Least favorite cities?

[Victor]

[ QUOTE ]
[ QUOTE ]
i dont understand the hate for pittsburgh. carson street is a blast. food is good too. [censored] everywhere too.

[/ QUOTE ]

I assume [censored] = sht, because that's the only word that makes sense.

[/ QUOTE ]

[censored] = sluuutsss

[TheGrasshopper]

Whoever listed Nashville should be shot. Great nightlife, hotter women than where you come from that aren't prudish. Not overpopulated, what more do you want?

My worst
1.)Gary,IN
2.)Gainesville,FL
3.)Baltimore
4.)STL(the people, actually sports fans aggrivate me to no end)

[n00tZ]

I would be very surprised if there was a city on the planet worse than Winnipeg. If you include smaller towns, Regina is almost as bad. Both are complete [censored]-holes.

[Riverman]

I don't see how any city could be worse than Detroit, Baltimore, or Gary, IN. Assuming we aren't counting metro areas, these places win hands down.

[guids]

Our sports fans annoy you? thats ridiculous, try going to a city with sports fans that are actually annoying, we have the best in the nation, of course thats just about it though. And I hate sports/am not a fan in the least.

[Riverman]

I live in Columbus, OH. Definitely the most annoying sports fans.

Anyone saying NY is an idiot.

[cognito20]

[ QUOTE ]
For me its Rochester, NY and its not even close.

[/ QUOTE ]

The -city- of Rochester is something pretty tantamount to hell on Earth. There -are- some very nice suburbs, though...Pittsford, Fairport, etc.

[ QUOTE ]
Buffalo and Syracuse, NY are in pretty similar shape. I drive to Niagara Falls quite a bit to hit Seneca Niagara and I'm always amazed. Other than the casino itself, everything on the american side of the falls is damn near falling down. Here we have this huge beautiful new casino and hotel building and all around it old falling down houses from the 0's and 30's and dumpy 40 year old hotels.

[/ QUOTE ]

Agree 100% about Niagara Falls (the casino is the only reason to spend any time on the American side if you visit), but I think you're being slightly unfair to Buffalo by comparing it to Niagara Falls. They're right next door to each other, but there is quite a bit more to do in and around Buffalo than in NF, NY. It's not -quite- the craphole Niagara Falls is.

The (admittedly very small - 25,000 pop. or so if you don't count the Cornell and IC students) city where I live, Ithaca, would also be hated by anyone who mentioned that they disliked Seattle or San Francisco. Imagine the obnoxious, elitist people who populate either of those places being transplanted to a place with Syracuse's weather, NYC suburban rents, located nowhere near water (the Finger Lakes don't count, sorry), having none of the -advantages- of living in a large city, but many of the drawbacks, and being a full hour (if you count Syracuse as a real city), 3 hours (if you don't and count Buffalo as one), or 4 hours (if you reject them both and consider NYC and/or Philly as the closest outposts of civilization) away by car from the nearest real city, and having to make those trips over poorly maintained, deer-who-run-out-in-front-of-you-constantly-infested 2-lane roads since the nearest highway anywhere near Interstate standards is 30 miles south in Elmira, my birthplace and also not high on anyone's list of places to live. I accept your sympathy. Thanks. Please send money.

--Scott

[kyleb]

Ooh, I forgot about Ithaca. It's full of snobby academia fgts who couldn't make it into a real Ivy League school.

[cognito20]

[ QUOTE ]
Worst Cities (IMO), not rank ordered:

......

Every city in Upstate NY, but the tops of the cake are Buffalo, Utica, Niagara Falls, and Binghamton.

[/ QUOTE ]

Binghamton and Buffalo aren't all that bad, at least by upstate standards. Agree about Utica and Niagara Falls, as well as one you didn't mention, Elmira (my birthplace, and I'm only admitting that because I'm among friends :P). Those 3 are in a neck-and-neck race for official Armpit of New York State status. I lived in Binghamton for 2 years and found it much more enjoyable than Ithaca and Elmira. More to do there and closer to NYC than Elmira, and the people are much friendlier and down-to-earth than the know-it-all trust-fund snobs in Ithaca, plus while there is a student and academic -presence- there because of SUNY-B (one of the best public universities in the country, BTW, and certainly the most underrated), they don't -dominate- the place like in Ithaca. I admit there are some crappy neighborhoods, but they're also quite easy to avoid.

[ QUOTE ]
Watertown (if you count that as a city) are all pretty close, but not QUITE as bad.

[/ QUOTE ]

I suppose I do count Watertown as a (small) city because the geographical isolation of the North Country (the 2 closest -real- cities, Ottawa and Montreal, are both in Canada) makes it seem like more of one than it would be if it was located somewhere else. It doesn't impress me, though. NOTHING, and I mean, NOTHING to do, and even more isolated than a place like Ithaca. Potsdam, 70 miles down Route 11, is a pretty cool little city/big village, but W-Town is nothing special.

[ QUOTE ]
Orlando, FL

[/ QUOTE ]

I spend a couple weeks every year about an hour 15 minutes south of Orlando in the Avon Park-Sebring area at my in-laws'. That area seems slow and a bit isolated, but livable if you don't mind all the retirees around and the fact that it's about as far in Florida as you can get from the water, and there aren't really any direct roads to the beaches. The Orlando suburbs seem fine to me, but the closest I usually ever get to the actual city is Universal or Wet n' Wild Waterpark, so I don't know how the actual city is.

--Scott

[kidcolin]

I understand all the hate Buffalo gets, but a good friend of mine grew up there and I always had an awesome time whenever I visited. Zoar Valley is pretty kick ass. And the garlic bean curd at Great Wall is incredible.