What's the most depressing U.S. town you've ever visited?
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Anonymous
| Bakersfield and Fresno, California. Redneck, racist, lifted truck, trumpland, CA. |
Anonymous
We thought it was fun to drive through that area to Niagara Falls. We were shocked by the poverty. |
Anonymous
We were caught in a dust storm in Reno. Dust, trashes and tumble weeds were flying above the highway. So weird and dystopian. |
Anonymous
LOL Mclean actually deserves your nomination. |
Anonymous
I love downtown Denver. It is a boring drive coming from Golden though. |
Anonymous
Yes, I lived there for 6 years. You can start your car and AC, drive through town, and the car has hardly cooled a bit. Oxford is actually quite pretty. The Mississippi Delta would be totally depressing without the blues, with such poverty and racism. |
Anonymous
My brother lives in Denver and my father lived in Colorado Springs for almost 30 years. I've driven around a significant part of Colorado. Alot of people probably don't realize it, but Denver and Colorado are actually a desert climate. Yes, Colorado is known for its snow, but it's powder, not the wet snow we have. The mountains in Colorado are absolutely stunning. But the cities and towns are all brown because of the desert/lack of humidity. |
Anonymous
Good bones, bad blood. It is a ghost town, and western maryland suffers total brain drain. A handful of people own all of the businesses and the rest are poor, angry, and disenfranchised. |
Anonymous
| It is surprising and sad how many parts of our rich country are still poverty stricken. Those are the depressing parts. |
Anonymous
| Downtown St Louis in the mid 2000s. Went there for a AAAS conference and had never seen a US city like it, such a shell of former greatness. I don’t know if it’s still that way but I can’t stop thinking about it. |
Anonymous
+1 |
Anonymous
| My son and I were watching the first Hunger Games movie and he said the town where Katniss lived looked like the desolate towns in western NC. He went to camp south of Asheville and they would pass through these types of towns on the way to go backpacking. |
Anonymous
When the US median HHI is low well most towns aren't gonna be pretty. Big cities and quaint charming towns aside, list of the country is poor and gross. It's just reality it's not being a snob. I don't actually think it's what the people there think however as it's probably all they know and it's home to them. But if you've seen a different environment you have a different perspective. It's what it is but honestly you gotta expect most of the country is run down. But outside towns if you see rural areas for the nature there whether Nevada, New Mexico or W VA - all poor states, the natural beauty of these places is rich. When you talk about the beauty of the country you talk about the natural beauty. As far as people and towns go, there's no beauty in poverty and a lot of people these days are poor. Maybe not India poor but relatively below average. Middle class is poor in a lot of cities, certainly around these parts. Sorry but I can't live in a beautiful charming home unless it's a log cabin with 2-3 kids on $100k a year. |
Anonymous
| Fayetteville NC or nearby Radford NC last visited early 2000s... Maybe they are better now? |
Anonymous
The area around the park is really shined up nicely. Try it again if you can. |