Some of you guys have seen the worst of the worst.
When I was young, my grandparents lived south of San Diego CA.
Several times I went to Tijuana Mexico...I can remember as a young boy wanting to kiss the ground when I crossed back into the USA.
We live in the best place on the planet.
What is the worst, most disgusting place you have ever been to?

I spent almost 4 months in India for work. I saw how cheap life is there. Sadly it looks like some of our major cities are turning into what I saw there

Spent a week in Detroit once.

I’ve seen a few schit holes south of the border.

Belzoni Mississippi takes the cake though.

I was in Juarez Mexico back in the mid eighties. Back when you could go there without getting murdered or kidnapped. It was pretty bad even then.

Ron

Anywhere in NJ

I'll never forget the smell.
Open sewers, people living in cardboard boxes, poverty everywhere.
The outskirts of Tijuana were something I'll never forget.
I'm sure it looks like Beverly Hills compared to some places in this world.

In the U.S., Detroit. No question. In the world, the mid east except for Israel. However I've never been to Africa or Brazil.

I've been thru some of the worst area of Detroit.

I'd start with bulldozing down every abandoned house.

Haiti

Jamaica

Illinois and Caracas Venezuela.

East St Louis, Illinois has to rank way up there. I didn't see anywhere in Vietnam that was as bad.

La Guaira, Venezuela.

Port-au-Prince Haiti. 1984. Unbelievable how nasty it was.

Atlanta... biggest congress of Boons in the world. I wouldn't live there if you gave me the Gov's mansion.

LA several times. As nasty a place as I’ve ever seen. Shreveport is a close runner up.

Somalia.

Iraq

Albania

Rode a train from Laredo Texas to Mexico City, High school trip. The slums south of Monterey Mexico were a sight like I’d never seen before.

Got lost in East St. Louis. Got detoured heading back to the air port. Pretty bad.

Hunted in Africa, pretty much all of Africa is a dump.

Went to buy angle iron to build a deer stand at an iron and metal place East side of Houston. They shut the road down I came off of I10 on. Started down a street that looked like would take me back to I10, didn’t go where I wanted. Ran across a fireman doing a charity thing at an intersection. He said keep going straight don’t stop at any intersection, roll through it, don’t look at anybody and you will hit 610 loop or some main road can’t remember. I had to drive through one of the Wards in Houston, not sure which one. It was bad roads weren’t paved, police didn’t even go there for the most part. It was one rundown housing project or shack after another.

Fished offshore off the Island of Antigua, any Island in the Dutch West Indies is hell hole.

This works is full of bad places. Some I’m sure worse than I’ve seen.

In the United States?

Any area between Brownsville and Del Rio, Texas.

That entire area is a disgusting schit hole. In every way.

Pakistan was worse than Iraq and Afghanistan. If just because of the weather. Same heat but add in humidity and golf ball size mosquitos. Life doesn't mean much there.

India, for sure.

I know a chick that was born and raised in NJ but her family moved to Haiti (they're Haitian) when she was in middle school.

This was before Haiti fell on really hard times (her words) and she said she preferred Haiti to NJ.

Which I find hilarious.

Karachi Pakastan

Bandar Abbas, Iran

Biap 2006

San Diego TX

SLum next to Cancun Mexico. Looked pretty sporting at 10 pm.

A favela next to an industrial plant I had oversight for, in Brazil. Open ditches of sewage from humans, pigs, chickens, dogs and cattle. Kids running around naked and filthy. Houses were tar paper, pallets, cardboard and tin cobbled together.

Yeah.

Monclova, MX was pretty bad.

Of the places I’ve been to in the US, Detroit. Flint might be worse, but Detroit is sad and scary. That it was once called the ‘Paris of the Midwest’ is unbelievable to me.

Stayed at a Super 8 outside Savannah once for work that, looking back, has no peer in terms of worst place I’ve ever stayed.

India. Spent two months there for work in 2014. Nothing in the US comes close. Poverty like you can't fathom but the amazing thing is they all seem happy. I guess what you don't know you don't know.

Nigeria is pretty nice, it makes Mexico seem like a 4 star country.

I usually don’t call places sh$tholes on account of I ain’t been anyplace that didn’t have some good people in it.

That being said; Memphis, Newark, the Bronx.

Rio Bravo TX, on the river on our side east of Laredo.

Cuidad Miguel Aleman, Nuevo Laredo, Juarez - all on the Mex side.

Place most gone downhill between two visits thirty years apart - Pine Ridge.
, at it weren’t sweetness and light the first visit.

An old trailer park maybe two miles from my house. Junkies shooting up in broad daylight, numerous homeless illegals walking around.

Laredo, Quemado, Eagle Pass, Del Rio, El Paso? I’ve known too many good people from those places.

You obviously never been to San Antonio, TX.

Mexican border area. On the Mex side.

U.S. side ain't much better.

Detroit has some bad areas for sure where I've prayed I didn't get a flat tire. Nassau looked pretty nasty on the walking tour route. I couldn't wait to get back on the boat.

Haiti

West Virginia...

Never ever move there... it is horrible.

Seriously... Stay where you are.

Butte Mt, nah just kidding.

I’d say Chicago.

The 9th Ward post Hurricane Katrina.

The flats next to Kingston, Jamaica. A strung together hive of cardboard, tin, pallets, and tarps with pathways zig zagging around and thru places where people slept and ate what they could find, including a paste made from ground minnows caught in the concrete storm drain, which also served as a toilet. There was a system of scrap wire, some uninsulated, that fed electricity borrowed from the power lines by way of jumper cables. There were TV sets and Boom Boxes here and there, and young thug looking dudes "gittin' jiggy wid it".

I can honestly say , I have been to very few REAL [bleep], if any. I've been to [bleep] , and been to Nagalas Mexico , on the boarder. It was poor, but cleaner than our big cities, and the people seemed real nice. It is not nearly as bad as what I;ve heard about India. My daughter lived in Cairo , Egypt for 5 yrs. and she sais the place is filthy and the men are lazy perverted cowards . The garbage lays all over , dogs running everywhere and when they poison the dogs, they die in the streets and no one will pick them up. When the Coptic Christians get done recycling, they bull doze the garbage into the Nile River. it is hot and dusty to make it worse. She now lives in New Kingston , Jamaica and said it is much cleaner , and the people are hard working and nice. I started a post a few months ago and asked what it was like in Jamaica and almost all the posters here said she was foolish and didnt know what she was doing, and will get hurt ETC... Noting could be further from the truth. There is little crime there. Just dont deal, steal , do drugs or join a gang and you are likely very safe . They dont go out at night though. I am sure most of the posters here that say a U.S. city is bad has never been very far from home.

Kanorado Kansas

Now you know not to ask questions here.

Irsq.

