What part of America is the biggest dump? (1 Viewer)

[The Ref]

Florida.

100% correct. And you should never ever come here, especially in the winter.

no worries, its where we need to send our elderly relatives.

Don't send them. It's not safe.

 

[mr roboto]

Florida.

100% correct. And you should never ever come here, especially in the winter.

no worries, its where we need to send our elderly relatives.

Don't send them. It's not safe.

8th most violent state in the country.

 

[Brady Marino]

Florida.

100% correct. And you should never ever come here, especially in the winter.

no worries, its where we need to send our elderly relatives.

Don't send them. It's not safe.

Weren't you the guy who started the thread about how wonderful it was to move to Florida?

 

[Doctor Detroit]

Florida.

100% correct. And you should never ever come here, especially in the winter.

no worries, its where we need to send our elderly relatives.

Don't send them. It's not safe.

Weren't you the guy who started the thread about how wonderful it was to move to Florida?

Read his responses again.

 

[Brady Marino]

Florida.

100% correct. And you should never ever come here, especially in the winter.

no worries, its where we need to send our elderly relatives.

Don't send them. It's not safe.

Weren't you the guy who started the thread about how wonderful it was to move to Florida?

Read his responses again.

Must have missed the .

 

[bonesman]

Barstow, CA

You know your city is bad when people from Bakersfield laugh at it.

First two places I thought of. I can't believe people live there.

 

[General Malaise]

No votes for Detroit yet? This board is slipping.

I've never been but from everything I've read....

I love parts of Detroit.

 

[Juxtatarot]

Florida.

100% correct. And you should never ever come here, especially in the winter.

no worries, its where we need to send our elderly relatives.

Don't send them. It's not safe.

8th most violent state in the country.

And imagine what that ranking would be if half the population weren't confined to wheelchairs.

 

[Officer Pete Malloy]

Barstow, CA

You know your city is bad when people from Bakersfield laugh at it.

First two places I thought of. I can't believe people live there.

How much time you spend in either place?

 

[Apple Jack]

We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold.

 

[jonessed]

No votes for Detroit yet? This board is slipping.

I've never been but from everything I've read....

I love parts of Detroit.

There are really nice parts of Bakersfield as well.

 

[shader]

I'd probably vote for Tenn, Arkansas, Kentucky, Oklahoma.

You obviously have never been to Tennessee.

 

[shader]

I have not been to Detroit, but of the places I've seen it's El Paso.

El Paso is great. Aren't you from California? Inland Empire and Stockton-Modesto along with Fresno are way worse.

San Angelo, Lubbock and Midland worse than El Paso.

Those are just sleepy towns on the south plains. Boring but not awful.

Odessa on the other hand...

Odessa-Midland is the same place, awful in every way. Texas in general is a terrible state. Hot, no trees and no water except some man-made cess pools they call "lakes." Low taxes, cheap living and nice folk makes Texas. Same with Oklahoma.

I was in Midland a year and a half ago. The parts I was in were extremely wealthy. Odessa was a dump, but if you haven't been to Midland in awhile, it's a pretty rich area and could in no way be considered a dump.

 

[shader]

I've been all over this country and Youngstown, Ohio is the worst town I've been to, by a very wide margin.

 

[Usual21]

Camden. And it's not even close.

 

[bonesman]

Barstow, CA

You know your city is bad when people from Bakersfield laugh at it.

First two places I thought of. I can't believe people live there.

How much time you spend in either place?

about 5 min when I stop for gas and food on the way to Vegas

 

[njherdfan]

I have to assume that everyone who put Newark has never been to Camden. Newark is your run-of-the-mill bad inner-city environment. Camden looks like Mogadishu, circa 1993.

 

[tikigods]

Washington, DC.

On many levels.

 

[NutterButter]

I have to assume that everyone who put Newark has never been to Camden. Newark is your run-of-the-mill bad inner-city environment. Camden looks like Mogadishu, circa 1993.

Seriously. Just look at google images of that place.

 

[The Ref]

Florida.

100% correct. And you should never ever come here, especially in the winter.

no worries, its where we need to send our elderly relatives.

Don't send them. It's not safe.

