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1. Detroit - definitely a Third World city. The economic and racial divide is as stark as apartheid-era South Africa. The city feels more like Sarajevo and other Eastern Bloc cities than an American city. Not even Baghdad....at least Baghdad is bright and sunny.
2. Buffalo, New York - 7 feet snow is normal??????????????????? Also just a typical decayed Rust Belt/Snow Belt city.
3. Philadelphia-Camden - see reasons for Detroit. Philly is a dump as is Camden. If you extend it east you get to Atlantic City which is also a dump. If you next it north you get to even more decayed PA towns.
4. Los Angeles - crime, earthquakes, fires, mudslides, illegal aliens, gangs, drugs
5. Miami-Dade County - is already a Third World banana republic filled with illegals. Also hurricanes.
6. Washington, D.C. - Baltimore: Baltimore is ghetto and filled with crime, drugs, and gangs. So bad that even illegals don't move theer. DC has the worst traffic outside of LA, overpriced housing. Half the area is ghetto (and crawling with illegals) and other half is pretentious, snobby, and arrogant. The worst of Detroit and Long Island mixed together.
7. New Orleans - until the reconstruction is complete and the levees fixed, then it will be a great city and region again.
8. Twin Cities - consistently ranked a very livable place, but they must not take the weather into account. I have a friend from there and she says elementary school have recess unless its -15 degrees Fahrenheight.....
9. El Paso - would be a bad place, even if it was in Mexico. Honestly, I'd rather live in Mexico City or Guadalajara than there.
10. Cleveland - decayed Rust Belt dump
I'm not going to even dignify your statements by arguing any of your idiotic thoughts on most of these cities.
Going by a mix of crime rates and foreclosure rates I'd say Las Vegas followed by Stockton, California. Vegas has certainly been a place I've never heard much good about.
City Crime Rankings by Population Group
Cities with the worst foreclosure rates - Yahoo! Finance (http://finance.yahoo.com/news/Cities-with-the-worst-cnnm-3180774417.html?x=0&.v=2 - broken link)
One method I used once Toledo, Ohio did come out among the worst but not as bad as those two. Toledo has culture it seems. There's the Toledo Museum of Art with a collection of glass art. Its hall is host to the Toledo Symphony Orchestra. There's a whole Wikipedia category for "Culture of Toledo, Ohio." Las Vegas has such a category, but Stockton doesn't so far as I can tell.
memphis has one of the largest downtown resident populations of any major metropolitan city of 500,000 or more. it is ranked 6th largest in the country, w/ a population currently between 33,000 and 35,000, as of 7-9-09. individual household income averages over $60,000 yearly. it is expected that the current resident population will add another 5000 residents no later than 2012, as current residential buildings, single dwellings, and harbortown and the island complexes are completed.
plans are soon to be announced for the building of twin high-rise residential complexes. well over $3 billion dollars and approximately an additional $3.5-4 billion dollars is to be appropriated and spent for public works in downtown.
the person who named memphis and st. louis needs to get out more or visit the photo sights dealing w/ metropolitan memphis and downtown. memphis also has a very reputable ballet arts company, opera memphis, two very respectable symphonies, former home to the well known memphis boy choir and chamber group, who have traveled the world and recorded extensively. memphis is the home of the graceland mansion, the elvis presley estate, the dixon art gallery and museum, memphis botanical gardens, brooks art gallery and school of art, a world class zoo, a world class airport, etc., etc. it is home to an urban park of over 4300 acres, which makes it about four times larger than central park in new york city. it is very pretty. memphis has the third largest gaming center in the united states, which is located in south metropolitan memphis. memphis has the busiest cargo airport in the world, and it is the busiest 3-11 p.m. passenger airport in the u.s. memphis is full of southern charm, beauty, architecture, history, and memphis nomenclature not found anywhere else in the world. memphis has foreclosure rates which are in the lower middle rankings, when compared to the rest of the country. las vegas, las angeles, pheonix, detroit, miami, and atlanta are some of the worst. memphis, from august '08 to august '09, ranked at 2.5% for job loss in the state of tn. knoxville, 3.2%, chattanooga, 3.7%, and nashville, the worst, was 4.8%, a job loss representing over 37,800, as compared to memphis w/ a job loss just at 13,000. memphis has suffered much less because of its diversity of jobs, job growth through fed-x, huge medical construction projects and growth of bio-med-defense-vaccine sectors, and the growth and building of the mega intermodal rail system in east memphis.
the new third bridge over the mississippi in north memphis will tie the metro areas of blythville and jonesboro into the memphis metro, the continuing boom growth of the south metropolitan area of memphis w/ its car plant, steel plant, and the riverpark recreational/commercial/housing development, and hopefully the new waterworld casino will continue to spur growth throughout the region. i think you must be thinking of newark, parts of hartford, pittsburgh, and philadelphia when you are thinking slums, etc.
I don't think "everyone" does. There's just a strong group at CD that prefers most everything in life to be within a short walk of where they live. I'm guessing these people are largely childless as I think you often need a car when you have kids. Probably also mediocre to poor with bicycles as I believe I know of people in relatively low density towns that can manage using a bike.
Their personal preference is fine, but I'd agree it does get a tad irritating in cases where they act like their preference is an objective reality everyone should recognize.
I don't think "everyone" does. There's just a strong group at CD that prefers most everything in life to be within a short walk of where they live. I'm guessing these people are largely childless as I think you often need a car when you have kids. Probably also mediocre to poor with bicycles as I believe I know of people in relatively low density towns that can manage using a bike.
Their personal preference is fine, but I'd agree it does get a tad irritating in cases where they act like their preference is an objective reality everyone should recognize.
Yes it does because it's like I should think some other place is better when sprawl happens everywhere. If done right and planned neatly, it doesn't bother me that much. An urban core helps though.
I would have to go with Detroit. Its big, bad, and ugly.
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