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Post by salsashark on Jan 11, 2013 0:10:06 GMT -5
I tend to find things to like about pretty much every city I visit (and I get to see a lot), but I've never had a good time in New York City (too much of everything. Just total sensory overload that I'm hoping will feel differently the next time I am there) and Toledo, Ohio (which is just really kinda sad overall). Aw, bummer. What didn't you like about Columbus?
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Post by Piccolo on Jan 11, 2013 0:13:42 GMT -5
Dublin, Ireland. Beautiful city, but horrible experience. Got ditched 20+ miles from the airport by my travelling partner, with no money or transport. Had to walk all the way there, then spend the night at the airport, and beg change to call my roommate who bought me a ticket back to England. Oh, that's a nightmare.
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Post by Jimmy on Jan 11, 2013 0:15:20 GMT -5
I've done the drive from my homestate of New Jersey to my current residence in North Carolina a handful of times, and stopping practically anywhere in Virginia is always the worst. Just so many towns where the most notable thing was the existence of a rundown Walmart. Made the mistake of stopping for some fast food that I couldn't eat just based on it's terrible appearance. Of course, this is all mid to western Virginia, I have heard Norfolk, Virginia Beach, Arlington, etc, are supposed to be nice.
Incidentally, I found West Virginia okay.
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Post by salsashark on Jan 11, 2013 0:18:20 GMT -5
Also, it's pretty fascinating hearing all the varied experiences here. Surprised that no one has mentioned Chicago, Houston or Indianapolis, though I have no beef with any of those cities (and especially love Chicago).
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Post by Deleted on Jan 11, 2013 0:43:18 GMT -5
It's like every American city has made it on this list.
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Post by Doctor Of Style on Jan 11, 2013 2:15:25 GMT -5
Also, it's pretty fascinating hearing all the varied experiences here. Surprised that no one has mentioned Chicago, Houston or Indianapolis, though I have no beef with any of those cities (and especially love Chicago). Indianapolis? A little boring, but it's clean and safe. I would have to go with Detroit.
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Post by saneiac on Jan 11, 2013 3:34:10 GMT -5
Mumbai (Bombay), India is without a doubt the most horrifying place I've been, and I've been to a lot of shitty places. I saw a city crew whose job was to drive around the city and shovel up the dead remains of people killed in traffic. A man trying to pimp his five year old daughter to cars stopped at a busy intersection. The old woman who swept our office was beaten nearly to death for not paying her union dues. I will never, ever work another job in India.
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Post by Eunös ✈ on Jan 11, 2013 3:41:39 GMT -5
Dublin, Ireland. Beautiful city, but horrible experience. Got ditched 20+ miles from the airport by my travelling partner, with no money or transport. Had to walk all the way there, then spend the night at the airport, and beg change to call my roommate who bought me a ticket back to England. Sorry to hear that, but I for one love Dublin All I will say is don't go to the Taxi Rank in the Airport if your going somewhere very nearby, they don't take it very well ------------------------------------------- Personally I hated Paris in France, Most impatient Drivers ever and just plain rude.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 11, 2013 4:30:37 GMT -5
Tombstone, Arizona.
You want some cowboy flavor. You want Doc freaking Holliday.
What you get is just the saddest little tourist trap you could ever hope to see.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 11, 2013 4:39:39 GMT -5
Also, it's pretty fascinating hearing all the varied experiences here. Surprised that no one has mentioned Chicago, Houston or Indianapolis, though I have no beef with any of those cities (and especially love Chicago). My only experience with Chicago was O'Hare Airport. That place sucks something hardcore, but I'm not going to judge a whole city based on its airport. - Lexington, KY: I base this off of one convenience store, but man, it was bad. It was every backwoods gas station you'd see in a horror movie. The guy at the counter spoke in grunts. As a native Kentuckian, I'll say that's nothing. Louisville, though...
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Post by celticjobber on Jan 11, 2013 4:45:49 GMT -5
Memphis, TN.
I was there after a trip to Graceland after high school graduation, and I got lost in a bad neighborhood. My car was almost caught in the middle of what appeared to be 2 street gangs about to get into a shoot-out or something. I drove through as fast as I could. But it was a pretty scary situation, it's the only time I've seen a person pointing a gun at another.
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Post by Bo Rida on Jan 11, 2013 5:56:20 GMT -5
So is it worse than it's portrayed in The Wire? Is it worse than it's portrayed in District 9? I've never seen The Wire... but it's literally dilapidated Rowhouses. My youngest son went to the Baltimore Zoo on a field trip and on the way there I saw that at least 50% of the rowhouses were boarded up or in serious disrepair. If animal trapped call 410-844-6286. At least Chris and Snoop found a use for all those vacants. Plymouth, England is one of the most grey, dreary and depressing holes I've ever had the misfortune of going to. It's like a physical personification of a rainy Monday morning. Really? I thought being by the coast gives it an advantage as the area around the lighthouse and barbican are pretty nice.
