What city is the armpit of America? [Archive] - Page 2 - The Orange Mane

Circle Orange

06-04-2005, 09:35 AM

Truth is, anything different is 'hot' until you get used to it, then it's no big deal. I love San Fran, but anytime 13 people sign to buy one house, you know you're in trouble. At least you can walk to everything, and fisherman's wharf is great.

But the weather is a nightmare...80 degrees inland during the day, 40 at night near the ocean. I don't know how those people stay healthy.

ClevelandBronco2

06-04-2005, 09:47 AM

Call them vapid and self absorbed, but they don't care about you or your rivalries and that's what really kills you.

No. It's being anywhere near Compton or East L.A. after dark (or even before dark) that really kills you.

sirhcyennek81

06-04-2005, 12:40 PM

good lord...i hate colorado springs. its like a weed, sucks up more water, more area, more resources then it should need. people there are ignorant bitches, and thats on a good day. how many cities you know actually stop functioning after midnight? and not at all on sunday? i actually prefer pueblo to colorado springs. arrogance of the place calling it self "THE springs". what about glenwood springs? pagosa springs? what, they arent springs? worked in colo springs for 2 years, dealing with the same moronic people in a daily basis, listening to the bums say the same line over and over. colorado springs is the mecca for the homeless, they dont have to work for aid. several things wrong with this city.

labronx

06-06-2005, 06:54 AM

I like LA and have many friends who live in LA and the suburbs however the people are the fakest bunch of people I have ever met. Everybody is just about to become famous. Shaq hit it dead on calling LA the fakest city in the U.S. get real man, r u saying there are no hot girls in NYC, you have no idea. Walking Venice beach and hanging out at the bars in hollywood gets old real quick.

Shaq said it out of spite.

LA is a real as it gets boy!

Shaq is funny, he acts like such a kid sometimes its ridiculous.

Its like getting dumped by the girl you loved the most and then saying she is loose and ugly.
What a joke!

labronx

06-06-2005, 07:14 AM

The great thing about Los Angeles is the way every other city wants to compare themselves to them. New Yorkers are obsessed with some bizarre need to prove they're the center of the universe, so that's a given. The City, as they smugly self reference, or San Francisco to everyone else, is constantly sniping at LA, too. San Diego, with so much more to offer than LA, still feels strangely inferior, dwarfed to a sense of insignificance by their larger neighbor.

And Los Angeles?

They could care less what other cities think. Call them vapid and self absorbed, but they don't care about you or your rivalries and that's what really kills you.

http://i.askask.com/2005/02/DSC_0148-2-big.jpg

Once a again sir you hit it right on the nail.

Im a giant fan and I live in LA. Trust me with SF its a San Francisco vs. Los Angeles. Wtih LA its Giants vs Dodgers.

Plain and simple.

Cities like SF and SD go crazy over the "rivalry" they have with LA.

labronx

06-06-2005, 07:17 AM

I lived in LA for two years...you could never see the stars at night...
you shoulda have someone show you them;D

labronx

06-06-2005, 07:18 AM

That was my biggest adjustment when I moved to Vegas from LA in 91. No authentic Mexican restaurants worth a damn out here until fairly recently. That may be why I lived with a Mexican woman for seven years. I don't think it was for the sudden drama and baseless accusations of infidelity.

LOL!! you must have been married with my wife!

Arkie

06-06-2005, 08:30 AM

Meth purchased on the streets of California is called 417 Meth or Green Meth. The area code for the Southern half of Missouri is 417 and one of the largest counties producing Meth seizures in Missouri is Greene County. Hence, the names are given to the street people of California “417 Meth” and “Greene Meth”.

I believe Zach lives in Greene County.

Arkie

06-06-2005, 08:39 AM

The great thing about Los Angeles is the way every other city wants to compare themselves to them. New Yorkers are obsessed with some bizarre need to prove they're the center of the universe, so that's a given. The City, as they smugly self reference, or San Francisco to everyone else, is constantly sniping at LA, too. San Diego, with so much more to offer than LA, still feels strangely inferior, dwarfed to a sense of insignificance by their larger neighbor.

And Los Angeles?