NY , Bronx , south east side of Lubbock Texas
South end of Tucson Arizona , most of Richmond , Va
Most of DC , good bit of Baltimore Md you could literally walk from bright lights and a fun place at the flip of a switch be standing in no man’s land for a cracker
Oklahoma City , can’t remember the name of it right now but upper north west side of NM bikers and Indians at war with each other , spent 4th of July there , they closed gates at the back side of motel so you couldn’t get out , gun shots mixed with fireworks , next morning at day break riding through town to get fuel , a couple bodies laying on or off side walk , one in a pretty good size puddle of blood .
FarmVille that was the name
Kenneth

One I forgot was Colorado Springs , don’t know what end we were on , rolled in there late at night riding shotgun on semi
Reefer was leaking bad , driver stayed in parking lot trying to fix it , I went in to get room .
Walking through a pretty good sized parking lot , there were people screwing everywhere’s. Got close to motel and some weirdo was jumping up and down trying to see what was going on with his tslley whacker in his hand , never paid me no mind
Going up three flights of stairs , trash everywhere, go into lobby and three chalk white fat women with hair colors and dews from hell , smiling and eyeballing me , what can we do for you
In my firmest voice said a room
They got a pouty look on their face , paid and hit the elevator to see what I had paid for
Got on elevator some 7-8 month pregnant gal gets on , you could see the crust in her skin , lots of belly showing
Asked If I was looking for some fun , said no thanks , feel like I just had some , she got off the same floor as me , went different direction , but I kept her in my perifial .
Got to room , door had been patched 4-( times were the lock was busted off
Walked in , pulled blankets and sheets back , looked ok , went in and checked bathroom .
Good for tonight
Got back on elevator , one floor down and it stopped , black guy and white girl get on
One to each side , I deliberately stepped to him and pushed home out of the corner do I had my back to the corner and then in front of me
Gal smiles and asks if I’m looking for a girl friend
Gave a firm no
Got off walked down stairs noticing they’re following about 10 yds back , kept oerifial on them , eyeballing my buddy on top of rig , suddenly I noticed they were gone .
Turned quickly to see them moving fast at 3-5 yds , shoved hand into Fanny pack grabbed G-21 and as it cleared the Fanny they came to a halt and veered off
Dam that was close
Got to my buddy asked him how it was going
Wasn’t making any headway
So J said let’s call it a night , he worked some more and finally tossed tools in tool box and locked them in cab , turned on his alarm and we went in
I pointed out the scenery around us and ran him a discriot of events
Got to room , had a couple beers and he wanted to go to bar and shoot some pool
I said absolutely not , you want to get mickied
So we set , drank a few , I was loookjng at floor when I noticed big crimson spot on rug and apparent drops leading to the bath room
Checked it to see how fresh , nothing came up on toilet paper
Got some sleep , called the owner , he said Fugg it bring it on
So we were in deep Texas by night fall
Other things that could be said about the trip , but I’ll keep them under my hat for now

Went to Vegas a couple months ago. I hadn’t been in 6 years or so. I’d not go so far as to call it a schithole just yet, but it’s working on it.

Detroit’s always been some degree of rough, but I think the Great Recession pretty well permanently relegated it to schitlhole status.

Been to Laredo TX and Monterrey MX for work recently. I didn’t think they were terrible, but we didn’t hang out in the rough part of town either.

May have just been the part I drove through, but you coulda filmed a post apocalypse zombie movie in Cairo Illinois. Just freakin’ awful.

Saudi Arabia - The whole place checks all the boxes for SH category.

Some slum in Manila. It was close to the air port. Shacks and open sewage.

Even Zimbabwe was nicer.

The bad part of Cincinnati,OH looks like a great place to leave in a hurry. I took a "scenic" route through there once by mistake. I hate big cities, and that trip just reminded me why.

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May have just been the part I drove through, but you coulda filmed a post apocalypse zombie movie in Cairo Illinois. Just freakin’ awful.[/quote]

The first time I drove through Cairo I too thought it was just the bad part of town; figured the nicer part was on the bypass maybe. After talking to someone familiar with Cairo and checking Google Earth I realized there is no better part of town.

Hunts point market new York. Took the wife on a cruise to Jamaica mon as long as you stayed with the cruise ship areas you were ok but get out and try to explore on your own was pretty risky

aww man, I mean Parkersburg isn't exactly nice, but considering the whole town was poisoned, they have an excuse. I've spent quite a bit of time in small towns near Virginia and NC and I haven't been any place that I'd think was bad. Stopped into Charleston, didn't spend enough time to get a feel for it, but downtown wasn't horrible. Now granted I haven't lived there, only vacations but I've never looked around and said it was a schithole.

My point is there are many,many worse places in America than West Virginia

I spent a month in Chicago one night.

You guys are so far off about Detroit. I can tell reading the posts you have never been there, or it was 30 years ago.

One guy posted he was scared to get a flat tire. LOL, that's such BS.

The city is 20 times better than it was, all 4 major sports teams are all downtown, great Italian restaurants, Casinos. Some of the best walleye fishing in the country is there as well.

Remember seeing pics of Berlin in like June of ‘45, that looked better that the 9th ward in January of ‘06!

Watts in LA was no picnic in the 70's. Was routed off the interstate into Watts by mistake. No bueno.

The first time I drove through Cairo I too thought it was just the bad part of town; figured the nicer part was on the bypass maybe. After talking to someone familiar with Cairo and checking Google Earth I realized there is no better part of town.[/quote]

I've told this story before but a cousin came to visit us back when I was a kid, decided he wanted to see the country, got over somewhere close to Cairo and started having chest pains. Pulled into someone driveway and asked them for help, they took him to the hospital (back when Cairo had a hospital). Called my dad and told him he was in Cairo, could he come get him.

Dad was pretty put out, loaded up his revolver and for reasons still unknown to me decided to take me with him.

Driving into town I saw a gang of blacks, easily 8, circled around someone on the street, just beating the schit out of them, not two block later we saw another gang of blacks chasing someone down the street. I remember dad had one hand on the steering wheel, one hand on the revolver. While we were at the hospital they brought in a woman that had been attacked , had her eye poked out

Back in the 80's Cairo sold beer on Sundays and had a nightclub on the outskirts of town that didn't check for IDs, you could buy weed there (I'm sure anything else if you asked for it) out in the open. It was a pretty rough crowd, especially when you mixed in young high school kids that were dumber than a box of rocks

the downtown area isn't really bad, we've had corporate events at the punch bowl and the convention center on the water - its the "ring" around downtown you have to get through that is concerning.

Roatán away from the resorts and beaches was rather sketchy and disconcerting. Several places in Africa (Zimbabwe especially) was downright awful.

