F%cked up places youv'e been.

[Doggett]

THE SOUTH!
EVEN DOGGETT CAN LIE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

The North sucks.

Its grim.

[WingedSerpent]

Last Halloween, a group of freinds and I took one of those haunted tours around the city of Cleveland.  This particular tour not only talked about places that where spousedly haunted but also places where great disaters or murders took place. While on the bus we took a drive over a place where a Gas Explosion killed over a hundred people.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cleveland_East_Ohio_Gas_explosion

Its a pretty run down part of town so nobody was let off the bus.  The story of what happened was heart breaking to listen too.

[HappyGilmore]

Delaware scares the sh*t outta me.

[Flick James]

Some of the s**ttier places I've been. Hmmm.

Bahrain is pretty bad, and I don't doubt Circus' account one little bit. I honestly felt uncomfortable most of the time I was there.

East St. Louis is about as bad as it gets. I think it gets listed regularly as among the most depressed cities in the U.S. Massive urban decay that has been going on for decades. Remember the scene in National Lampoon's Vacation where the Griswolds pulled off before going over the bridge into St. Louis? That was East St. Louis they were pulling into, although I'm sure it wasn't actually filmed there. I pulled off the Interstate into East St. Louis while driving once while driving across country for gas, afraid my car wouldn't make it across the bridge into St. Louis proper. Once I pulled off and saw my surroundings, I got right back on the Interstate and took my chances.

[Hammock Rider]

  The worst place I ever visited was Brownsville Texas.  I don't know what it's like now but I was there about 20 years ago and unless things have seriously improved you should avoid it like the pague. It's a messed up border town. It features the worst of American and Mexican culture. There were some drug killings, which the locals thought stemmed from nearby Matamoros, which suppossedly houses a drug cartel.

There was also some kind of santeria/cult mass murder there about a year before I arrived. When I'd stop by someone's house it wasn't uncommon to see some kind of unusual religious fetishes, designed to protect the house from evil,  lining the mantle along with photos and in one case a life size portrait of Pat Robertson!

  Finally, at the time it was the stray dog capital of America. They'd roam around in huge packs. Whenever I'd leave a gas station I'd buy some little snacks and throw them away from me, just to get the dogs to clear out of my way.

 

[The Burgomaster]

Boston used to have a "red light" district know to the locals as "The Combat Zone."  It was right on the edge of Chinatown.  It was basically a cluster of porno theaters, sex shops, and bars full of strippers and hookers.  After the bars closed at night, the streets for several blocks around would be swarming with hookers.  One night I was there with one of my buddies, basically checking out all the bars.  We walked into one and it was really dark inside.  At first, we couldn't see much but we kept walking toward the bar.  As my eyes adjusted to the darkness, I realized there were about a dozen people in the place and they were all black . . . except my buddy and me.  No one said anything, but we were looking at them and they were looking at us and everyone knew we didn't belong in there.  So, we just casually turned around and walked out.  The next place we went into was a strip bar called "The Naked I."  It was a mixed crowd.  My buddy and I sat at a table and each ordered a beer.  My buddy said he would buy the first round.  At that time, you could get a beer in most bars for probably between $1.25 and $2.00.  The waitress brought the two beers and said, "That will be $7.50."  That was a s**tload of money at the time, so my buddy just sort of looked surprised, then reached into his wallet, pulled out some money and paid.  I think we stayed long enough for me to buy the next round, then we got the hell out of there.

Of course, we DID go back and hang around at other bars in the area from time to time.  I can't remember all the names, but one of the more popular ones was "The Intermission Lounge."  The first time I went in, a fat woman wearing garters, fish-net stockings, and lots of make-up took me by the hand as soon as I walked in the door, led me to the bar, and sat on my lap.  Then she asked if I would buy her a drink.  I knew what was going on, so I asked how much the drink for her would cost and the bartender told me $20!  Needless to say, I just bought my beer and she got nothing.

"The Combat Zone" has been cleaned up for years.  All those seedy bars are gone now and you don't see many hookers in the streets anymore.  I think there may still be one or two strip joints there . . . "The Glass Slipper" and maybe one other.  But it's nothing like it was 25 years ago.

[Andrew]

Some of the s**ttier places I've been. Hmmm.

Bahrain is pretty bad, and I don't doubt Circus' account one little bit. I honestly felt uncomfortable most of the time I was there.

Djibouti is, according to some Marines I know, a complete hole.  Trash everywhere, human filth everywhere, and an absolute crush of unhappy humanity.

One that came to mind for me was New Orleans, not too long after Katrina.  That city and it's outlying suburbs was absolutely demolished.  Months after the hurricane, and it still looked like the images you saw right after the hurricane demolished the place.  Worse, even, because trash had piled up.  I think there were even more rats after Katrina - which I didn't think was possible.  New Orleans has always been a rat metropolis.

[Allhallowsday]

Back in the old days my old girlfriend and I went to some truly stupid places like downtown Newark, NJ... one empty decimated block after another.  Persons threatening your life from across the street, but mostly burned out drug-addict havens.       Stupid.

[Leah]

Some of the s**ttier places I've been. Hmmm.

Bahrain is pretty bad, and I don't doubt Circus' account one little bit. I honestly felt uncomfortable most of the time I was there.

