Least Favorite/Desired Cities to Visit

[Trojan]

How 'bout the LEAST favorite cities you've visited? The places you HATED. Or destinations you'd never want to see. Here's some of mine:

Jerusalem
Medellin
Oakland, CA (I'm a Chiefs fan)
Mogadishu
Mecca
Kalcut (Calcutta)
Juarez
Kinshasa
Baghdad
Kabul
Bangui
Dallas

[Dingfod]

Houston

That's all I can think of. I've been to Los Angeles, Phoenix, Las Vegas, Kansas City, Denver, and NYC, and none of them do I hate as much as Houston. I'm not even sure I can put a finger on why except for the heat and humidity and the traffic.

And I lived in Salt Lake City for 11 years.

[alphamale]

Boron, California

[Al Terego]

Is a town of 2000 people really a city?

[Trojan]

Houston

That's all I can think of. I've been to Los Angeles, Phoenix, Las Vegas, Kansas City, Denver, and NYC, and none of them do I hate as much as Houston. I'm not even sure I can put a finger on why except for the heat and humidity and the traffic.

And I lived in Salt Lake City for 11 years.
Yeah. I've done Houston and it is smelly, dirty, hot & humid. SLC was nice, at least from the airport windows but it's a rightist religious stronghold so I withhold all points from her! Hot humid weather is a definate negative for me too. It gets like that here in summer. I hate it. I want to live on the Labrador coast!

[godfry n. glad]

How 'bout the LEAST favorite cities you've visited? The places you HATED. Or destinations you'd never want to see. Here's some of mine:

Jerusalem
Medellin
Oakland, CA (I'm a Chiefs fan)
Mogadishu
Mecca
Kalcut (Calcutta)
Juarez
Kinshasa
Baghdad
Kabul
Bangui
Dallas

Hmmm... I'm assuming you haven't been to all these places.

I spent three weeks in Jerusalem and loved every minute.

Los Angeles tops my list. Ugh...what a nightmare.

Actually, that's the only one I can think of that I actively "hate".

I was not impressed with either NYC or Nashville.

[alphamale]

Is a town of 2000 people really a city?

What's the definition of a city?

[Al Terego]

I don't know, perhaps a burg that's too big to throw a rock from one end to the other?

[Trojan]

How 'bout the LEAST favorite cities you've visited? The places you HATED. Or destinations you'd never want to see. Here's some of mine:

Jerusalem
Medellin
Oakland, CA (I'm a Chiefs fan)
Mogadishu
Mecca
Kalcut (Calcutta)
Juarez
Kinshasa
Baghdad
Kabul
Bangui
Dallas

Hmmm... I'm assuming you haven't been to all these places.

I spent three weeks in Jerusalem and loved every minute.

Los Angeles tops my list. Ugh...what a nightmare.

Actually, that's the only one I can think of that I actively "hate".

I was not impressed with either NYC or Nashville.
Oh No I haven't been to any of these places but Dallas. That's why I said least favotite or least desired cities. To me Jerusalem is a monument to human failure and the apartheid capital of an illegal state with WMD's. The rest of my list are capitals, cities in regions swamped in poverty, instability and or violence. I actually loved LA, though I stayed in the South Beach areas. (Hermosa, Manhattan, Redondo, Marina Del Ray, etc.)

[alphamale]

I don't know, perhaps a burg that's too big to throw a rock from one end to the other?

That's a very strange desert town. Went thru there one time on the way to Death Valley with a gf who'd been thru before. She warned me that it was strange. It's like the twilight zone - as we crept thru obeying the 20 mph speed limit, they were staring at us, like "foreigners! what'll we do with 'em?". Reminiscent of Dawn of the Dead, before the attack.

[ms_ann_thrope]

Elizabethtown, KY

[Al Terego]

For those that don't know, Boron, California is west of Barstow on the highway to Bakersfield. It is a mining town, home of U.S. Borax, makers of Twenty Mule Team Borax laundry detergent of the Death Valley Days television show fame, a show hosted by none other than Ronald Reagan at one time. The main road through town is called Twenty Mule Team Road. It's not a particularly nice place to visit, let alone live.

[BigBlue2]

Least Favorite Cities to Visit Cairo. Too dirty, too crowded and everybody in it is a shyster. Go there for the museum and the Pyramids and then get the hell out.

[Legs]

Winnipeg :shiver:

[pescifish]

It's not a particularly nice place to visit, let alone live.I like Boron Pickles. :jalapeno: Served up by the Mayor himself.

