pretty bad too. It's one of three excluded cities in Marion County (meaning it wasn't taken over during the Unigov consolidation in the early 1970's), and the crime is a mess over there. You hear of at least one shooting over there everyday on the news.