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People In This Online Group Share The 30 Most Unpleasant-Looking Cities In America They’ve Ever Visited Bakersfield, CA - Never in my life have I seen such a sour sight. Oil wells as far the eye can see that it almost looks a heard of stationary ants humping the soil.

Final score:

88points

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tomruns12 3 years ago

I don't know where this picture was taken but it isn't Bakersfield. Bakersfield has a population of almost 400k and while there are oil pumps throughout the city and surrounding areas its not like this. There are also orange groves and many other fruits an vegetables. Bakersfield does have the most unhealthy air in America and terrible traffic. Source: My brother lives in Bakersfield and I live 2 hours away.

23points

People In This Online Group Share The 30 Most Unpleasant-Looking Cities In America They’ve Ever Visited Gary, Indiana. The entire city was gray. No color. I thought I had gone color blind until I got to Chicago.

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Final score:

68points

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Vicky Z 3 years ago

Don't go to Mexico you will not like sepia...(just kidding)

46points

People In This Online Group Share The 30 Most Unpleasant-Looking Cities In America They’ve Ever Visited Youngstown, Ohio. Pure depression.

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58points

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Thorfin Wolfsbane 3 years ago

What's round on both sides and high in the middle? OHIO!!!!

29points

People In This Online Group Share The 30 Most Unpleasant-Looking Cities In America They’ve Ever Visited After I visited Aberdeen, Washington I felt like I understood Kurt Cobain better. The natural surroundings are stunningly beautiful, but in the middle of it there’s this gray, dark, depressing town built on a swamp that feels like it’s sucks the life out of you. If a town could have feelings, this one would be utterly, hopelessly depressed.

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Final score:

57points

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Demi raccoon 3 years ago

Yes yes yes.that town is just sad

8points

People In This Online Group Share The 30 Most Unpleasant-Looking Cities In America They’ve Ever Visited Bakersfield, California, always gives me a headache when I visit it.

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Final score:

55points

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Kristin Ingersoll 3 years ago

Second entry for poor Bakersfield!

45points

People In This Online Group Share The 30 Most Unpleasant-Looking Cities In America They’ve Ever Visited LA. depressing concrete s***hole and I'm glad I visited nicer cities in the USA. everyone was so angry/sad there.

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Final score:

54points

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ERIKA H. 3 years ago

You mean Downtown LA - so many people only think of downtown - next time venture out a little and you'll disocver LA is HUGE and there are a lot of great gems. Downtown is indeed depressing though

21points

People In This Online Group Share The 30 Most Unpleasant-Looking Cities In America They’ve Ever Visited Modesto, CA. It should be a crime to make a city as ugly as Modesto in a state with so much beauty.

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Final score:

52points

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Suzanne Haigh 3 years ago

Well you know, whoever designed, planned etc this will be related to errrm, well those in control who have the pennies. Same everywhere

4points

People In This Online Group Share The 30 Most Unpleasant-Looking Cities In America They’ve Ever Visited El Paso, Texas, depresses the hell out of me.

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Final score:

49points

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Vicky Z 3 years ago

For me the depression is the laws they have against women, lgbtq and in favour of guns!

58points

#10

People In This Online Group Share The 30 Most Unpleasant-Looking Cities In America They’ve Ever Visited Birmingham, Alabama. Half the city is just bland brown brick buildings from the 80’s, and the other half is basically abandoned ruins of bland brown brick buildings from the 80’s

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Final score:

46points

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Xenon 3 years ago

Not to mention "malfunction junction". Mess of roads and ramps that have being built for like 20 years. It's a terrible place, lots of crime.

9points

#11

People In This Online Group Share The 30 Most Unpleasant-Looking Cities In America They’ve Ever Visited Johnstown, Pennsylvania... You can almost feel that the city is dying a slow, unsettling death...

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Final score:

44points

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Leo Domitrix 3 years ago

That's common in many cities on this list.

