What's the most depressing U.S. town you've ever visited?
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Anonymous
It’s set right on the border. The eastern edge of the main campus borders the city limits. However, the City proper is very small. St Louis County is much larger and still very dense where it abuts the city. Its not downtown, but still very much “St Louis” |
Anonymous
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Albany, GA
Warner Robins, GA Ajo, AZ Huntington, WV Meridian, MS |
Anonymous
well, i can guess what you do for a living. you're not wrong btw, those places are the pits. |
Anonymous
It's across the street. The main campus is in University City and the medical campus is in the City of St. Louis, but they sit on either side of Forest Park, and the the western border of the park is the city limit. |
Anonymous
| Atlantic City |
Anonymous
I would have picked a different career had I known. 
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Anonymous
| The whole state of Wisconsin. |
Anonymous
We just stayed in Erie - in the newish waterfront development which was nice - and Presque Island was beautiful, but the town of Erie seemed very sad. Lots of shelters and addiction/ rehab centers. |
Anonymous
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Another vote for Niagara Falls. Half the town is just boarded up buildings. Apparently the new casinos being built aren’t giving anything back to the town. It’s sad that The state of NY let this happen to the town.
I know this will be unpopular but I’ve always found Boston to be depressing. |
Anonymous
Have you ever been to Door County? Madison? There are lots of nice smaller towns as well. |
Anonymous
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Canon City, CO.
Everyone there is prison-adjacent in some way. Either they work there or did time there. The only jobs are fast food, retail, and prison-industrial complex. It's dry, desolate, and ugly. Its only redeeming feature is it's close to places that aren't as terrible as it it. |
Anonymous
Morgantown has changed drastically in the past 20 years, much like any other up and coming mid-sized city in the U.S. It pales in comparison to the poverty stricken areas (OP is a whiner). I recently purchased a place in the eastern panhandle...tons of people coming out this way from D.C. Yes, there are a lot of shacks and run down places but I have been amazed at the friendliness of the locals and the beauty of the landscape, not to mention plenty of outdoor activities. I foresee this area changing a lot in the future as more people move in. |
Anonymous
what is the career? |
Anonymous
Really? I spent 6 years in Wisconsin while doing my PhD at UW-Madison and was always finding charming and/or fun spots. I hate a lot of what has happened to the state in the past decade thanks to Scott Walker and right wing extremism, but many areas are still great. Madison is lovely. Parts of Milwaukee are really cool. Whitefish Bay is one of the prettiest suburbs I've been to. I'd happily live there. Cedarburg is charming. Lake Geneva is a playground for wealthy Chicagoans and their vacation homes. Door County is a more low-key vacation spot but very charming. The southwestern part of the state felt like a mini Vermont to me. Yea there are some depressing and ugly parts. (Don't get me started on Racine.) But you could say that for every state, no? Where did you go in WI and when? |
Anonymous
| San Francisco. Tragic what it became when you remember it he good times |