I spend quite a bit of time in the interior of Mexico these days, especially in Torreón and there's pockets of the city that the infrastructure is crumbling around them, huge pot holes in the streets that are really craters. The trash and graffiti in some areas is unbelievable.

I haven't been in decades, but I hear many of our major cities run by the Dems resemble third world shiet holes. In fact, some might even be worse as there's actual shiet in the streets and on the sidewalks.

Yeah it's a bitch driving thru Oakland County. Once was the 4th wealthiest counties in the country.

What an amazing thread.

Thank you.

I used to have to inspect properties for the state in and around the Detroit area. Trust me there are areas that are very bad no BS. Lots of very nice expensive neighborhoods areas but lots of crap mixed in as well just like any major city I suppose. Yes walleye fishing on Detroit River is world class no doubt.

Ohio is a thousand times nicer than the Virginias...

You should stay in Ohio.

If I were you, I would look at your own side of the state as a [bleep] hole. Benton Harbor

Toss up between Detroit and Gallup NM.

Both are great arguments in favor of ethnic cleansing.

oh...now I get it

nope, I'm moving now dammit

Chicago, hands down. MTG

The first place that I thought of, upon reading the title of your post, was Tijuana, MX. It is the biggest shanty town in North America. The shanty town in Mexico City is not quite as big.

Many responses in this thread mention Detroit. The fact that thirty years ago the population was 1.5 million and today it is 800,000, says a lot about the city.

Panama .. out side the city they lived in grass huts like Vietnam . and Island of Grenada little wood shacks ,no running water

I'm always amazed at any major city where I see what was once nice if not great starter homes and I imagine this quiet little community in the 40's and 50's of white people living in their well kept, neat , safe row houses, Corner grocery selling meats and produce, a bakery two blocks down

Can you imagine the Normal Rockwell painting today?

I don't have to go as far south as Benton Harbor to find crappy areas. We have a couple right here around the Muskegon area mixed in with the nice neighborhoods but I'm not touchy if someone points that out to me.

Vancouver BC, lower eastside.

Detroit.

Ex wife's house ..

No matter where you go - There you are.

Drove through St. Louis in 2000, stayed on the overhead highways and prayed that I didn't take an unplanned exit down into that festering mess.

I was awfully glad to get back on the boat in Nassau.

Iowa

Downtown Seattle was a mess last time I was there. Portland has some really [bleep] areas too. Shame too as I remember them as nice 20 years ago.

I asked AI to generate a modern Norman Rockwell painting of LBGTQ, Antifa and BLM rioting in Portland

It's a toss up between Gardez and Khost Afghanistan.

kwg

Chinhae South Korea...

Should be fenced, guarded and gated, to keep'em in.

The several blocks by where the barge broke through the levee looked more like Hiroshima to me.

I've been to some unpleasant places. Places I wouldn't want to go to again.

Muthari Valley, Nairobi, Kenya. 180K people living in 2 square miles of card board boxes, blue tarps, and polyethylene.

Mumbai India.
Djibouti.

Subic Bay, Philipines--- sh$t hole, but, damn it was fun

El Salvador. A little country south of Mexico. My buddy was a good surfer and he told me we could surf there in the Pacific Ocean.
We drove down there and stayed for a month. Little Puebla named La Libertad. Surf was good but the country is a shi*hole. They didn't even have garbage cans. People selected one corner of each block and dumped their garbage there. At midnight they turned hogs loose, and they rooted in the garbage on the street corners.

If you think Mexico is bad, El Salvador is worse.

You mean like the hardware store that sells T1-11 and $700 shower pans?

I grew up in Atlanta. The place wasn't too bad in 1964. But it has changed.
I am from Atlanta, and today I live in a good place, a 220 miles AWAY FROM Atlanta.

It's still like that. We went on a 3 day cruise and parts of Ensenada still had shacks made from garage doors. Across the boulevard from there was a brand new shopping center with a 6 theatre complex, Lowes, and a bunch of chain restaurants and stores.

Kandahar or Djibouti

Juarez city jail, 1959

Saigon 1968, over a million refugees.

San Francisco 2023

😃😅😅🤣🤣🤣😛

Twas going to build a radar arch for my boat, had to go to detiolet to pick up some aluminum tubing. Pulled up in front of the place, it was surrounded by a 6' fence topped with razor wire. Got buzzed through a gate and again into the building, big black guy comes running up to me. He asked where did I park, told him on the street out front of the building. He tells me to run out and move my truck, they'll open the gate on the driveway and let me in. He also said they'll steal my truck in a heartbeat if I don't move it.
For schidts and giggles I'll drive down the street where my grandparents lived just to see how the old place is surviving. I don't avoid eye contact with the n_i_ggas, just stare them down and keep driving.
Wife has a dental appointment in Southfield tomorrow. We'll do lunch afterwards, then head into the belly of the beast. We go to the cemetery to do our early fall cleanup, trim the grass around all of the family foot stones so you can still find them. Wife will be on overwatch duty, wish me luck... 😁

Karachi, Pakistan, hands down! The harbor was so full of garbage, animal carcasses, etc. you could almost walk across it. That port visit is the only time in 21 years that I didn’t go ashore when the ship was pier side. One of my buds went to a hotel, had ONE beer and he was sick for a week. He was confined to the dispensary for several days. 🤮

‘Po City in the Philippines in the early ‘70s was an eye opening experience for this young Southern boy but it was a distant second. Crossing Schiiit River was stepping into a different world. It was much improved ten years later.

Baltimore. Philly close 2nd. Admit to not venturing outside middle/northeast US and Ontario. So limited viewpoint. But those 2..total 💩holes.

School?

WORK?!

Tijuana and Juarez. Flew over the slums of Mexico City.

Yes about that. I grew up in San Diego. Tijuana is a for sure stinkhole. In the 60's after turning 18 we'd go there on a Fri or Sat night, you could drink at age 18 and see things in the bars you couldn't see above the border. The town was pretty much wide open. Police and federales were and still are corrupt. Horrible poverty on the edges of town, people living in cardboard shacks, the smell of sewage. It was awful. Even back then there was a steady stream of migrants sneaking across the border, "wetbacks". About once a month we'd go surfing further south and pass through during the day. Some good waves but you had to be very careful down there and definitely not wind up in jail. Only good thing was the beer....back then at the distributors above Ensenada a wooden case of 24 cost $3.75 and you'd get $2.00 back on the bottles and case. Mexico is crappy sh*tty corrupt 3rd world country with awful music and culture.little to justify it's existence. Only thing good is the food, fishing and beer. It could be a decent country if it wasn't full of Mexicans.

Karachi Pakistan , Naples Italy , Chitcago Ill

Amsterdam Holland. Sitting at an outside cafe for lunch, watching rubbers float by in the canals. NASTY.

Ditto for me.

