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Mobile Aladamnbama. Most inbred place I’ve ever seen. I lived in Mobile. See my post about Pascagoula - same
have you paid your dues, can you moan the blues, can you bend them guitar strings
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Las Vegas NV. Oh chit I see we're including cars and trucks, tents? Naw, Vegas is a chit hole, nothing good about it.
"I can't be canceled, because, I don't give a fuuck!"
--- Kid Rock 2022
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Myself, basic training, Fort Leonard Wood, November to February. Coal heat, the army crud. Similar here - was stuck in San Diego for about eight months in boot camp, A-schools and Torpedo school... I freakin' HATE San Diego... Froze my azz off nearly every night.. Woke up one morning in Feb. of '68 with an inch of snow on the sub at Point Loma... Eff that. I can get that at home..
Ex- USN (SS) '66-'69
Pro-Constitution.
LET'S GO BRANDON!!!
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I like Davao City. Watch your six Joe.
"I can't be canceled, because, I don't give a fuuck!"
--- Kid Rock 2022
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This has been an interesting thread - read here of some places I have passed by/through and often wondered about. I do not doubt a word of your descriptions and my respect for military guys - always high - just went up another notch. Thanks for living through that stuff.
My worst place would still be fairly nice in comparison - have been blessed, no complaints. Well said.
"I can't be canceled, because, I don't give a fuuck!"
--- Kid Rock 2022
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I lived there for a year and I thought it was a great place. You must have been there way after SAC left.
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Frostburg, MD
A little schithole college town up on top of a mountain. The wind always blew and it lived up to it's name in the Winter time.
"Government is not the solution to our problem, government is the problem."
Ronald Reagan
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Yeeesh! After reading this thread I feel like I've lived a charmed life. Lived a number of different places. None of them bad. I used to have to travel to Hobbs, NM and I was always happy to leave. A lot of 10 year-old pickups with lift kits, exhaust stacks, flotation tires, and BASS stickers. Common housing was old single-wides held together with duct tape. Guys with families "back home" shacked up with underage runaways. Welcome to the oil fields circa 1988.
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I spent 4.5 months in Pinedale, Wyoming. Nope..... never again Wow, you probably had no idea you were so close to heaven on earth. Best mountains, hiking, fishing, hunting in the lower 48. Not too many women though if you're single. Just curious, where would you say is better? I'd like to go there. philly suburbs. fuggen polluted, crime ridden, crowded schit hole that i never want to see again. How about S. Philly? Or Chester?
God Bless America
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By what criteria? Physical environment? Social/political/economic? Your personal circumstances at the time? I have found good and not so good aspects of every place I have lived. Personal circumstances such as a chitty job or bad marriage can color one's outlook. I get what has been said about the Philly suburbs, tragic, but when I was a kid in the '40s and early '50s I loved to visit my grandparents there. I hated San Antonio when I did my basic in the summer. Thought it was a real hole, until I did my last year in the USAF at Wichita Falls. San Antonio looked good by comparison. Years later I went to SA on business and found it nice, at least to visit.
Best for me, hands down, was Denver in the '60s. I never should have left, at least not until it went downhill in later years.
There are places where the locals will tell you it's heaven on earth, but you couldn't pay me enough to live there. Personal values, priorities.
Paul
Stupidity has its way, while its cousin, evil, runs rampant.
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I'll take Odessa, TX any day of the week over Fresno, CA.
It is irrelevant what you think. What matters is the TRUTH.
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I'll take Odessa, TX any day of the week over Fresno, CA. That's saying a lot about Fresno, that's for sure !
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Navy boot camp and A school, Great Lakes from Nov to May
Florida boy--- coldest, windiest, most miserable time of my life.
Swore if I ever got out of there I would never be close to it again.
So far so good
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Easy...as a small child I lived in Maple Heights Ohio...a suburb of Cleveland. Even at 6 years old I knew it was a schitthole
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Stafford, VA followed by ASP Dulab, Iraq. I guess perspective is everything. We’ve lived in Stafford for 16 years and have really enjoyed it. Nobody likes the commute on 95 though.
Deadlines and commitments, what to leave in, what to leave out...
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Yeeesh! After reading this thread I feel like I've lived a charmed life. Lived a number of different places. None of them bad. I used to have to travel to Hobbs, NM and I was always happy to leave. A lot of 10 year-old pickups with lift kits, exhaust stacks, flotation tires, and BASS stickers. Common housing was old single-wides held together with duct tape. Guys with families "back home" shacked up with underage runaways. Welcome to the oil fields circa 1988. Hobbs was like that in 1980.
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The Karma bus always has an empty seat when it comes around.- High Brass
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Ft knox/ ft Benning. ...your pick ...Washington DC......ugh...you can drive for 4 hours and still be in the same big azz city with a different name!
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