[Trojan]

Least Favorite Cities to Visit Cairo. Too dirty, too crowded and everybody in it is a shyster. Go there for the museum and the Pyramids and then get the hell out.
I think Cairo would be intimidating. The crowds, my blue eyes and blonde hair, the heat, pollution. I would go if it were with a large organized tour group. I'd also need brown contacts and a dye job! The neocons have wrecked our reps overseas. :whup:

[Stormlight]

In no particular order:

Los Angeles was really bad. Probably the worst so far.
I wasn't much impressed with Miami either.
Paris sucks plain and simple.
and so does Marseille. :yup:

[Megatron]

Hmm... St. Louis and East St. Louis would have to be the worst. It's almost completely run down, the further in you go, the more it looks like a demilitarized zone. Awful.

Biloxi/Gulfport, MS takes an easy second. You can't even drink the fucking water.

Then there's Detroit, a close 3rd. Ugh. Might be #1 but I guess I haven't seen the worst of it. The guys I went there with told me that the shitty areas we went to were the "nice parts".

Little Rock, AR... remember that HBO special? Yeah, people think it's some little ol' town in some redneck state, but that place really is a special kind of shit hole, along with probably the highest per capita crime rate in the country.

Paris. Filthy, and the people are complete bastards to anyone who isn't French. The sightseeing is decent for about 2 hours, then it's time to go somewhere that doesn't make you want to strangle random passerby.

Miami... if I have to explain this, you probably haven't been there.

Los Angeles... see above.

Phoenix, Dallas, and Charlotte are pretty crap too, but nowhere near as bad as the above.

[ChuckF]

Atlanta - I cannot begin to quantify how I hate this city.
Detroit, yeah it definitely sucks.
Brussels is a shithole.

[curses]

Columbia, SC - Just a horrible, ugly place.
Macon, GA - dirty, dreary, and hot.

I'm also in agreement with Paris, the people are quite rude
and also Biloxi..I've never seen such a nasty beachfront. It made Daytona look like virgin sands.

I'm quite partial to Atlanta, though; but then again I would be :yup:

[Sock Puppet]

Freeport, Grand Bahama. Or anyplace on Grand Bahama, actually. I've never been anywhere else with such a pervasive, open contempt for tourists, or visitors in general, yet relied so much on tourist dollars. "F*ck you, asshole -- that'll be $20. Okay, $15 'cause I like you. Moron."

[LadyShea]

I don't understand the point of visiting pretty much anywhere in the Midwest, with the exception of Chicago, and even that wasn't anything overly special.

My least favorite place I have been is Pueblo, CO.

[Roland98]

I don't understand the point of visiting pretty much anywhere in the Midwest, with the exception of Chicago, and even that wasn't anything overly special.

I really like Chicago, but it's like any other big city. Kind of the "you've seen one, you've seen them all" effect.

As far as other places in the midwest, it just depends on personal taste. I love living here; I even find farmland scenery pretty. And it's fun to just drive around and hit some of the small towns; many of them have one restaurant or business they're "famous" for, so it's like a treasure hunt. :)

I don't know that I really have a least favorite place. I guess Washington, DC didn't impress me much on my first visit. I was walking from my friend's apartment in the Adams Morgan district out to a restaurant and passed several dead rats on the sidewalk, something I'd never actually seen in a big city before. But I've been back several times since, and have liked it more each time.

[Trojan]

I don't understand the point of visiting pretty much anywhere in the Midwest, with the exception of Chicago, and even that wasn't anything overly special.

My least favorite place I have been is Pueblo, CO.
I'm with you on the Midwest being boring. But Chicago really has an energetic style. It has history and a personality. I know of no other Midwestern city that can claim the same. KC, St. Louis, Milwaukee, Twin Cities all had the same qualities at varying levels until about 1970 when the downtowns were shuttered and everything homogenized. Historic buildings razed by the hundreds, extermination of trolley lines, elimination of the urban neighborhoods, you know the rest! It's sad. I even remember old downtown KC. It was alive, exciting and had character. Never been to Pueblo but it sounds cooler than Kansas City. :sadcheer:

[Godwhacker]

I would agree that DC is awful.

Houston is ugly. I lived there, but the nightlife and restaurants are great.

Cleveland is also bad. Old, crappy buildings.

I didn't like Paris much, either.

[alphamale]

I agree with the negative comments about L.A. The few things there that are worth a damn, like the Hollywood Bowl and the Music Center and the Getty Museum, are the creations of long-gone civic leaders. L.A. now is basically a crime-ridden mexican city.

Gary Indiana is a nightmare, as is Detroit.