When you provoke then let everyone else take up your agenda you show the forum what a coward you are. You are not near as clever as you think you are.

Yes. And even in the early 70's it was a doper's paradise and a large red light district. Another place I'd never want to go again.

Lol…I’ve heard Benton Harlem was rough. No first hand knowledge except for a fuel stop once on my way to Chicago for work.

Pampa to Dumas Texas on route 87 comes to mind. I have nothing against Texas or Texans, but driving that route to New Mexico was an eye opener.

Any place in the Bronx, NY.

Tijuana for sure. The streets smelled like piss, because people were pissing anywhere they wanted to.

Some of the Detroit townships, a few neighborhoods in Manila, a few neighborhoods in. Africa. There are some chitty places

In this country, Detroit or Baltimore. I’d probably give the nod to Baltimore because of their rat population. Outside the US, Haiti. None of the Latin American countries come close to Haiti. Misery and hopelessness on an unbelievable scale.

Hmmm... The worst? Been to a lot of the places mentioned. Northern Mexico from Texas to the Pacific. A bunch of reservations, places where they'd kill you for the clothes on your back, much less if they thought you might have any money in in the pockets. Different times different places could be much worse. Just time of day can make some of them pretty dangerous.

Pretty much any Indian rez is a schit hole. Some are a lot worse than others.

Was in Tijuana in April. Rode around in an armored van. Rosarito was ultimate destination.

Pretty much the worst.

After that - areas of St Louis, Del Rio area and Elk Grove Village. Course the staff scrubbing blood off the hallway carpet and walls may skew that. Could have just been that hotel.

Don't see myself willingly going to those places but I do read my food labels and refuse to buy imported crap from the third world.

g

Schitt-Cago followed by Schitt Louis

Another vote for Karachi, Pakistan. Djibouti not far behind.

Juarez

Djibouti
Somalia
Uzbekistan
Honduras

Sweden was a beautiful country when I went there in the late 90's.

Now it sounds like it may be on its way to being on this list

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Sweden’s prime minister has said the Scandinavian country has failed to integrate many of the immigrants who have settled there over the past 20 years, creating a nation of “parallel societies … living in different realities”.

Unveiling a series of measures to tackle organised crime after violent riots over the Easter weekend that left more than 100 police injured, Magdalena Andersson said Islamism and rightwing extremism had been allowed to fester in Sweden.

“Segregation has been allowed to go so far that we have parallel societies in Sweden,” the Social Democrat prime minister told a news conference. “We live in the same country but in completely different realities. We will have to reassess our previous truths and make tough decisions.”

“Integration was poor, and alongside, we have experienced intense immigration. Our society was too weak, while money for the police and social services too little,” Andersson admitted.

Sweden has experienced soaring crime rates, including murders, sexual assaults, and rape, all tied to the countries growing migrant population.

Yes, Cairo, IL., is bad news. Even worse is the nearby Future City.

When goose hunting we would stay in Cairo and then travel through Future City to get to the fields. Homes built out of scrap lumber, roofs made out of flattened beer and soda cans. I recall stopping to wait for a funeral procession to pass. A casket made out of weathered barn siding drawn by a mule.

Djibouti
East Timor
India
Mexico
Many places in the USA

I’m sure I’m missing a few

Austin

The worst cesspools I have ever been to are Djibouti and Egypt. Filthy, stinking, miserable places with very corrupt people.

How's that bathroom project going right now?

Never been outside the US or Canada.


I think Detroit would be mine, having been all over the US, in every city of any size.

Streets so rough I drove a semi about 15mph to keep from shaking it apart. Literally no visible blacktop between the patches and holes.

Parked outside a subway to get something to eat.

They had bullet proof glass around the counter, with standout shields so you couldn't push a gun through.

A pass through box with lockouts on the doors, put your money in, shut the door. When they opened theirs, yours locked, then they put yours up in and closed their door. Only then could you get it.

Always wondered about the poor bastards who closed the place and took the money out of it.



Places I've seen?

From I-10, near El Paso, you can see a sheet metal shanty town that's in Mexico. It's gotta be the crappiest place to live I've ever seen.

I understand why you say this. I think East Lansing is the worst place in the world. For the record, I love Wisconsin.

I have been a lot of places and seen some wild things, but in terms of disgustingness of daily life Hyderabad, India is by far and away the worst.

Spent some time in various place around the globe. Several serious schitholes come to mind.
Salisbury, Rhodesia; Pohang, South Korea; Colon, Panama; Honduras ( whole damn country); Beirut, Lebanon; Somalia. A few others, but thats the top of the list.
As bad as some of the others were, Somalia was the absolute worst. Nasty, stinking place.

I provoke everybody dumbass... You ain't nothing special...

Actually, That is wrong...

You are Super Special...

Extremely Emotional...

And mind-numbingly stupid.

Tondo...and that was going to be first on my list, along with Haiti; Baton Rouge running a close third.

I think it was said with a bit of humor as to keep WVa for himself
Kenneth

Biloxi, right outside the AF base and parts of Atlanta

My God, what some of you have seen.

Not just myself... I gots kinfolk too...

In my state, Pine Ridge. Where I've hunted, Mozambique. They're actually pretty similar.

Cairo Ill, East Berlin in 66. Both for the same reason. No reason for the bleakness other than the leadership. Not poverty but hopelessness.

Fallujah and other Euphrates Valley cities for me, especially Al Qa’im and Haditha but other places were just as big of chitholes, in their own regard.

Browning, Montana and Bethel, Alaska are up there. Barrow, Alaska too. Tijuana most certainly Is not a place I want to go back to and the closest I got was sticking my hand through the border gate.

Oakland CA

Pine Ridge is pretty bad except for the house that's covered with antlers, that looks really cool

Newark, Harlem, East St. Louis, take your pick they're all cesspools.

Montreal, Quebec Canada.

It was a beautiful city until the Frogs threw all of the intelligent English people out.

It is such a dilapidated city now that the bridges are actually falling down and killing the poor frogs who are under them when they collapse!

I spent time in Juarez, back in the 1960. Pretty poor
' but not totally lawless then. East Baltimore street is a super [bleep] !!!!

Pretty dramatic there, Sal.

Salmonella: "I" been around! And the schithole known as jamaica is at the top of my list.
I would NOT even consider traveling to or visiting Mexico as a "destination" anymore.
Hold into the wind
VarmintGuy

Not even f.....ing close.

I visited Philadelphia, PA back in the 80s once. Some parts of the city were very nice, and some of them werent.

I got married on a cliff in Negril Jamaica, how I wished I jumped off the cliff. The marriage lasted 6 months lol

I blame that brilliant decision on the 180 Proof Rum!