15points

#12

People In This Online Group Share The 30 Most Unpleasant-Looking Cities In America They’ve Ever Visited Albuquerque, NM. Let me paint a picture. In a rental car after 14 hours of driving I make it about halfway into town. And need gas badly. I pullover to a pretty empty gas station. Just Some oily cardboard sheets spread out here and there. Trees pretty much envelope 3/4s of the sides of the building itself. I get ready to slide my card in the reader when 6 individuals start exiting the cover of the trees. Three guys take up sitting or lying down on the strewn cardboard and three women/girls of questionable age somewhere between 16 and 40 I ballpark approach my car and try to hem and haw and cough to get my attention. I pull my card back, say "aww s***, declines. F***." Get back in my car and speed away. In my rearview I see more people keep coming out of the trees. They didn't look pleased.

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Final score:

44points

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Vicky Z 3 years ago

I don't understand why buggs bunny wanted to turn there all the time!!!

19points

#13

People In This Online Group Share The 30 Most Unpleasant-Looking Cities In America They’ve Ever Visited Independence, MO. — meth capital of the United States. Even the buildings look like they smoke rocks.

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Final score:

43points

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Leigh Boatright 3 years ago

Portland oregon. Needles and trash everywhere. The area around my apartment looks like a garbage dump.

12points

#14

People In This Online Group Share The 30 Most Unpleasant-Looking Cities In America They’ve Ever Visited Gary Indiana is the best reason ever to remove speed limits from freeways. So you can enter and exit Gary in the shortest possible time.

You know a city is bad when the local government boasts there's been less than a dozen murders and less than 20 dead crack babies this month!

Things are Lookin' up for Gary, Indiana!

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Final score:

42points

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Elizabeth Roysden 3 years ago

I- what?

8points

#15

People In This Online Group Share The 30 Most Unpleasant-Looking Cities In America They’ve Ever Visited 'City' would be generous, but take it upon yourself to never stop in Stark or Waldo, FL.

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Final score:

40points

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Kat Rob 3 years ago

Ah Waldo. Know for a big horse and speed traps.

2points

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#16

People In This Online Group Share The 30 Most Unpleasant-Looking Cities In America They’ve Ever Visited Abilene, Tx. just empty buildings, ghettos, and more churches than i've ever seen. the churches are doing well. the city, not so much.

Final score:

35points

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Emma Byrne 3 years ago

Interesting. I wonder if folk pay more to the tax avoiding church than they do in taxes?

4points

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#17

People In This Online Group Share The 30 Most Unpleasant-Looking Cities In America They’ve Ever Visited No one has mentioned Watertown NY so I guess I'll make the case for it. I grew up in the Watertown area. Have since traveled all over the US many times. I've seen some downright awful places but I've yet to see a place that captures the same kind of energy that Watertown does.

Watertown is unique in that it has the perfect combination of a depressed economy, dilapidated infrastructure and poor weather. It gets positively hammered with snow in the winter due to its proximity to Lake Ontario and often sets records for snowfall and low temperatures. The winters are brutal and sometimes start as early as October and can last into May. It exists in what was once the bottom of an ancient glacial lake so the low elevation means constant cloud cover which makes it gray and bleak during the summertime.

On top of that, almost any art or music that is written about the place is about how bad it is. Frank Sinatra's album Watertown is depressing as hell. Harry Chapin wrote the song "A Better Place To Be" while he was in Watertown. There are more examples too. It's so depressing that it inspires people to write about how depressing it is.

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Final score:

35points

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Cain Hargreaves 3 years ago

There are so many towns in New York state that are absolutely miserable (Mechanicville is another one).

12points

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#18

People In This Online Group Share The 30 Most Unpleasant-Looking Cities In America They’ve Ever Visited Albany, NY just feels like a really big Greyhound bus station to me. In the summer it's kinda gross, but in the winter it's a muddy gray sh*tpile. Whenever I've found myself there I've felt like I need to escape it - probably in an old school bus with razor wire strung around it with sharpened broomstick handles protruding from the windows.

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Final score:

33points

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H.L.Lewis 3 years ago

I spent a week in Albany NY one night.

30points

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#19

People In This Online Group Share The 30 Most Unpleasant-Looking Cities In America They’ve Ever Visited Cleveland Ohio. That place irritates my soul

Final score:

33points

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Corey Smith 3 years ago

Hmmm, I don't understand. It's not the most beautiful city, but it is not ugly at all. Lots of features, lots of culture. Surrounding areas are gorgeous.

