Worst city you've been to...?

[lookout123]

you were actually picked up from John Wayne International airport and whisked away along a very well staged path to the soundstage in burbank.

[Shawnee123]

Well how did they fake the ocean, then? I done seen it, I swears I did.

[lookout123]

what's an ocean?

[Griff]

Originally Posted by Shawnee123

Well how did they fake the ocean, then? I done seen it, I swears I did.

Walt Disney and NASA, you connect the dots.

[TheMercenary]

Originally Posted by Griff

Walt Disney and NASA, you connect the dots.

You forgot the CIA and the Illuminati. They are in on it too. Oh, and the Jews too.

[Shawnee123]

Like the stars in that Lion King scene? We all know what we got when we connected those dots!

[BethL]

Florida... It's humid and filled with tourists. The parts without tourists are filled with craptastic drivers (old people and/or New Yorkers [sorry, folks!]).

People have a bad impression about Detroit from the news. What you see on the news tends to be in neighborhoods where visitors never venture. (That's not to justify it in any sense, rather it's to say that visitors need not worry about being hit by stray gunfire.) It's actually not a bad place, and I say that as someone who grew up in the suburbs where it is not rare to encounter people who haven't been downtown in a decade.

[lumberjim]

psst....Florida is a State!

and welcome to the cellar......

[BethL]

Originally Posted by lumberjim

psst....Florida is a State!

and welcome to the cellar......

I'm aware, but Florida still sucks.

[TheMercenary]

Originally Posted by BethL

I'm aware, but Florida still sucks.

I beg to differ. The places you visited in Florida may have sucked, but there are 10 places I can name you most likely never visited that are wonderful, have minimal tourists, and the people are all pretty nice. But hey, I am nearly a local.

[TheMercenary]

Worst City: Newark, NJ followed closely by Paterson and Elizabeth, NJ.

[xoxoxoBruce]

From.

• According to a survey by AutoVantage (an auto club like AAA), Miami, Florida, is the city with the rudest drivers.

• A Cornell University study determined that New York City has the lowest quality of housing. The World Health Organization says that New York is also the noisiest city in the United States.

• Because of high divorce and unemployment rates and consistently gloomy weather, the city statistics analyzing firm BestPlaces named Tacoma, Washington, the country's most stressful place to live.

• Breathe easy if you don't live in these places: Greenville, South Carolina (where residents suffer the most respiratory tract infections); Scranton, Pennsylvania (the worst city for asthma sufferers); and Tulsa, Oklahoma (the pollen capital of America).

• Based on the number of accidents and fatalities, the International Federation of Bike Messenger Associations named Boston the most dangerous place to ride a bike.

• Zero, a group dedicated to slowing population growth, determined what cities were the best and worst in which to raise children based on the quality of healthcare, education, public safety, transportation, the job market, and the natural environment. The best was Fargo, North Dakota; the worst was Newark, New Jersey.

• According to the National Coalition for the Homeless, Sarasota, Florida, is the city most hostile toward homeless people.

• Forbes magazine named Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, the worst city for single people. Reasons: expensive beer, few nightclubs, and not enough single people.

• Worst traffic congestion: Los Angeles. (Not coincidentally, it also has the worst air pollution.)

• City with the bumpiest, most pothole-infested roads: Seattle.

• In 2007 Men's Health magazine analyzed various cities' obesity rates, eating habits, and other data, including how much time people spend exercising and sitting in traffic. Result: Las Vegas was judged the nation's "fattest city."

• The city with the most suicides per capita is Medford, Oregon.

• Decatur, Illinois, has the highest skin cancer fatality rate.

• America's most rat-infested city is Baltimore.

• New Orleans leads in both gun- and diabetes-related deaths per capita.

• Hallmark Cards call El Paso, Texas, the city with the worst sense of humor, based on polls in which very few people said they considered themselves funny. (The city also has very low sales of Hallmark's humorous cards.)

• City with the highest percentage of lawyers: Washington, D.C. Nearly 2% of all residents are attorneys.

• According to the book Cities Ranked and Rated, the worst overall city in America is Modesto, California. The city scored a 0 on the book's 100-point scale for its high cost of living, high unemployment rate, lack of activities, and the highest car theft rate in the United States.

[Dingleschmutz]

I hate Los Angeles out of principle, and I've been there once, so I'll go with that.

[Trilby]

pretty much any 'city' in West Va.

[Perry Winkle]

Originally Posted by Brianna

pretty much any 'city' in West Va.

There are cities in West Virginia? I was under the impression it was just full of sheep, and the fuckers thereof.