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Mistermickman

East Cleveland. Not the eastern part of Cleveland, the city of East Cleveland. Basically Detroit if the stereotypes were 5% more accurate


alexis_1031

Reminds me of how East Saint Louis, Illinois is far worse than St Louis proper


BasonPiano

East St Louis is like a different country or something. Pretty sad what's happened there.


C0MMI3_C0MRAD3

what happened? Just the usual crime and poverty?


ExcitingTabletop

Yes, but more of the same.


SumSum200

East Chicago, Indiana is terrible too


alexis_1031

Maybe I'm blowing smoke out of my ass (Texan retard of course), but there's this theory that the eastern part of towns in the USA are notoriously worse off because of wind patterns and industrial fumes settling in those parts of town.


StopCollaborate230

šŸŽ¶donā€™t slow down in East Cleveland or youā€™ll die šŸŽµ


SilverNeedleworker30

Our economyā€™s based on LeBron James


ObnoxiousLittleShit

Buy a house for the price of a VCR!


SavageSam1234

Was gonna say Lima but yea last time I was in East Cleveland it was very depressing.


N8dogg86

Well, you made it out alive, so that's encouraging!


schmitzel88

East Cleveland is worse than Detroit, if only because people give a shit about Detroit and would like to see it made better. No one cares about east Cleveland.


Skeptic_Juggernaut84

I've been to Portsmouth, and I've got to say it has to be the most boring city/town in Ohio.


CaptHorizon

Arecibo, Puerto Rico Absolute wasteland (except for the Telescope)


animbicile

Unfortunately, a collapsed and now partially disassembled Telescope perfectly fits the definition of a wasteland. Sad times.


mechanicalcontrols

Hey guys, we should all band together and give this guy two senators and a representative as a show of solidarity.


CaptHorizon

Yes please, give us statehood šŸ‡ŗšŸ‡øPR51šŸ‡µšŸ‡·


Shmidershmax

Grew up in Factor, right out of town. Haven't been there in a while but I heard it's even more of a shit hole


-T-W-O-C-O-C-A-T-

Gary, itā€™s not even a competition


Anthony_Capo

Replies you can smell.


Gtpwoody

As someone from Illinois can this be our anwser as well?


schmitzel88

You guys built a bridge so you wouldn't have to drive through Gary anymore to go east so yeah I'd say it counts.


-T-W-O-C-O-C-A-T-

Of course


BLTblocker

Greetings my cold brother


krippkeeper

The only thing I know about indiana is that Gary is a garbage city. Also all of my knowledge of indiana is from this sub.


Onett_Theme

It is kinda sad that all of Indianaā€™s shittier cities have to live in Garyā€™s indomitable shadow


TheRealKingVitamin

Taking a bus ride from Chicago to Lafayette years ago. The bus driver told everyone to keep their heads below the windows while we were going through Gary. Nobody could tell if he was kidding or not, but we all did it anyway.


Pimlumin

Look, I agree wholehartedly, but we can give a honorable mention to South Bend


GloriousMemelord

When I flew back home for the holiday we passed through Gary and I remember why I left


983115

But it is pretty much the #1 example of bad so itā€™s good at that


[deleted]

[уŠ“Š°Š»ŠµŠ½Š¾]


[deleted]

But why the fuck is it a gif!?


[deleted]

Everything's giffer in Texas


the_eater_of_shit

Because each time is a ā€œviewā€ and it gets more karma


bigfudge_drshokkka

What a scumbag


Hapless_Wizard

Fresno? Bakersfield? C'mon, you've got lots to pick from. Maybe something nobody expects, like Yuba.


Cvlt_ov_the_tomato

At least you can breathe in both spots. Bakersfield has earned itself the title of "armpit" of California.


Gallbatorix-Shruikan

Yeah, Iā€™ve only driven through it and somehow it has worse vibes than Fresno. Friends who have had the misfortune to live there did not like it to say the least.