23points

#20

People In This Online Group Share The 30 Most Unpleasant-Looking Cities In America They’ve Ever Visited Stockton, CA is some big yikes. Maybe not aesthetically ugly, but definitely socioeconomically ugly.

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Final score:

32points

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A C 3 years ago

What do you mean by socioeconomically ugly?

4points

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#21

People In This Online Group Share The 30 Most Unpleasant-Looking Cities In America They’ve Ever Visited Laurel, MS. The try to doll it up on the HGTV show, but it's a cesspool. Upgraded to the most violent city in Mississippi last year, if I'm not mistaken.

Final score:

30points

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Michael Vickery 3 years ago

There used to be a local musician who sang a song that went "Laurel, is a dirty stinking place." It's the Gary, Indiana of Mississippi.

5points

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#22

People In This Online Group Share The 30 Most Unpleasant-Looking Cities In America They’ve Ever Visited Oh my god. Why has no one said Houston yet?

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Final score:

29points

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Pezor Zass 3 years ago

Does Houston have a problem?

64points

Dave P 3 years ago

Because of their no zoning laws, as long as it meets building code, you can build whatever you want on your property. It has some of the most unique architecture in America. Also why they have 3.5 different "downtown" type areas, as when one gets too expensive, they build up another. They also have the lowest homeless of any city over 500k, and the most affordable housing, and most racially integrated city in America. This is due to those zoning laws. It creates lots of affordable housing, which leads to more integration and less homelessness.

17points

H.L.Lewis 3 years ago

Lol

5points

lara 3 years ago

Houston used to be a beautiful city. Now it is a filth ridden dried slime cesspool.

1point

TheBoredPanda 3 years ago

I love Houston. Lived there for several years. If you can get past the insane amount of traffic, it's really a fun city with a lot to do.

8points

∘ユーザー名∘ 3 years ago

Okay, as someone who has visited Houston I can say there are some parts of Houston that are not so good, however there are some little hidden treasures there. I've seen a lot of beautiful street art and have found very many cute little business.

6points

Anne 3 years ago

downvoting this one. Houston is awesome!

4points

The Dave 3 years ago

Downvoting you lol. Lived here all my life, and it’s ugly. Can’t wait to find a prettier place to move to.

0points

Scott 3 years ago

I'm not a native Houstonian, and have lived in 4 major metro areas (Newport News/Norfolk, VA; Birmingham, AL; Denver, CO; and now Houston, TX) so I like to think I have some perspective. While Houston has mosquitoes bigger than the pigeons and I frequently see fish swimming in the air because they don't know where the Gulf ends it's so humid, I really like the city and area. It has great museums, good food, kind people (in my experience), sport (go Dynamo!), decent theatre, and is a hugely diverse city.

3points

Mike Lupia 3 years ago

Houston is the most ASS UGLY city I have ever lived in. And there is No Zoning so you have an apartment complex next to an industrial warehouse, next to a freeway. You could literally put a Strip Club IN a church in Houston if you wanted to.

2points

Dave P 3 years ago

And why is that an problem? If you own the property you should be able to build what you want as long as it meets safety code. There is a reason why Houston had better housing that every other large city in America and lower homless rates. Why shouldnt you be able to build what you want on your property. Govt has too much power over our lives already, and where I live, the sheer amount of restrictions has led to a housing shortage, high prices, etc. I wish we were more like Houston in NYC

2points

Tobin Kern 3 years ago

Yes thats called freedom. You want zoning which is essentially building segregation. Sounds like you are building racist

1point

Scott 3 years ago

There's actually a strip club in Canada that hosts a congregation on Sundays due to a lack of facilities.

0points

Just a Marine Veteran 3 years ago

I've only spent a little time there, but I really enjoyed Huston actually.

1point

Thomas Gray 3 years ago

I've lived in Houston all my life. It's better than it used to be. Great food scene. The humidity and mosquitos still suck, though.

1point

Aisling O'Grady Hills 3 years ago

I agree! I lived there for 6 months and cried every single day until I left.

0points

Don't Look 3 years ago

I think someone from Houston or simply a teenager wrote this one.

0points

The Dave 3 years ago

I was just about to say the same thing. Life-long Houstonian here. It’s freaking ugly. Any pretty historic building found is torn down to build some ugly building that’ll just get torn down again in 30 years. Mayor is corrupt as hell.

