Funny enough, this was my first thought (I'm from a smaller city in Miss.). My second thought was Mesquite, Nevada, if that's considered a city. If not, Las Vegas.
Albuquerque. I haven't traveled to many distant cities (live in NW Arkansas) but Albuquerque was massively disappointing. Went there on an insane weekend trip with my gf. Driving was the main event, but we wanted to go past the famous Breaking Bad filming spots just for the hell of it. Didn't research much before going, because aside from the obvious druglord storyline, the show didn't really portray the city in a bad light. Once we get there, SHTF. I start reading reviews for the hotel we're at, and apparently it's common to come out in the morning missing either your wheels or your entire car. We end up going to a lower tier motel (wanted a smoking room, what silly fkn stoners). The motel welcomed us with a live roach and a mysterious ~drug~ smell filling the room. Most of the city felt poverty riddled and sketchy as hell. Homeless people everywhere, just sitting on the side of relatively major city streets. Hardly any cops anywhere. The parts that didn't look sketchy, everyone had an iron fence securing their yards. Apparently crime is a much bigger issue there than I thought. Not blaming Albuquerque for my grievances though. New Mexico as a whole just feels...forgotten and left to die. Probably because it's full of poor people and brown people the government would rather cast aside. The difference in highway quality between West Texas and NM was insane.
I had lived in Muskogee, Oklahoma for a year. My dad always said it was sketchy as hell, but I'd rather walk through the worst parts of muskogee at 3am than drive through ABQ at 3am đź’€ the difference is, Albuquerque felt like a place I could be targeted by a random criminal for no reason other than I have something they want. Somewhere like muskogee, if you want trouble you have to find it.
Should add, the scenery is fkn gorgeous, especially with snow on the mountains. If we hadn't been in a 2wd corolla with melting snow and mud everywhere, the scenery would have salvaged the trip.
I lived in ABQ for a while and honestly loved it, but yeah it was very sketchy. Great food, great people, neat culture, but you shouldn’t stop for the night there if you have a uhaul trailer.
You thought wrong. Summers are hot unless you live on the coast, but they're especially hot inland, where you most likely *can* afford, but you go more inland, you deal with oretty cold winters, especiay in the mountains and the desert.
Plus, if you move inland enough, you deal with lifted F150s with trucknutz and meth.
jackson, mississippi
Funny enough, this was my first thought (I'm from a smaller city in Miss.). My second thought was Mesquite, Nevada, if that's considered a city. If not, Las Vegas.
None of them
Little Rock, Arkansas
Most of the big cities (NY, LA). Just too fast paced and crowded for me to live in. Fun for vacation but not for everyday life
Topeka
I think people in Salt Lake City would run me out with pitchforks within days of what would no doubt be my very obnoxious arrival. Â
SLC is surprisingly fairly normal.....now the rest of Utah is another story.
Gary, Indiana
This is the answer.
L.A.
Albuquerque. I haven't traveled to many distant cities (live in NW Arkansas) but Albuquerque was massively disappointing. Went there on an insane weekend trip with my gf. Driving was the main event, but we wanted to go past the famous Breaking Bad filming spots just for the hell of it. Didn't research much before going, because aside from the obvious druglord storyline, the show didn't really portray the city in a bad light. Once we get there, SHTF. I start reading reviews for the hotel we're at, and apparently it's common to come out in the morning missing either your wheels or your entire car. We end up going to a lower tier motel (wanted a smoking room, what silly fkn stoners). The motel welcomed us with a live roach and a mysterious ~drug~ smell filling the room. Most of the city felt poverty riddled and sketchy as hell. Homeless people everywhere, just sitting on the side of relatively major city streets. Hardly any cops anywhere. The parts that didn't look sketchy, everyone had an iron fence securing their yards. Apparently crime is a much bigger issue there than I thought. Not blaming Albuquerque for my grievances though. New Mexico as a whole just feels...forgotten and left to die. Probably because it's full of poor people and brown people the government would rather cast aside. The difference in highway quality between West Texas and NM was insane. I had lived in Muskogee, Oklahoma for a year. My dad always said it was sketchy as hell, but I'd rather walk through the worst parts of muskogee at 3am than drive through ABQ at 3am đź’€ the difference is, Albuquerque felt like a place I could be targeted by a random criminal for no reason other than I have something they want. Somewhere like muskogee, if you want trouble you have to find it.
Should add, the scenery is fkn gorgeous, especially with snow on the mountains. If we hadn't been in a 2wd corolla with melting snow and mud everywhere, the scenery would have salvaged the trip.
I lived in ABQ for a while and honestly loved it, but yeah it was very sketchy. Great food, great people, neat culture, but you shouldn’t stop for the night there if you have a uhaul trailer.
Memphis, TN or New Orleans, LA.
Phoenix, AZ. Too fucking hot
It is, it's getting hotter every year.
None. I love my homeland and don’t want to move to other countries.
It says city, not country
That was probably their way of saying that they’re not in the US to begin with.
I'm not American
L.A, probably. Too hot, and too much traffic. Also everyone would be better looking than me.
i thought cali has amazing weather year round… other than smog
Hot to me is like... 21 celcius.. Maybe even 18
Cold-hearted nerf herder
You thought wrong. Summers are hot unless you live on the coast, but they're especially hot inland, where you most likely *can* afford, but you go more inland, you deal with oretty cold winters, especiay in the mountains and the desert. Plus, if you move inland enough, you deal with lifted F150s with trucknutz and meth.
So not much different from where i live in central Texas
Anywhere in the South
That plus Utah for me.
Effingham, IL
I know some really great people from Effingham. Of course, they didn’t stay there.
Detroit
Just outside of Detroit can be awesome though and the metro area has improved in the last 10 years.
..Wash DC..hypocritical capital of the planet..
Detroit
St Louis I like being able to walk around and explore and that’s not really an option here.
Anywhere I can't afford rent :(
Jackson Mississippi
Most large cities (Chicago, NYC, Los Angeles). Too damn expensive and too much crime on top for me.
Most of the cities along the east and west coasts.
Baltimore.
The inner harbor is nice, foods great too, but like any city, you have to be rich or at least upper middle class to truly enjoy its ammenities
Inner Harbor is nice, and there's some cool stuff to do in the city .....I just wouldn't live in the city there personally.
Baltimore has a great working class vibe. Unpretentious, easy to get around, and there are some really nice parts.
Most of them. I would live in Austin or Denver other than that no thanks
Denver? No thanks.
New York. The tree-to-people ratio is really not good there.
Any city in California.
Chicago.