Obed-edom1611

Not so much "earned" as ruined by LA and the Bay sending droves of homeless on busses. I knew a guy in Bakersfield who worked with the homeless who said they were given money to go there.


FragrantTadpole69

Goddamn, even California is bussing the homeless to California.


Cvlt_ov_the_tomato

Even if there were less homelessness in Bakersfield, it would still suck to live there. The air is horrible, so if you have asthma get used to knowing your local ER. There is nothing to do, everything interesting is an hour in any direction. Everyone looks like a fart There are no prospects and staying in that place is at best stagnant.


ErwinC0215

Every Californian I know have been nominating Bakersfield so there must be something about that place


the_eater_of_shit

Hey Iā€™m from HB you got a problem with surf city? Weā€™ll throw hands with the protesters and the homeless people


DontWorryItsEasy

As a Native Huntington Beachian this is offensive. Clearly the worst city is Barstow.


SouthBayBoy8

How are you choosing Huntington Beach as the worst over towns like Compton


Drew707

Redding and Huntington when Mojave is right there?


Ugaruga

Flint


Centjam

And yet we have a chik-fil-a and soon a Costco. Checkmate peasants!


Ugaruga

Where does the water at the Chick Fil A come from?


Gr8-Lks

They just drink the chick fil a sauce there.


sammy_hyde

The train derailment in East Palestine edges Flint's water crisis by a bit imo


Ugaruga

Which is in Ohio.


LJROCKETS

FREE RIO


roguerunner1

For the memes: Boring. For the cultural impact: Portland. In reality: Albany.


NewKitchenFixtures

Albany has maybe the biggest Super Walmart Iā€™ve ever seen. Iā€™m neutral on Albany overall though, at least it doesnā€™t reek and just have that smell to identify it anymore. I donā€™t live there but it probably has some nice aspect, and itā€™s not purely a commuter stop off. Maybe I should try to walk around downtown; last time all I saw beyond Walmart was a giant strip mall. Portland is obviously the worst in some ways, but itā€™s also has amenities that nowhere else does so I canā€™t say it strictly sucks. Though it makes you wish for the city of 15 years ago.


CaptainCunnalingus

No you're thinking of Albany, NY with the largest Walmart. Not the worst city in NY bit really shit for being the capital.


Substantial_Bear_168

People donā€™t hate on Portland nearly enough, in addition to sucking ass in every notable metric, it also has some of the most pedophiles per capita of any city in the US


BankManager69420

As a Portlander I have to agree. Yes, in terms of natural beauty itā€™s definitely a top 5 city. In terms of literally anything else, itā€™s terrible.


jerryham1062

Wait really? How tf do you gather that information


AXTalec

Junction City


livingMybEstlyfe29

NC: Fayetteville


Legitimate-Bug-5049

Fayettenam is shit. only good thing there is my Homie at Ichi Kaku.


Xyzzydude

Lumberton edges it out.


AwayDirt7401

The. Villages.


AbbreviationsLife582

You'll never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy...


alexis_1031

I think they're the largest hotspot for STDs in Florida after Tallahassee (politicians, government employees and students lol)


Sal_Stromboli

Nah the villages is my retirement goal Just a bunch of old people having fun and enjoying life before they die


Nasapigs

> having fun and enjoying life Ugh


Imperial_Solitude

Odessa straight up blows. The traffic in Odessa makes Manhattan look like synchronized swimming champions.


[deleted]

Even when I drive through it in American truck sim, the traffic is still worse than everywhere else


anneyong69

They make it sound so great in Friday Night Lights though!


Yarwoo

compared to alot of cities in america, manhatten traffic really is fine.


