The worst place where you have lived?

[ISUChippewa]

I've been fortunate to live in some pretty nice places so far, and since my career experience has been in year-round camping, I've been able to live and work at camps here and there and get to experience local town life without actually living in the town itself.

With that being said, Jackson, Michigan, and Battle Creek, Michigan, are both kind of shady towns, especially inner-city Battle Creek (a town of only around 40,000 people, but ever since Kellogg sent most of their factory jobs to Mexico, it definitely had an inner-city).

 

[azepp]

I have literally lived all over the country and the worst place by far was; Enid, Oklahoma ... HATED IT!

I spent a couple summer months in Muskogee, OK auditing a scrap metal company whose blast furnace had exploded. They had taken over an old, abandoned, run-down grocery store as their headquarters after the blast destroyed their old offices (and a number of houses near the yard). Abandoned grocery store + no air conditioning + neighbors ****** about their houses being blown up + Muskogee, OK = worst summer of my life.

 

[yannballer]

i lived in fort dodge for a year and a half, basically the arm pit of america! place could be off the map and no one would miss it or care!

 

[jdoggivjc]

I'm guessing that the worst place I have ever lived will be in about a year or so if I'm forced to follow my job to Detroit (funny that I'm ripping on other places to live when I currently live near Davenport)...

i lived in fort dodge for a year and a half, basically the arm pit of america! place could be off the map and no one would miss it or care!

WRONG - the Armpit of America is New Jersey - figuratively and literally!

 

[CB21]

Fort Dodge.

Edit: Or Mansfield, OH.. I think it was because I hated the neighbor kids when I was younger.

 

[Wesley]

Sundance, Wyoming. Long story. They did have a bowling lanes. The gateway to everything else.

 

[Palmer]

Nevada, Ia wasn't too peachy.

 

[bos]

There are bigger cities in Eastern Iowa than Western Iowa...


Plus Western Iowa is closer to ****ing Nebraska

Bigger cities are not my thing. I will agree on the ******* nebraska thing though. It sucks.

 

[chuckd4735]

I have only lived in Ames and Dubuque, so I would have to say Ames is by far the worst town I have ever lived in. Not to bad when you're in college, but once you're out, and most your friends have moved away, it sucks pretty bad...

 

[CB21]

Bigger cities are not my thing. I will agree on the ******* nebraska thing though. It sucks.

Oh yeah. Virtually 90 minutes to either Nebraska, Minnesota, or South Dakota. Doesn't get much better...

Although I'm with you on the whole big cities thing.

 

[nj829]

Hot Springs Ar was the worst. Nice to visit, but a nightmare to live in. Dirty and scuzzy town, with drug issues to be polite.

I haven't lived in Little Rock, but I have to stick up for them somewhat, as long as you say in the West LR area it's about the same as West Des Moines. Other parts of town are not so nice, but it's not quite as bad as made out to be earlier.

Northwest Arkansas is by far the crown jewel of the state.

 

[Havs]

Oh yeah. Virtually 90 minutes to either Nebraska, Minnesota, or South Dakota. Doesn't get much better...

Although I'm with you on the whole big cities thing.

90 minutes from Southwest Minnesota, South Dakota, and Nebraska... oooooh! :biglaugh:

 

[CYKID]

Mitchell South Dakota, What a craphole that town was. The only good day in Mitchell was Pheasant Hunting Opening Day when the Kongo Klub would bring Vegas quality entertainment to town.

 

[Havs]

Marshall County, Iowa wasn't the most exciting place in the world to live.

 

[mcblogerson]

Pella, ia

 

[CarolinaCy]

Other than the fact that Omaha is full of Husker fans no city in Iowa can even hold a flame to it. Much better restaurant, bars, and live music scene.

These things make Omaha a nice place to visit once in a while, or a decent place to live if you're single, but let's be honest, Omaha is a dump. Taxes are high, the city's streets are crumbling, a lot of downtown/midtown area is abandoned or run-down, crime is out of control, the city is poorly run, etc.

Omaha is easily the worst place I've lived.

 

[oldman]

On an aircraft carrier (commissioned in 1946) in the Indian Ocean for 3-1/2 months. No doors on the crappers, jet fuel leaking into the fresh water supply, and 2-1/2' x 6' bunk with a sweating pipe dripping on you all night. I still have an occasional nightmare, where I'm back on that damned ship, and wondering how in the heck did I get here again?!

 

[d30fan]

Brown's Mills NJ, or anyplace in NJ. Or Goose Bay Labrador if you want to go worldwide.

 

[Stewo]

Afghanistan. Will not do it again....until later this year. Did you guys know that 3rd world countries aren't all they're cracked-up to be?

 

[aeroclone]

It has got to be Ames for me. That said, I haven't lived a lot of places. It was great as a student, but it doesn't stand out for me much now that I am out of school.