Crappiest place in America you've visited
Jan 14th 2011, 7:27 pm
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Crappiest place in America you've visited
For me this is a toss-up between Butte, MT which is (or was) the most toxic place in the US and Lake Charles, LA, which has a sulphur mine and appears to be inhabited by people who've clearly breathed in too much of it.
My mom thinks that Plymouth, NC is the crappiest place in America and admittedly she's seen more of it than I have. My friend reeled off various towns in West Virginia that she's been to that were pretty awful apparently. (I have to say I quite like WV but I haven't been to all the mining towns and so on).
My mom thinks that Plymouth, NC is the crappiest place in America and admittedly she's seen more of it than I have. My friend reeled off various towns in West Virginia that she's been to that were pretty awful apparently. (I have to say I quite like WV but I haven't been to all the mining towns and so on).
Jan 14th 2011, 7:34 pm
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Re: Crappiest place in America you've visited
I kind of liked Butte, MO...we walked around where the old mines were and I though it was pretty interesting. 
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Jan 14th 2011, 7:56 pm
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Re: Crappiest place in America you've visited
Bored????????????????
For me this is a toss-up between Butte, MT which is (or was) the most toxic place in the US and Lake Charles, LA, which has a sulphur mine and appears to be inhabited by people who've clearly breathed in too much of it.
My mom thinks that Plymouth, NC is the crappiest place in America and admittedly she's seen more of it than I have. My friend reeled off various towns in West Virginia that she's been to that were pretty awful apparently. (I have to say I quite like WV but I haven't been to all the mining towns and so on).
My mom thinks that Plymouth, NC is the crappiest place in America and admittedly she's seen more of it than I have. My friend reeled off various towns in West Virginia that she's been to that were pretty awful apparently. (I have to say I quite like WV but I haven't been to all the mining towns and so on).
Jan 14th 2011, 8:24 pm
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Re: Crappiest place in America you've visited
Cicero, Illinois.
We thought there would interesting historical markers. (Al Capone related)
There weren't.
We thought there would interesting historical markers. (Al Capone related)
There weren't.
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Jan 14th 2011, 8:27 pm
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Re: Crappiest place in America you've visited
I went thru a couple of years hating being here when we first arrived. Every time I went away, it seemed to be to somewhere nicer than where we lived and I wished I was staying there instead of coming home. The only place I went to that didn't make me feel like that was Memphis. I found it depressing, even Beale Street which seemed to be closed when we were there! But given that Houston is officially not shit, thats not really any bad reflection on Memphis
Jan 14th 2011, 8:32 pm
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Re: Crappiest place in America you've visited
Williston North Dakota, what a sh*t hole that was. The place is the center of the Dakota oil fields, no one told us that when we booked into a hotel there on our trip across the states. Dirty hotel rooms, nasty restraunts we even avoided the McDonalds there.. If you ever have the pleasure to drive US 2 keep driving when you hit North Dakota.
Jan 14th 2011, 9:04 pm
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Re: Crappiest place in America you've visited
Gary Indiana
and as someone who has been to Detroit and Flint Michigan, that's saying a lot.
and as someone who has been to Detroit and Flint Michigan, that's saying a lot.
Jan 14th 2011, 9:07 pm
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Re: Crappiest place in America you've visited
Drove through some really dead looking little towns on I95 NC.
Jan 14th 2011, 9:13 pm
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Re: Crappiest place in America you've visited
California.
And Hays, Kansas.
And Hays, Kansas.
Jan 14th 2011, 9:19 pm
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Re: Crappiest place in America you've visited
Gadsden , AL, they have red hotdogs. 
Jan 14th 2011, 9:28 pm
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Re: Crappiest place in America you've visited
Probably Atlantic City, NJ. Had to do some survey work there a few years ago and that place has/had a few seriously grim neighbourhoods.
Jan 14th 2011, 9:46 pm
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Re: Crappiest place in America you've visited
Los Angeles
Jan 14th 2011, 10:11 pm
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Re: Crappiest place in America you've visited
Bakersfield CA.
Jan 14th 2011, 10:18 pm
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Re: Crappiest place in America you've visited
Moses Lake WA - smells like sh*t!!
