ugliest cities in america

[guest301]

From a race and crime standpoint, I am not sure there are all that many large cities where a white man might feel comfortable living. In fact, there are alot of middle class black families moving out of these cities. I want to come at this from a different angle, what do CF members think are the ugliest cities in america from a looks standpoint. My picks....
Detroit, MI... Trenton, NJ ...Cleveland, Ohio..Houston, Texas.. San Francisco(ugly for other reasons LOL).. what are your votes?

 

[GWTJ]

OK. As a NJ resident here are my top 5.

1. Camden, NJ - Worst crime rate in the U.S. Similar to Detroit in that you can drive for a couple of miles heading into the town and see nothing but broken down warehouses and homes.

2. Newark, NJ - While I was working there, 7 murders in one weekend. They are trying to make parts of Newark attractive but at 5:00p.m., every business except for McDonald's and KFC drop their gates and close for the night.

3. Trenton, NJ - I moved to the town next to Trenton. My 1st night there a pack of Trenton car thieves tried to steal my customized van. FIRST NIGHT!! After the business district and the Government buildings, Trenton might be the ugliest city in America. Though not as big.

4. Atlantic City, NJ - More police per population than any city in America. Take away the casino's and it's Camden, Newark and Trenton rolled into one. With all the money that city makes not one dime goes to rebuilding the ghetto sections. They built the AC Expressway so gamblers could avoid driving on local streets through the city.

5. San Francisco, CA - I could go on with NJ cities. There are more, but the gay lifestyle in the Bay area is ugly enough to make the list. At least for me. Public displays of gay men making out or worse is beyond my tolerance levels. No apology given for my feelings on that.

I have been to New York City, Philadelphia and Baltimore quite a bit. They're not so bad. If other major cities are similar to them, Detroit excepted, they wouldn't make my top 5 list.

 

[JD074]

No apology given for my feelings on that.

No apology needed.

 

[Bronk]

#1 Detroit: Bad, bad, bad.
#2 Gary, Ind.: Yuck.

I'd be interested in hearing why you include Houston, not that I disagree with you exactly, but I'd like to hear your reasons.

Actually, I've been to San Francisco and find it really nice. The main problem has been so many homeless. I actually rarely ever see open homosexuals (mainly because I stay away from Castro Street).

 

[Bart]

East St. Louis is a real paradise.

 

[robcat]

I think Guest 301 should lay out some basic criteria for this. Many large cities have a scenic view of impressive skyscrapers, which helps to hide the rot in the neigborhoods and industrial parks far below that are just as squalid as those in East St. Louis, Camden, Newark and Detroit. Cities that hide the general decadence and the hoplessness of the working classes behind sparkling corporate palaces are just as ugly as Camden and East St. Louis.

 

[KG2422]

You guys forgot the chocolate city.

 

[Gary]

Gary,Indiana for it's size is really bad, so is Newark,N.J. Cleveland is bad so is Akron and Youngstown,Ohio. All big cities in the eastern part of the USA with large black populations are bad unliveable cities.

 

[guest301]

My criteria would be how ugly everything is as you travel into a city. I was just in Buffalo and they had so many closed sheltered up businesses and abandoned factories and houses that it was just depressing traveling through all of that. I picked Houston on my list largely because of the humidity that sucks the life out of you and it's just plain ugly. The astrodome to me has always been a large ugly structure.

 

[Bronk]

Equating ugly with humidity is a new one for me. Maybe what you mean is "livability."

The Gulf Coast's humidity is tough to live with but I grew up with it and I'm pretty well used to it (though I still complain about the "heat").

Houston was never really a beautiful city like San Francisco or Miami. It is a blue collar town; oil, cattle, railroads and sea ports. It's always been a gin and trombone town. Now it is considered a "Gateway City" meaning that it is crawling with foreigners. Still, it had it's beauty spots. Many have compared the view of Main Street south through Rice University from the upper stories of the old Warwick Hotel with the finest scenes of any old European city you could imagine. But I must confess, the old Houston that I used to love is dead, dead, dead and many parts of it look like the multicultural dump it is becoming.

 

[White Shogun]

Equating ugly with humidity is a new one for me. Maybe what you mean is "livability."

The Gulf Coast's humidity is tough to live with but I grew up with it and I'm pretty well used to it (though I still complain about the "heat").

Houston was never really a beautiful city like San Francisco or Miami. It is a blue collar town; oil, cattle, railroads and sea ports. It's always been a gin and trombone town. Now it is considered a "Gateway City" meaning that it is crawling with foreigners. Still, it had it's beauty spots. Many have compared the view of Main Street south through Rice University from the upper stories of the old Warwick Hotel with the finest scenes of any old European city you could imagine. But I must confess, the old Houston that I used to love is dead, dead, dead and many parts of it look like the multicultural dump it is becoming.

I always thought the Woodlands was beautiful, but I haven't been there in years. I have no idea what it looks like now.

 

[JoeV]

Hey Cleveland is not that bad

We have a very segregated town here, but a lot of hard working people still try to eek out a living in the city. There is much untapped potential on the waterfront, and if the backwards ass governor and southern Ohio would ever allow casino gaming, you will see Cleveland be a Chicago type city of sorts.

Detroit is a freaking war zone. Outside of the casinos and new ballparks, the place looks like Baghdad.

San Francisco is a georgous albeit expensive town. Gay stuff aside (I didn't see no male/male PDA there, I guess I wasn't looking for it

) I think Hollywood is more of a dump than SF.

I won't even go into Gary, that dump speaks for itself.

Akron is relatively nice, unions are still a big plus for the rubber city.

Youngstown is thought of as a mob town, but there really is nothing left to even be bad. More of an empty ghetto than a bad town.

Toledo is pretty run down. In the city itself, T-town is worse off than Cleveland or Akron.

 

[Southern Knight]

Don't forget about Da ATL, baby! I'm talkin' 'bout Monkeytown, USA. When the workday ends, and the White people beat a hasty retreat to the 'burbs, Atlanta resembles Mogadishu on a bad day. Add in the 100 degree temps, with 90% humidity, and you get a stankin', festerin', outhouse-like atmosphere.

Phat-lanta's a s*ithole of epic proportions. And I know because I lived there for 20 years.

 

[White_Savage]

From a race and crime standpoint, I am not sure there are all that many large cities where a white man might feel comfortable living. In fact, there are alot of middle class black families moving out of these cities. I?

Since you're all the time beating the drum about race making no difference (despite all scientific evidence to the contrary) and lambasting people for "racism", what the devil are you doing asking this question? After all, the uglieness of Detroit can have nothing to do with with the fact that it's 88% black, that black I.Q. averages 85, that blacks commit violent crimes at a rate 14 times that of Whites-worldwide.

There must be some other explanation-Whitey rigs the I.Q. tests, frames the bruthas, and sabatoges the economy of ******* cities. Hell, we were even sabatoging African attempts at civillization these last 40,000 years, even though official history doesn't show us sailing there. Right On.

 

[foreverfree]

Chester, PA is bad. PA just legalized casinos and Harrah's is building one (it'll have a harness horse track too) on the site an abandoned shipyard in Chester. A state prison is 2 blocks away from the site.

John