bracketquant
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It's IN Louisiana.
PLAY The Worst City in Every State
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Dayton is a total hole. I was there a few weeks ago for the first time in a long while and it was total trash. I didn’t feel safe for 1 minute and even heard gunshots across the road from the field my daughter was playing soccer on. I won’t be going back there any time soon. Ugghhh
momma_soapmaker
Disgusted
Everybody in Arkansas knows Crime Bluff is the worst city in the state. It rivals Chicago.
SouthernBreeze
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They hit the mark with Jackson being the worst in Mississippi. Southaven, MS is almost as bad. It's just a city extension of Memphis across the state line.
BUBBAHOTEPT
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DEMOCRATS!!!! Nuff said…. 
Firebird
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Albany is horrible
Doc1
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Yep. They got it right with Jackson. It's a cesspool. I even stopped going to the gun shows in Jackson because, in addition to it being a long drive, I didn't even feel safe leaving my truck in the parking lot. Anyone whose driven through - or even around - Jackson knows that the streets look like something out of a demolition derby.
In addition to having skyrocketing crime, a leftist, incompetent black administration, and deteriorating infrastructure, they can't even keep the water and sewer systems working. If Jackson wasn't the state capitol - which means that it gets at least some state support - I think the whole place would implode and turn into a black hole, with an especially malevolent form of gravity sucking everything into it!
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SouthernBreeze
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Totally agree. We stopped going to Jackson years ago. Just like it's been years since going to Memphis. The closest we have come to Jackson, lately, is driving down the Natchez Trace Parkway to Natchez, MS. By-passed Jackson altogether.
Mark Armstrong
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Meemur
Voice on the Prairie / FJB!
It was bad but not horrible up until about 2009 when DHL closed. I think that closure was the straw that broke the camel's bad. All those area restaurants and several grocery stores closed soon after.
I was living up in Columbus at the time, and by 2010, I was starting to think about leaving Ohio. I didn't see good things ahead.
meezy
I think I can...
Fortunately it isn't very big and many surrounding areas are pretty nice. Like Oakwood, former home of NCR. Fairborn, home of Wright-Patt AFB, is kinda-sorta nice in spots, old and shabby in others.
We live about halfway between Dayton and Middletown. Hometown of Hillbilly Elegy author Senator JD Vance. Which is also a pretty crappy city.
Our area is fabulous by comparison. We love it here. And in Butler Co. you have the awesome Sheriff Richard Jones, so that's something to be proud of.
My son lives in Chillicothe, which is not so nice (I'm trying to get him to leave), but much better than neighboring Portsmouth. Ohio isn't so bad; it depends on where you are.
packyderms_wife
Neither here nor there.
Sioux City, IA... and there's a reason we call cedar rapids cheddar rapids because when you drive into town, headed east on HWY 30 it smells like cheddar cheese.
packyderms_wife
Neither here nor there.
lol, east st. louis or chicago would be better picks.
bracketquant
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Chrissie says otherwise.Fortunately it isn't very big and many surrounding areas are pretty nice. Like Oakwood, former home of NCR. Fairborn, home of Wright-Patt AFB, is kinda-sorta nice in spots, old and shabby in others.
We live about halfway between Dayton and Middletown. Hometown of Hillbilly Elegy author Senator JD Vance. Which is also a pretty crappy city.
Our area is fabulous by comparison. We love it here. And in Butler Co. you have the awesome Sheriff Richard Jones, so that's something to be proud of.
Barry Natchitoches
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You obviously have never lived in Louisiana, Brack…
There are lots of great places to live in Louisiana. I have lived in several.
I have never lived in Turkey Creek (though my dad got a speeding ticket in that town back in the 1950s, when he was an airman at Barksdale Air Force Base and was speeding south on LA Hwy 1, hoping to get down to his pregnant wife in New Orleans before I emerged out of my mother’s birth canal)…
But whereas there are some bad places to live in Louisiana too, Turkey Creek would never be considered one of those places by Louisiana natives “in the know.”
Seems to me that either New Orleans or Baton Rouge would be generally considered the worst cities to live in, in Louisiana.
Not Turkey Creek.
Barry Natchitoches
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Yeah, but they have a great half marathon race in December every year…
Honey Berry
Senior Member
I second Sioux City.
progressingamerica
Contributing Member
Cairo caught my eye too. Definitely a good pick for worst.
