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I voted Cleveland but I recall Boston sports radio for the 2005 Super Bowl making all kinds of disparaging remarks about Jacksonville. It has that big military base tattoo parlor, pawn shop, and strip club ambiance. The drive from the airport to TIAA Bank Field certainly has that ambiance. Inadequate first class hotel capacity so they had to rent cruise ships.
I voted Cleveland but I recall Boston sports radio for the 2005 Super Bowl making all kinds of disparaging remarks about Jacksonville. It has that big military base tattoo parlor, pawn shop, and strip club ambiance. The drive from the airport to TIAA Bank Field certainly has that ambiance. Inadequate first class hotel capacity so they had to rent cruise ships.
Yeah Jax really took it on the chin for the superbowl. The drive from the airport to downtown goes the north side which is the hardest part of the city. Most of the hotels at that time were on the south side 15 mins from downtown. They really weren't prepared for it.
Detroit. It's basically been known as this country's most dilapidated, war zone major city longer than any other I can remember. Sad.
Cleveland though has been the butt of a lot of jokes. I never knew about the Lake going on fire until i got to college and my buddy from Ohio told me about it.
It’s not just right winged? I never hear it from right winged sources but that’s probably because I don’t read them as it is. But it doesn’t surprise me. They probably use it to their advantage. But it’s 100% not just them. Don’t ask me why. That’s what we grew up learning is Chicago for some reason seen as a third world country level danger. I would show my peers the statistics of the crime and it not backing them up and they still believed it just because...
Don’t make me remind you of the infamous “Chi-raq” by Spike Lee that Chicago didn’t take too well...
Only people who want to bash Chicago refer to it that way. Like, maybe someone from Texas? And, who is "we" grew up learning Chicago is "third world country level danger". Please, you are too obvious, trying to throw a dig at Chicago, when it's not even an option. Be more subtle if you don't want us to see through what's obvious. Chicago has too much going for it, to be on this list.
Not enough people know about Cleveland on a national scale, though. Even with LeBron and Drew Carey making the city cool again. I get the impression that most Americans don't know the difference between Cleveland, Columbus, or Cincinnati, especially people from outside the Midwest. It's all Ohio to them.
Detroit's reputation, although aided by Eminem (I guess?), has been ridiculed for many, many years. It's also a larger major city than Cleveland, therefore more famous on a national scale. Everyone knows about Detroit, and it's usually for bad reasons...
With that being said, a good portion of cities in the Midwest and Northeast have suffered from similar issues. Buffalo definitely has an inferiority complex, and Baltimore is known for its "rough" reputation up and down the East Coast.
Only people who want to bash Chicago refer to it that way. Like, maybe someone from Texas? And, who is "we" grew up learning Chicago is "third world country level danger". Please, you are too obvious, trying to throw a dig at Chicago, when it's not even an option. Be more subtle if you don't want us to see through what's obvious. Chicago has too much going for it, to be on this list.
When we talk about cities and chicago is brought up 99% of the time people talk about either
A) chiraq
B) south side murders
In Boston people were indifferent about Chicago but now I live in NYC area, Chicago if not Philadelphia are the butt of all jokes.
I literally had a friend from Patterson NJ tell me “your family is considering Chicago? Damn i didnt even know people still went there!” Then proceded with some lame jokes about chiraq. Oddly enough a day later a mass shooting at a nightclub happened and he was like “SEEE!”
.. as if he lived in short hills. Man was patterson
When we talk about cities and chicago is brought up 99% of the time people talk about either
A) chiraq
B) south side murders
In Boston people were indifferent about Chicago but now I live in NYC area, Chicago if not Philadelphia are the butt of all jokes.
I literally had a friend from Patterson NJ tell me “your family is considering Chicago? Damn i didnt even know people still went there!” Then proceded with some lame jokes about chiraq. Oddly enough a day later a mass shooting at a nightclub happened and he was like “SEEE!”
.. as if he lived in short hills. Man was patterson
All cities have something to ridicule, I guess. And, most of us are smart enough to accept it for what it is.
Poor ole Cleveland--that's the answer, based on my experience and opinion.
My partner and his family are all from Pittsburgh, and they have relatives in both Chicago and Cleveland. They constantly knock Cleveland all the time LOL....I don't know what it is, but it's always a throwing shade thing at Cleveland. Lately from them it's been the whole state of Ohio.
I feel like Ohio has emerged as a state that gets beat up a lot with digs lately, too.
Cleveland and Detroit are the top 2 by far. Cleveland over Detroit because there are more specific things that people mention about Cleveland, however horribly misunderstood. For example, "Mistake by the Lake" was a nickname for the football stadium, which I would still agree with, not the city; the Cuyahoga River fire being one of many river fires worldwide at the time, but an important event for actually doing something about pollution of our waterways. I remember when Lebron left for Miami, it was in vogue to bash Cleveland for that. Then the insufferable Mike Polk tourism videos, though I think they are completely unfunny, were not made for national consumption but somehow went viral. People don't even understand the "jokes" if you aren't from here, but no matter!
Detroit is known nationally more for just being abandoned and "Scary", I don't think there is the same level of specific knowledge. Ditto Chicago. I'm not really sure why it is cool to make fun of cities who were the victims of dystopian global neoliberalism and systematically dispossessed of their livelihoods and wealth mere years after supplying the country with so much to improve everyone's lives and creating the materials necessary to win two world wars.
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