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

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owensboro, ky

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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.

Homestead: Do I not exist to you?

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Anonymous wrote:Gary, Indiana

Yep

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Gary, Indiana seems to get lot of visitors! 1 and done?

Scranton, PA. I am from there and it is really surprising that people never leave. Not even to go to Wilkes-Barre, which is like from Germantown to Rockville or Bethesda.

I do think the current mayor is trying to improve things, though.

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Anonymous wrote:Butte Montana. There is literally a mine in the center of town.

SAME.

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Anonymous wrote:Baltimore. So ugly. I hate it.

Really? I think the townhouses as so lovely, even the simple ones. Visually, Baltimore is one of my favorite cities. Depessing- Detroit in 1990.

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Wichita

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San Francisco followed closely by DC.

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Watertown, NY

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Anonymous wrote:Utica, NY. Used to be booming and beautiful. Now unsafe and dirty.

I’m from Utica. It’s true. It’s depressing. There are beautiful parts and the weather in the summer is great, but the city sucks.

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Columbus, GA.

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Anonymous wrote:Roswell New Mexico

Wow, really?

Don't get me wrong, Roswell is no great shakes, but they've got a walkable Main Street with stores, a visitor center capitalizing on the aliens, and frankly, we had a fantastic meal there.

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Anonymous wrote:Wichita, KS

Same. We only passed through, but God, what a pit. I was 15 and a guy jacked off in front of me in the hotel parking lot.

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Baltimore, St Louis, some suburbs around Pittsburgh where steel mills collapsed

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Anonymous wrote:The only place more depressing and third world IME is Cairo, Illinois. Lots of racism too.

Charleston, SC

I couldn't get over the racism there. Plus everything was grimy and dirty. Beautiful old buildings in rotten decay. I don't get how people like it there. I felt like the historical racism made the air thick.... and I'm white.

Wow I don’t see that at all. What parts of town did you go? I have only been once but I learned so much about the history of that region and how the black culture in and around the city evolved. It does have a terrible racist history but I feel like they own it and acknowledge it in a way a lot of other places paper over. For instance, this was years ago, but it was a historical site near Charleston that I first went on a tour that was centered on the enslaved people who built it and cultivated the land, rather than the slave owners. This is now more common in the South, but it was very uncommon then.

Also, the food in Charleston is phenomenal. And you can be at the beach in a half hour.

I can’t imagine calling it depressing in the way people are talking about here. It’s diverse, economically vibrant, culturally rich.

You really must have had rose colored goggles on. Yes the food is good. Everything else, not so much. South of Broad is where all the main touristy stuff is but you don't have to travel far to see the black people still live in decaying shacks. If they owned their racism, then why are they still so segregated?

Ah, agendas