What's your least favorite city in America?

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I'd like to nominate Pittsburgh, PA. I was there two weekends ago. Every place I went looked like a crime infested dump. On top of that, the roads in that place are a civil engineering nightmare. Ugh. You can't even do simple things like get off the freeway and get right back on. You end up horribly lost going in the wrong direction over some bridge you don't want to be on. Add to that that some of their "on ramps" are nothing more than a stop sign with a right turn that puts you immediately into 60 MPH traffic. Yuck.

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Stay out of our city then you douche.

[MD2020]

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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.


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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.


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F you.

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Philadelphia.

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Oh yeah, I forgot about Philly's perpetual, justly-deserved, yet consistently-denied inferiority complex.

Just about every mayor, from Wilson Goode to John Street, has run a goddamned clinic on how to [censored] up a city.

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"Just about every mayor, from Wilson Goode to John Street..."

Wow. Great sample size you got there. Total of um, three.

You're just mad because we put Rendell in the Governor's spot.

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I've never been to Bakersfield. A friend who did some time in California said the people there are real proud of the neighboring prison. He also commented that Oildale (right next to Bakersfield) was one of the toughest places he knows of and a real racist hotbed to boot.

On the positive side, I've heard from a couple of different sources, that there is a gun shop that is just legendary. I don't know the name of the shop it's just some outlaw biker selling a pretty large assortment out of his garage. Of course that's hardly a defense of Bakersfield, I'm just mentioning it because I'm curious if you've been there or know of it.

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

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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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If you think cheesesteaks in the suburbs are just as good, you are [censored] crazy. CRAZY. That said, Philly bores me to no end.

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He's right...about the cheesesteaks, that is.

[Los Feliz Slim]

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Bakersfield. I'm sure it is the center of some Satanic cult.

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Are you familiar with The Lords of Bakersfield? Sounds like you will enjoy this if you don't already know about it.

[JihadOnTheRiver]

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Bakersfield. I'm sure it is the center of some Satanic cult.

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Are you familiar with The Lords of Bakersfield? Sounds like you will enjoy this if you don't already know about it.

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LOL. Nothing like a little gay-power-murder-conspiracy-theory to put an already putrid city on the map.

[masse75]

I'm gonna say Norfolk/Virginia Beach/Chesapeake/Newport News/Hampton/Portsmouth.

First, a huge metropolitan area but they can't get their 'identity' straight. Call us the "Tidewater" region!

I'd rather call you retarded.

They're also way too high on themselves. You are not a "resort area." If I want to go to a crappy redneck beach to vacation, I'll go to Myrtle Beach, SC. At least it's close to South of the Border.

[Guy Incognito]

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No hurricanes. No earthquakes. No blizzards. No floods. No heat waves. No humidity. An occasional forest fire in close proximity, but that's about it. 300-330 days of sun out of the year, and we have four seasons. Not too hot, not too cold. We have about 500,000 or so people here, and there’s only so much room to sprawl. Not too big, not too small.

Mountains in my backyard. Most people are friendly.

Best New Mexican and Mexican food you’ll ever eat in the states. Real green and red chile. Best margaritas, too. Lots of good restaurants with all cuisines.

Only city in America with a baseball team whose name came from a Simpsons episode.

Home of the Pit. Home of the Balloon Fiesta.

There are four casinos with poker rooms that I can get to in less than half an hour, and three have amphitheatres. Journal Pavilion also brings in good shows, if you don’t mind waiting two hours to leave the parking lot.

Streets are easy to figure out. Airport is very easy to use. Cost of living is cheap.

Downtown is being revitalized and cleaned up. There are plans for a light rail system in the near future. Real estate is going crazy. Lots of new commercial development going on.

A day’s drive from Phoenix, Las Vegas, Denver, Dallas, Mexico, and yes, Salt Lake City.

So what if we’ve got a lot of drunk drivers, a piddly river, and no pro sports? Just because our mayor banned the TV show COPS from ever filming here again doesn’t mean we’re all bad. I wear it like a badge of honor.

And we did find the Runaway Bride. That was fun.

I've been to a lot of cities, and I'd rather live here than in most of them. Most of my friends that move here agree. So if you're in town, look me up. We'll go to Sadie's or Los Cuates and get some 'ritas and enchiladas. Nothing like it.

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You make a good case. Seriously, I may be looking to move out west in a few years, sounds a lot like what I'm looking for. I guess I assumed that it was one of those cities where English speakers are in the minority.

And Boston is my least favorite.

[EMcWilliams]

SLC is amazing. Probably my favorite city.

[bennyk]

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the girls are gross, and the accent they sport became like nails on the chalkboard after about 2 visits.

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thaaaaank you. no one ever knows what I'm talking about when I complain about the ugly Philadelphia accent.

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