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Post by Zaq "That Guy" Buzzkill on Jan 11, 2013 20:34:02 GMT -5
Baltimore. Most of it is a ghetto. A damn scary ghetto. So is it worse than it's portrayed in The Wire? Johannesburg. I didn't spend very long there and only walked around the hotel and airport (was in a car/bus for the rest of the short time I was there) but holy crap I was fearful for my life the entire time. You know a place is bad when the local urban areas have elctric fences and steel bars over their windows. Is it worse than it's portrayed in District 9? Honestly? it's about the same (lack of aliens aside obviously). One of the most depressing things I've ever seen was seeing an exact replica of the shanty town the aliens lived in during the movie. It was on the city outskirts and that area of the country is covered by pollution so there was a small cloud of smog ( might have just looked bad because of the bright sun) over the area. I can't imagine living in a place like that.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 11, 2013 20:46:35 GMT -5
I haven't traveled much, but I absolutely hated the time I spent in Tampa Bay. Mostly because I was there during the summer so the power going out was basically a twice a day thing.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 11, 2013 20:47:28 GMT -5
DC really isn't that bad. There are some REALLY bad areas (Anacostia aside from certain parts is an absolute hellhole with murders happening commonly ON BUSES) but there are areas that are really nice (Tenleytown where I'm at isn't that bad, Eastern Market is beautiful, etc...) There are a lot of homeless...but there is one really cool program that DC started doing. It's called Street Sense. For $1, you buy a paper written mostly by the homeless from a homeless person who is contracted a vendor. Most I've met are really nice people. streetsense.org/
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Post by wallabylikeyou on Jan 12, 2013 17:38:44 GMT -5
I wasn't a big fan of Budapest when I was there. It was so unbelievably hot all day, all the bottles of water were fizzy, there was nothing to do and by night time it was looking very sketchy. It also had the most homeless people of any city I've been to, which was depressing.
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Post by babyfootball on Jan 12, 2013 20:51:27 GMT -5
I second the guy who mentioned Reading. I live roughly an hour from there and went to college 20 minutes from there and have only ever been deeper than the outskirts a handful of times. My college roommate got a good job in the city so rather than move to the suburbs like Wyomissing (or even staying in Kutztown, though the traffic on the only road in sucks real bad for a 9-5 commute), he bought a house in Reading (not ghetto area but in very close proximity) right before the market crashed. He's had his car stripped, his motorcycle stripped IN HIS OWN BACKYARD and bought a gun to keep at home. They host the Reading Phillies (the main club's Double A minor league team) and have a couple of show venues, as well as a very well-reknowned strip club (Al's Diamond Cabaret!) but beyond that, it's just completely awful, especially for a city of its size (it's fairly big, but only like the 5th or 6th most populated city in PA, which outside of Pittsburgh and Philly of course, doesn't have a lot of big metropolitan areas (Scranton, Allentown, Harrisburg and to a lesser extent Erie).
I spent a day observing at Reading High School and it was the closest to a prison-like atmosphere I've ever seen in a place of education. It was jarring, and it's not like I didn't go to a high school that was extremely, umm... diverse... in its own right. I have to say though, I saw a couple of excellent teachers who knew how to reach their remarkably poor students.
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Post by limoncello on Jan 12, 2013 21:26:10 GMT -5
- Chicago: Absolute sh-thole. I have not seen any living residences in the city limits that would not qualify as a ghetto. The people are rude, everything is expensive and the city itself is car-unfriendly. Wait times on the "L" are about three times longer as specified, the actual trains smell like urine and there are homeless people abound the trains and surrounding areas. Not two seconds after I got off a bus was I hit up for money. F--- that place. Seriously.
- Palm Coast, FL: Someone above mentioned St. Augustine and Daytona Beach, but I say this city is worse. St. Augustine and Daytona at least have history and some attractions. Palm Coast is a master-planned bedroom community that lacks substantial commercial enterprises. Most of the city is surface streets and houses. Just about everything closes at 10 except for the Walmart. People who live here are entitled and think their city is the best thing since sliced bread, and don't you dare talk bad about their community.
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Post by Heartbreaker on Jan 13, 2013 1:43:02 GMT -5
Sydney. Once you see the Opera House and Harbour Bridge it's boring as hell. The roads/driving is weird too. Plus the hotel we stayed at ****ed up on the day before we left which was my dad's cousin's wedding. Had to quickly find a hotel to spend the night at which was hard. Brisbane and the Gold Coast are much better.
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Post by Cyno on Jan 13, 2013 2:05:39 GMT -5
Camden, New Jersey.
I've seen more pleasant warzones.
Bodymore, Murderland is a close second, though the Inner Harbor and Fell's Point are mostly OK outside of the panhandlers. But the Inner Harbor hotels had to install keycard readers on the elevators and stairwells because panhandlers and muggers were making their way into the hotel hallways.
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