What's the most depressing U.S. town you've ever visited?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This thread has deteriorated from legit to a typical DCUM snob thread. Gary, Indiana? Yes, depressing by any measure. A few other listed cities? Ditto. But Asheville, NC? Etc? Get real. Many of the cities listed here as "depressing" have large sections that are less "depressing" than the suburban sprawl that many of you are living in right now, I'm sure. I'd stick a fork in my eye before living in Fairfax or Montgomery counties.
Y'all think you're so damned special.

omg u r soooo kewl.

I mean, it's true. We have a second home about 75 miles outside of DC, and every time I drive through the DC suburbs going back and forth I get depressed. I could never, ever live in any of them. None is appealing in the least. None.

Shouldn’t that make you NOT depressed? Like woohoo, I’m going to my second home 75 miles away! Why get depressed about something you will never do? That should bring you fleeting sadness, at most.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Wichita, KS

Can we nominate all of Kansas?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The whole state of NV

So true. I lived in Las Vegas for a year for work once, and I have never been so lonely or depressed. It's so awful.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This thread has deteriorated from legit to a typical DCUM snob thread. Gary, Indiana? Yes, depressing by any measure. A few other listed cities? Ditto. But Asheville, NC? Etc? Get real. Many of the cities listed here as "depressing" have large sections that are less "depressing" than the suburban sprawl that many of you are living in right now, I'm sure. I'd stick a fork in my eye before living in Fairfax or Montgomery counties.
Y'all think you're so damned special.

omg u r soooo kewl.

I mean, it's true. We have a second home about 75 miles outside of DC, and every time I drive through the DC suburbs going back and forth I get depressed. I could never, ever live in any of them. None is appealing in the least. None.

Shouldn’t that make you NOT depressed? Like woohoo, I’m going to my second home 75 miles away! Why get depressed about something you will never do? That should bring you fleeting sadness, at most.

Your logic should apply to every post on this thread then, right?

[Anonymous]

Gallivant’s Ferry, SC

[Anonymous]

In terms of towns with more than 50k people (all towns below 50k are uniformly depressing no matter what state you're in), South Bend, Indiana takes the cake for me. I had a job interview and job offer as a professor at Notre Dame but I knew from about 20 minutes after leaving the airport that I would not be accepting a job there.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This thread has deteriorated from legit to a typical DCUM snob thread. Gary, Indiana? Yes, depressing by any measure. A few other listed cities? Ditto. But Asheville, NC? Etc? Get real. Many of the cities listed here as "depressing" have large sections that are less "depressing" than the suburban sprawl that many of you are living in right now, I'm sure. I'd stick a fork in my eye before living in Fairfax or Montgomery counties.
Y'all think you're so damned special.

omg u r soooo kewl.

I mean, it's true. We have a second home about 75 miles outside of DC, and every time I drive through the DC suburbs going back and forth I get depressed. I could never, ever live in any of them. None is appealing in the least. None.

Shouldn’t that make you NOT depressed? Like woohoo, I’m going to my second home 75 miles away! Why get depressed about something you will never do? That should bring you fleeting sadness, at most.

Your logic should apply to every post on this thread then, right?

I think most people are naming towns they’ve spent time in.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:In terms of towns with more than 50k people (all towns below 50k are uniformly depressing no matter what state you're in), South Bend, Indiana takes the cake for me. I had a job interview and job offer as a professor at Notre Dame but I knew from about 20 minutes after leaving the airport that I would not be accepting a job there.

Agree to disagree on the bold. I love a good small town.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This thread has deteriorated from legit to a typical DCUM snob thread. Gary, Indiana? Yes, depressing by any measure. A few other listed cities? Ditto. But Asheville, NC? Etc? Get real. Many of the cities listed here as "depressing" have large sections that are less "depressing" than the suburban sprawl that many of you are living in right now, I'm sure. I'd stick a fork in my eye before living in Fairfax or Montgomery counties.
Y'all think you're so damned special.

omg u r soooo kewl.

I mean, it's true. We have a second home about 75 miles outside of DC, and every time I drive through the DC suburbs going back and forth I get depressed. I could never, ever live in any of them. None is appealing in the least. None.

Ok—explain to me the horrors of McLean, please.

Explain to me what's good about it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This thread has deteriorated from legit to a typical DCUM snob thread. Gary, Indiana? Yes, depressing by any measure. A few other listed cities? Ditto. But Asheville, NC? Etc? Get real. Many of the cities listed here as "depressing" have large sections that are less "depressing" than the suburban sprawl that many of you are living in right now, I'm sure. I'd stick a fork in my eye before living in Fairfax or Montgomery counties.
Y'all think you're so damned special.

omg u r soooo kewl.

I mean, it's true. We have a second home about 75 miles outside of DC, and every time I drive through the DC suburbs going back and forth I get depressed. I could never, ever live in any of them. None is appealing in the least. None.

There is absolutely nowhere within a 75 mile radius of DC worth bothering to have a second home so this is hysterical snobbery to me

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This thread has deteriorated from legit to a typical DCUM snob thread. Gary, Indiana? Yes, depressing by any measure. A few other listed cities? Ditto. But Asheville, NC? Etc? Get real. Many of the cities listed here as "depressing" have large sections that are less "depressing" than the suburban sprawl that many of you are living in right now, I'm sure. I'd stick a fork in my eye before living in Fairfax or Montgomery counties.
Y'all think you're so damned special.

omg u r soooo kewl.

I mean, it's true. We have a second home about 75 miles outside of DC, and every time I drive through the DC suburbs going back and forth I get depressed. I could never, ever live in any of them. None is appealing in the least. None.

Yeah, I’m sure wherever you live is paradise in comparison. There’s a reason you didn’t share your superior place of residence - people in glass houses and all that.

I live in DC. Second home is in the country. It's absolutely superior to the soul less DC suburbs. Many places are, in fact. It's not that hard to be superior to the DC suburbs.

[Anonymous]

Also came here to say Gary IN. Moline IL is a close compare.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:In terms of towns with more than 50k people (all towns below 50k are uniformly depressing no matter what state you're in), South Bend, Indiana takes the cake for me. I had a job interview and job offer as a professor at Notre Dame but I knew from about 20 minutes after leaving the airport that I would not be accepting a job there.

Yea, and you're still bitter about Notre Dame. You post about it all the time. Really, it's time to move on.

[Anonymous]

Binghamton, NY

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This thread has deteriorated from legit to a typical DCUM snob thread. Gary, Indiana? Yes, depressing by any measure. A few other listed cities? Ditto. But Asheville, NC? Etc? Get real. Many of the cities listed here as "depressing" have large sections that are less "depressing" than the suburban sprawl that many of you are living in right now, I'm sure. I'd stick a fork in my eye before living in Fairfax or Montgomery counties.
Y'all think you're so damned special.

omg u r soooo kewl.

I mean, it's true. We have a second home about 75 miles outside of DC, and every time I drive through the DC suburbs going back and forth I get depressed. I could never, ever live in any of them. None is appealing in the least. None.

Yeah, I’m sure wherever you live is paradise in comparison. There’s a reason you didn’t share your superior place of residence - people in glass houses and all that.

I live in DC. Second home is in the country. It's absolutely superior to the soul less DC suburbs. Many places are, in fact. It's not that hard to be superior to the DC suburbs.

Nationwide house prices and school rankings say otherwise my friend