Which Louisville area is the most boring and ugliest? (Fern Creek: salon, houses)

[Visvaldis]

Hi everyone!
I wonder what others think of various city sections.
The neighborhood where I live (no, I won't say where) is grubby, has cheap, ugly houses, and trash in yards. Sometimes I think it's the result of an former architectural competition: who can design the ugliest house? I can hardly believe that people actually pay to own something like one of these houses. Well, I guess I would buy one, if it sold for about $25. They look so cheap, as if the lumber was salvaged from a shipwreck then painted with inferior paint, ugly colors, of course. I can hardly believe these houses withstand a summer breeze.
About three times per week I get to drive down Crittenden Drive from the Watterson to I-65 (by Eastern). Kentucky Kingdom looks like an abandoned war site. Nothing but drab, boring brick walls comprise the rest of the drive. That stretch of road is an eyesore. Hardly any trees or creative structures.
Any other areas that are ugly?

[tomocox]

Only boring place I can think of in Louisville is the area west of I-65, N of Central, East of 4th and S. of Brandeis. Very boring place..

[missymomof3]

Originally Posted by tomocox

Only boring place I can think of in Louisville is the area west of I-65, N of Central, East of 4th and S. of Brandeis. Very boring place..

What is that? (sorry if I sound stupid lol)

[Visvaldis]

Originally Posted by missymomof3

What is that? (sorry if I sound stupid lol)

The University of Louisville Campus.

[missymomof3]

Originally Posted by Visvaldis

The University of Louisville Campus.

Oh lol I should have known

[JefferyT]

How about the intersection of Grade Lane & Outer Loop. Can it get any worse? (well, yes it can, there is always Lake Dreamland, which is more like Lake Nightmare). Ok, maybe these areas are so actively gross they are not really boring.

[JefferyT]

I hate to say this but Louisville really does have some very depressing gross suburbia. This includes even the "better" East End areas. Its not so much the urban sprawl, its the chaotic nature of it all.

Though I live in Dayton and Dayton has severe economic problems compared to Louisville the suburbs here are superior to those in Louisville in terms of being identifiable communities and better-controlled development. Suburban quality of life is higher here.

[shannonKY]

St Matthews, hands down.

It is boring because everyone wants to look and be the same. Drive the same mercedes, go to the same salon to get the same boring haircut, off to the most BORING and UGLY mall in town, the St M. mall, to buy the same clothes at Ann Taylor that everyone else wears.

And in St M, you will see more men wearing those nasty CROCs! All the kids wear them too(oh can you imagine the stench of those feet?)

And ugly, well, just look at the plastic botoxed faces of the residents who live in St Matthews.

Bland, cookie cutter, boring and ugly.

But thats just my opinion!

[Peter1948]

Originally Posted by JefferyT

I hate to say this but Louisville really does have some very depressing gross suburbia. This includes even the "better" East End areas. Its not so much the urban sprawl, its the chaotic nature of it all.

Though I live in Dayton and Dayton has severe economic problems compared to Louisville the suburbs here are superior to those in Louisville in terms of being identifiable communities and better-controlled development. Suburban quality of life is higher here.

Come on now...Dayton? The idea of a good time in Dayton is going to a cheesy store at the Greene. Suburban quality of life better in Dayton? Hmm, maybe, but that's only because there is zero urban life and it is a smaller city. I used to live in Cincinnati and interviewed in Dayton until I realized I couldn't live in such a bland place. Daytonians would lead you to believe Kettering is paradise when it is among the funkiest, ugliest 60's suburbia I have seen.

I think most of Louisville looks okay, much of its commerical strips are ugly like most towns in the Midwest and Midsouth. However, one of the ugliest strips I have ever seen is near 7th Street Road and Expo Five where the trashiest strip clubs and old factories stretch for miles. This part of Louisville looks like the worst parts of Detroit, Cincinnati, or St Louis.

[JefferyT]

There is zero urban life in Dayton, true, but that is because the suburbs are a lot nicer. Most of them have developed around country towns and villages, most of which have preserved their small town cores, so have a lot of individual character and their own school systems, which means a bit of local competition for educational excellence.

In terms of zoning, things are much more controlled, with better access control and land use control, so one doesnt get the awful commercial strips and haphazard development that is the norm in Jefferson County.

Daytonians would lead you to believe Kettering is paradise when it is among the funkiest, ugliest 60's suburbia I have seen.

Kettering has Mockinbird Valley/Indian Hills style estate country combined with 1950s/60s suburbia, all heavily wooded with fairly good land use control keeping the suburban strip junk in check. It is far superior to Fern Creek, Lyndon, and Westport/Lagrange Road area in terms of planning and quality of life.

If people are interesting in things for their kids, like good schools & sports, churches, parks, convenience, safety, and an aesthetically pleasing place suburban Dayton is the place to be.

If you are an urban hipster into partying and fashionable consumption no, not so much.

Also, Louisville has nothing of the quality of the Greene, unless you count Norton Commons, but that is a residential & office development without much retail yet.