My brother took his girlfriend on a cruise ship tour of Egypt 2 years ago. The big boat went up and down the Nile. The ship was Swedish [white people] immaculately clean great food etc.
He said everything in Egypt was a stinking cesspool. He said the filthy slums of Cairo stretch right to the pyramids and it is hard to get a shot of the pyramids without including horrid sh*t stinking shacks of The Muslimes of Cairo.

He said the pyramids could have been built by Norwegians, might have been UFO aliens, but no way these Egyptians are descended from the builders of the pyramids.

I referenced El Salvador, above. Looks like nobody else has been there. Take my advice, don't go.

While we were there surfing, we met an American engineer. He was down there building a big bridge. Had been there 6 months and the bridge was not half way finished. He was extremely frustrated, and he said "It didn't work."

I said "What didn't work."

He replied "The cross breed between the Conquistador and the El Salvador Indian squaw."

In the US, I'd have to say Memphis, followed by both Virginia's, then all of New Mexico.
I live in CA and was blown away at the filth and third world country communities in other states...
Black folks on the east coast are flat out primitive savages, a few little pockets in the south had some domesticated coloreds scattered around but for the most part it was like encountering an unknown species.

You hit the nail on the head...

The Virginias SUCK...

Ya better stay in Cali...

Fo' sure

Panama and Senegal come to mind.

a favela in rio

I have been a lot of the places mentioned here, and the vast majority of them are just places, with people. No matter where you go, humans rarely improve a place over what it would have been without them. At the same time, everywhere is full of folks just trying to keep living. In the “best” places, I have been in multimillion dollar homes that stunk and were cluttered with trash and filth. In the “worst” places, there are still good people doing the best they can, sweeping that dirt floor every day and offering you the best they can manage if you come to visit. Some of the best beans and tortillas I ever had were at a family’s “home” in the city dump outside Reynosa, Mexico. There was meat with the beans, a rarity for folks in that place. Of course, the water donkey had died that afternoon, so…

The best places I have ever been were those without a human or evidence of their existence in sight. The worst places to me are always those where the humans are overcrowded and lack resources. Forty head of cattle on a section of good grass is always better than four thousand head stuffed into a feedlot, from an aesthetic standpoint. But the cows just want to live, no matter where they are. What some of us call a schithole is just someone else’s home. Not everyone is able to just move to a better place. And I would rather eat beans and tortillas in a stinking dump with good people than be living the high life around politicians or globalist sociopaths. The cafeteria for the House of Representatives or the Senate? Now THERE is a schithole.

Kinshaza 1978 lacked amenities...

And people with any purpose in living....

Has Wolf Point been mentioned yet?

I spent 2 weeks in Bethel, Alaska one weekend.

Sam

Wolf Point is way better than LAME Deer, Muddy Creek, or Rabbit Town( nick name because of breeding rate) on the Nothern Cheyenne.

Hal

Nowhere in the USA is anywhere near as bad as Alexandra South Africa, Juarez MX, or Santo Domingo Dominican Republic.

Gary, Indiana

Last time I was in the Water Hole #1, it could hold its own. ;-{>8

I always thought Wolf Point was a step up from Poplar, but lived there quite a while ago....

1979 a drive through of south Chicago...2023 Bethel ak ....gov funded dump. Imo

Gary does have a stench about it.




Literally, the place stinks!

Excellent perspective. I haven't traveled extensively, but I'll share what I was told by to people who have. One of my teachers, British, had lived in China during the early 1900s, had been interred by the Japanese and ended up in India by way of a prisoner exchange. Said India was the worst country he had ever been in. The other was a Taiwanese lady married to a professor and traveled with him around the world. She said Egypt was the worst.

Grandpa Whitey used to say that Portsmouth, Ohio was the anal sphincter of the Universe. I don't know exactly what pissed him off about the place. He didn't expound much on the subject. Then, I went there. I understood. I was on one of my family "emergency" camping trips, and I'd piled the kids and the wife into the Blazer and headed to Shawnee Forest for the weekend. I'd just gotten the bug on a Saturday morning and called "Wheels up in Fifteen!" I used to do that a lot before we got the farm.

BTW: Shawnee Forest is a great place to camp and hike. I recommend it heartily.

We didn't shop for the trip until we had the tents pitched. Portsmouth is the nearest town. We drove in to shop for dinner. It took a while to find the IGA. It was situated in the middle of a war zone neighborhood. The closest thing to a sirloin steak was only a 1/4 inch thick. I looked for something to spice it up. No A1. No Worchestershire. They had ketchup. I did find a bottle of something called Country Bob's.

It turned out Country Bob's was the highlight of the trip.



It's kind of like a toothless hillbilly version of AP Sauce. It has a way of looking back at you from the plate and saying, "Your lips sure look pretty." Anyhow, the kids liked it and we didn't have any arguments about cleaning their plates. I call that a win.

Sarcasm right?

Some people say California is a sh*thole.

But personally I think it's overrated.

Went there for a festival once, told the policeman working that we drove there from Cincinnati to attend it and his response was "I'm sorry"

I have camped at Shawnee and like you we went into Portsmouth for breakfast. It was rough.

Portsmouth is in a beautiful part of the country though, its a shame the city is not very appealing..

back to India for a second, if anyone has ever flown into Mumbai, you know exactly what this family guy skit is about. The airport is relatively normal, but you notice every square inch of the surrounding airport fence is tarps where people are using the fence to make a leanto to live, ostensibly to beg money from non-indians who arrive

California by far.

Memphis. No question about it. Heartbreaking situation.

Athol, South Dakota

DETROIT for the win!!!!!!

Detroit or New Jersey, but Clear Lake, Ca. is a very close 3rd!

Detroit or Newark, but Clear Lake, Ca. is a very close 3rd!

I worked in Camden, NJ for a week. The place I worked was across the street from the jail. I would look out and see people standing on the street using hand signals with the people in jail to communicate, supposedly according to the contractor, for drug deals. This was maybe 2003ish?

The contractor has a special arrangement with the city for people working 3rd shift. They didn't have to stop for red lights in town between midnight and 5am, because of the likelihood of them being shot or carjacked.

so, you know.....sounds like a great place to live and work.

In the early 90's Venezuela was light years ahead of Ecuador and Columbia IMO. Ecuador, especially, was probably the worst place I have ever been. For a place that is supposed to be a resort of sorts Rio de Janero has a very nasty underbelly.

In the US, Memphis TN and parts of Houston, plus several border towns.

And they are both a step up from Browning.

The U.S. is quickly gaining ground in the “schitthole capital” of the world…never thought I’d see it happen here.

I was taking a load from Laredo to Camden in the big rig in 2014. The way my schedule was running, I could have driven until 11pm and parked at the terminal in Camden, and slept there in my truck for an 8am unload. I often did that at terminals in Laredo, South Carolina etc.
I called the terminal in Camden at 4pm to ask if I could park out front for the night.

