Ignore These Cities In Your Next Trip (18 pics)

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Vegas. Although I wouldn’t call it much of a city; it was more of a clusterf*** of buildings, neon, and wasted lives all stitched together smack in the middle of bumf*** nowhere.

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Bakersfield, CA - Never in my life have I seen such a sour sight. Oil wells as far the eye can see that it almost looks a heard of stationary ants humping the soil.

3

Youngstown, Ohio. Pure depression.

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Johnstown, Pennsylvania... You can almost feel that the city is dying a slow, unsettling death...

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El Paso, Texas, depresses the hell out of me.

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Modesto, CA. It should be a crime to make a city as ugly as Modesto in a state with so much beauty.

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Gary, Indiana. The entire city was gray. No color. I thought I had gone color blind until I got to Chicago.

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Albuquerque, NM. Let me paint a picture. In a rental car after 14 hours of driving I make it about halfway into town. And need gas badly. I pullover to a pretty empty gas station. Just Some oily cardboard sheets spread out here and there. Trees pretty much envelope 3/4s of the sides of the building itself.

I get ready to slide my card in the reader when 6 individuals start exiting the cover of the trees. Three guys take up sitting or lying down on the strewn cardboard and three women/girls of questionable age somewhere between 16 and 40 I ballpark approach my car and try to hem and haw and cough to get my attention. I pull my card back, say "aww s***, declines. F***." Get back in my car and speed away. In my rearview I see more people keep coming out of the trees. They didn't look pleased.

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I can’t believe no one had mentioned Rochester NY, Anything past Culver road. The worst parts are near Lyell and Monroe Ave. Place is a sh*t hole.

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Laurel, MS. The try to doll it up on the HGTV show, but it's a cesspool. Upgraded to the most violent city in Mississippi last year, if I'm not mistaken.

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Albany, NY just feels like a really big Greyhound bus station to me. In the summer it's kinda gross, but in the winter it's a muddy gray sh*tpile. Whenever I've found myself there I've felt like I need to escape it - probably in an old school bus with razor wire strung around it with sharpened broomstick handles protruding from the windows.

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After I visited Aberdeen, Washington I felt like I understood Kurt Cobain better. The natural surroundings are stunningly beautiful, but in the middle of it there’s this gray, dark, depressing town built on a swamp that feels like it’s sucks the life out of you. If a town could have feelings, this one would be utterly, hopelessly depressed.

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Oh my god. Why has no one said Houston yet?

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Birmingham, Alabama. Half the city is just bland brown brick buildings from the 80’s, and the other half is basically abandoned ruins of bland brown brick buildings from the 80’s.

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Spokane, WA. It feels like it got left behind in the late 80s when Seattle became a major destination with no vibrancy or anything attractive about the city in general. Just bunches of residential neighborhoods with a few upscale eateries to keep it just out of last place.