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Spent quite a bit of time working in Angola helping Sonangol -- the national oil co.--get up and running soon after the end of the civil war there...ended up making 7 or 8 trips there,,,

To say it was the wild wild west would be an understatement.

One story that sticks out, was walking to find dinner one night, took a shortcut down a side street, then noticed there was a stream of raw sewage coming out of a building on my left. Went a bit further and noticed there was also a stream of sewage coming out of a building on my right.

Pretty soon the two streams merged and I was either going to have to jump about 8 feet, or go all the way back to the main street.

I retraced my steps.....

I haven't been to a La Quinta for quite awhile. When I'm traveling, I generally stay at a Holiday Inn and HI Express.

Never an issue at a La Quinta? Stayed in a dive in NW New Mexico where roaches were trying to steal my shoes. That was about the worst I can remember.

Some of ya'll might know the place; Abe's near the San Jaun River?

On the Rez?
There’s definitely some schidt holes on the Navajo Rez.

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the Bronx

I generally avoid big cities. I did go with a sister in law to a play in renovated downtown San Francisco. What a dump. Homeless lowlifes all over the places. The theater had security police to keep them away from people going to the play. The underwater rail system to get there was a [bleep] also. Druggies. Edk

Detroit

Everytime I start typing my story they sound so lame, so I erase as so many here have been so many places. But St.Louie has been brought up several times & I've had a couple experiences there myself.

Nassau seemed OK to me, & I was alert. But downtown late one afternoon & watched the place change face big time come dusk. If the local merchants wanted out of there as bad as it seemed I sure as hell wasn't staying.

A co worker had a bad experience in Mex. & I was next to go. It got cancelled & let my passport expire, screw it. Can get in enough trouble in Lexington Ky. without going international.

Chicago

Agree completely. Been living in the Detroit suburbs my entire life, not a garden spot but not that bad. Suburbs are pretty nice.

I work in Sterling Hights and Fraser.
Detroit sucks!!!

I go up there all the time.
I find it scenic, relaxing, fairly rural and fairly safe.
I have never walked down the street in fear.
Some of you guys should probably lock yourself in the bathroom and not come out.

Shieaittthhhole?
Really?

Yeah there's homeless and methheads..here and there.
They don't F with me.

LOL. David, Everything in that area is pretty much a Schitthole except for the phenomenal trout fishing.
Stayed at Abe’s many times over the years while fly fishing the quality water below the Navajo Dam on the San Juan River.
Never saw any roaches in the rooms, but had a room there one year that was definitely a black widow spider breeding ground. 🤪
The breakfast and lunch at Abe’s little Cafe has always been great for a small out of the way joint like that.

We usually fish hard all day from about daylight till 3 or 4 pm, then drive into Durango for a great supper and then some Rocky Mountain Chocolate for desert.

I’m usually beat from wading the swift river current and fishing all day so I sleep like a log there. 😬

The Soaring Eagle Lodge, just down the road from Abe’s is a little nicer, but not much, at about twice the price.

And of course, there are no cheap places to stay in Durango, and a 60 mile drive to the San Juan in the dark through the narrow mountain roads ever morning to go fish is a no go for me.

A good friend of mine has a real nice 2 story log cabin on Vallecito Lake, Colorado, near Bayfield, where I can stay for free, but it’s about a hour and a half drive from there to go fish the quality water below the Navajo Dam on the San Juan.

Belize City

Had a camp there a little rough but great fishing

Tunisia. The worst place I've been.

Grew up in Southern MI so there were a few within a 3-4 hour drive. It's been 20-30 years since I've been to them so don't know if they've changed for better or worse. Detroit, Flint, Muskegon, Benton Harbor, Gary IN, South side of Chicago all had areas that qualified as [bleep]. Brooklyn NY and St Louis MO would also qualify. I've been to some very poor areas of southeast US and villages of Alaska but looked at those places as circumstances of location economics and not really as once well off now decaying [bleep].

The slums outside of Caracas Venezuela were pretty bad, but the worst was the slums outside of Capetown South Africa.

Roughest place I've been is Jeddah, KSA. The Hilton has Humvees with roof mounted .50's at each entrance.

One of the guys wanted some Marine Security Guard polos and so the driver took us to the consulate. The consulate vehicle entry took twenty minutes to get through, they had to page the Vice Consul to come down and vet us...while traveling on Diplomatic passports.

Seeing (and understanding) Chop-Chop Square was sobering.

CHLinstructor, twice the price of Abes.... is worth every penny! Now that you mention it, I also recall spiders at Abes. Not black widows, but daddy long legs. (Everywhere). Can't stand those fuggers with their quivering bodies.. Bleh/shiver