Anonymous wrote:Downtown St Louis in the mid 2000s. Went there for a AAAS conference and had never seen a US city like it, such a shell of former greatness. I don’t know if it’s still that way but I can’t stop thinking about it.

The area around the park is really shined up nicely. Try it again if you can.

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

Anonymous wrote:It is surprising and sad how many parts of our rich country are still poverty stricken. Those are the depressing parts.

When the US median HHI is low well most towns aren't gonna be pretty. Big cities and quaint charming towns aside, list of the country is poor and gross. It's just reality it's not being a snob. I don't actually think it's what the people there think however as it's probably all they know and it's home to them. But if you've seen a different environment you have a different perspective. It's what it is but honestly you gotta expect most of the country is run down. But outside towns if you see rural areas for the nature there whether Nevada, New Mexico or W VA - all poor states, the natural beauty of these places is rich. When you talk about the beauty of the country you talk about the natural beauty. As far as people and towns go, there's no beauty in poverty and a lot of people these days are poor. Maybe not India poor but relatively below average. Middle class is poor in a lot of cities, certainly around these parts. Sorry but I can't live in a beautiful charming home unless it's a log cabin with 2-3 kids on $100k a year.

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.

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

+1

Downtown St Louis in the mid 2000s. Went there for a AAAS conference and had never seen a US city like it, such a shell of former greatness. I don’t know if it’s still that way but I can’t stop thinking about it.

It is surprising and sad how many parts of our rich country are still poverty stricken. Those are the depressing parts.

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Anonymous wrote:Cumberland, MD

I just googled. Looks cute?

Good bones, bad blood. It is a ghost town, and western maryland suffers total brain drain. A handful of people own all of the businesses and the rest are poor, angry, and disenfranchised.

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Anonymous wrote:Denver. So boring and ugly

I love downtown Denver. It is a boring drive coming from Golden though.

My brother lives in Denver and my father lived in Colorado Springs for almost 30 years. I've driven around a significant part of Colorado. Alot of people probably don't realize it, but Denver and Colorado are actually a desert climate. Yes, Colorado is known for its snow, but it's powder, not the wet snow we have. The mountains in Colorado are absolutely stunning. But the cities and towns are all brown because of the desert/lack of humidity.

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Anonymous wrote:Gave a paper at Ole miss and found oxford Mississippi to be pretty depressing. Found out that a lot of the faculty and administrators actually live over the border in Tennessee and commute into Mississippi because the schools are so awful, etc. The campus was so pretty but there were unbelievable poverty right outside the gates o the school. It was also just so darned hot! Not a breeze anywhere and in July!
Wow!

Was it hotter, more humid, and buggier than the DMV in July?

Yes, I lived there for 6 years. You can start your car and AC, drive through town, and the car has hardly cooled a bit.

Oxford is actually quite pretty. The Mississippi Delta would be totally depressing without the blues, with such poverty and racism.

Anonymous wrote:Denver. So boring and ugly

I love downtown Denver. It is a boring drive coming from Golden though.

Anonymous wrote:McLean, VA
Vienna, VA
Fairfax, VA
Bethesda, MD
Potomac, MD
Chevy Chase, MD
Loudoun County, VA

Shoot me in the face before I'd live in any of them.

LOL Mclean actually deserves your nomination.

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Anonymous wrote:The whole state of NV

So true. I lived in Las Vegas for a year for work once, and I have never been so lonely or depressed. It's so awful.

We were caught in a dust storm in Reno. Dust, trashes and tumble weeds were flying above the highway. So weird and dystopian.

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Anonymous wrote:Whitehall, NY

+1 Upper NY has some real strange people/towns

We thought it was fun to drive through that area to Niagara Falls. We were shocked by the poverty.

Bakersfield and Fresno, California. Redneck, racist, lifted truck, trumpland, CA.