Do you live in one of America's worst cities? (Massachusetts, Michigan, Nevada)
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I've lived in Las Vegas for a few months as well as St Louis and Memphis. The only one that fits in the lists is Memphis. St Louis and Las Vegas are large enough for the good to offset the bad.
I’m in Milwaukee a lot, grew up there, and I always want to move back after visiting. Lots of cool spots that might get overshadowed by the rougher areas.
Baltimore is an interesting one to me. I just watched a little mini-documentary on Leakin Park, and they called it the scariest place in America. Kind of sad that a lot of otherwise interesting cities can be brought down by the bad areas.
This is the type of list all of us Texans want. Because of our states annex laws all a city like Houston or San Antonio has to do is annex 20 miles of suburbia to cancel out the 20 square miles of hood/ghetto in the city and we can pretend that the problems of our city aren’t that bad and we will never make a list like this. The reasons why lists like this suck is because depending on a state laws to incorporation and annexation a place like Florence-Graham which is essentially an LA neighborhood the city forgot to annex can place highly on this list when it clearly isn’t an independent city in anyway.
Texas Annexation Law does NOT allow a 20 mile annexation.
If the Citizens in San Antonio and Houston had an objection to their "20 square miles of hood/ghetto" in their Cities ...... they would not continue to Elect Leftist Democrats to run their Cities and then "pretend" that they can't FIX their Cities.
In the past I have lived in Baltimore, New Haven and Miami. They weren't all that bad (this was decades ago though)
It felt like Salt Lake City was one of the nicer cities that I have ever visited. Knoxville was nice when I was there too.
Albuquerque, South Bend, Indiana and Atlanta seemed pretty nice too.
I know Baltimore has a lot of crime of late and I haven't lived in Miami for 50 years...but have a hard time seeing how some of the other cities ended up on that list.
I was born and raised in the suburbs of Dayton, and while it was a great place to grow up, the list isn't wrong to include it because it's really struggling. Visiting family who still live there never fails to remind me why I needed to leave. It's not the same city it was when I was a child and it was right for me to move on. That said, I continue to root for Dayton's success, and nothing would make me happier than to see it pull out of its death spiral. I guess you can take the girl out of Ohio, but you can't take the Ohio out of the girl.
The thing is there are many people like you. I am one. I grew up in the Toledo area, and my grandparents were in the Dayton area. Neither city is similar to what it was like when I was a child, too (80's and 90's). And people like us have left.
We root for its success - but realistically, people like us leaving is one of the biggest reasons it'll be very hard for those areas to recover quickly.
We shouldn't feel bad about it - economic opportunity is just not great there right now. But it's a chicken-and-egg situation for sure. They need companies to bring in people - but they need those brilliant people there to set up shop...
Older thread, but I agree there are some ridiculous results on this list (yep, Miami Beach and Tucson are crazy). I really suspect this is a deliberate ploy to get ppl talking about these “findings”.
Sure, let’s throw up a list for the 30 cities with the most pleasant year-round weather. Now be sure to sprinkle in the unexpected: Fargo, ND, Buffalo, NY and Death Valley, CA, because if we don’t include these “surprises” on the list then a giant yawn for the readers.
Wonder about this list. Miami BEACH one of the most glamorous places in on here? Miami itself is a Third World city (not even an American city) but Miami Beach on this list??
Well a lot of these cities are Democrat even if they're in Republican states. For example Gary is probably the most Democrat place in Indiana and Shreveport's city limits are very Democrat. I'm from Louisiana and the Democrats are all concentrated in the poor, majority black areas.
Charleston WV (where I used to live) and Dayton OH were both hurt by Democrat policies like unfair trade agreements and the war on coal.
Most of them FL towns definitely belong on the list. Homestead is terrible, the county at whole is. Miami Beach is too expensive for the average Joe.
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