Weren't you the guy who started the thread about how wonderful it was to move to Florida?

Read his responses again.

Must have missed the .

To be fair there are parts of every state that qualify for this conversation including Florida. If you are going to say "Florida" as a response you might was well just say "Alaska" or "Asia".

 

[Fennis]

Asia

 

[Fennis]

Barstow, CA

You know your city is bad when people from Bakersfield laugh at it.

First two places I thought of. I can't believe people live there.

How much time you spend in either place?

about 5 min when I stop for gas and food on the way to Vegas

Baker

 

[Native]

Camden, NJ on Google Images

Holy cow.

 

[Christo]

Asia

The 58th state?

 

[None_More_Black]

Another vote for Camden. Trenton is bad but is not that big of a town. Newark is bad but actually has a nice look at the city and some pretty cool buildings. Having said said that, NJ has some very good looking towns. I think most of Florida is a dump.

 

[seahawk 17]

Another vote for Camden. Trenton is bad but is not that big of a town. Newark is bad but actually has a nice look at the city and some pretty cool buildings. Having said said that, NJ has some very good looking towns. I think most of Florida is a dump.

This is what upsets me about politics. You can send millions over seas, how about taking care of Camden?

 

[bonesman]

Barstow, CA

You know your city is bad when people from Bakersfield laugh at it.

First two places I thought of. I can't believe people live there.

How much time you spend in either place?

about 5 min when I stop for gas and food on the way to Vegas

Baker

That's actually what I was thinking of instead of Bakersfield. The Mad Greek is good though.

 

[Ghost Rider]

Having lived in Denver all my life I am shocked when I travel to Midwest cities and the East Coast. There are parts of St. Louis that look like what I imagine war zones look like. There is no where in Denver that can touch East St. Louis for dump status. Move West people.

Regarding that, leave downtown St. Louis and take the 15-minute drive on I-70 West towards the airport and look at most of the housing along the way...that is what I thought of when I read that. Just an awful-looking area. I used to have relatives that lived in Ferguson and Jennings when I was a kid, and those were good areas at the time, but now they are some of the worst in the entire St. Louis area.

 

[drummer]

I have not been to Detroit, but of the places I've seen it's El Paso.

El Paso is great. Aren't you from California? Inland Empire and Stockton-Modesto along with Fresno are way worse.

San Angelo, Lubbock and Midland worse than El Paso.

I live in the Inland Empire, but in a good part of it. Riverside, San Berdu, Colton, Moreno Valley all suck.

Fontana could beat Fresno though. There are a lot of cities around the Bay Area that ####holes as well. Martinez comes to mind.

Lancaster and Bakersfield. That's hell right there.

 

[thecatch]

Sacramento

yeah, I was kind of surprised when I was there. Downtown Sacramento is not a place you want to be late at night

Sacramento is not one of the country's finest destinations by any stretch but at it appearing on this list.

 

[Sarnoff]

Florida.

The place is a pit. Inane humidity. Lousy storms. And the people. My God, the people. Meth-addled toothless inbred hicks. And those are the good ones. Seriously. Whenever you hear about some brain-damaged moron doing something stupid on the news, up to and including some guy hopped up on bath salts going full-on zombie cannibal and trying to eat another dude's face while he's still wearing it, it always happens in Florida. Never fails.

Mosquitos the size of sparrows. Jeebus Florida sucks. "Oh, the weather's nice," they'll say. They are idiots. Los Angeles has nice weather. In Los Angeles you can eat outdoors at a restaurant every day of the year and never shoo a bug away from your food. In Florida you'll be eaten by mosquitos before the entrees arrive. In Florida a gator will crawl out of the freaking swamp and gnaw on your leg while you're waiting for dessert. You never hear of plywood shortages in Los Angeles when a storm is coming, because "storm" in Los Angeles means it might rain for a second day this year. In Florida you got freaking hurricanes and flooding and, oh yeah, the place is still a swamp. Full of the worst white trash in the country. Screw Florida. America's wang.

 

[loser]

Florida. Because of the lunchtime alligator attacks.

 

[mbrasi]

Only two of the four #### holes in Ohio so far? I'll take care of the others. Toledo and Akron.