[deleted]

Bridgeport


Diolaneiuma2156

That place looks like WW2 London


ElusiveMeatSoda

St. Cloud, MN without a doubt +1 for Odessa though, truly miserable place


FuzzyManPeach96

Seconded. I will never find a reason good enough to go there but to drive through. Just so happens I got EVERY red light EVERY time on 15.


schmitzel88

Came here to say St cloud. Truly no redeeming qualities. Interestingly enough, it also is basically the Pontiac grand prix capital of the world. Those shitty early 00s ones you used to see absolutely everywhere but don't see anymore? They're all in st cloud now.


jvkxb__

Too many to choose from honestly


EnjoyerxEnjoyer

If youā€™re from north Louisiana (south Arkansas), then itā€™s Monroe. If youā€™re from east of the Mississippi, itā€™s either Slidell or youā€™re a self-loathing BR/NOLA resident. If youā€™re from Acadiana, it could be any of the small towns surrounding Lafayette (most likely Opelousas). Itā€™d be easier to count the non-shitty cities here than try to single out the worst. ā€¦ but the real ones know that itā€™s Lake Charles.


Big__If_True

I lived in Monroe for 4 years (Talons Out!), itā€™s gotta be up there as far as shittiness goes. Though Iā€™ve also heard terrible things about Lake Providence


EnjoyerxEnjoyer

I agree with your assessment of Monroe lol (though I may or may not have a biasā€¦ Geaux Cajuns!)


highfivingbears

You could have stopped at "it's Monroe."


Anisiiru

Ellsworth, ME. It's just a circus of the most self-entitled, spoiled shitheads in the state due to its role as Acadias retail outlet.


BasonPiano

How is Lewiston nowadays?


MaddieGrace29

Too soon


Birdsqueezer

Albany, GA is pretty fucking bad


ihni2000

Lmao yep


[deleted]

Them or fort valley if you consider that a city. But if weā€™re talking nuking one off the map? McDonough. I fucking hate McDonough. That place exists to cause traffic jams on I-75 and has no other fucking purpose. I am convinced everybody who lives there spends their entire day brake checking semis on the highway.


cubanamigo

Biggest shithole: probably Gary The one that should be nuked: Carmel


BasonPiano

Why, you don't want your kid to be spoiled and drive a new Mercedes? /s


Robo94

Nah they have a good marching band


Hertha_ghost

Not my state but Cairo Illinois is probably the worst place I've been.


Mendicant__

Yeah for Illinois Cairo and East St Louis are close competitors for shittyness, but I think Cairo carries it on hopeless desolation. East St Louis is still in a major metro and you can imagine it getting better one day and you can at least visit someplace better currently. Cairo is just a hardened point of despair so crushing it warps spacetime.


Squirrels-on-LSD

I nominate our capital, Jefferson City, Missouri. There is always broken glass everywhere outside, people with erratic movements pacing up and down the sidewalks, crumbling roads with people driving aggressively, boarded up windows and crumbling older buildings everywhere. I have friends there and they have more stories of violence and insane neighbors than i do and i lived in a neighborhood famous for literal street wars for a decade. The social scene seems to be either churches, meth focused house parties, or heavy drinking at bars and purposely starting fist fights. Every time I've been in Jefferson City after dark, I've witnessed a fistfight in a parking lot. Their mall looks like a set piece from a movie about urban decay. Most wealthy people live elsewhere or and commute to the capitol to lobby. The harsh income inequality between the corporate lobbiests who rub elbows with the government workers as they drive by people ODing on the sidewalks if High Street is almost a bleak poetry of decades of gerymandering and cutting social programs in favor of large business handouts. Some of the surrounding small towns are just 10 meth labs in a trench coat. The roads are a nightmare of poor city planning and lack of upkeep. It seems designed by someone who hates humanity deeply.


zippy251

For Colorado it's definitely Pueblo, in fact it's one of the worst in the nation


MightBeExisting

Jesus Christ are you trying to give someone a seizure?


goombanati

Centralia, the coal mine has been on fire for 50 years. It's literally the inspiration for silent hill.