They could care less what other cities think. Call them vapid and self absorbed, but they don't care about you or your rivalries and that's what really kills you.

If our country was the entire world, L.A. would be the U.S.A.

watermock

06-06-2005, 08:44 AM

I live in the meth capital of the world. I cuss at my kid constantly about that drug.

I suppose L.A. is worse, that craphole deserves it, but all the ingredients are pretty easy to get here. I won't tell anyone how to make it.

They took ephedrine off the counter here finally.

I scream at my kid about that stuff because my ex is using it.

I dragged him by the nape of the neck about it.

Literally.

It's a HUGE PROBLEM in Iowa and Missouri.

Putting Sudafed off the counter should help.

You can't really cook it without ephedrine.

Boogerboots

06-06-2005, 11:26 AM

I was surprised that it took til page 7 to find Baltimore on the s-h*t list. I know Jim Rome is not a fan of Crack-more errr.. STD-more err... Kill-more.

http://www.geocities.com/grantorino.geo/topten2001.htm

Here's a comprehensive list that makes Baltimore look like a great place to avoid.

FADERPROOF

06-06-2005, 11:33 AM

Hercules Rockefeller

06-06-2005, 11:36 AM

2) Baltimore is the 2nd Best Place in the nation for lesbians to live (Baltimore SUN, 2001)

I'm moving to Baltimore...

Do you understand the difference between Cinemax lesbians and real-life lesbians?

Boogerboots

06-06-2005, 11:37 AM

2) Baltimore is the 2nd Best Place in the nation for lesbians to live (Baltimore SUN, 2001)

I'm moving to Baltimore...

http://www.brokennewz.com/storyimages/uglylesbian.jpgOnly problem is that they don't mention that they're all ugly.

FADERPROOF

06-06-2005, 11:38 AM

http://www.brokennewz.com/storyimages/uglylesbian.jpgOnly problem is that they don't mention that they're all ugly.

I'm moving far west of Baltimore...

ClevelandBronco2

06-06-2005, 11:44 AM

http://www.brokennewz.com/storyimages/uglylesbian.jpgOnly problem is that they don't mention that they're all ugly.

I don't know. That looks to me like a Kansas City lesbian.

Or just about any Kansas City straight guy for that matter.

baja

06-06-2005, 11:50 AM

I have lived on the West coast, LA San Diego, San Fransisco and Marin County best place there IMO was San Diego.

I have lived on the East coast, Maine and Connecticut. Maine is great and I plan to live in NYC for a time some day.

I have lived in the Middle, Arizona, Colorado, Oklahoma and New Mexico. Best place IMO is around Ridgway in the San Juan mountains.

bendog

06-06-2005, 11:57 AM

I think being single and in manhattan would be incredible. Lived in LA for a year... no thanks. Den is great, though getting kids to events is getting very time consuming. Mrs Dog and I disagree in that I'd be quite happy living in a cabin with a dog and trout fishing every day ... or on the beach and salt water fishing every day. She likes places with lots of cute shops. Laramie had high quality of life, but for the weather.

I've seen some real nice places in North Carolina. If little girl dog doesn't stay in Mississippi when she matriculates from college, I hope she goes somewhere close to there.

ps, Mrs Dog likes Maine for short stretches. Never been there myself.

kappys

06-06-2005, 12:06 PM

I'd give the award straight up to Cleveland. God that place is a dump. I put my 7 years in there, so thank God I'm getting out. I'm sure that it's been mentioned before, but I don't have the patientce to navigate the last 12 years. However,

Cleveland has a horrible unemployment rate. The whole city is bascially a ghetto, and even the "nice" areas to go out in are pretty run down, dirty, and unfriendly. The damn lake and river smell like ****, and the weather is absolutely horrible. Contstant rain, snow, and grey overcast days with only a minimal hope for sunshine. Anyways, that's my 2 cents.

GSRelyea

06-06-2005, 12:20 PM

I earlier posted that Trenton, NJ was the Armpit of America, but after seeing these pictures, Trona, CA takes the honor hands down.

http://www.satanslaundromat.com/sl/archives/000181.html

bendog

06-06-2005, 12:29 PM

it says I have to spread rep, but damn that place is worse than Pueblo.