I live between Cleveland, Akron, and Toledo.Those cities are vacation destinations for people living in Detroit.

i can't think of one redeeming quality about any of Toledo, Akron, Dayton, and Youngstown.

The Akron airport is awesome because you can park 17 inches from the front door. It felt like a lego village.

i am going to nitpick because it doesn't fit my narrative. That airport is in canton. And you're totally right. Rarely fly out of Cleveland, try to only fly out of there.

I can tell you that Akron>Toledo>Detroit.

I've spent multiple weeks in the Fairlawn area (right outside of Akron) and I can tell you my wife and I thought it wouldn't be a bad place to live.

Toledo has improved their downtown area, BUT there still is a lot of dump areas in the city

Detroit is a place where I don't want to take a wrong turn or I'll be in a lawless wasteland.

Youngstown seemed run down but I frequently stop there on the way back from Pittsburgh and I don't fear of making a wrong turn.

I can't speak to Dayton, but I would be surprised if it was worse than the D.

Have you been to the D and honestly feel that these Ohio cities are worse?

 

[tdoss]

I gotta think Detroit wins this...just wall it up and fill it with cement.

 

[Ignoramus]

Yeah but people are listing Detroit when Livonia a Detroit suburb of 97k, is one of the ten safest places to live in the U.S. Same with Canton, Novi and most of the Northern suburbs.

So Detroit's a great place to live, just as long as you don't actually live there.

 

[Skyryder222]

Guymon, Oklahoma is THE armpit of America

 

[Sabertooth]

A lot of votes for Detroit, but I think Flint is worse.

Nope, they are the same city in every way. Flint only worse because they don't have sports teams.

Detroit metro is great btw.

I grew up and lived in a suburb on the outskirts of Detroit most of my life. I worked in the hood of Detroit in my 20's & 30's (80's & 90's) and enjoyed hanging out with my co-workers from Detroit and also enjoyed going to the entertainment districts at night but that ship has sailed years ago.

Once my kids graduated high school I pounced on the opportunity to remove ourselves from Detroit (Wayne County suburbs) as the area is going downhill fast.

There is still a group of supporters trying to stage a resurgence and I truly admire that but I just don't see things turning around. Unfortunately the Coleman Young and Kwame Kilpatrick regime were able to play the race card and convince the city of Detroit to believe in them while they stole the entire city and their people blind.

With that said most of the areas outside of Detroit do offer the opportunity for quality living but can the area survive without a thriving major city?

WTF are you talking about? Detroit metro has four million people and is the 11th largest metro area in America. Even in a decline it'll still be a top 20 metro area in your lifetime.

Michigan is one of the best states in the union, people forget Detroit is in Michigan. Longest fresh water coastline in the world, trees, lakes, everything. Where did you "remove yourself" to? DO NOT SAY FLORIDA.

Detroit drags the entire state down.

 

[Fat Nick]

I'm a VA transplant living in NJ now. I won't argue with the specific NJ cities mentioned here, but let's not lump in the entire state. I live out in Hunterdon County NJ (#4 in 2012), and it's beautiful here. Reminds me of home in VA. Country, land, and easy to get into the city. As a caveat, the reason we're #4 on this list is simple...there's less to bring the average down. Mercer County and some of the Northern NJ counties all have a mix of affluent areas and slums. Their affluent areas are a lot nicer than Hunterdon, but we don't have the Trenton/Patterson, etc. areas to average it out.

If I had to vote for a city, Camden would win, hands down. It's the only place I've intentionally run a redlight for fear of my life. We were leaving a Zac Brown concert at the Susquehanna Bank Center, and I turned right thinking it was a "short cut." After I got passed by a guy on a 4-wheeler, and saw folks hanging out everywhere, I realized that was a bad idea. I figured I'd take a ticket over getting carjacked, plus, I would've welcomed a blue and white at that point.

 

[Fat Nick]

Another vote for Camden. Trenton is bad but is not that big of a town. Newark is bad but actually has a nice look at the city and some pretty cool buildings. Having said said that, NJ has some very good looking towns. I think most of Florida is a dump.

This is what upsets me about politics. You can send millions over seas, how about taking care of Camden?

