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I have three with legitimate reasons. What are yours?

1. Meridian, MS (what up Big Steve?). I spent 2 solid years in flight school here. Being a California-bred college educated person in this city is painful. I had a lot of good friends surrounding me, but when we couldn't get out of town for the weekend and ended up drinking in town, it was painful. Driving from the somewhat affluent area on the outside of town where I lived, into the center of the town was basically hilariously depressing.

2. Philadelphia, PA. One of my college buddies grew up there and I ended up partying there probably 15 times, and spent another couple weeks with his family. The down is dirty as all hell and really smells, the people are lazy, the girls are gross, and the accent they sport became like nails on the chalkboard after about 2 visits.

3. Los Angeles, CA. Yes, I grew up in Cali, but I hate LA. I hate their sports teams, especially their fan base. Pretty much everything that Tool said in AEnima is dead on for me. That city would make a great lake.

You?

-Jihad

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My gf lived outside of Philly and we went there several times. I rather liked it, but the people for the most part are incredibly obnoxious.

I've never spent any significant time there but I hear Worcester, MA is a nice place...

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I have three with legitimate reasons. What are yours?

1. Meridian, MS (what up Big Steve?). I spent 2 solid years in flight school here. Being a California-bred college educated person in this city is painful. I had a lot of good friends surrounding me, but when we couldn't get out of town for the weekend and ended up drinking in town, it was painful. Driving from the somewhat affluent area on the outside of town where I lived, into the center of the town was basically hilariously depressing.

2. Philadelphia, PA. One of my college buddies grew up there and I ended up partying there probably 15 times, and spent another couple weeks with his family. The down is dirty as all hell and really smells, the people are lazy, the girls are gross, and the accent they sport became like nails on the chalkboard after about 2 visits.

3. Los Angeles, CA. Yes, I grew up in Cali, but I hate LA. I hate their sports teams, especially their fan base. Pretty much everything that Tool said in AEnima is dead on for me. That city would make a great lake.

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-Jihad

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Yea, so drag yer candy ass back to tofu land and enjoy a fruit salad.

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Philly cant be on my list because I get sexually excited over cheesesteaks and cheese fries, so Im going to vote

1)New Haven, CT
2)Springfield, MA
3)Newark, NJ

EDIT: Hartford, CT is probably tied for 1st. HUGE oversight.

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Bakersfield. So empty and devoid in life the place feels like it has an infused sense of evil. If deadness and mindless conformity could be evil, then Bakersfield will give you a feeling of absolute evil. "gaze blank and pitiless as the sun," from the Yeats poem The Second Coming, springs to mind. The town has that kind of gaze. I'm sure it is the center of some Satanic cult.

I agree on L.A. The place is a desert, but devoid of the natural beauty even a desert has. Very little foliage anywhere, and most of that brown. A lifeless holding pan for hot smog. Everything man-made and most of it dirty and in bad repair. Unutterably smug people with less to be smug about than could be imagined, mixed with a lot of misery and poverty. Fake boobs everywhere and a society and culture that seems built around them.

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1)New Haven, CT
2)Springfield, MA
3)Newark, NJ

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I grew up in Springfield and get back there about once a year to visit the rents. I couldn't wait to go to school to get out of there and haven't seen anything to draw me back. What am I missing?

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I'd have to say Buffalo. Horrible winters, poverty, corruption, crooked cops, terrible city government, you name it. It's like the whole place was thrust into a permanent state of depression after Super Bowl XXV.

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1)New Haven, CT
2)Springfield, MA
3)Newark, NJ

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I grew up in Springfield and get back there about once a year to visit the rents. I couldn't wait to go to school to get out of there and haven't seen anything to draw me back. What am I missing?

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Nothing. Its a LEAST favorite city list.

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1)New Haven, CT
2)Springfield, MA
3)Newark, NJ

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I grew up in Springfield and get back there about once a year to visit the rents. I couldn't wait to go to school to get out of there and haven't seen anything to draw me back. What am I missing?

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Nothing. Its a LEAST favorite city list.

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Doh! I will slink away now...

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Ann Arbor, look how [censored] ugly...

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texas

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It's city, not least favorite country.

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1)New Haven, CT
2)Springfield, MA
3)Newark, NJ

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I grew up in Springfield and get back there about once a year to visit the rents. I couldn't wait to go to school to get out of there and haven't seen anything to draw me back. What am I missing?

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Before you realized this was a least favorite list, you must of thought i was one demented [censored].

You know you love to chill at the Hippodrome

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Lawrence, MA. For personal reasons. Waltham, MA would be a close second.

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obviously you are from the city of california.

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1. Memphis, Tennessee (In it's "defense", I didn't really spend much time here, thank God). Dirtiest "city" you've ever seen. Fat trashy people. Women who don't own make-up at all. Fast-food culture. West Memphis, Ark is supposed to be one of the most crime-infested per capita cities in the nation. Driving through this city in the winter makes you want to kill yourself.