0points

Ben Smith 3 years ago

Houston is an ugly, concrete city.

-1point

Malgorzata Margo 3 years ago

UGLIEST large city I have ever lived in. Sprawl is a big problem; concrete spaghetti of roads sprinkled by car dealerships and strip malls. No real arts or culture, just dotted mediocre "museum" or "gallery" here and there. HOT. SUPER HUMID. Terrible schools. and did I mention UGLY

-2points

#23

People In This Online Group Share The 30 Most Unpleasant-Looking Cities In America They’ve Ever Visited I can’t believe no one had mentioned Rochester NY, Anything past Culver road. The worst parts are near Lyell and Monroe Ave. Place is a sh*t hole.

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Final score:

28points

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AzKhaleesi 3 years ago

Dude. .... I LOVE rochester. There's soooo much history. Yes there's some s**t parts. (especially Monroe ave) but I like to describe it as the most beautiful ghetto I've ever seen. Can't be too mad when there's trees grass and friggin squirrels everywhere. lol. But upstate NY is my fave. Rochester, Medina, Irondaquoit (I spelled that wrong I'm sure), you name it. Amazing.

20points

#24

People In This Online Group Share The 30 Most Unpleasant-Looking Cities In America They’ve Ever Visited Blyth California

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Final score:

26points

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HighDesertArtist 3 years ago

But if you’re in Blythe, the shining star is the Courtesy Coffee Shop diner. Food is great and make sure to ask them to show you the amazing vintage dining room hidden behind the red padded door! They only use it for prime rib night.

7points

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#25

People In This Online Group Share The 30 Most Unpleasant-Looking Cities In America They’ve Ever Visited Lawton, OK also. Only been on a few quick in and out missions into the town, but by golly does look like a mess.

Final score:

24points

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Watching 3 years ago

Actually any town in Oklahoma can go on this list.

10points

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#26

People In This Online Group Share The 30 Most Unpleasant-Looking Cities In America They’ve Ever Visited Stockton California no doubt.

Final score:

24points

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Salty Fox 3 years ago

Stockton was a solid 7.5/10 when I lived there

2points

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#27

People In This Online Group Share The 30 Most Unpleasant-Looking Cities In America They’ve Ever Visited Terre Haute, IN. Truly the armpit of the state.

Final score:

23points

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TS Rhodes 3 years ago

Clearly you have not seen Anderson.

6points

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#28

People In This Online Group Share The 30 Most Unpleasant-Looking Cities In America They’ve Ever Visited Cañon City, CO. The Royal Gorge is lovely, but as it's also home to multiple prisons, the rest of it is bleak as hell.

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Final score:

19points

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Curry on... 3 years ago

I told a friend that I was on line checking out Canon City's rents. She practically barked at me to avoid that town because of all the prisons.

5points

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#29

People In This Online Group Share The 30 Most Unpleasant-Looking Cities In America They’ve Ever Visited Spokane,WA. It feels like it got left behind in the late 80s when Seattle became a major destination with no vibrancy or anything attractive about the city in general. Just bunches of residential neighborhoods with a few upscale eateries to keep it just out of last place.

Final score:

16points

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Brandi VanSteenwyk 3 years ago

I am thinking that perhaps Spokane intentionally avoided becoming "another Seattle" on purpose. There were many very-desirable rural/suburban features that faded out as Seattle became a major destination. Spokane would have been smart to retain those things.

13points

#30

People In This Online Group Share The 30 Most Unpleasant-Looking Cities In America They’ve Ever Visited Niagara Falls, NY.

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Final score:

-11points

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AzKhaleesi 3 years ago

What???? you people are crazy that's beautiful.

20points

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Brandi VanSteenwyk 3 years ago

Hey Pandas!! Let's flip the script and list the prettiest, most-inviting cities in the US.

21points

Sanne H. 3 years ago

My thoughts exactly! Or the city with the most creative street-art, the city with the nicest parks, the city with the tallest buildings etc... i’ve never been to the US and don’t know much about the country, so it would be nice to see some cool places

12points

Bella, Your Kitty-Loving Queen 3 years ago

Alright I’ll start: NYC. There’s so much to see and do, Central Park is really nice, not to mention some of the gorgeous churches there. For me it’s just so much fun, and I never get sick of it.