Meck77

06-06-2005, 12:38 PM

I'd have to vote for East St Louis and whatever exit Disco Man pulled off of just outside of St. Louis on our way to Canton. He said "Hey you want to see some crack heads, hookers, and drug dealers real quick?". Like an idiot I said sure. I have never seen as many people walking, laying, or standing on a street buying/selling drugs or sex in one place.

KC is easily in the top 10.

Crush Girl

06-06-2005, 03:16 PM

Kansas City! Okay...I'll admit it's not that bad...I just really want out!

Still looking for a job in Denver :)

Crushaholic

06-06-2005, 03:46 PM

Kansas City! Okay...I'll admit it's not that bad...I just really want out!

Ah...but you live in the GOOD part of the KC area. That's the difference... ;)

Bronco Yoda

06-06-2005, 04:44 PM

good lord...i hate colorado springs. its like a weed, sucks up more water, more area, more resources then it should need. people there are ignorant b****es, and thats on a good day. how many cities you know actually stop functioning after midnight? and not at all on sunday? i actually prefer pueblo to colorado springs. arrogance of the place calling it self "THE springs". what about glenwood springs? pagosa springs? what, they arent springs? worked in colo springs for 2 years, dealing with the same moronic people in a daily basis, listening to the bums say the same line over and over. colorado springs is the mecca for the homeless, they dont have to work for aid. several things wrong with this city.

You've got to be kidding. Pueblo over Colorado Springs? Ya might as well have said Tijuana mexico over San Diego. I always remember Pueblo not only for being dirty and run down but THE STINKY SMELL... OH THE SMELL. Then again that was back when the Gates plant was open.

SoCalBronco

06-06-2005, 04:44 PM

I don't know. That looks to me like a Kansas City lesbian.

Or just about any Kansas City straight guy for that matter.

Hilarious!

SoonerBronco

06-06-2005, 04:52 PM

Meck77

06-06-2005, 05:01 PM

Honestly, If you have never traveled through Lawton, OK...don't. One the highest crime rates in the US. Meth lab on every corner, and oh, did I mention it is home to Ft. Sill? Most military towns are scummy to begin with.

Sounds pretty bad. Sound like you should move bro.

I just traveled down I-35 last week and couldn't even find some oil for the bus for atleast 100 miles. It wasn't until I got to Wichita that someone had a clue what straight 40 diesel motor oil was. We stopped at atleast 7 different "Truck stops" even a Nappa and I swear there was a Gomer Pile behind the counter at all of them. It got to the point where I had to call Blue Damsel to go online and find out where we could find oil in that part of what I thought was America. It's more like a 3rd world country there.

Jason in LA

06-09-2005, 04:11 PM

I like LA and have many friends who live in LA and the suburbs however the people are the fakest bunch of people I have ever met. Everybody is just about to become famous. Shaq hit it dead on calling LA the fakest city in the U.S. get real man, r u saying there are no hot girls in NYC, you have no idea. Walking Venice beach and hanging out at the bars in hollywood gets old real quick.

Hollywood can be fake, but outside of that area most people are pretty normal.

Jason in LA

06-09-2005, 04:13 PM

No its a shared opinion! The big Aristotle does not influence me. People from the east will always like the east coast and west coast natives will always favor the west. Some things never change.

I don't know about that. There are more people moving out west than back east.

Jason in LA

06-09-2005, 04:16 PM

It is pretty sad that the best thing about your city if you live in L.A. is in and out burger. LA really isn't a city but rather a couple of buildings and 50000 miles of suburbs.

Sounds like a lot of hate for LA. Did every chick out here reject you?

Jason in LA

06-09-2005, 04:19 PM

The great thing about Los Angeles is the way every other city wants to compare themselves to them. New Yorkers are obsessed with some bizarre need to prove they're the center of the universe, so that's a given. The City, as they smugly self reference, or San Francisco to everyone else, is constantly sniping at LA, too. San Diego, with so much more to offer than LA, still feels strangely inferior, dwarfed to a sense of insignificance by their larger neighbor.

And Los Angeles?

They could care less what other cities think. Call them vapid and self absorbed, but they don't care about you or your rivalries and that's what really kills you.

