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It ebbs and flows according to how many trolls are active, and how many boosters are active at any given time.
The trolls come in and dump all over cities for whatever reason, and often succeed in whipping up any latent ill sentiments about a city. The boosters either start a problem by making sometimes-accurate, sometimes-wild claims about their city, often coming into threads that have nothing to do with them, which generally encourages others to put those very cities down (a good recent example would be Philly boosters who come into random threads to remind everyone that they have ____ too!)... or, they add to a problem by making said claims in defense of their city.
Candidates, at some point or another recently, based on both above behaviours: Philly, Atlanta, San Francisco, Houston.
This said... I'd have to say that all things considered, it's probably Detroit. Detroit gets barely any love from anyone, ever.
L.A. is hated on a ****uhno? for being a big suburb blah blah. I see it mostly by New Yawkas, Chicagoans, SanFranciscans, cities with vibrant downtowns. But really now, who wants or needs to walk around downtown L.A. when the weather is damn near perfect year round? L.A. is alot about beach culture, Hollywood, clubbing, upscale drug culture, etc. People in the arguably more gray and vanilla midwest are probably just jealous of those who can make it work in California. Don't lie....I lived in Chicago and most people there DESPISE the long winter and lake effect snow. And if Californians want real snow, its never too far away! Detroit is also kicked repeatedly on CD when its down. That's exactly why i hated living in Chicago. The entire underlying sentiment for that city is "at least we ain't Detroit"....but in all seriousness Chicago is half encircled by giant swaths of blight and ghetto. The city is strongly divided and polarized between haves and have nots, much of it due to local politics. The overall goal seems to have been a sort of bizarro, satanic version of new york..but all they really accomplish is drawing alot of median minded midwesterners from surrounding states and immigrants who could never hack it elsewhere. And they still dont hack it in CHI for very long because small business there is a pipe dream for most.So...the state goes broke. The city as well. and in that unrealistic quest to be top dog, they actually shoot themselves in the foot and create a breeding ground for a horrible quality of life away from their downtown. How is this on topic? Well Chicago is definately hated as well
Last edited by dosequis man; 09-15-2011 at 06:23 AM..
I'd say Miami and Chicago. Both are disliked for weather. Chicago's too cold and Miami's too hot. And some people hate how rude the people are in Miami.
There are two cities that stand out to me as being hated and bashed constantly.
1. Philadelphia - People say the history is boring, they don't enjoy urbanity, and say the city is nothing b/c it's overshadowed by NY.
2. NY - Every city wants to be #1, jealousy.
I think it says "on city-data", not general life. Both those cities are mixed (Philadelphia) or intensely popular (NYC) on City-Data.
Although even in the general US population I think Detroit might have a worse image with people than NYC or Philadelphia. Granted NYC did come out "number 1" on a Harris Poll for "least favorite city" but it also came out number 1 for "most favorite." Detroit came out 2nd in "least favorite" but didn't make "most favorite." In the Pew Research Survey Detroit also did bad. Cleveland also looks to have done fairly bad in both.
So NYC is more "the most polarizing city", although I think San Francisco is also fairly polarizing and maybe Los Angeles too.
Anyway Miami is maybe the one city that seems to be relatively unpopular with people in general, going by some polls I looked at, and unpopular with CD. Specific to CD I would guess generally that the biggest cities of Florida are the most disliked, that's including those that the general non-CD populace like okay. Orlando I think comes out relatively popular with people in general, but is highly unpopular with CD.
I'm not sure what city both Americans and CDers like, but I'm thinking San Diego, California is a contender. I don't hear too much complaint about it from CDers and Americans seem positive on it.
Last edited by Thomas R.; 09-15-2011 at 06:32 AM..
The poll shows that no one city gets more hate then another except Detroit suffers the ultimate insult, it isn't even included in the poll.
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Detroit is also kicked repeatedly on CD when its down. That's exactly why i hated living in Chicago. The entire underlying sentiment for that city is "at least we ain't Detroit"....but in all seriousness Chicago is half encircled by giant swaths of blight and ghetto. The city is strongly divided and polarized between haves and have nots, much of it due to local politics. The overall goal seems to have been a sort of bizarro, satanic version of new york..but all they really accomplish is drawing alot of median minded midwesterners from surrounding states and immigrants who could never hack it elsewhere. And they still dont hack it in CHI for very long because small business there is a pipe dream for most.So...the state goes broke. The city as well. and in that unrealistic quest to be top dog, they actually shoot themselves in the foot and create a breeding ground for a horrible quality of life away from their downtown. How is this on topic? Well Chicago is definately hated as well