Crappiest place to live in the US...Follow

As Atomic Flea pointed out in another thread - I work in and live close to the wonderful town of Harrisonburg, VA.

This thread is an attempt to discern what town is truly the crappiest place to live in the U.S.

Harrisonburg Pro's:

1.) Plenty of free turkey feathers on the main road to the turkey processing plants. Make great stuffing for pillows!

2.) English as a second language.

3.) Golden Corral is considered fine dining.

4.) Food Lion is the place to go for fresh veggies and high quality meat/fish filets.

5.) Cheap turkey meat.

6.) JMU girls bewbies.

7.) Menonite/Amish people don't ***** much when your car runs over the bicycle they were riding.

8.) Awesome conservative attitude that things are better off the way they were and change is not an option.

9.) Cheap Meth.


Harrisonburg Con's:

1.) Windy all the frigging time.

2.) Interstate 81 and truckers.

3.) Religion.

4.) Food Lion.

5.) Smells like dogfood during the summer.

6.) Smells like cow paddies during the spring

7.) Golden Corall is considered fine dining.


Please post your reasons why your town is crappier then my town.

In the Pro column you left out:

11. Varus doesn't live here.

Crappiest place: East St. Louis, IL
Runner-Up: Gary, Indiana

At least from Gary, you could work or seek entertainment in Chicago. From East St. Louis, you're stuck going to... well... St. Louis.

I don't know... Not a lot to recommend Bismarck, North Dakota.

...or East St. Louis!

I used to have a dorm-mate from East St. Louis. He took 'wigger' to a new extreme. He wasn't some faux-rebellious suburban white kid listening to hip-hop, he was the love child of Snoop Doggy Dog and Fred Ziffel. Used to try to talk in ebonics while wearing his baggy overalls and setting John Deere cap at a rakish angle.

Strange, strange kid...

Beloit, Wisconsin. nuff said. Considered by many to be the armpit of the state. It's about as worthless as Iowa.

Don't you fUcking DARE make me laugh like that again, ****

I'm thinking Strawberry Cheesecake or Sticky Toffee Pudding.


Heaven forefend you meant 'desert'

It's more just that the particular mistype you made was rather amusing :)

A 1200 square foot townhouse here runs in the low-US$400k range. This is down significantly from a year or two ago.

Ya, but you're describing most of Southern California, Arizona, Nevada and New Mexico.

Riverside is a heck of a lot "better" now then just 10 years ago. Lot more expensive, too. Not much to do there, but you've got the mountains, the beaches, Disneyland, etc all pretty close by. Yes, it gets hot in the summer but that has its, ahem, advantages also. Invest in air conditioning. It's not worth doubling your mortgage for a bit nicer weather.

Speaking as one who lives a quarter mile from the Del Mar coastline (not so much a beach really), let me respond:

Cool breezes during the day make even hot days comfortable. I have no need of air conditioning. Marine layer keeps it from getting too cold at night even in the dead of winter. Low crime. Nice people. I'll take it over Riverside anyday...


Now if you want crappy, just about anyplace in the central valley of California is hell on earth. A whole lot of nothing without even the benefit of the small town cozy feel you get in most other states when you living out in the middle of nowhere.

QFT

I've been stationed in the Central Valley for seven years. During the summer it gets regularly over one-hundred ten degrees with no wind. During the winter it acid rains, and the fog is so thick that by simply breathing you get your daily water intake. I kid you not, it is so thick you'll be unable to see the end of the hood of your car. It is extremely dusty year round, some of the lowest air qualities in the US, and even managed to procure it's own bacterial infection; Valley Fever. All this said, it is a geographical miracle; two and a half hours from anything. Top it all off the average price of a home is about $300k. Rent typically is $1100-$1500 a month for an average size home.