Cities that made the book, "The Worst Towns In The U.S.A." By Maurice Crow (safest, air pollution)
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Looking for sequel. This was a fun book with a point and to all those critical of the choices didn,t the author put a disclaimer about his selections in the introduction ? Read People!
I've actually been to Volga, SD. It's literally five minutes from Brookings (college town). I have no idea why he chose it, for a town of maybe 1,000 people there's almost literally nothing there to hate.
All I know that Fleischmanns NY is a gorgeous town nestled in the mountains with good demographics and its in one of the better run counties of this state. I cannot imagine there is much work to be had out there but if you really love a place you make it work.
Kearny is right next to Newark off the garden state expressway and a lot of people from Manhattan drive there as it is the closest Walmart. It's nothing of note, but much of North NJ is a hole. Small towns that were built like they were much bigger cities filled with the ghetto people forced out of NYC...
How is St. Louis, MO and East St. Louis, IL not on that list? Those, along with Detroit, are the worst in the US.
You might not believe it, but there are actually some very solid neighborhoods in St. Louis, as well as the immediate surrounding towns in St. Louis County, namely Clayton, Ladue, Webster Groves etc, and weather aside, people enjoy a very high quality of life in these places.
El Paso, TX actually has a very low crime rate - in marked contrast to its bigger neighbor Juarez, across the river.
Accident, MD is just a rural mountain village with really extreme snowfall.
Knoxville, TN has surprisingly high air pollution, relative to its size.
I would include Newburgh, NY -- Pine Bluff, AR -- Monroe, LA -- Camden, NJ -- Flint, MI -- Petersburg, VA -- Rocky Mount, NC -- maybe Gallup, NM -- Wickenburg, AZ -- Greeley, CO and Garden City, KS (both have stockyards). Maybe the oil-refinery cities of the Texas Gulf. Baton Rouge, LA is also poisoned by oil refineries.
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