It's amazing to me to go to the waterfront in Camden, and then see the rest of it. The aquarium is nice, it feels safe, and there's a great concert venue...then you go back 3-4 blocks and it's like an urban war zone.

 

[Doubtingthomas]

Having lived in Denver all my life I am shocked when I travel to Midwest cities and the East Coast. There are parts of St. Louis that look like what I imagine war zones look like. There is no where in Denver that can touch East St. Louis for dump status. Move West people.

Regarding that, leave downtown St. Louis and take the 15-minute drive on I-70 West towards the airport and look at most of the housing along the way...that is what I thought of when I read that. Just an awful-looking area. I used to have relatives that lived in Ferguson and Jennings when I was a kid, and those were good areas at the time, but now they are some of the worst in the entire St. Louis area.

That is the area I had in mind when I wrote that. And the thing is it just goes on and on.

 

[NutterButter]

Another vote for Camden. Trenton is bad but is not that big of a town. Newark is bad but actually has a nice look at the city and some pretty cool buildings. Having said said that, NJ has some very good looking towns. I think most of Florida is a dump.

This is what upsets me about politics. You can send millions over seas, how about taking care of Camden?

Some things you just can't fix

 

[Parrothead]

Another vote for Camden. Trenton is bad but is not that big of a town. Newark is bad but actually has a nice look at the city and some pretty cool buildings. Having said said that, NJ has some very good looking towns. I think most of Florida is a dump.

This is what upsets me about politics. You can send millions over seas, how about taking care of Camden?

Some things you just can't fix

Even people from the toughest hoods of North Philly avoid Camden

 

[Captain Quinoa]

Only two of the four #### holes in Ohio so far? I'll take care of the others. Toledo and Akron.

I live between Cleveland, Akron, and Toledo.Those cities are vacation destinations for people living in Detroit.

i can't think of one redeeming quality about any of Toledo, Akron, Dayton, and Youngstown.

The Akron airport is awesome because you can park 17 inches from the front door. It felt like a lego village.

i am going to nitpick because it doesn't fit my narrative. That airport is in canton. And you're totally right. Rarely fly out of Cleveland, try to only fly out of there.

where you live, Mac?

 

[Ghost Rider]

Having lived in Denver all my life I am shocked when I travel to Midwest cities and the East Coast. There are parts of St. Louis that look like what I imagine war zones look like. There is no where in Denver that can touch East St. Louis for dump status. Move West people.

Regarding that, leave downtown St. Louis and take the 15-minute drive on I-70 West towards the airport and look at most of the housing along the way...that is what I thought of when I read that. Just an awful-looking area. I used to have relatives that lived in Ferguson and Jennings when I was a kid, and those were good areas at the time, but now they are some of the worst in the entire St. Louis area.

That is the area I had in mind when I wrote that. And the thing is it just goes on and on.

A friend lived in Ferguson until about a year ago. She is, by her own admission, pretty ghetto, but even she got out of there because she was scared ####less of how dangerous the area had became. Granted, she didn't use those exact words, but she all but said it. She has two young daughters, and hearing gunfire on a regular basis when driving around her neighborhood was her last straw.

 

[The Ref]

Florida.

The place is a pit. Inane humidity. Lousy storms. And the people. My God, the people. Meth-addled toothless inbred hicks. And those are the good ones. Seriously. Whenever you hear about some brain-damaged moron doing something stupid on the news, up to and including some guy hopped up on bath salts going full-on zombie cannibal and trying to eat another dude's face while he's still wearing it, it always happens in Florida. Never fails.

Mosquitos the size of sparrows. Jeebus Florida sucks. "Oh, the weather's nice," they'll say. They are idiots. Los Angeles has nice weather. In Los Angeles you can eat outdoors at a restaurant every day of the year and never shoo a bug away from your food. In Florida you'll be eaten by mosquitos before the entrees arrive. In Florida a gator will crawl out of the freaking swamp and gnaw on your leg while you're waiting for dessert. You never hear of plywood shortages in Los Angeles when a storm is coming, because "storm" in Los Angeles means it might rain for a second day this year. In Florida you got freaking hurricanes and flooding and, oh yeah, the place is still a swamp. Full of the worst white trash in the country. Screw Florida. America's wang.