Though I'm scratching my head at Lexington, Kentucky. Not that I think it's a top 5 spot or anything, but I've been in both Cairo and Lexington and I didn't think much of it in a bad way.
progressingamerica
Contributing Member
I think if given the choice as to which is worse, I would put Nenana as worse than Wasilla any day of the week.
momma_soapmaker
Disgusted
I'd be armed to the teeth. Wouldn't surprise me if they tried to steal your shoes while you're running.
teedee
Veteran Member
40 years ago I had to visit an extrusion factory in e st louis. I was told, over the phone, how to get there. He then told me if I got lost after a certain point to not stop and ask directions until I had turned around and gone back to a point. After I got there I understood why he had told me that!
changed
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About 6 years ago we drove through Cairo, IL and there was all kinds of activity, traffic. A cop had a car pulled over and there were businesses open. We drove through Cairo again like 2 years ago and I am not exaggerating, it was a literal ghost town. No traffic, no open businesses.
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Meemur
Voice on the Prairie / FJB!
I think that she was being sarcastic.
Griz3752
Retired, practising Curmudgeon
Since New Years Day, 2024 over 40 (43-44 I think) children ( that's not teens ot 'tweens but children) have been treated for GSW.
There was not a 100% survival rate.
There's bigger places with more population but I submit the overall winner of the worst, most corrupt and violent shit hole in America title is good old Memphis TN.
There was not a 100% survival rate.
There's bigger places with more population but I submit the overall winner of the worst, most corrupt and violent shit hole in America title is good old Memphis TN.
Outofmydepth
Just don't
I think there are redemptive parts of even the worst cities. For example, Gary has Miller Beach, which is quite a nice place to vacation. The beaches of Manitowoc up through nearby Two Rivers and the road and recreational trail in between them along the shore of Lake Michigan are the primary reason I decided to live here. It's like being on permanent vacation in a very affordable place to live, even though I'm not yet retired. It also helps that I have "big city" features of Green Bay, Appleton and Sheboygan less than an hour away.
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They don't call it Los Anchorage for no reason. It's the big town in Alaska and so strays tend to drift there. Juneau is too isolated or it'd be overrun, and Fairbanks is a tough place to live if a person is indigent. Some of the outlying villages in the bush are pretty rustic.
Wildweasel
F-4 Phantoms Phorever
As chance has it, I seem to have spent time in every one of those cities in the Lower 48. Do I have the misfortune of hitting all the bad spots or did I leave wreckage and ruin in my wake when I visited those places?Turns out, for Michigan, it's Flint, which isn't much of a surprise. So what say you, residents of the various states? Did they call it?
Wildweasel
F-4 Phantoms Phorever
Since Scranton Joe threw the border open, you are now likely to get shot while driving down the street in Scranton for not speaking Spanish, not having one of the new Spanish-language radio stations blaring or not throwing the right Latino gang signs.
Gotten bad enough that a Hispanic kid was arrested outside Scranton High School with an AK-47, waiting for rival gang members to come out so he could shoot them. Kid was found to have MS-13 ties and was trying to "earn his merit badge" to become a full-fledged member while only 16 years old.
Way to go, Joe!
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bracketquant
Veteran Member
It's clear, that you are the sole cause of America's present decline.
If you wish to redeem yourself, head to the southern border, and continually walk its length back and forth. Just looking at you, all potential illegals will immediately turn back. A statue will be built in your honor (of course, the woke will quickly tear it down).
Wildweasel
F-4 Phantoms Phorever
Camden by far over Newark. Newark is at least semi-functional on a day-to-day basis. Camden is a non-functional crap hole on its very best days.
I still have nightmares over the two trips I had to make into Camden to get dockside with loads. I think the route between Kuwait and Bagdad when Iraqis were shooting at the trucks would be less stressful than driving thru Camden.
Wildweasel
F-4 Phantoms Phorever
Just remember, Obama Care redefined "children" to include 18-25 year olds, including in medical statistics. So saying "over 40 children have been treated for GSW" includes a lot of gangbangers who are obviously trying not to live to their 26th birthday.
progressingamerica
Contributing Member
I should have picked up on that. :-(
AddisonRose
On loan from Heaven
I always called Cincinnati the armpit of the world. I get to go through there tomorrow, can't wait..