I guess the rules of the survey should be (to eliminate bias in either direction) that you can not have lived there...only visited.


Mine are:

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

San Francisco: Hey look, I'm a liberal Democrat. But San Francisco is largely communist-vegan-overly-PC-sensitive assholes. I went to the Holidays In The Sun festival there, and it was like a convention for green mohawked, Doc Martin wearing Hare Krishnas. That city lacks intensity and balls. And look, how many fucking left-wing/socialist bookstores that reek of incense whose sales consist mainly of The Anarchists Cook Book and greeting cards featuring artisticly taken black and white photos of naked men, can you cram into one town!

The worst city in the United States, and possibly the world, is Cincinatti, Ohio.

I've never been, but you my friend, live in quite possibly the BEST city!!!

I'm from Queens originally, but Brooklyn's good enough! HA!

Are you planning on becoming a Nets fan?

Detroit.

I went there to deliver some sculpture in the heart of downtown. It was midday on a weekday. No people!!! I could not fathom that there were skyscrapers and huge office buildings and no people walking around. I felt like it was some Twilight Zone episode.

Beloit Wisconsin is 2nd. What a shithole.

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Jacksonville, FL is the ugliest city I've ever seen. Haven't checked out Detroit.

Houston is up there.

And yeah, San Francisco is exactly like what the DiMaggio guy said. Only worse. So by all means, don't move to the Bay Area.

No need to worry about overcrowding your lovely Bay Area. You've got to win the lotto (or quit your job and live off of Jerry Brown's nickel) to afford to move there.

I would love to engage you in a real East/West bloodbath, but I am utterly lacking in intensity and balls, and so can't manage it.

I blame Jerry Brown, and his many nickels.

Are you planning on becoming a Nets fan?

No, considering that:

1. I live very near where they're planning to put the stadium, and I think the location of said stadium will very nearly wreck the living standards of most people who live near it - because of traffic, higher rents, etc. Although I suppose higher property values will be a boon to some people - making Brooklyn less affordable to the middle and working classes is not something I can reasonably support.

2. There's no doubt that Bruce Ratner will get some sort of tax break/deal (not to mention the state using eminent domain to seize property), and though I like sports in general, I really despise the way public funding is used to subsidize private sports enterprises these days (see also: Soldier Field).

3. Frank Gehry is a horrible architect and his design for the stadium looks like crap.

4. Although I do like basketball, being raised in Kentucky means I only like it played at the college level.

by the way, I don't think San Francisco's really that bad, even if some of the people that live there are major dorks.

As long as you're man enough to admit it! HA!

I hear that the area proposed for the Nets arena is the exact same location denied to the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1957, causing them to move to Los Angeles.

It's apparently largely rent-controlled apartments now and resident/owners will have to be compensated.