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Which City is America's Worst

Which City is America's Worst

  • Atlanta

    Votes: 1 1.4%
  • Chicago

    Votes: 8 11.3%
  • New York

    Votes: 1 1.4%
  • Los Angeles

    Votes: 4 5.6%
  • Detroit

    Votes: 40 56.3%
  • Washington DC

    Votes: 5 7.0%
  • Miami

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Cleveland

    Votes: 1 1.4%
  • Memphis

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Other, please explain

    Votes: 11 15.5%

  • Total voters
    71
Chicago is a beautiful city. It has its problems, but I can't see how it would rank as the worst city in America.
 
Chicago is a beautiful city. It has its problems, but I can't see how it would rank as the worst city in America.

There are definitely nice parts of Chicago but there are also very violent parts. Worst is obviously a very subjective label and covers many different factors. I haven't been to most of the cities on here but voted for Detroit. I have not heard a positive story about Detroit in a very long time and the you tube videos of driving around the streets of Detroit are disturbing. Entire neighborhoods have been abandoned and are now in a state of total ruin save for the crackheads that have taken shelter in some of the abandoned homes.

Another reason why I believe Detroit is the worst city is because some of the people there have voiced their opinion that the rest of the country should bail them out. The way I see it, they made their bed, now they must lie in it.
 
Anyone who votes for Chicago is either a partisan hack or doesn't travel much. Personally I would be torn between Detroit and Memphis... Chicago is a wonderful city and nobody would care about it if it were not for the Obama Derangement Syndrome some have.
 
What do all these worst cities have in common, I wonder?
 
Anyone who votes for Chicago is either a partisan hack or doesn't travel much. Personally I would be torn between Detroit and Memphis... Chicago is a wonderful city and nobody would care about it if it were not for the Obama Derangement Syndrome some have.

Have you ever walked in Memphis?
 
You know, I voted Chicago, because the crime is just unbelievable there. I just don't understand -- people who live in Chicago seem to love Chicago. How can a city be that well loved, yet that steeped in crime?
 
This poll isn't overtly political but I didn't see a place to post polls in the non political section.

Anyway which of these is the worst US city in terms of crime, economy, housing, general livability etc etc etc
Basically which city should be known as America's toilet?




I didn't do any research, but just based on what I know, I'm going with Detroit.

Detroit was a pretty good place a while back, but I wouldn't recommend a visit there now.
 
Have you ever walked in Memphis?

Memphis is a hole. It is the Detroit of the south. Beale Street area is okay though. But if I am visiting Tennessee... Nashville is my preference.
 
Memphis is a hole. It is the Detroit of the south. Beale Street area is okay though. But if I am visiting Tennessee... Nashville is my preference.

Well at least it has Graceland. What does Detroit have?
 
Damn. Lots of Detroit here. Having been born and raised there I can say that Detroit is a horrible place to visit, but its not that bad to live there. There may not be any city where the citizens treat visitors worse than Detroit. Living there is not as bad as outsider impressions are.
And going there a few times a year, Detroit is improving.




So is Kabul, but would you want to live there?
 
The only one that matters to me (since I'm hardly 10 minutes away from it) is Bridgeport CT. That place is pretty hellish and full of abandoned cold war factories.

I'm sure it was once a grand city, but it's plagued with the same thing that has plagued nearly every huge city that we describe as ****holes.

The cold war city defies what makes cities grow and prosper. Any great city would have small firms, absolute unmolested communication with the outside world, and diversity within industries.

Cold war cities instead had the anti-picturesque towering walls surrounding huge factories that dominated, most, if not, all of the city. It had terribly small connection with the outside world, had good productivity CONSIDERING ITS TIME but eventually became inefficient, and had absolutely no diversity within what it does.

Bridgeport is one example of a cold war city. And when the cold war ended, it began its huge steep and almost unpredictable (at the time no one expected it) fall into the city it is today: broken glass, abandoned factories, and unprecedented amounts of crime.

These cities invested so much into just one damn industry, had absolutely no connection with the outside world, and outside of maybe the food industry, had no small firms as the landscape was dominated by factories of huge corporations.

That's just my take based on what I've heard and seen and read.

Anyways, Bridgeport is pretty bad, maybe that can go up as an option but I don't know if it can "dethrone" Detroit...
 
There was a Singapore in Michigan. You can visit there. Which makes sense as answer. Its a ghost town. No livability, no housing, no jobs.
although crime is low.




Most ghost towns have a low crime rate due to the fact that there's no one there to rob, murder or rape.
 
I had an absolutely awful week in Houston once, so I have a grudge with that corner of hell. There were insects that I thought were birds!

I had a rough week in Miami. I got lost and couldn't find anyone that spoken English for two hours!

And I'm pretty sure that goo from Ghostbusters 2 is flowing under Glendale, CA, because everyone there seems to be a complete @sshole.

And I grew up amongst Ohio State fans,
so I'm convinced Ann Arbor is a whore.




Ann Arbor is a great little town.
 
I don't think so, I believe that Singapore supports itself.

I wouldn't consider a conscript army to be a self-supported government.
 
There are definitely nice parts of Chicago but there are also very violent parts. Worst is obviously a very subjective label and covers many different factors. I haven't been to most of the cities on here but voted for Detroit. I have not heard a positive story about Detroit in a very long time and the you tube videos of driving around the streets of Detroit are disturbing. Entire neighborhoods have been abandoned and are now in a state of total ruin save for the crackheads that have taken shelter in some of the abandoned homes.

Another reason why I believe Detroit is the worst city is because some of the people there have voiced their opinion that the rest of the country should bail them out.
The way I see it, they made their bed, now they must lie in it.




That's cold.
 
I was thinking L.A. but its got some nice areas like the South Bay and downtown has been somewhat renovated so I would have to go with Detroit.
 
Worst for what? Crime - Saint Louis or Memphis.

Economy? - Detroit.

Quality of Life / Livability? - One of the boom towns like Houston.

No one lives in Houston.

Seriously, with a few exceptions like the Heights or off the SW Freeway there are very few places to live here.

People typically live in the outlying cities like Katy, Woodlands or even Pearland and then drive in.
 
This poll isn't overtly political but I didn't see a place to post polls in the non political section.

Anyway which of these is the worst US city in terms of crime, economy, housing, general livability etc etc etc

Basically which city should be known as America's toilet?

Well, not having been to every city, I can't really say for sure, but I've seen some pretty bad-looking pictures of Detroit, so that's my vote. Some parts of Detroit look like a war zone or something!
 
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