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Anonymous wrote:Denver. So boring and ugly

Really?! I’m from CO so I’ll admit I have a soft spot for Denver but, while it may not be the best city I’ve ever visited, I can’t see it being truly the most depressing town someone has ever visited.

Denver is disappointing and kinda soulless but definitely not depressing

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Anonymous wrote:I'm a total bleeding heart highly educated liberal, and when I see threads like this I totally understand the rise of Trumpism. You are all a bunch of elitist self-important snobs who think a little money and education makes you better than other people. No wonder this country is so divided. I'd hate us too, if I were them.

Shame on all of you.

+1000. DCUM at its worst (and given how rancid this site is generally that’s no small feat).

Bullsh*t. Have you been to these towns? You don’t think it’s bleak and depressing when all the store fronts are boarded up? When there is nowhere to work?Or when homes are dilapidated and falling apart, and have been that way for decades? When adults can hardly read?

Shame on you for accepting this.

Binghamton, NY.

Anonymous wrote:Denver. So boring and ugly

Really?! I’m from CO so I’ll admit I have a soft spot for Denver but, while it may not be the best city I’ve ever visited, I can’t see it being truly the most depressing town someone has ever visited.

I’m not clear on the actual town, but the stretch of road from Breezewood, PA to the Pittsburgh area. Those of you who drive would recognize the Trump tractor trailer (God, coal pollution, guns and what other nonsense.) you know many of the insurrectionists live in that vicinity. Lots of wild animal safari zoos in the back of people’s yards. So depressing

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Anonymous wrote:While I'm not surprised, I'm bummed to see so many places I've lived in this thread. I've lived in Toledo, Troy, and Cincinnati. Though I haven't seen it on this thread, I wouldn't surprised to see someone say all of Southern MD. I have such fond nostalgia for all of these places.

I love Southern Md for its natural history, but it is an 80's time warp and the trump flags fly in abundance.

It's not the Trump flags or 80s that make a town depressing. Princess Anne, Maryland is economically and socially depressed. We visited while touring UM Eastern Shore. It could be a nice, small college town. The downtown area and surrounding homes had drugged out towns folk lingering on corners and in doorways. It's the county seat, so I imagine that surrounding communities are even worse off financially. There has to be some industry and money coming into a town in order to maintain population and properties.

Eastern KY- specifically salt lick, about an hour east of Lexington

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Anonymous wrote:All of the plains states: Oklahoma, Kansas, Nebraska, iowa, the dakotas.

Gary, IN. East St. Louis, MO. Most of IL and MO except Chicago and st Louis.

Most of the little towns in the Mississippi and Arkansas delta.

Much of Kentucky, Indiana, ohio, and West Virginia.

When you rule out an entire state you sound like a fool who has only driven though on I-80. Omaha is a great city, getting bluer and better every year. Lincoln is a wonderful college town. All of the plain states have nice friendly small towns, that of course you haven’t visited.

Yea, it's a weird list. She also single out several cities with large AA populations. So she's both ignorant AND racist. Quite the combo.

It’s not a weird list. The PP listed a couple impoverished areas that also happen to have large AA populations and lots of impoverished rural areas w lots of conservative whites in them. Pretty consistent if you ask me.

What conservative white impoverished areas are you referring to? The Mississippi delta? Newsflash: it's black. Beyond that, she just named entire states, most of which are not even remotely "impoverished."

It's an ignorant list put together by a snob.

No, when I said white impoverished and conservative areas I’m thinking of rural areas throughout the plains states, where there is a lot of poverty and almost all white and conservative. I used to live in the delta. I know its demographics.

Name a town.

You can't because you haven't visited. It's absolutely ignorance to rule out entire states based on unfounded opinion. I don't believe you have visited Oklahoma, Kansas, Nebraska, Iowa, South Dakota, North Dakota. Again you may have driven through one or more, but that doesn't count as a visit. That's a few hours in a car on an interstate. No you are not better than anyone simply because you live in a blue state.

- Life long Democrat from the great plains

Anonymous wrote:While I'm not surprised, I'm bummed to see so many places I've lived in this thread. I've lived in Toledo, Troy, and Cincinnati. Though I haven't seen it on this thread, I wouldn't surprised to see someone say all of Southern MD. I have such fond nostalgia for all of these places.

I love Southern Md for its natural history, but it is an 80's time warp and the trump flags fly in abundance.

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Anonymous wrote:I'm a total bleeding heart highly educated liberal, and when I see threads like this I totally understand the rise of Trumpism. You are all a bunch of elitist self-important snobs who think a little money and education makes you better than other people. No wonder this country is so divided. I'd hate us too, if I were them.

Shame on all of you.

Has your bleeding heart traveled extensively away from major cities. I’m betting your bleeding heart has never driven through or driven into Gary, Indiana. Get off your throne.

I've been to Gary. I went to grad school in the midwest. And my spouse is from a small midwestern town where I have spent a lot of time, including an extended visit during the pandemic (yes, unlike many of you I get along very well with my in laws despite our differences).

My ire isn't directed at the folks who say Gary is depressing -- I agree that it is. I'm mainly talking about people who write off entire states because they think they are too cool, too smart, and too sophisticated for them because they live in NoVA of all places. That's not the way to heal a divided America.

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Anonymous wrote:All of the plains states: Oklahoma, Kansas, Nebraska, iowa, the dakotas.

Gary, IN. East St. Louis, MO. Most of IL and MO except Chicago and st Louis.

Most of the little towns in the Mississippi and Arkansas delta.

Much of Kentucky, Indiana, ohio, and West Virginia.

When you rule out an entire state you sound like a fool who has only driven though on I-80. Omaha is a great city, getting bluer and better every year. Lincoln is a wonderful college town. All of the plain states have nice friendly small towns, that of course you haven’t visited.

Yea, it's a weird list. She also single out several cities with large AA populations. So she's both ignorant AND racist. Quite the combo.

It’s not a weird list. The PP listed a couple impoverished areas that also happen to have large AA populations and lots of impoverished rural areas w lots of conservative whites in them. Pretty consistent if you ask me.

What conservative white impoverished areas are you referring to? The Mississippi delta? Newsflash: it's black. Beyond that, she just named entire states, most of which are not even remotely "impoverished."

It's an ignorant list put together by a snob.

No, when I said white impoverished and conservative areas I’m thinking of rural areas throughout the plains states, where there is a lot of poverty and almost all white and conservative. I used to live in the delta. I know its demographics.

Anonymous wrote:Ballmer

Yes!

Anonymous wrote:Glen Burnie MD. I interviewed for a job there and it looked awful.

+1 we refer to it as "Glen burnout"

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Anonymous wrote:Having been to many places mentioned in this thread, my answer is honestly Baltimore. The depressing sense is heightened by how its lovely history is still visible.

I'm a huge supporter of Baltimore. I've lived in the city and worked there for two decades. I have always seen the beauty that is there and its potential to be even more.

With that said, my most recent trips since the arrival of COVID were depressing. The city has regressed and it's heartbreaking.

I agree. Baltimore has such a rich history and cool neighborhoods and so much potential and it’s just all been squandered by what I have to assume is weak leadership in local government. Baltimore just makes you sad to see it compared to what it easily could be.

Pueblo, CO
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