7points

turtledove 3 years ago

yes. Spread positivity! The best places to go to are not the famous ones, but rather the ones that have nice neighborhoods and places within walking distance.

5points

Commander Rex 3 years ago (edited)

Philadelphia! The only place that has true cheesestakes. Oh yeah and the people there are pretty cool.

4points

Paddling Panda 3 years ago

I love downtown Chicago!

3points

Angeline Shalyn 3 years ago

Seward, AK and Homer AK

1point

A Z 3 years ago

Pittsburgh!

1point

Jaguarundi 3 years ago

St. Petersburg, Florida is trying so hard to be pretty and vibrant again. The murals, the Arts District, the parks, the new Pier, the museums and all of the lovely cafes. It's worth a side-trip if you come to Busch Gardens or Orlando.

1point

Bobert Robertson 3 years ago

Jerome, AZ. Savannah, GA. Chicago, IL, Seattle, WA., Telluride, CO., Portland, MA, Charleseton, SC

1point

Don't Look 3 years ago

For real, I would love to see that.

0points

Two_rolling_black_eyes 3 years ago

There is an extended run along I-5 in California where it should be beautiful but the cities along it are a tragic assault against everything good in life. Several of them (Modesto, Stockton, Fresno) were mentioned in the article.

5points

Mrs. Jan Glass 3 years ago

I've driven cross country several times, and I'd probably take the Oklahoma panhandle over that stretch of Central Valley, CA. You can practically chew the smell of it.

2points

Red Hair Blue Soul 3 years ago

Why is Baltimore, MD on here?! Don't @ me, I'm from Maryland and worked in that dump of a city forever.

4points

Jim Ellington 3 years ago

I worked in an office that had a large photo of its skyline frames on the wall. What a miserable little city.

1point

Michigan Guy 3 years ago

no Flint, Michigan? really?

2points

Bacony Cakes 3 years ago

Not even Detroit?

2points

Angie Ayres 3 years ago

Camden, NJ should have been on this list.

2points

Don't Look 3 years ago

The trouble with listing any city in NJ on this is that most of these cities have a declining economy, sparse attractions and just a genuine lack of life. Many of these cities had a heyday of sorts with employment and movement and spending and activity. Then people left about 30-20 years ago and the werent replaced. NJ is small and connected to everything. But I feel you. I grew up in northern NJ and .... I thought it sucked. But it was one of the richest places in the country. Money moved through there. People were always up to something. I just... was too young to be involved correctly.

0points

Angeline Shalyn 3 years ago

Midland Texas !!

2points

Jim Ellington 3 years ago (edited)

When driving to the beach from Gainesville, FL I always got a sense of abject dread driving through Palatka.

1point

Rukkia 3 years ago

With any of these, I think people need to remember that we all have different opinions, none of it is personally, just general, and every city, no matter how wonderful or horrible it is perceived, has some good things and some bad things.

1point

thefaithfulspouse 3 years ago

Dayton ohio. Last one out turn off the lights

1point

Don't Look 3 years ago

Dayton is a tough one because they have the national air force museum so the government will keep it going and they'll do it quietly.

0points

Nicholas Yu 3 years ago

There's a reason Saginaw MI is called Sag-nasty by the locals....Flint is rough too. They STILL don't have clean water and it's been what...7 years?

1point

bakkysak09 3 years ago

suprised no one mentioned detroit cause i always hear that its bad lmao

1point

Bacony Cakes 3 years ago

Detroit is if Pripyat was on the great lakes and had an abandoned car factory.

1point

ispeak catanese 3 years ago

Reading, PA. It's an infected boil in Satan's armpit.

1point

Dl B 3 years ago

Also Harrisburg. Don't go there at night if you don't want to get shot.

1point

Leo Domitrix 3 years ago

What about Canada? Not a big fan of Kingston back in the day...

1point

Paddling Panda 3 years ago

Port Alberni. Ugh.

0points

Vicky Z 3 years ago (edited)

It should be written in the title that it's about American ugly cities.... I'm sure there are ugly cities around the world too(edit: title post now mentions it's about American cities..)

1point

Danieletc 3 years ago

The US is the only nation you are allowed to hate at the BP site.