That's pretty much it right there. I can care less about all the other cities. Everybody seems to hate LA, except for the people that live here, and all the damn people that keep moving here. If it were so bad then wouldn't everybody be leaving?

Jason in LA

06-09-2005, 04:20 PM

I lived in LA for two years...you could never see the stars at night...

I saw them once. After the earthquake in '94 or so, all the power in the city was knocked out for some time. You could see every star in the sky.

FADERPROOF

06-09-2005, 04:23 PM

That's pretty much it right there. I can care less about all the other cities. Everybody seems to hate LA, except for the people that live here, and all the damn people that keep moving here. If it were so bad then wouldn't everybody be leaving?

Go Dodgers!

Crush Girl

06-09-2005, 05:21 PM

I saw them once. After the earthquake in '94 or so, all the power in the city was knocked out for some time. You could see every star in the sky.

OMG...In western Kansas, where I went to high school, it gets so dark at night in the summer time you can see the Milky Way almost every night...it is so amazing and beautiful, I can't imagine not being able to see the stars!

Crush Girl

06-09-2005, 05:24 PM

I don't know. That looks to me like a Kansas City lesbian.

Or just about any Kansas City straight guy for that matter.

LMAO! I'm sure the she-skullet hangs out at Camarohead on a regular basis

Jason in LA

06-09-2005, 05:33 PM

OMG...In western Kansas, where I went to high school, it gets so dark at night in the summer time you can see the Milky Way almost every night...it is so amazing and beautiful, I can't imagine not being able to see the stars!

I was driving to Arizona not too long ago. I stopped in some small town, looked up, and was amazed to see all the stars. You just can't see them in the big city.

elsid13

06-09-2005, 05:40 PM

I was driving to Arizona not too long ago. I stopped in some small town, looked up, and was amazed to see all the stars. You just can't see them in the big city.

It amazing sight, that one of things that you don't realize you miss until you're exposed to them again. God I hate light pollution

FADERPROOF

06-09-2005, 05:43 PM

Here in Painesville we rarely get to see stars...

Not because of pollution, because it's always damn cloudy and raining here!

orange crusher

06-09-2005, 05:47 PM

It doesn't qualify as a "city", but the reservation is the armpit of America. All big cities seem to have their good parts and bad parts. The reservation doesn't have any good parts. Most of the vehicles are on blocks with the windows busted out. The government housing pretty much gets stripped of anything that can be sold. It's poverty at it's finest.

I just got back from a business trip to St. Louis. From what I've read, I'm glad I avoided East St. Louis.

Hogan11

06-09-2005, 05:47 PM

Here in Painesville we rarely get to see stars...

Not because of pollution, because it's always damn cloudy and raining here!

Nothing like living near the Great Lakes eh Den?

FADERPROOF

06-09-2005, 05:49 PM

Nothing like living near the Great Lakes eh Den?

Lake Effect is just not for the winter times, we get so many thunderstoms that just pop up over the the lake that it's just unreal.

Had one earlier today, and even when it's sunny out, the sun looks like a haze, still great to see the sun though, just wish I got to see more of the moon.

Hogan11

06-09-2005, 05:54 PM

Lake Effect is just not for the winter times, we get so many thunderstoms that just pop up over the the lake that it's just unreal.

Had one earlier today, and even when it's sunny out, the sun looks like a haze, still great to see the sun though, just wish I got to see more of the moon.

We get rocked with thunderstorms frequently as well and they're every bit a vicious as the ones I experienced when I lived in the south....humid often as well but you get used to it after a couple of days

FADERPROOF

06-09-2005, 06:07 PM

We get rocked with thunderstorms frequently as well and they're every bit a vicious as the ones I experienced when I lived in the south....humid often as well but you get used to it after a couple of days

Yep, the earth was shaking with the thudner that we endured today, it's some potent thunderstorms. Luckily I live in a place where Tornadoes dont/can't form so as threatening as these thunderstorms are, I'm at least safe of anything worse.

This year we didn't get a spring, it was snowing in early May here still, today it hit 88 degrees and was humid as could be, Ohio decided that we're going to jump from winter to summer in a matter of 2 weeks, lovely(especially for me who works outside in landscaping all day ::) )

watermock

06-09-2005, 06:08 PM

Sounds pretty bad. Sound like you should move bro.