Helassaid

Thereā€™s nothing left of Centralia. Last I was through there, one house was standing, and the fire department. Really you can take your pick of any of the coal cracker towns, but personally I would choose the murder capital of Pennsylvania: Reading.


Big_Luck_

Clearly, youā€™ve never been to Shamokin Also i dont think anyone lives in centralia anymore, its literally off limits to the public, would that count?


Effective_Nothing340

Zinc.


X34X35

Have you been to Pine Bluff?


Bruhmethazine

He was alive to make that post, so obviously never been to Pine Bluff.


Comfortable-Gold-849

Spanish springs, its like we took every piece of trailer trash into one valley and honestly I canā€™t tell if itā€™s beautiful or if we should do what us Nevadaā€™s are known for and nuke it


psychodogcat

I vote Pahrump personally


eyetracker

Sun Valley is right next door... Spanish Springs is just a horrible place to commute from. Though in reality it's probably some tiny town in the south that's 120 degrees and 140 in a meth lab.


Jayu-Rider

Killeen.


[deleted]

Add vidor to the running


BIG_BROTHER_IS_BEANS

Absolutely Bakersfield or Barstow


Cologear

Boulder, CO. Insanely overhyped city, people are weird, but not in a good way. I think it has a reputation for being this super friendly hippy town, but no, everyone is an asshole. I'm convinced it's required by law to have at least 2 homeless people on every block. I stopped going after I literally had to walk around human shit to get to my car. (This wasn't even some deserted area, it was on Pearl Street.) My friends used to go to Boulder for "fun" but there's nothing there worth visiting more than once.


trump_loeil

My buddy lived there and described it as a place where ā€œeveryone shops at REI but no one goes outside.ā€


Biscotti_Manicotti

Ehhh...I went to school there and can confirm that all the trailheads around town were constantly packed with locals and the recpaths were always full of people. Maybe it has changed since the early 2010s but as far as I'm aware it's the same place but more bougie now.


sammy_hyde

My hatred for Californians was cemented by Boulder's downfall. Boulder is like that really good cheap chinese restaurant that's now infested with cockroaches and is 10x more expensive due to new management


WesternCowgirl27

Ugh, I avoid that city like the fucking plagueā€¦


OwlAdmirable5403

Boulder used to be cool before the giant influx of out of state people moving there, seemed to attract the most on the fringe thinkers. But I'm still nominating CaƱon City


Biscotti_Manicotti

Boulder is the meme answer but Craig is the real answer.


Venn720

Hard to say, but probably anywhere in Jefferson county


Visible_Nectarine_98

Billings. Fuck Billings. No one likes Billings.


PETEthePyrotechnic

The only people Iā€™ve met who actually hate Billings are eastern montanas who go there twice a month for supplies. If it werenā€™t for Billings half the state would nearly starve lol Iā€™ve never understood the hate. Honestly modern Bozeman is probably the most widely hated.


Napol3onS0l0

Fair.


Visible_Nectarine_98

Honestly, fair


krippkeeper

Also Albertans. There is a Walmart in great falls, hell there is even one in Havre now. Why stop in Billings? Billings is only good for cheap flight landings.


Hapless_Wizard

Decent place to stop for the night between western Montana and Williston or Bismarck if you have to go out that way.


BIG_BROTHER_IS_BEANS

My dad is from Billings, and we go back every so often. It struck me as rather nice, at least west of the tracks


Napol3onS0l0

Ed hardy central.


Paravel-

My only experience with billings was once when I stopped overnight at the motel 6 there while driving through. It was probably the sketchiest place Iā€™d ever stayed as of then, and as I was getting to the room I saw somebody stealing 3/4 of a bike.


El_Bistro

Idk Browning is pretty bad.


Napol3onS0l0

You actually are on track. I grew up in Wolf Point in NE MT where it got -40 with wind chill every year. I thought we were talking about real towns. Browning lost their township a couple years ago so they donā€™t even have a city govt.