[Trojan]

In no particular order:

Los Angeles was really bad. Probably the worst so far.
I wasn't much impressed with Miami either.
Paris sucks plain and simple.
and so does Marseille. :yup:
I thought LA would be a smoggy, crowded, crime ridden and dirty place till I visited annually from '96 to 2000. I saw none of that. Though I stayed in uppity beach communities I did see the area, including South Central. LA is FAR cleaner than KC. The so called bad areas are nothing like the same areas here or in Chicago. No high rise tenements covered in graffiti, burned out buildings and houses, trash blowing in the streets, groups of angry idle lumpen proletariat. I saw only one story bungalows, palm trees and an occassional bus. The Valley was very plastic and unappealing but comparing my pre-visit view to my current view on LA is like comparing Juarez to Madrid! I was impressed by LA.

[nixon]

Shittiest city/town I can think of was Bemidji Minn. Cold as hell and the people were all a-holes that looked at you creepy like.

Actually, I find that the colder or boring places have crappier people. warmer more interresting places seem to have nicer people. (Although the guy who posted that Bahama sucks for people may blow this theory of mine.

I also didn't think much of San Fran. Seemed too many hucksters, and chinatown sucked (And me and the wife thought that would be really cool).

I liked NYC OK, although the roads are really crappy. Liked Miami, although I don't think I'd want to do more than visit.

[BDS]

I would like to see Ys, or Atlantis, but I don't want to drown.

[livius drusus]

Hi nixon. Welcome to de-lurking. :welcome1:

[pescifish]

I know you all will be jealous that the front runner restaurant choice for this year's Holiday Luncheon for my work group is in none other than Boron, California.

Some of us know how to have a good time, no matter where we are! :nerdy: :partyhat: :lindance: :hands2: :hands1: :party:

[Stormlight]

In no particular order:

Los Angeles was really bad. Probably the worst so far.
I wasn't much impressed with Miami either.
Paris sucks plain and simple.
and so does Marseille. :yup:
I thought LA would be a smoggy, crowded, crime ridden and dirty place till I visited annually from '96 to 2000. I saw none of that. Though I stayed in uppity beach communities I did see the area, including South Central. LA is FAR cleaner than KC. The so called bad areas are nothing like the same areas here or in Chicago. No high rise tenements covered in graffiti, burned out buildings and houses, trash blowing in the streets, groups of angry idle lumpen proletariat. I saw only one story bungalows, palm trees and an occassional bus. The Valley was very plastic and unappealing but comparing my pre-visit view to my current view on LA is like comparing Juarez to Madrid! I was impressed by LA.

Point taken regarding Los Angeles (and what is KC?? Kansas City?). In my defense, coming from a small country LA scares and confuses me. If I remember correctly Greater LA is larger than our whole country (and I'm not talking population here) ... that's just scary. :afraid:

[TomJoe]

I liked NYC OK, although the roads are really crappy.


NYC when taken as a whole (all 5 boroughs) is not much of a tourist attraction. Go to Manhattan (1 of the 5), and there is some worthwhile stuff to do, but I personally wouldn't make it a vacation spot.

[godfry n. glad]

I liked NYC OK, although the roads are really crappy.


NYC when taken as a whole (all 5 boroughs) is not much of a tourist attraction. Go to Manhattan (1 of the 5), and there is some worthwhile stuff to do, but I personally wouldn't make it a vacation spot.

That should be "NYC, when taken as a hole..."

Watch your spelling, TJ.

[Trojan]

In no particular order:

Los Angeles was really bad. Probably the worst so far.
I wasn't much impressed with Miami either.
Paris sucks plain and simple.
and so does Marseille. :yup:
I thought LA would be a smoggy, crowded, crime ridden and dirty place till I visited annually from '96 to 2000. I saw none of that. Though I stayed in uppity beach communities I did see the area, including South Central. LA is FAR cleaner than KC. The so called bad areas are nothing like the same areas here or in Chicago. No high rise tenements covered in graffiti, burned out buildings and houses, trash blowing in the streets, groups of angry idle lumpen proletariat. I saw only one story bungalows, palm trees and an occassional bus. The Valley was very plastic and unappealing but comparing my pre-visit view to my current view on LA is like comparing Juarez to Madrid! I was impressed by LA.

Point taken regarding Los Angeles (and what is KC?? Kansas City?). In my defense, coming from a small country LA scares and confuses me. If I remember correctly Greater LA is larger than our whole country (and I'm not talking population here) ... that's just scary. :afraid:
Yes. KC stands for Kansas City. I'm here in the middle of the conservative bible belt. I guess LA would be intimidating to someone from a small town or country. As much as I enjoyed LA I'd much rather visit Luxembourg!