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Sofar
May 13th, 2008 at
1:37 am
Lordy, I can tell you about the roads in Seattle. Part of our problem is it’s difficult to pave on a twenty per cent grade, asphalt roads change back to concrete, brick, or even cobblestone when it comes time to mount a steep hill. A lot of downtown was built on landfill–we had to raise the streets a good ten to thirty feet in the 1890s to help with drainage–the roads in Pioneer Square sit on century-old sawdust and brick vaults. They undulate wildly, in some places the street dips a foot and a half below the level of the sidewalk. In other parts of the city, when pot holes develop in asphalt roads you can see that they just paved over the original bricks, which themselves were laid over the cobblestones with which the street was paved eighty years prior.
Strangely our brick streets are in much better condition than our concrete or asphalt streets.
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Britt
May 13th, 2008 at
1:44 am
Seattle has some pretty crummy roads, I’ll give it that.
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Sofar
May 13th, 2008 at
4:42 am
Seattle, however, lacks pollution, crime, and fat people. And we have electric buses.
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Evilbeagle
May 13th, 2008 at
5:31 am
Having had to live in Miami for a few very long years, I can verify that this is where not only the rudest drivers live, but the rudest people overall. I hate that place. I only go back there now because I have family there, but if I didn’t, I wouldn’t set foot in that town again.
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DanO
May 13th, 2008 at
5:54 am
I agree about the rats in Baltimore. It’s hard to overlook the problem when there’s rat roadkill covering the streets.
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MoonCake
May 13th, 2008 at
6:14 am
how about ohio- the most BORING state? i’ve lived here my entire life and wow it’s boring… but of course, i know the grass is always greener on the other side, but holyCRAP it’s boring here. funny thing is, it’s in a constant state of renewal and construction.. you would think that they would build something relatively entertaining besides barnes n noble and F-ing starbucks.
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hooper
May 13th, 2008 at
6:33 am
I used to work in Miami. It is a pukehole. They didn’t mention that it also has one of the worst airports in the world.
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nick
May 13th, 2008 at
6:59 am
i used to live in seattle, and yes the roads are bad, i now live in south louisiana and holy smokes, every road is crap. i’d say even worse than seattle.
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Viola
May 13th, 2008 at
8:54 am
Driving in Boston is dangerous, so I can only imagine how scary it is on a bike.
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februarymakeup
May 13th, 2008 at
9:54 am
Aw, c’mon Mooncake. It’s not so bad north of Columbus! Granted, Dayton is (and this is a scientific fact) the most boring place on Earth, but we’re certainly not Kansas!
Show some pride! Our state doesn’t border a Boring Lake, it borders a GREAT Lake, son!
Seriously though–we’re not Kansas. Or Indiana.
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Dave
May 13th, 2008 at
9:58 am
Cool! The Dakotas get some love; Fargo is the best place “to raise children based on the quality of healthcare, education, public safety, transportation, the job market, and the natural environment.” But with that ranking coming from Zero, is that good or bad?
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Fritz
May 13th, 2008 at
10:18 am
I will second the sentiment about Baltimore Rats. They are legendary.
There is a girl from Baltimore who Blogs about Rats there.. she calls them Alley Bunniesgood post
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PaulVI
May 13th, 2008 at
10:22 am
I’m a transplant to Flint, MI. Where’s Flint on this list? It’s got to be the worst at something. Worst place to live? And by “live”, I mean “stay alive”. It’s been a leader in murder rate for some years running. Or at least, several top 3 finishes or highest rate for it’s size (pop.) has got to count for something. Job market recession? Emigration rate?
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Cindy
May 13th, 2008 at
10:34 am
im glad my city did not make the list
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Thomas
May 13th, 2008 at
10:38 am
I’m kind of upset that Macon, Ga didn’t make the list. Highest teen pregnancy and AIDS rates in a state that has problems with both.
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hokku
May 13th, 2008 at
11:59 am
I live in Modesto and I gotta say, as ominous as the title of “worst city in America” is it really depends on how you look at it as far as how bad living here can be. I mean, the lack of activities isn’t so bad if you have active friends and the hobos around here are some of the coolest people I’ve met.
Yeah, it’s bad I guess, but it does it so well.
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bean
May 13th, 2008 at
12:52 pm
Zero, a group who claims their goal is slowing population growth, is handing out advice on how to raise more crotch goblins? That’s hypocritical.
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A Mexican
May 13th, 2008 at
1:32 pm
It should read worst cities in the U.S.
There are much worse cities in America (especially Mexico)
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snarky1
May 13th, 2008 at
2:47 pm
Modesto is not that bad–really! House prices ARE high because all the Bay Area people move here and have driven costs way up. (Houses cost a lot less here and the Baysters seem to be okay with commuting.) Car theft IS bad here, I’ll grant you that. But really, Modesto is close to some fabulous, beautiful places - 1.5+/- hours away from the beach, San Francisco, Yosemite, etc.! How many of you mid-westerners can top that? We HAVE grown too fast for our infrastructure but we are trying to improve things. And, even with the downsides I still have no desire to move away from here to somewhere boring and land-locked.
