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

[Anonymous]

Eastern Shore of VA. Eastern Shore of MD is pretty bad, too. I heard the guy next to me say the N word at an Applebees in Salisbury.

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Anonymous wrote:I find it depressing when I visit my in-laws in Indiana and we see only white people. While people, while people, everywhere only white people. And I AM WHITE! But it makes me feel like, “Where did you put everybody else? Where are they?” It feels creepy to me. It also feels creep to enter restaurants, gas stations, convenience shops, in that region l and again: only see white people, white people who work there, white people who frequent there as customers. Again, it just feels creepy to me like they all came together and decided, “Okay, we’ll live here. Let’s pretend no one else exists.”

If only the people of Indiana had the foresight to import some black Africans as free labor, they'd be lot more diverse like SC, MS, AL, and AR!

[Anonymous]

Oil City, PA

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Johnstown PA

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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?

Have you been to Belle Glade? Homestead is like NYC to Belle Glade!

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Anonymous wrote:I wasn't as enamored by Denver as I expected to be, because I otherwise LOVE Colorado, but I found Denver kinda bland and boring. That said, to list it as "depressing", alongside places like Gary or Youngstown is silly IMO.

Is Denver more bland and boring than Charlotte?

LOL no. The only place on the planet more bland than Charlotte is Northern Virginia.

So you’d rather be in Wilkes Barre, Utica, Pottstown, or several of the other truly depressing places? Or did you interpret the call of the question differently? DC and Nova totally suck for different reasons but I thought the question was what towns were totally depressing, like Cumberland?

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Anonymous wrote:Youngstown OH
and many other dead towns in OH and PA

I don't understand why people stay in these hell holes.

We don’t all stay. A lot leave.

[Anonymous]

Portland, ME. Surreal amounts of drugs and homelessness

[Anonymous]

I think it's hard to give a name to all areas of a place like that. I lived in Baltimore 15 years ago and man that city is scary in spots all over the place. So is Philadelphia. DC too. Detroit too. Sometimes you can still see the beauty in it.

[Anonymous]

Portland, OR. There are beautiful parts so I guess maybe not as depressing as say, Gary, but man oh man I was not expecting that level of drugs and homelessness.

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Anonymous wrote:Portland, OR. There are beautiful parts so I guess maybe not as depressing as say, Gary, but man oh man I was not expecting that level of drugs and homelessness.

I'm the PP just above and grew up in Seattle in the 90s. Today, Portland has areas that look like scenes out of the walking dead. But there are also some very nice, gorgeous areas in between that.

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Graceville, FL.

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Lodi, NJ

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Stanley, Idaho

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Ipswich, NH