5points

Athena Funk 2 years ago

Cochran,GA still literally has a wrong side of the tracks white people with money on one one side black people with no money on the other. Only real jobs in the town are Middle Georgia State University and Walmart. And Walmart hasn’t been there for a decade yet.

0points

Tana Karrer Addington 3 years ago

Yuma AZ has an evilness about it, and it is not content until it has sucked you down to it's level of life!

0points

Tee Witt 3 years ago

In my personal experience all cities leave a lot to be desired. They may start beautiful but as soon as they become popular then everything starts to go down due to the massive building programs that generate to house/amuse the tourists

0points

K R 3 years ago

This list is an a*****e for ass****s

0points

Chris Meyers 3 years ago

I feel like there are more places in US devolving than improving. :(

0points

Crochet lady 3 years ago

Wheeling WVa is hell on earth.

0points

Don't Look 3 years ago

WVA is a joke of a state to be honest. It's ... special.

0points

Mario Arzani 3 years ago

I’m sorry did I miss something? Since when did bored panda get taken over by USA haters? Every single article recently is about how cr@p it is.

0points

Pungent Sauce 3 years ago

No one for Vernal, UT?

0points

lunanoire 3 years ago

Midland, TX has got to be the armpit of the entire world. Just oil pumps and lots of fracking. So happy I'll never have to drive through West Texas again. Agree about Bakersfield, CA but Fresno should be on that list too. But that said I've seen some pretty sad European towns too.

0points

A Z 3 years ago

How is Youngstown,OH not on this list?

0points

Monica Pryts 2 years ago

It's #4.

0points

Malgorzata Margo 3 years ago

Tampa, FL

0points

Mad Mar 3 years ago

Let's ring in Connecticut here. Bridgeport. It's buildings either all broken windows or spray paint. Or college s**t or antique buildings with one last subway in the ground floor. That's the main city. As you head out there are housing complexes that were old when they looked new. Hospitals with rude staffing if any. Couple trees. Gangsters. Wanna be gangsters. Crack an meth heads. Some fast food. A tree or two. Bars everywhere. Greek owned almost everything. Greek pizza joints. Greek diners. Greek hotdog stands. Greek fried chicken. And hair salons. Idk I live a town over in Stratford an it's fine. Then it's Milford. Then orange. West haven. And then hell hole new haven. Same as Bridgeport but more grime an violence. That's just coastline cities. Inland there are many towns and cities you wouldn't stop at high noon in for directions. Oh an taxes to high hell. We work hard. Get taxed hard. And eventually all leave. If lucky...

0points

Plane Lover 3 years ago

How did nobody say Redding CA

0points

M.e. Amrani 3 years ago

The Grass is Always Greener on the Other Side

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Kevin Hickey 3 years ago

Yay! For once, Buffalo didn't make this kind of list!

0points

Sam Kunz 3 years ago (edited)

Baltimore is truly America's sweaty, stinky, unwiped, unwashed butt hole. Spend a few hours downtown. If you don't get shot or mugged. Congrats! Just roaming thugs looking to rob you. Homeless sleep in the middle of the sidewalk. It's dirty. Trash every where. People piss and go boom boom anywhere and everywhere. It's the worst.

0points

Brian Early 3 years ago

Fort Dodge, Iowa. A town so bad you should be required to wipe your feet before leaving.

0points

sylvantic 3 years ago

Martinsville, IN. My great-grandma lived there so I’ve been there a lot. Some of the architecture is cool but the Martinsville Candy Kitchen is the only place worth visiting. Fresno, CA is kinda sad, and Frazier, CA is ugly.

0points

Bowtechie 3 years ago (edited)

I feel like a lot of this complaining is based solely on "aesthetic" (okay, the post about the meth capital may have a point) and not the cities themselves. A lot of cities aren't "pretty" because their primary function is commerce, which means infrastructure, which is not the prettiest thing in the world. However, if you look deeper into these cities you find pockets of beauty and history that you won't find anywhere else. A lot of major cities are built around these historical pockets because of conservation laws too. It's immature to complain because you didn't want to put in the effort to finding out more about where you are and are more annoyed it doesn't look like some lavish European metropolis. By the way, if you look closely enough in those places, you'll find some dumps too.

