yeah it's in almost the same location, which probably could use some interesting/good use, but I don't see it happening. You've got the extremely unsuccessful Atlantic Center shopping mall (which the state subsidized but still can't find enough tenants for - thus it's where the DMV is), the mess that is the Atlantic Avenue subway/LIRR station (still under construction, some 7 years or so after it started), and a LIRR train yard. All told, the organizations opposed to the stadium have counted something like 800 residents that will be displaced, I haven't seen anything on their rent-controlled status though.

are you fucking kidding?

no mention of Omaha?
whatever
that city sucks royally. the downtown is garbage so is the school there, creighton, right?
i know you can "well, what about Des Moines Iowa boy?" yeah, Des Moines sucks pretty hard too, but Des Moines has Adventureland. think about it.
on top of all that, the majority of music that comes from there sucks.
ever see those big, lurching, imposing, housing developments? creepy.

uh-huh.

Another choice: Lenexa, Kansas. ATROCIOUS!!!

I liked Omaha the one time I was there, although the "Chicago-style" pizza place kinda sucked.

I happen to live in San Francisco, and I make a (lowly) living and a mastering/recording engineer / office guy. I love it here.

Rapid City, SD is a hellhole.
Any town in Wyoming other than Cody and the yelowstone area.
Orange County.


your pal,
ben adrian

Phoenix stands out as the biggest, most lifeless piece of shit of a city that I've ever been to. Aside from the fact that the downtown area is eerily abandoned at night aside from a few stragglers who seem to stand there staring at you as you walk by, and then slowly begin following, the biggest cockroaches I've ever seen, which were scattering all over the sidewalks, I've never been anywhere else that blazes 110 degrees at 7:30 in the morning. I love coffee, but as I walked from the hotel room to the convenient store through the suffocating heat to get coffee, I changed my mind and had a Coke instead. For the life of me, I can't figure out why the first settlers stopped there and thought, "This would be a great place to build a city!" It might be a great place to die.

I'm from London, Ing-er-land but have travelled v. widely in the US for holidays, family, and band touring things. I think i've visited 22 states, not including changing planes; and have seen many superb cities and places and people.

But for the unceasing, unchanging, eternal love of our Lord, I wouldn't ever go back to Lubbock, Texas.

ch029448 wrote:Mine are:

Houston - for aesthetic reasons. Quite possibly the ugliest city ever. What is that shit-brown body of water you call a river?

Boo!

best Houston qualities..

-Phillip fucking Johnson's buildings. Houston has weird zoning laws (ie. hardly any), so architects get away with nearly anything there.. creating one of the coolest downtown skylines IMO.

-the other, more dated architecture such as the Astrodome and the Intercontinental airport. Definitely some of the most interestingly sterile concrete structures ever.

-all the green vegetation and tall woodlands.

-lack of any hip/artsy/beatnik/loft/fuckin'postcollegiateslacker districts (hopefully this hasn't changed since i've been away)

-lack of hills, good for walkin'.

-proximity to the charmingly crappy Galveston beaches. you can sit on the beach in your car and throw 40 oz bottles in the ocean and no one will really care.

-ZZ fuckin' Top

you are right about the Ship Channel though, and the humidity and high crime rate aren't good either.

I have been to EVERY state in the US save Alaska.

San Francisco sucks, yes - but the worst? Not by a long shot. There are ball-less geeks in every town. SF does has a fairly testicle free populace though.


Some of the worst:

New Britain, Connecticut. shIt hole with a capital I.

Kalamazoo, Michigan

Flint, Michigan

Buffalo, NY

Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.


My town rocks, yours is gae.

i'll stick to large metropoli

phoenix and greater phoenix area

orlando, fl.

let's leave it at that!