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no rats in baltimore
May 13th, 2008 at
5:16 pm
I have to disagree about the rats in Baltimore. I see many more rats in Washington, D.C., the literal and the figurative, and New York is even worse. I don’t think I’ve ever seen a rat in Baltimore City, and friends from Italy comment on how clean the streets are. However, I live in an especially nice neighborhood. Probably the nicest. Nicer than yours. So there.
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badgirl
May 13th, 2008 at
6:54 pm
Can’t believe Fayetteville, NC didn’t make this list. Better known as
“Fayette-nam” for being a military town) or “Fayette-hell” it certainly fits the criteria. It’s the ugliest town I’ve ever breezed through and being in the sandhills of NC doesn’t help either. BTW, the only rats in Baltimore are two-legged. -
renderanything
May 13th, 2008 at
6:55 pm
I thought that L.A. was now the second worst city as far as air pollution goes.
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Louisa
May 13th, 2008 at
7:23 pm
Zero (population slowing group) has their best and worst reversed.
This list is not complete without St. Louis.
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Jim Steward
May 13th, 2008 at
7:30 pm
Calling this photo downtown Modesto is technically correct, but pretty deceiving. If I could go to any city and find the raunchiest corner and take a picture and represent that as downtown, that would be the equivalent. I’ve lived in Modesto for more than 30 years and I would much rather be here than hundreds of other places. It’s a great place to live.
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Fritz
May 13th, 2008 at
9:30 pm
No rats in Baltimore . You need to spend more time there maybe even a day? because you are clueless.
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Michelle
May 14th, 2008 at
9:29 am
I live right outside Scranton (which I am kind of surprised made the list) and I don’t know anyone that has asthma to be able to confirm or deny that. However, I will say that the pollen in the city is terrible this year. My sister’s suffering more than the rest of us since she’s attending the U of Scranton in the heart of downtown.
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Sise
May 15th, 2008 at
7:31 am
I used to go to Modesto all the time… all I can think of when I hear Modesto is SCOTT PETTERSON!!!
*sad*
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Nomone
May 15th, 2008 at
12:28 pm
Toledo Ohio should be in there somewhere. The current Mayor “hizzoner” “Fink”-beiner is a tyrant who acts like a spoiled baby when he can’t get his way or something upsets him. The streets are pothole after pothole, nothing to do (yeah, they’ll laud the museum of art, the zoo,…) downtown rolls up and goes to sleep after 5, the center of science and industry closed, the schools…thats another story. THE absolute worst!
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SPLIFFS MOMMY
May 15th, 2008 at
3:14 pm
They forgot portland oregon,nastiest homeless population on earth.
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Solstafir
May 19th, 2008 at
5:49 am
Modesto, man, every town in the Central Valley is like that. Downtown Fresno is littered with bail bonds everywhere, and for a town with nearly 500,000 people living here, there isn’t a whole lot to do, aside from join gangs and do meth. Seriously
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Jason
May 23rd, 2008 at
2:27 pm
i live in memphis, tn and i thought that we were the fattest city. (well we were last year). now its las vegas. im glad that we’re no longer #1 on the list.
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Dianne
May 24th, 2008 at
5:05 pm
What’s That Smell???? Oh, yea Terre Haute, Indiana. I’m a Hoosier but wouldn’t live in Terre Haute if somebody gave me a house, car and perfect family to go with it.
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Carolyn
May 26th, 2008 at
11:10 pm
I was also surprised that Flint, MI did not make the list. I have not visited there personally, but from what I have heard about it from my husband who lived there for a short while, it is an awful place.
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Deana
May 27th, 2008 at
4:51 pm
Okay, so now we know the worst cities. Are the best ones a secret? Maybe the best ones are just trying to keep all the freaks out.
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Anne
June 5th, 2008 at
6:04 pm
I just now today got my email to function and this is a favorite website.
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big red
June 20th, 2008 at
9:09 pm
ashland ky , nasty , dirty people , dont care about themselves or anyone els …..
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Katie
June 25th, 2008 at
12:09 am
Yes! Baltimore and Pittsburgh were mentioned, but no Cleveland!
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JA
July 4th, 2008 at
11:32 pm
Baltimore is definitely rat infested. The second city that might be worse than BodyMore on rats is New Orleans. 5 Years ago I saw a rat there that would have made a large dog scared.
Despite what they keep saying about Washington D.C. and it gentrification taking place. I must say they are full of $***!!! The Anacostia river itself looks like something out of the Amazon, Almost all of southeast across the river looks like war torn Africa or some gentrification you could say (Nice houses Ghetto’d out with drug dealers) Cops don’t know what to do because there’s a robbery every 10 seconds. Northeast D.C. is complete a $h*thole excp. on benning road going into trinidad ect. Last week there were 7 murders and 4 shooting in 12 hours. And everywhere in Northwest there are nice houses that run into complete open air drug ghetto’s. Southwest has allot of new businesses and hoods. Everybody is mean as hell. All the good clubs they keep destroying year after year for some stupid crap. I have lived here almost all my life and loved it but hated it just as much. Jesus Christ, this is our Nations Capital? What the hell is going on here?
They say D.C. is getting better but every year we are on the worst cities of America list. As of 2008 from wikipedia we are #7. It won’t be long before we are once again, the murder capital of the united states.
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