What city (or areas of a country) do you hate the most? I’ll start with South Florida (Dade/Broward/Palm Beach) The weather is almost always uncomfortably hot and humid. The traffic is terrible with plenty of crazy drivers. The tourist season can be unbearable with cultures of the world clashing. Many of the people there are just downright rude, with elderly people willing to start a fight over a parking spot.
I find it hard to say much good about Houston, TX. Uncomfortable weather, nightmare traffic, and a city which is way too spread out with ugly suburban sprawl.
I haven’t seen much good in Tulsa or Oklahoma City either.
Yep. I hate Boston too and look at my location to see who is luckier, me or you. Boston is an amazing city in that it has a tremendous amount going for it including history, unparalled education, and culture. Somehow, it manages to more than offset that with attitude, politics, traffic, housing prices, a native accent that makes great birth-control.
Baltimore. I lost my voice in Baltimore because the air was so nasty. Not to mention it blew up when I was there. A friend got hives from the rain. The bars where we stayed right next to the convention center closed at midnight. Baltimore is a pit.
Also Jacksonville’s kinda skeevy. My parents are in Fernandina Beach, which is fine, but the city itself is just… plasticky and no fun.
From what I’ve been reading, Jacksonville’s efforts to host the Super Bowl have been a disaster. The weather is crummy, and it isn’t set up to handle so many people. Chris Russo of WFAN said that it’s a North Florida city, with a South Georgia attitude. I don’t really get it, but it’s probably funny if you know the area.
Both of my most hated cities are for personal association reasons.
I hate Albequerque, New Mexico because the only time I was there was to attend my uncle’s sentancing before he went to federal prison. I was so stressed out that I threw up all over the parking lot at Wendy’s on our last day there. To this day, the name of the city is enough to make me feel ill.
I hate Washington DC. When I was in 8th grade, certain students in my class were chosen to go to the captiol for special tours etc. On our last day, several students woke up with bad stomach cramping, diarrhea, and vomiting. Instead of allowing the sick students to stay at the hotel, or cancelling certain activities, the chaperones stupidly forced them all to attend. Essentially, our last day in WDC was filled with sick teenagers crying and begging to go back to the hotel. It didn’t help that we had to go to an IMAX movie on that day. . .
I believe he means backwards and full of rednecks. Also very provencal attitudes. I don’t really feel that way about Jax, but I think that is what he means.
For me it’s:
ORLANDO: totally tacky city in everything they do. Its citizens are not the brightest and smartest people in Florida at all. It’s full of tacky Mouse searching tourist 24/7 and now it seems the religious right has moved in and set it up as their new headquarters.
ATLANTA: it seems to be setup on the notion that all the minorities (blacks, gays, hispanics) live inside the loop with the exception of Buckhead and Roswell, while all the whites that moved to ATL from their tiny southern hick towns live outside the loop hardly ever going into ATL for anything else than work. These people bring their hick attitudes from their small towns and never seem to lose them in the big spread out metropolis that is ATL. It also has no redeeming geographical feature like a big river (the Chatt. doesn’t count) or a beach or even mountains, yes it does get hilly on the Northside, but not like the mountains and hills that exist say in Asheville or out West.
Any city or town in SOUTH CAROLINA. It’s just odd and backwards and provencal, even for the South.
Not a city or area of the country but my wife and I made a solemn vow the last time we were there never to return to the island of Martha’s Vineyard (where the movie Jaws was filmed) off of Cape Cod. Overrated, overpriced, and overrun with tourists (of which, yes, I was one, but never again). Shagnasty you and I are of similar minds when it comes to Boston.
Memphis. The city in which I was born and raised. I finally escaped this past September. I dread going back for any reason whatsoever. I told my parents that if they want to see me again, they either have to come up here, or we can meet in some neutral place in between.
What is so bad about it? The mayor is a suspected crackhead (I don’t know if that is “officially” suspected), the crime rate is sky high, and the weather during the summer is awful: 98 degrees and 95% humidity. Terrible.
I thought that all large cities would be somewhat dirty…but :eek: no! Saint Paul is absolutely wonderful and perfect and heavenly and such. The streets are (generally) clean and I can walk around at night without the asumption that I will soon be killed/horribly maimed.
The parts of Chicago that I saw outside my train window convinced me that I would rather not go back there.
Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. Totally landlocked and isolated from the nearest culture by thousands of miles. Absolutely nothing of interest to do there. A foot from the city limits, and then as far as the eye can see, is… nothing. The locals have taken to drinking and fighting as sport. All kinds of people who have never been anywhere or done anything, who look down on the rest of the country and its people. I won’t be returning. Ugh.
Wow…I could have written the same post. I despise South Florida with a passion. So does BF. We lived there for two years, and it was indeed a glorious day when we left.
I came into this thread to mention Atlanta, though I wasn’t going to put it in quite those terms. I think that Atlanta is a pretentious city - like so many of it’s residents try to ignore the fact that it is a southern city (whether it’s because of the number of transplants that have ended up there or some other reason, I don’t know).
I’m not explaining it well, but I hate that city and I only lived there for 2.5 years.
I didn’t like Nashville either, but I can’t come up with a specific reason why.
I love the Twin Cities and Chicago. I love Chicago not because of its appearance, but because it’s my idea of what a city should be. Loud, grubby, and busy but with stuff to do.
I loathe Abilene, Texas. It’s provincial, small-minded, and intolerant of anyone who isn’t Christian. (No, not everyone is like that. But that’s my overall experience.)