The secretary gal said, "Don't you have a wife and a mother who want to see you alive again? Because if you do, you don't park for the night in Camden."
Hell I had never been to New Jersey before but I took the lady at her word and arrived there at 9am instead. Driving around Camden is an unbelievable experience, 48 percent nigs and 47 percent wetbacks, it has the highest crime rate and the highest rate of drug addiction of any city in the US.

I saw over 3,000 abandoned houses and apartment buildings. Camden was the most prosperous city in America in 1945. Huge shipyards building destroyers for the Navy. World HQ for Campbells Soup, and RCA records. New Jersey is The Garden State and they shipped those tomatoes to Camden to make soup. Camden had a race riot in 1970, the nigs burned half the city down, and all the white people with jobs left.

Camden today is a nightmare.

One scouting trip through the Yak rez, I drove by a shack with a decaying horse on the roof.

No clue how it got up there. Or why they didn’t take it down. Had to stop just to be sure WTF I was seeing was actually what I was seeing. Lol.

Wagon burners are something else....

I think I spoke to that lady in 2010 or so and she told me I would be safer to park at the rest area on the turnpike for the night

Maybe 2 steps.

Pine Ridge, SD

Battle Mountain Nevada was named "the armpit of America" when I was living in Round Mountain, NV. I made the comment to friends, they didn't have to drive an hour to get a Big Mac, what does that make us?

Mingo/Logan counties WV. Spent a week there doing time studies at a coal mine.

And, Cairo, IL. Located in Alexander County. The second most corrupt county in the state. A few elections back, it was determined, there were more registered voters than residents. Move along, nothing to see. As my retired ISP buddy would tell me "they quit fixing the streets. There are pot holes that would swallow a VW bug. They just put up saw horses to keep people from driving into them".

That being said, things are looking up. With the majority of public housing being condemned (HUD fraud), the demographics of the city have been changing. The state is planning to invest $250 mil in a port. A new bridge to KY will be built in the next 5-10 years. I think the county went R for the first time in one of the recent elections.

Memphis Tennessee in 1984 and 1985 was a serious hell hole even back then. I was stationed at Millington,TN. I had to drive a buddy to a court hearing at the courthouse in Memphis. Hours and hours of hearings everything from stolen property to attempted murder and everything in between. I was only in 1 court room and I believe they had several going that day.
There was one common denominator among 99% of the accused and you don't have to be a sociologist to figure it out!!

Birmingham Alabama about 7 or 8 years ago. My buddy decided to use his GPS to get to the pig hunting place we were going to. Totally screwed the pooch. We stopped in the WRONG part of town for Whitey to be in. Fortunately it was still daylight. This was before it was fashionable to steal so much from Walmarts that they closed them up. But there the Walmart was locked up tight and out of business.

I made a wrong turn in Chicago one time and had to take Cicero Ave from Int 94 to the bypass which might be 294? Don't remember. I was driving a Honda Civic with a Commander Size 1911 with 1 extra mag. Cicero didn't start out bad but the farther I got away from 94 the worse it got. Towards the end there were [bleep] almost begging you to run them over crossing the street. I did not have enough ammo or people to get me out of that situation. A Platoon of SF would have done well. But alone it was concerning

Flint, Michigan, inner City Atlanta, Memphis, Birmingham, South side Chicago. Pike County Kentucky was pretty depressing. Lots of places in this country not worth visiting much less living in.

Embrace the diversity..... lmao

Odessa, Texas.

Happy birthday!

I drove through Baltimore in 1987 and Oakland in 1979.
They were horrible.

But the do not compare with my father's stories about biz trips to Detroit Arsenal in the 1960s.
My father said the bars had a locked door with a peep hole. If you did not look like a criminal, they opened the door.



Nor do they compare with my friend's stories about biz trips a Detroit factory in the 1990s.
My friend said all cars parked on the street were stripped and burned.
The factory had a perimeter wall 30 feet high with barbed wire.
They opened the gates to let my friend drive in in his rental car, ana closed the gates once he was in.

Well I won't admit to being in some of the schitholes I have been in. I don't think it is right to call a place a schithole simply because the people who want to be in power want you dead. I will say the worst places I have been were well populated with either Black or Brown people. To me once a place reaches a certain level of schit I can't pick a winner. In 1979 I really liked Seattle but today I hate thinking about what goes on around Seatac or on Front street. Sad. Same for Portland. At one time I loved sitting on the bank of the Columbia river Sturgeon fishing but today you better be well armed to do so. This thread has made me think how far the country has fallen. Don't think we are going to pull it out of free fall.

I have been pretty successful at avoiding $hit holes.

Just about any Indian reservation. But don’t worry the Government will make their/your life better. It just might take a couple more centuries. Remember to vote Democrat, cause we feel your pain and we’re here to help!

coincidence ? I think not !

Every Democrat run city in America qualifies as a third world [bleep] hole.

I went to Jungle Training School in Panama back in 1978. I had heard that Panama was one of the better Central American countries, but if it was one the the better ones, I don't want to see the bad ones. The only parts of Panama that looked good to me were owned and patrolled by the U.S. military.

One of my wife's friends is planning to retire in Belize, but it doesn't appeal to me.

Reservations generally have terrible school attendance, so the kids don't get an education, don't get ahead.

We had a plant in Venezuela in the late 80's. We sent some guys down on a project and when they went in the first day they said there was a sand bagged Browning 50 mounted and maned above the gate. They got on the next plane out.

Been to some bad places in the world.... never felt comfortable taking advantage of the misfortune of others. Never seen anything to even come close to Pakistan or South Africa. Today the blacks control Soweto, it is still there, only the ones preying on the poor are black and Cuban Communists, RSAs chief trading partner in the world. Kissinger could have screwed the pooch worse, just no telling how....stupid is as stupid does.

Look that up on the nightly news, nada, crickets.

Lmao. Same with Atlanta

Virginia Beach

With all the garbage coming into the country, we will soon be able to list most anywhere in the United States as a crap hole. They will be squatting in every nook and cranny.

Not too much jet setting myself
Mostly places I could drive to or ride a motorcycle to.

NOLA away from the F.quarter and touristy areas.
Same on the other side of the Rio inside of meckseeko.
Get away from the resort areas and mercados and
it'll shock the sensitive people.
it was an amazing sight for somebody that's never
seen a dozen people living full time in a pallet
and cardboard "house " and sh*ting and p*ssing
wherever the urge hit whether it be in an alleyway
or a busy crowded street intersection.
I can see how the hood rats think it's ok to
let a piece of trash fall from their hand as
soon as they're through with whatever.
That's the way they lived there

Wississppi is on the downslope.

Wississippi is on the downslope.

Somalia and Rwanda are schitholes I can recommend highly to avoid.