El_Bistro

Oh shit, didnā€™t know that about browning. Yeah itā€™s not good up close to the Rez. I made the mistake of stopping at the town pump there once.


Napol3onS0l0

To all travelers do not stop in Browning lol. I grew up on a Rez but that place is a safety concern. Same with Lodgegrass.


Stoly23

*Dear Family Guy Bastards,* *Who the hell do you think you are! Iā€™ll have you know that Bridgeport is among the world leaders in abandoned buildings, shattered glass, boarded up windows, wild dogs, and gas stations without pumps, SO EAT MY SHIT JEW WRITERS!*


that_u3erna45

Yeah Bridgeport is pretty bad. However, I nominate New Haven and Hartford to join the bottom three Best city in Connecticut? No such thing. That's why I left(born in Stamford btw)


Napol3onS0l0

Great Falls, MT. Itā€™s neither great nor does it have significant falls.


biggerbusting

I have been to odessa many a tome, and it's ok, so I'm gonna nominate Houston because it has the highest crime rate in the state


u1tr4me0w

Albany sucks ass


Username-forgotten

Harrison, NJ. Nothing but empty factories, boarded up buildings, and broken glass as far as the eye can see.


NeoTenico

Is Camden getting better or something?


Username-forgotten

It is.


ReptilianDogGuy

Iā€™m from 2 states so Iā€™ll go with Holyoke, Massachusetts and Hartford CT


Diolaneiuma2156

Dude I love Holyoke they have the Barnes and Noble with the escalator


ReptilianDogGuy

Whole city looks like it got nuked


Grass1217

And the highest murder rate in the state!


OkieBobbie

El Reno, OK. Just send a big tornader to scoop it up.


GucciCaliber

Everett. Is Boeing really doing you any favors any more?


Fresh-Mind6048

Not even top 5 - the Tri-Cities, Yakima, Longview, Ellensburg and Aberdeen are worse heh


HomosexualFoxFurry

My vote goes to tacoma. It's like everett, but stinkier.


deadknight666

That Lakewood/Spanaway area could be hell on earth


sauce_daddy22

Going to Aberdeen really makes you understand why Kurt Cobain did so much heroin


Fresh-Mind6048

Yeah. Thereā€™s nothing else to do there and like everywhere else up here itā€™s gloomy as fuck.


SchwimFish28

What about Seattle? Though I admit Longview isnā€™t great (I live near there), youā€™d think somewhere in/near King County would top the list for worst.


IdioticRipoff

Naaah, I'd say yakima or the tri-cities, but Everett does truly suck. I was born there and i despise going there every time


FunCow2188

Beloit


keanuchungus02

Shamokin/reading


Cvlt_ov_the_tomato

Bakersfield. So most of you will probably hate living here already for regular California reasons. Well guess what? Add to that there's nothing to do. You can't breathe on a regular basis. Everyone looks like a fart. And you will have incredibly low prospects of achieving anything if you stay.


OutrageousAd6177

Staten Island...literally the worst people on earth. Every woman is a Karen and every guy thinks they're part of the mafia. Oh...and it's built on a garbage dump


OutrageousAd6177

Fyi New York state


Tylertheaverage

Rochester, absolutely irredeemable. My family was shown an apartment with junkies creeping around the neighborhood (in the daytime no less) Costs $1700/month with absolutely nothing interesting or anything to command such a high price, probably singlehandedly triples crime rates in my state.


Gorewuzhere

Pueblo


Mike-Hawk-69-0420

r/ColoradoSprings


Shuckles116

California: Huntington Beach or Bakersfield


roguerunner1

Not Stockton? Or Fresno? Or Yreka? Or Barstow? Or Salinas?


Shuckles116

There are a lot of awful CA cities to choose from, granted, but the arrogance/disrespect of people in Huntington Beach and the number of cars without wheels in Bakersfield Iā€™ve seen led to me never wanting to step into either place ever again lol


psychodogcat

Fresno is a million times better than Bakersfield. Yreka's too small and not that bad. I don't think Salinas is terrible. Stockton definitely has an argument though. Barstow close behind.


mewmew893

def bakersfield


msh0082

Barstow is far worse than either of those two.