0points

Mickipickie 3 years ago

I love that Watertown NY made it on here! It really is that blah.

0points

imontape 3 years ago

Why can't i see any pictures?

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Emma Byrne 3 years ago

What I have gathered from this is that the USA is not a place I'd like to visit. It seems like capitalism has f****d everything there. :(

0points

Theater Kid 3 years ago

America still has lots of lovely places to visit. I would much rather see an article about the prettiest places to visit.

7points

Daphne Williams 3 years ago (edited)

The United States is a huge country. Probably much bigger than yours. Yes, there are some awful cities that are far past their industrial height and never recovered, but there are thousands more beautiful and vibrant towns and cities, not mention unbelievably beautiful national parks and monuments.

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Bella, Your Kitty-Loving Queen 3 years ago

Yeah, but America still has some nice places to visit.

3points

v 3 years ago

Probably no more so than any other country that allows a predominantly capitalist society to flourish.

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Beezel Palomar 3 years ago

So lame, most of these just mention places but have no explanation or context.

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denzoren 3 years ago

The pictures look kind of clean though. Like, on our island the city is really congested. Only some parts are nice.

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Chillace 3 years ago

been living in ny for my whole life, its a big dump. its gross and humid in the summer, in the winter it looks nice for a day then it turns to grey slush. the buildings are run down and gross.

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AzKhaleesi 3 years ago

the run down and gross buildings are history. Do some research. Look at it from a different angle. Go take your smart phone and take some black and white photos of those run down and gross buildings, you'll have a different perspective. NY is so history rich it's incredible. Come to bigger not so old cities. Houston, Phx, LA, there's history sure, but it's all recent, and not a lot of nice old buildings to look at.

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3004Hardly 3 years ago

I can't believe any place in Washington State would be bad

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Bobert Robertson 3 years ago

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Aeon Flux 3 years ago

It's amazing how defensive people are about all these places. The US seriously does have a lot of ugly cities and towns, guys.

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Eslamala 3 years ago (edited)

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Aliquid A 3 years ago

Poor grammar, incoherent sentence structure... Try harder next time or you fail the class. I'd give that a C-

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Brandi VanSteenwyk 3 years ago

Hey Pandas!! Let's flip the script and list the prettiest, most-inviting cities in the US.

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Sanne H. 3 years ago

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Bella, Your Kitty-Loving Queen 3 years ago

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turtledove 3 years ago

yes. Spread positivity! The best places to go to are not the famous ones, but rather the ones that have nice neighborhoods and places within walking distance.

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Commander Rex 3 years ago (edited)

Philadelphia! The only place that has true cheesestakes. Oh yeah and the people there are pretty cool.

4points

Paddling Panda 3 years ago

I love downtown Chicago!

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Angeline Shalyn 3 years ago

Seward, AK and Homer AK

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A Z 3 years ago

Pittsburgh!

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Jaguarundi 3 years ago

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Bobert Robertson 3 years ago

Jerome, AZ. Savannah, GA. Chicago, IL, Seattle, WA., Telluride, CO., Portland, MA, Charleseton, SC

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Don't Look 3 years ago

For real, I would love to see that.

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Two_rolling_black_eyes 3 years ago

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Mrs. Jan Glass 3 years ago

I've driven cross country several times, and I'd probably take the Oklahoma panhandle over that stretch of Central Valley, CA. You can practically chew the smell of it.

2points

Red Hair Blue Soul 3 years ago

Why is Baltimore, MD on here?! Don't @ me, I'm from Maryland and worked in that dump of a city forever.

4points

Jim Ellington 3 years ago

I worked in an office that had a large photo of its skyline frames on the wall. What a miserable little city.

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Michigan Guy 3 years ago

no Flint, Michigan? really?

2points

Bacony Cakes 3 years ago

Not even Detroit?

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Angie Ayres 3 years ago

Camden, NJ should have been on this list.

2points

Don't Look 3 years ago

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Angeline Shalyn 3 years ago

Midland Texas !!

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Jim Ellington 3 years ago (edited)

When driving to the beach from Gainesville, FL I always got a sense of abject dread driving through Palatka.

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Rukkia 3 years ago

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thefaithfulspouse 3 years ago

Dayton ohio. Last one out turn off the lights

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Don't Look 3 years ago

Dayton is a tough one because they have the national air force museum so the government will keep it going and they'll do it quietly.