In the '90s Indianapolis wasn't any picnic either. My wife got off the wrong exit at 2:30 in the morning and decided she better wake me up. Negros were everywhere and some were trying to walk in front of the truck to stop us. Thankfully we didn't have to shoot our way out of that sheit hole.

This has been an amazing thread.
Thank you for your responses.

In the states it's been St Louis Mo, Muskogee OK and Wichita KS.

Memphis TN

Downtown Portland Oregon takes the prize for me. I’ve been there twice in the last couple of years to buy some very hard to find pieces of lumber and I could nit get out of that mess fast enough.

Been to many of the U.S. cities mentioned and have spent some time in Manila Philippines.

I think some depends upon time frame and i think most big US cities have areas that are relatively safe and areas best avoided if possible.

In the Philippines, there are people in abject poverty living in tin and cardboard huts who are relatively happy - probably moreso than many in the USA. You do get a reminder about the value of life though when armed guards inspect your vehicle before you can pull into the hotel parking lot, your belongings are searched by people and dogs before going through metal detector before going into hotel. Then again when valet gets you a cab and copies down all the cab driver info, records, and verifies before letting you get in the cab so they can track them down if you go missing. That said, my wife and I ran around a decent amount of the Philippines and Manila- including at night - without any issue at all.

I have never been out of the country, but when there was interstate construction in Memphis, Tennessee and I had to drive through the hood, I thought I was in a third world country.

I've seen more than a few, but the worst IMO was Dacca Bangladesh. Upon landing in Thailand (my next stop) after that trip, I had my clothes burned.

I spent a couple nights in a roadway inn south of atlanta. Looked good online with a nice pool. Got there and the pool was drained because dead cats were found in there the night before. Took a shower and the ceiling vent fan fell out of the ceiling and split my head open. Also pulled back the sheets and my mattress had a huge blood stain lol. Good times

The worst [bleep] hole I’ve ever lived in were Washington D.C. NW and 1968 riots, Kumasi, Ghana, and Victoria Fall, Zimbabwe (inflation 30% per day.

Upperlake, CA

Atlanta and Amman, Jordan. Jordan was nothing but dirt, rocks, dust and trash.

I don't know how any of that area even exists..... there is no big agriculture, no commercial, etc? All those towns like Clear Lake, Lakeport, etc. must just survive off of tourism, social security, and crank lol. Years ago we would go there 3-4 times a year to fish but now I only go when my son has a tournament there, maybe once or twice a year ......stay in a air b&b and bring all of our own food.....don't even go out to eat there anymore......sad for such a nice area geographically ...... could be bad azz.

Bombay Beach, Salton Sea CA.

LOL

At the very start of the "pandemic", I had to prove I was "essential" to the dirka dirka at the Super 8 Motel in Upperlake, CA!

I asked the MFer if they get alot of people vacationing at the Super 8 in Upperlake!

At least I'm over it! LOL

Amazing thread. Would be interesting hearing details on how many of those reporting these "shiitholes", ended up there. Thanks to all for sharing.

Just about all of my "travels" were on the US taxpayer's dime.
Courtesy of the USMC.
Semper Fi !

We can’t leave the northeast out

Bridgeport and New Haven Connecticut

Tijuana/Rosarito - work. Visiting Hyundai Translead.

Del Rio - dropping a rifle off to Jeff Hicks, was before he became a chit head here.

Dulac, Louisiana - the stench of the pogie plant had to be experienced to be believed…

Ignorant words written by someone who has obviously never been on the ground there.

It was a Roadway Inn, what were you expecting, La Quinta?

La Quinta is Spanish for "Next to Denny's"

Spent some time in McAllen/Pharr TX...couldn't agree more.

I gotta agree with pertnear for the most part, work there for 2 years spent alot of time in Dammam lived in Hoffuf and worked alot around Hoffuf and as far south as Haradh
Don't know if all my spelling is correct.
Flew alot out of Bahrain driving across the causeway was like whole different world once in Bahrain Hell of alot cleaner.

Camden, N.J. S.E. New Orleans. East St. Louis Eagle Pass, Tex. Just to name a few. Rio7

And Hartford.

Rio7, JDK and Winchester21 are on the mark. Some other places in the area in/around Philly are just as bad.

I've driven through a lot of them. But the only one I saw up close was Baltimore. I got off the beaten path in Baltimore and drove around for a while in the biggest, worst ghetto I had ever seen. It was big enough that I had a difficult time finding my way out of it. At the time, it seemed like the entire city was bombed out ghetto. I eventually made my way to a business district in the center of the city. But it was small and as soon as you exited it you were back in the ghetto.

These days?

Planet Earth.

Prove me wrong.

Have you been to a La Quinta? Total sh it holes.

Pine Bluff, Arkansas would be a close 2nd to Memphis, just on a smaller scale. Folks there don’t realize the crap hole they live in. They tend to figure it out when they spend some time outside the region.

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.

#1-Seri Indian reservation in Sonora, Mexico


#2-Kathmandu, Nepal

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

Well i've read through this thread and concluded that the worst places named have present in majority the same common denominators to rank in world wide [bleep] holes: Africans, US Blacks, Arabs, Hispanics and Orientals, all for first place tie winners.

It does have its nice spots no doubt….. not the same kind of schit hole as say Oakland or Stockton…. Those I don’t feel safe in….. the schit holes around Clearlake are more of the wake up and you’re truck has been broken into or someone swipes your ice chest when you go in the grocery store….. just tweakers.

Does Montana count?

Corvallis

I've said it before, Wolf Point is pretty cosmopolitan for a rez town. Was there a couplle springs ago and it looked nothing like a rez town at all. Pretty clean. No broke down, burnt out cars. Most of the vehicles running on the street were actually legal. No roving packs of dogs.

If it weren't for the guy in the park starting to scream and holler just before I left the gas station,there would have been zero inkling there was anything bad or unusual about WP.

In country, Pine Ridge reservation is pretty bad. A few rez towns in MT are pretty sketchy.

Saw things on my drive in rural southern Mississippi that would shock most folks to know people lived like that.

Baltimore and Wash DC were really bad as far as urban areas go. Portland for a different reason was bad as well.

Haven't traveled to the glorious middle east or Asia, so I can't compare, but from my travels outside the US I'd say parts of Brazil can be really bad.

Cairo, Egypt, easily even compared to Korea, Mexico & Brazil., parts of which are pretty bad.

MM

In the U.S. that would be East St. Louis (not intentionally but as the result of a wrong turn), New Orleans and environs.

Most places in Central America, there are too many there to make a choice as to which was worse.

drover

Jamaica

Detroit

Muskogee OK

Forgot about the favelas in Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo. I never entered them. My co-workers said that a gringo would not come out alive.

India and Egypt, but we had fun in both places.
South Africa close to any townships.