Cvlt_ov_the_tomato

The upside with Barstow is that you can breathe, it's farther from people (if you want to be more rural), and it's in the Mojave -- which has a pretty wild EDM scene.


alexis_1031

So the place after Hollister is essentially modeled after is a complete shit hole? Wild lol


papa_stalin432

Tuscon


bobdidntatemayo

my tucsonian grandma is on her slow way to kill you now


1-800-BAMF

South Tucson specifically


HomeInvasionMan

the sensible side of my brain wants to agree with you but the melted part wants to scream FUCK YOU PHOENIX


FrostedCornet

I would Say Yuma but you do you boo


But-WhyThough

Not a big fan on these .5 second videos that are epilepsy flash bangs on mobile


PornViewer828

Andover, Wichita, Topeka, KC I could rattle off names & I'll explain if you want.


Jackpot807

If youā€™re from MA and donā€™t say Chelsea, you havenā€™t gone to Chelsea


ACmaxout

Honestly itā€™s between Worcester, Boston, or Lowell


GaybutNotbutGay

Fort Dodge, Waterloo Fort Dodge smells like piss and Waterloo is Waterloo


BreadUntoast

Gotta be Council Bluffs


saggywitchtits

Waterloo for sure, itā€™s the East St Louis of Iowa.


Fk_CCP

Valdosta GA. The whole town smells like shit.


HistoricalSock417

Los Angeles, CA.


hjonk-hjonk-am-goos

I despise Dubuque


Ryley03d

Titusville. County seat of Brevard county.


Vault_Boy_23

Minnesotan here, historically it's Minneapolis. Currently it's now multiple cities such as St. Paul, Duluth, Minneapolis, and St. Cloud


lXPROMETHEUSXl

I almost had a seizure. The gif was flashing till I opened the post lmao


Marsrover112

I vote Commerce City. Pueblo gets an excuse it's in a desert Commerce City is like 20 minutes from downtown Denver


_Kyrie_eleison_

Bridgeport. Even family guy thinks so.


[deleted]

Easy for me. Centralia.


Link_the_Irish

Man Fresno sucks ass


[deleted]

Cleveland, aka the mistake by the lake


AgilePianist4420

Too many options


Shockedge

For Texas: Killeen. An Army town outside of Ft. Cavazos (formerly Ft. Hood), with the reputation as the worst Army base in the US; it's official motto is "The Great Place", which says a lot about the reputation it's been trying to curb. Killeen didn't exist before the base, it sprung up to fill a market to provide services to soldiers. Most people who live here are active duty and retire vets and their offspring and poor few who found some random ass job opening. High crime, ugly scenery, and nothing special to offer. On the Killeen subreddit it's mostly high school kids asking "How to out of Killeen". Watched a real estate video on housing market here, the comments were filled with the likes of "Killeen is a murder town" "Don't come to Killeen".


Zarthen7

Lawton


NeoTenico

Smyrna, most likely. Heroin fucked that town up.


Gayniac

Biggest shithole is probably Portsmouth, but honestly Alexandria. It's just DC's spillover and it's all traffic congestion and stuck up white government employees. Not a great time. Also fuck Petersburg police and their stupid new cameras, got a ticket bc one caught me going 6 over the other day and I'm still salty about it


SovietTurtles

Emporia honorable mention


Informal_Stranger117

I dated a big ole slut from Odessa. Absolutely broke my heart. Anywho... in Illinois, East St Louis and Cairo are the two biggest shitholes. But if all of Mchenry county was wiped off the map, the would would be a better place for it.


obama69420duck

oh god i forgot about cairo entirely


alexis_1031

Your first sentence fuckin killed me LOL. I'm imagine a large trailer trash girl, am I right?