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Nicholas Yu 3 years ago

There's a reason Saginaw MI is called Sag-nasty by the locals....Flint is rough too. They STILL don't have clean water and it's been what...7 years?

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bakkysak09 3 years ago

suprised no one mentioned detroit cause i always hear that its bad lmao

1point

Bacony Cakes 3 years ago

Detroit is if Pripyat was on the great lakes and had an abandoned car factory.

1point

ispeak catanese 3 years ago

Reading, PA. It's an infected boil in Satan's armpit.

1point

Dl B 3 years ago

Also Harrisburg. Don't go there at night if you don't want to get shot.

1point

Leo Domitrix 3 years ago

What about Canada? Not a big fan of Kingston back in the day...

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Paddling Panda 3 years ago

Port Alberni. Ugh.

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Vicky Z 3 years ago (edited)

It should be written in the title that it's about American ugly cities.... I'm sure there are ugly cities around the world too(edit: title post now mentions it's about American cities..)

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Danieletc 3 years ago

The US is the only nation you are allowed to hate at the BP site.

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Athena Funk 2 years ago

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Tana Karrer Addington 3 years ago

Yuma AZ has an evilness about it, and it is not content until it has sucked you down to it's level of life!

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Tee Witt 3 years ago

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K R 3 years ago

This list is an a*****e for ass****s

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Chris Meyers 3 years ago

I feel like there are more places in US devolving than improving. :(

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Crochet lady 3 years ago

Wheeling WVa is hell on earth.

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Don't Look 3 years ago

WVA is a joke of a state to be honest. It's ... special.

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Mario Arzani 3 years ago

I’m sorry did I miss something? Since when did bored panda get taken over by USA haters? Every single article recently is about how cr@p it is.

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Pungent Sauce 3 years ago

No one for Vernal, UT?

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lunanoire 3 years ago

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A Z 3 years ago

How is Youngstown,OH not on this list?

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Monica Pryts 2 years ago

It's #4.

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Malgorzata Margo 3 years ago

Tampa, FL

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Mad Mar 3 years ago

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Plane Lover 3 years ago

How did nobody say Redding CA

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M.e. Amrani 3 years ago

The Grass is Always Greener on the Other Side

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Kevin Hickey 3 years ago

Yay! For once, Buffalo didn't make this kind of list!

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Sam Kunz 3 years ago (edited)

0points

Brian Early 3 years ago

Fort Dodge, Iowa. A town so bad you should be required to wipe your feet before leaving.

0points

sylvantic 3 years ago

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Bowtechie 3 years ago (edited)

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Mickipickie 3 years ago

I love that Watertown NY made it on here! It really is that blah.

0points

imontape 3 years ago

Why can't i see any pictures?

0points

Emma Byrne 3 years ago

What I have gathered from this is that the USA is not a place I'd like to visit. It seems like capitalism has f****d everything there. :(

0points

Theater Kid 3 years ago

America still has lots of lovely places to visit. I would much rather see an article about the prettiest places to visit.

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Daphne Williams 3 years ago (edited)

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Bella, Your Kitty-Loving Queen 3 years ago

Yeah, but America still has some nice places to visit.

3points

v 3 years ago

Probably no more so than any other country that allows a predominantly capitalist society to flourish.

0points

Beezel Palomar 3 years ago

So lame, most of these just mention places but have no explanation or context.

0points

denzoren 3 years ago

The pictures look kind of clean though. Like, on our island the city is really congested. Only some parts are nice.

0points

Chillace 3 years ago

been living in ny for my whole life, its a big dump. its gross and humid in the summer, in the winter it looks nice for a day then it turns to grey slush. the buildings are run down and gross.

0points

AzKhaleesi 3 years ago

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3004Hardly 3 years ago

I can't believe any place in Washington State would be bad

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Bobert Robertson 3 years ago

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Aeon Flux 3 years ago

It's amazing how defensive people are about all these places. The US seriously does have a lot of ugly cities and towns, guys.

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Eslamala 3 years ago (edited)

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Aliquid A 3 years ago

Poor grammar, incoherent sentence structure... Try harder next time or you fail the class. I'd give that a C-

7points