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I'd say Stockton, California. Believe me folks. Stockton is ugly, flat and boring. You also get the worst kind of people. Every time I go there I think of ways of how I can get the hell outta there. Worst of all is the lack of quality people. You get the worst elements from illegal hispanic, white, black and asian, a dreadful combination of people. There isn't any where fun to go to, no night life and nearly nothing to do, except stay at home and go to work. If you want to waste your life and your time, then live in Stockton. No decent person should have to live there.
Stockton is a craphole... It's the kind of boring Central Valley ghetto, where you pull up to a random Burger King or gas station just off the highway and some wannabe thugs threaten to kick your ass---for no reason at all. It's actually been ranked as the 2nd most violent city in California.
Stockton is where the California dream goes to die. Sure it's not as bad as the abandoned Rust Belt towns of the Midwest--but for the West Coast, Stockton is sort of a place that has very little going for it.
Gary Indiana is a hole. I also got lost on my way back to Philly's airport when I tried to find a gas station near Chester. I couldn't find my way out and it was one scary neighborhood. I never did find a gas station but I am sure I could have found some drugs and a hooker.
some of u need to check out chicago lived here my whole life go on the west side indepence & rosevelt it dont get anymore hood than that 600 homicides a year here in chicago no city has that if u don't believe me go to cityrating.com above detroit nyc atlanta everywhere chicago has the highest crime rate sick of hearing everybody saying detroit the worst this n that or nyc or L.A. is worse Chicago is the worst city in the united states check it out on that site n compare the numbers we got every city beat
If you're looking at murder rates, Chicago is nowhere near the highest.
I grew up in Utica, New York, we would take Amtrak to NYC a few times a year. It would go through the south Bronx. This was in the late 70s and early to mid 80s. It was like something out of the apocalypse.
Large chunks of Utica were pretty rough but the south Bronx made it look like paradise. At least in Utica nobody lived in the bombed out buildings.
As in all parts of the world, U.S. cities are also very ugly and dangerous neighborhoods where people live poor and marginal, but Hollywood movies do not show this reality.
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This was the only picture I was able to snap from the bus. I was about to get off and negotiate a cab fare downtown, and didn't want too many people to see my camera.
Basically there were piles of garbage everywhere (which lit up the sky at night, as they were burned), wretched, undrained expanses of land, and miserable housing blocks hemmed in with shacks and huts. Making matters worse, poor urban folks are opponents of Mugabe's dictatorship, so he conducted Operation "Clear Out the Trash" a couple years ago, in which vast expanses of shantytowns were bulldozed. Nowadays, calling the areas that have replaced them 'shantytowns' would be charitable.
The sad thing is that Harare is still possibly one of the most beautiful cities in Africa. There are flowering trees everywhere, and the climate is almost exactly like San Diego's. The center of town is pedestrian-friendly and there's some nice British architecture. A lot of the American corporations that used to do business there have their logos atop glitzy high rises. It once was, and still has the potential to be, one of the nicest cities in Africa.
East Saint Louis; Camden, NJ; Newark, NJ; Oniontown, NY; and a few little poverty stricken hollers in West Virginia.
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