Could not agree more. DO NOT COME HERE. Especially Palm Beach County.

 

[pantagrapher]

I've never seen poverty and blight in America like what I've seen in rural Louisiana.

 

[NutterButter]

I'm a VA transplant living in NJ now. I won't argue with the specific NJ cities mentioned here, but let's not lump in the entire state. I live out in Hunterdon County NJ (#4 in 2012), and it's beautiful here. Reminds me of home in VA. Country, land, and easy to get into the city. As a caveat, the reason we're #4 on this list is simple...there's less to bring the average down. Mercer County and some of the Northern NJ counties all have a mix of affluent areas and slums. Their affluent areas are a lot nicer than Hunterdon, but we don't have the Trenton/Patterson, etc. areas to average it out.

Yeah, that's how I feel in Morris County. Every town is really nice. Nice parks. Nice people.

 

[Sarnoff]

Florida.

The place is a pit. Inane humidity. Lousy storms. And the people. My God, the people. Meth-addled toothless inbred hicks. And those are the good ones. Seriously. Whenever you hear about some brain-damaged moron doing something stupid on the news, up to and including some guy hopped up on bath salts going full-on zombie cannibal and trying to eat another dude's face while he's still wearing it, it always happens in Florida. Never fails.

Mosquitos the size of sparrows. Jeebus Florida sucks. "Oh, the weather's nice," they'll say. They are idiots. Los Angeles has nice weather. In Los Angeles you can eat outdoors at a restaurant every day of the year and never shoo a bug away from your food. In Florida you'll be eaten by mosquitos before the entrees arrive. In Florida a gator will crawl out of the freaking swamp and gnaw on your leg while you're waiting for dessert. You never hear of plywood shortages in Los Angeles when a storm is coming, because "storm" in Los Angeles means it might rain for a second day this year. In Florida you got freaking hurricanes and flooding and, oh yeah, the place is still a swamp. Full of the worst white trash in the country. Screw Florida. America's wang.

Could not agree more. DO NOT COME HERE. Especially Palm Beach County.

Don't worry. Now, you don't go hitching up your double-wide and trying to make the move to peaceful & sunny Southern California ever. Ever. We don't want your kind here.

In some ways, So Cal is a little like Florida. Except with better people, better culture, better weather, and better drugs. Trust me, you just wouldn't fit in.

 

[Super King]

Camden

Patterson

Newark

The Oranges

Trenton

Atlantic City

Elizabeth

Hmmmm.....

 

[The Ref]

Florida.

The place is a pit. Inane humidity. Lousy storms. And the people. My God, the people. Meth-addled toothless inbred hicks. And those are the good ones. Seriously. Whenever you hear about some brain-damaged moron doing something stupid on the news, up to and including some guy hopped up on bath salts going full-on zombie cannibal and trying to eat another dude's face while he's still wearing it, it always happens in Florida. Never fails.

Mosquitos the size of sparrows. Jeebus Florida sucks. "Oh, the weather's nice," they'll say. They are idiots. Los Angeles has nice weather. In Los Angeles you can eat outdoors at a restaurant every day of the year and never shoo a bug away from your food. In Florida you'll be eaten by mosquitos before the entrees arrive. In Florida a gator will crawl out of the freaking swamp and gnaw on your leg while you're waiting for dessert. You never hear of plywood shortages in Los Angeles when a storm is coming, because "storm" in Los Angeles means it might rain for a second day this year. In Florida you got freaking hurricanes and flooding and, oh yeah, the place is still a swamp. Full of the worst white trash in the country. Screw Florida. America's wang.

Could not agree more. DO NOT COME HERE. Especially Palm Beach County.

Don't worry. Now, you don't go hitching up your double-wide and trying to make the move to peaceful & sunny Southern California ever. Ever. We don't want your kind here.

In some ways, So Cal is a little like Florida. Except with better people, better culture, better weather, and better drugs. Trust me, you just wouldn't fit in.

100% Truth. This area offers nothing and is inferior in every way possible. So Cal is where it's at. Keep moving there.