I have worked out of this country since 1976 and been to many countries. I have never seen people in other countries live and act like they do in our big cities. What I am referring to is [bleep] on the streets and things like that.

New Orleans East. Went to a 5 day Ship firefighting school there. Company booked our motel rooms in Metarie. Said the area where the school was we wouldn't have all the parts on our cars in the morning. Drove by areas that looked likee postwar Berlin.

Oregon.... that's all I got....

True that

Yep. The Pine Ridge Rez in SD is definitely the worse one I’ve been on.

Of the large American cities I’ve been too, Memphis was the worse.
Although Little Rock, AR wasn’t a who lot better.

Never got my rifle I put on lay-a-way...

Do a search on the village of Odd, West Virginia and the Whitaker family. I passed through there the other day. Their communication consists of grunts barks and other sounds, the old lady can speak English fairly well and can interpret for the others.

There is a youtube video and a go fund me.

The couple that produced this bunch are alleged to be double first cousins.

I am an anthropologist-pathologist at heart and a taphophile.

You actually stopped and met them??

Once made the mistake of grocery shopping for a road trip in south St. Louis. Anchorage Wal Mart wasn't much better.

Stopping to talk to the Whittaker's is a risky decision. Locals are pretty protective of them.

https://nypost.com/2023/04/03/meet-the-whittakers-inside-americas-most-inbred-family/

Hazard Kentucky, Where the cops just laugh as drunken bikers throw beer bottles at million dollar firetrucks.

Hazard ain't even that bad as far as eastern KY goes.

No, but I did stop and photographed the Free Will Baptist church and post office, and the neighboring village of Josephine. I read up on google and watched the youtube video about what goes on there.

I have reconsidered my designations of Campti, Louisiana, and Pine Ridge Rez of South Dakota as the two worse places I've been.

It weren't no prize eh?

Harlan KY was a huge let-down.

“You’ll never leave Harlan alive?”

Prob’ly because you retired there.

They have two self-identified Hippie establishments, a homosexual bar replete with rainbow flags, and a Starbucks.

there are some run down parts for sure but I've always believed it was a leave them alone and they'll leave you alone.

I wouldn't live in fear having a home there, I'd just worry about having some crazy white trash neighbor.

I'm actually dealing with that now in that part of the country.

I feel sorry for those people on multiple levels. The guy who originally interacted with them and made the video of them actually gives them money from the proceeds of his channel, but since then people have sought them out like a circus sideshow. I won't watch those videos but my worst fear is they are being exploited now.

Iraq

When the US Economy fails... there will be many places.

A lawful and honest community will fair better (...and longer) than a lawless community.

I have never understood the appeal of living in a place with so many unbathed strangers.

Five days without the police, food, water, electricity... and many places will become Haiti... or worse.

So be it...

It is what people want... and not my place to change their mind.

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“Truth is not what you want it to be; it is what it is... and you must bend to its power or live a lie.”
― Miyamoto Musashi

I had to make a trip to St Louis yesterday. I swear to God I thought I done stumbled onto a movie set for planet of the apes ! Looked and smelled like a primate zoo ! what a [bleep] hole

Yep, I'm glad I finally got out of there:

Belize City

Separate bathroom building behind a Texaco in Tuba City, AZ. Tighty-whities full of schit on the ground at the door. Guess Tonto didn't make it. I held it till Flagstaff.

LOL, I think the OP meant figuratively.

Uptown, or down on the highway?

What year?

More specific than a state, city or town. The Skyland Boulevard Walmart in Tuscaloosa, Aladambama after midnight.

Pards All these places in America you all talk about I will gladly take over the biggest chithole ever Afghanistan. Ph uck that’s benchmark when it comes to chitholes

Our nation's Capitol... Washington DC....

My high school parking lot was about 12 miles from the Pentagon's parking lot.

Remember DC as a kid in the 1950s and saw how it dramtically changed in the 1960s, with all the blacks moving into the city, and that causing most of the Whites to move out into VA and Maryland.

Left there to go to college out of state in the Fall of 1970... and never went back. The entire area was better back in the early 70s than it is 50 years later....and in the early 70s, over in the District SUCKED...

I walked around the neighborhood near the 6th St LA Greyhound station (yes, from the GNR song) during a layover in 1995. Pretty sure some of the trash-covered bodies I stepped over were expired, not merely unconscious.

chit, the wrong thread.

You pretty much nailed it , me and the ole lady stopped at this little store and restaurant, looked like the Wild West when you went in and set down , tables , floor , it had it
Don’t remember what I ordered , but it was something close to the commercial menu stuff
Wife was setting there with her nose all wrinkled up , dish washer was washing dishes with no soap
Anyway they brought the food out and it was honest to god Mexican fixings
Wife was repulsed because it didn’t look like nothing what she was used to in the commercial joints
Anyway I dug in , fuggin outstanding ! Toward finishing up a couple of Mexicans that looked in their 50’s strolled in and the people working there got hoping and one of them opened a door to a back room were they went in and door was closed
These guys had chains of gold around their necks that looked to me to be uncomfortable to wear
Few more minutes went by and couple more fitting same discription strolled in , gave us a curious look , smiled and went to the same door which was opened and shut for them
So we got up and I paid the tab and noticed the kitchen was like a bees nest , every one was hopping and some dam looking grub was in the fixing
Lady at the sink was still scrubbing dishes with her fingers
Kenneth

It might be interesting to read your explanation. So, why would answers to your inquiries be enlightening?

In retrospect the worst [bleep] hole I have been in was lockup in south san fransisco back in 1980. The giant cell was okay as were my other 15 roommates for my over night stay. What opened up my eyes though was observing the cops interactions with each other on the other side of my bars! What a bunch of crude ignorant inhumane mofo's! That was the last time I went to a city for a loong time!

We always Stop in Tuba City for fuel. We never have explored the town we stay on the highway (160) and fuel at the first gas station on the east side of town next to Dinosaur Tracks and Pizza Edge.

Never had a bad experience there but the place really isn't much to look at.

Mexican Pemex gas station bathrooms back in the 80's.

Ive been to most major cities in the United States and Detroit Mi. is far and away the worst.

Makes Chicago and Gary look like Xanadu

I never would have guessed it but several situations come together to make Thompson Manitoba a candidate for the list. The highest crime rate in Canada takes some doing for a town of just over 10,000 people.

West side of town. Probably early to mid 90s. My shooting/ham radio buddy and I would make a camping trip to.southeastern Utah a couple of times a year. Shoot guns and set.up antennas to talk to the world. Always stopped and ate.at.the Navajo Code Talkers Memorial Burger King in Chinle. It was probably a meal there on the way home that generated the need to stop at the Texaco in Tuba City! Love St George but miss AZ.

Haiti, Philippines and Somalia.