Djibouti is, according to some Marines I know, a complete hole.  Trash everywhere, human filth everywhere, and an absolute crush of unhappy humanity.

One that came to mind for me was New Orleans, not too long after Katrina.  That city and it's outlying suburbs was absolutely demolished.  Months after the hurricane, and it still looked like the images you saw right after the hurricane demolished the place.  Worse, even, because trash had piled up.  I think there were even more rats after Katrina - which I didn't think was possible.  New Orleans has always been a rat metropolis.

Yup, New Orleans became a mess after Katrina. But that was just the start.....

[Allhallowsday]

Instead of the Forked River Nuclear Power Plant ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forked_River_Nuclear_Power_Plant) we still have the Oyster Creek Nuclear Generating Station which is located in Forked River, NJ, though it is earlier... (1969).  I visited the tributary in the shadow of the plant around 1980...?  There was a lot of this weird putty-like plastic along the riverbank...    The whole area was dead.  Tree stumps and blackened inlets.  

[Trevor]

 The first time I went in, a fat woman wearing garters, fish-net stockings, and lots of make-up took me by the hand as soon as I walked in the door, led me to the bar, and sat on my lap.  Then she asked if I would buy her a drink.  I knew what was going on, so I asked how much the drink for her would cost and the bartender told me $20!  Needless to say, I just bought my beer and she got nothing.

You're wrong there, Burgo: I walked in after you guys left, so she got me. 

[ghouck]

I've been in the septic-tank of a large ferry boat. Does that count?

[Jim H]

Some of the s**ttier places I've been. Hmmm.

Bahrain is pretty bad, and I don't doubt Circus' account one little bit. I honestly felt uncomfortable most of the time I was there.

East St. Louis is about as bad as it gets. I think it gets listed regularly as among the most depressed cities in the U.S. Massive urban decay that has been going on for decades. Remember the scene in National Lampoon's Vacation where the Griswolds pulled off before going over the bridge into St. Louis? That was East St. Louis they were pulling into, although I'm sure it wasn't actually filmed there. I pulled off the Interstate into East St. Louis while driving once while driving across country for gas, afraid my car wouldn't make it across the bridge into St. Louis proper. Once I pulled off and saw my surroundings, I got right back on the Interstate and took my chances.

Very true about East St. Louis...  When talking about concealed carry law here in Missouri you can easily claim you want to carry a gun because you have to travel regularly through East St. Louis and give even the biggest gun haters pause..  Til they remember East St. Louis is in Illinois.  There are also black neighborhoods in St. Louis itself you don't want to drive into alone if you're white at night.

[The Burgomaster]

Some of the s**ttier places I've been. Hmmm.

Bahrain is pretty bad, and I don't doubt Circus' account one little bit. I honestly felt uncomfortable most of the time I was there.

East St. Louis is about as bad as it gets. I think it gets listed regularly as among the most depressed cities in the U.S. Massive urban decay that has been going on for decades. Remember the scene in National Lampoon's Vacation where the Griswolds pulled off before going over the bridge into St. Louis? That was East St. Louis they were pulling into, although I'm sure it wasn't actually filmed there. I pulled off the Interstate into East St. Louis while driving once while driving across country for gas, afraid my car wouldn't make it across the bridge into St. Louis proper. Once I pulled off and saw my surroundings, I got right back on the Interstate and took my chances.

Very true about East St. Louis...  When talking about concealed carry law here in Missouri you can easily claim you want to carry a gun because you have to travel regularly through East St. Louis and give even the biggest gun haters pause..  Til they remember East St. Louis is in Illinois.  There are also black neighborhoods in St. Louis itself you don't want to drive into alone if you're white at night.

I was in east St. Louis for a meeting a few months ago.  I drove around a little before the meeting because I was early.  Lot's of boarded up buildings and questionable-looking people roaming the streets.  Luckily, I was only there for one night.

[FatFreddysCat]

When I was 17 (1987) I went to West Germany as an exchange student, and we spent a day in East Berlin, which was still solidly Communist at the time. It was a pretty bizarre day. First we had a three or four hour train ride into the city from where we were staying, on an ancient train that looked like it pre-dated the war. When we got to East Berlin there were soldiers everywhere, and we always felt like there were eyes watching us everywhere we go. My camera was stolen while I went to the rest room in a cafe', which p**sed me off. It was just a little hunk-o-junk fifteen dollar Kodak that I'd bought in a KMart before the trip, but I guess to your average Iron Curtain schmuck something like that would've cost a year's worth of Rubles or whatever. Of course, being a young, dumb and full of c&m American teenager I wanted to speak to the manager of the cafe and raise hell but our chaperon told me flat out "Dude, just let it go. Seriously. LET. IT. GO."

We also toured the remains of a Nazi death camp in a town called "Plotzensee" which I will NEVER forget as long as I live. Up till that point in my life, the atrocities of WWII were just something I'd read about in Sgt. Rock comics or seen in movies. But seeing those gas chambers, bullet riddled walls, and rooms with meat hooks hanging from the ceilings drove it home that what happened was real... horribly real.

When we traveled back to the (non-Communist) side of the Berlin Wall at the end of the day, I practically kissed the ground. Then I got very drunk.