2. San Antonio, Texas full of a bunch of Mexican-American's who claim to and try to be White (quoted from a Mexican buddy of mine). I agree. Also, there isn't much culture there. It's just a "large conglomeration of people", not a "city". Drop by to see the Alamo and the Riverwalk, and get the F out. The people are vere rude, too. Especially the drivers along I-10. Been there twice, don't ever want to go back. Not missing a damn thing.

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*duck*

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Detroit for sure.

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I'd have to say Buffalo. Horrible winters, poverty, corruption, crooked cops, terrible city government, you name it. It's like the whole place was thrust into a permanent state of depression after Super Bowl XXV.

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To a certain extent, you have also described every city in NY along I-90, Rochester, Syracuse, Utica, Albany, Schanectady.

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New Haven has the best pizza in the U.S. and must be moved up the list because of this fact.

1. Gary, Indiana
2. Bakersfield, CA
3. Any city in Arkansas, North or South Dakota

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To a certain extent, you have also described every city in NY along I-90, Rochester, Syracuse, Utica, Albany, Schanectady.

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This is very true. They should sell Prozac at the rest stops on I-90.

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Oh yea, Ohio sucks too.

Especially Columbus and Toledo.

Go Blue

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Pretty much all of them except for Vegas and San Fran.

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New Haven has the best pizza in the U.S. and must be moved up the list because of this fact.

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OK Ive heard this before, and Ive been to New Haven many times, and I have never had a memorable pizza there. Perhaps I havent been to the right pizza joints. Where should I go next time Im there?

I did see a Pizza guy get knocked off his bike then robbed there, so maybe your theory has some merit.

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I'd have to say Buffalo. Horrible winters, poverty, corruption, crooked cops, terrible city government, you name it. It's like the whole place was thrust into a permanent state of depression after Super Bowl XXV.

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To a certain extent, you have also described every city in NY along I-90, Rochester, Syracuse, Utica, Albany, Schanectady.

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I opened this thread in order to contribute the lovely city of Rochester.

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LA

NYC

SD

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OK Ive heard this before, and Ive been to New Haven many times, and I have never had a memorable pizza there. Perhaps I havent been to the right pizza joints. Where should I go next time Im there?

I did see a Pizza guy get knocked off his bike then robbed there, so maybe your theory has some merit.

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i lived there off and on for the last few years and i don't eat pizza ever but everyone raved about it.

new haven does suck. it's one of my least favorite places too.

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any city over 750k people without an underground mass transit system.

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i couldn't disagree more.

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Schenectady, NY

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i couldn't disagree more.

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por que?

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San Antonio, Texas full of a bunch of Mexican-American's who claim to and try to be White (quoted from a Mexican buddy of mine). I agree. Also, there isn't much culture there. It's just a "large conglomeration of people", not a "city". Drop by to see the Alamo and the Riverwalk, and get the F out. The people are vere rude, too. Especially the drivers along I-10. Been there twice, don't ever want to go back. Not missing a damn thing.

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maybe you should spend some time in a city before you make snap judgments about it. how long were your two trips? san antonio is a pretty decent city. dont know why you say SA is just a "large conglomerate of people." there's plenty of culture.

and the hispanics seem pretty tex-mex to me. where are you from?

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LOL. Do you know how -EV this would be for a city of 750K people?

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Atlantic City and it's not close.

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LOL. Do you know how -EV this would be for a city of 750K people?

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ok, maybe the underground part was out of line.

EDIT-but just wait about 75 years, and we'll see about how -EV it is then...

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Detroit.

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there are plenty of cities in this country that fit your criteria that do not have an underground transit system and most of them i find easier and more pleasant to get around than NYC, though i don't think NYC's system is bad.

your comment is eliminating some really great cities in our country.

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Yet more points for Philly.

- dirty, overpriced, yet bankrupt public transportation
- stench in the streets
- 5% wage tax
- corrupt government
- an illiterate mayor
- grossly over-powerful unions
- lazy-ass entitlement work ethic of the people (see previous point)
- the Chinese food in its China town sucks
- inarguably the most obnoxious sports fans in the country (the battery incident was my favorite)

They have one of the best business schools in the country, but 95% of Wharton graduates leave Philly immediately upon graduation. They spend craploads of tax dollars trying to figure out why.

The cheesesteaks are just as good in the suburbs.

That being said, Go Eagles!


Oh, and L.A. blows horse dong as well. Probably the only city I hate more than Philly.

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there are plenty of cities in this country that fit your criteria that do not have an underground transit system and most of them i find easier and more pleasant to get around than NYC, though i don't think NYC's system is bad.

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ok, again, let's say i took out the word 'underground'...

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Will you people stop with the Springfield, Waltham, Schenectady, Utica stuff....these places aren't "cities."

It's as if I were to list Roslyn or Great Neck or something.