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

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Anonymous wrote:San Fran and DC homeless filth everywhere

You aren’t visiting the right areas.

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Anonymous wrote:Atlantic City (my kid's team has a tournament there every year, it's such a dump and so depressing)

Agree!! Every other store is a pawn shop.

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Anonymous wrote:Albany, GA
Warner Robins, GA
Ajo, AZ
Huntington, WV
Meridian, MS

well, i can guess what you do for a living. you're not wrong btw, those places are the pits.

I would have picked a different career had I known.

What is it?

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Anonymous wrote:I am not enjoying the upstate NY responses on this thread. Both Troy and Albany have some dismal parts (so I understand), but they are also quite vibrant and have beautiful parts (and relatively easy access to nature). Scenes for The Gilded Age are shot in Troy; Washington Park in Albany is one of my favorite small city parks (with free plays in the summer). Albany has the economic lift of being the seat of NYS government. There are a lot of colleges in the capital district as well which makes an area less depressing to me. I am sure someone loves every town in the US.

I am from there and I can absolutely say it’s depressing. I couldn’t wait to get out of there when I was ready for college. And I come from generations up there, great family, etc., but it was so grey.

Went to school in Troy in the mid-90s. It was rough! Very grey and very cold. Because I was a poor college student, I lived near a drug house. But I had a great group of friends and we actually had a lot of fun.

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Anonymous wrote:Fayetteville NC or nearby Radford NC last visited early 2000s... Maybe they are better now?

no they have not improved.

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Gary, IN, Atlantic City, NJ, and Reno, NV

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Anonymous wrote:Albany, GA
Warner Robins, GA
Ajo, AZ
Huntington, WV
Meridian, MS

well, i can guess what you do for a living. you're not wrong btw, those places are the pits.

I would have picked a different career had I known.

What is it?

Gotta be something military.

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Anonymous wrote:San Francisco. Tragic what it became when you remember it he good times

Really? I lived in the Bay area in the 90s, and just visited San Francisco a few months ago. I loved it juts as much, if not more, this time around.

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Anonymous wrote:Carbondale IL. The architecture on the campus there looks straight out of East Germany.

I wouldn’t say the whole town is the most depressing, but you are spot on about campus. Hideous.

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Anonymous wrote:Palatka, FL

Solid entry. I’d have to say Starke, FL tops it though.

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Sumter, SC

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Anonymous wrote:Palatka, FL

Solid entry. I’d have to say Starke, FL tops it though.

Belle Glade is worse, but Starke is up there.

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WV is like untouched territory. Nothing happening much there.

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Baltimore. So ugly. I hate it.

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Anonymous wrote: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.

The desolate towns of western NC is exactly where the first Hunger Games movie was filmed, ironically enough. Your son has a good eye.