I just traveled down I-35 last week and couldn't even find some oil for the bus for atleast 100 miles. It wasn't until I got to Wichita that someone had a clue what straight 40 diesel motor oil was. We stopped at atleast 7 different "Truck stops" even a Nappa and I swear there was a Gomer Pile behind the counter at all of them. It got to the point where I had to call Blue Damsel to go online and find out where we could find oil in that part of what I thought was America. It's more like a 3rd world country there.

They only take stupid pills in OK, is you go to Miss, they take crazy pills, but are good recruits. They were running like deer. Just like deer in the headlights. If you haven't been thru Jackson, our missing a real amusement.

They are so poor, they don't even have a bike, and run like gazelles. I couldn't believe it. Then I stopped too short, and they were running all around me. Jackson. I had my mom with me so I was very scared.

This one kid must of managed to get a truck and he gassed it up and revved it up way beyond it's limits to show off. He was floating the valves, but it was no problem there I guess.

I wouldn't of been scared except for my mom, but it's rediculous. I had stopped really because I wanted to pee, but both the Churches and the Exxon didn't even have their restrooms open.

I had to get to the Interstate to take a piss.

Rocket 7

06-09-2005, 06:11 PM

Odessa, Texas It's not that bad ...It ain't that good either.

FADERPROOF

06-09-2005, 06:11 PM

Odessa, Texas It's not that bad ...It ain't that good either.

Good enough to make a kick ass movie about their high school football team, I friggin love that movie!

Rocket 7

06-09-2005, 06:34 PM

Friday Night Lights is a great movie. Did you read the book? I've been there plenty of times and I can tell you it ain't that great of a city.

FADERPROOF

06-09-2005, 06:38 PM

Friday Night Lights is a great movie. Did you read the book? I've been there plenty of times and I can tell you it ain't that great of a city.

Never read the book, but have watched the movie several times, and although I wish Odessa would've won the state title(sorry for the spoiler to thsoe who haven't seen it), the movie never gets old.

It hits close to home with me, my senior year of abseball we were the #1 ranked team in the State of Ohio and lost in the elite 8 state tournament, I remember walking off that field for the last time. Best part was when Billingsley and his dad shared a hug and he gave him his state title ring, that was an awesome part of the movie.

Rocket 7

06-09-2005, 06:47 PM

Never read the book, but have watched the movie several times, and although I wish Odessa would've won the state title(sorry for the spoiler to thsoe who haven't seen it), the movie never gets old.

It hits close to home with me, my senior year of abseball we were the #1 ranked team in the State of Ohio and lost in the elite 8 state tournament, I remember walking off that field for the last time. Best part was when Billingsley and his dad shared a hug and he gave him his state title ring, that was an awesome part of the movie.
Read the book I Promise it will be worth your time. The only thing that is different now is that Permian is not a powerhouse anymore. Odessa has not changed in terms of it's attitude

FADERPROOF

06-09-2005, 06:49 PM

Read the book I Promise it will be worth your time. The only thing that is different now is that Permian is not a powerhouse anymore. Odessa has not changed in terms of it's attitude

Plus the famous Jett Jackson was in the movie.

I'll have to check out the book sometime, I'm currently reading 1 and have the next one lined up after I'm finished with the current, but I'll be sure to read it after these 2 are done.

Rocket 7

06-09-2005, 07:14 PM

Good deal. It's a very good book.

Swedish Extrovert

06-09-2005, 07:22 PM

The armpit of the country -
Jacksonville Florida

Circle Orange

06-10-2005, 04:57 PM

You mean home of the Jaggy-Wires??? Those speckled roaches that kept the broncos from a threepeat?!

Tredici

06-13-2005, 10:36 AM

I know Detroit has had a few nominations, but sheesh.

The city is basically bankrupt. They've announced they are going to lay off over 800 policemen leaving the force the smallest it's been in 40 years. All though crime is at an all time high.

GM has announced they are having another significant reduction which will further impact Detroit.

Every year there is a huge fireworks display sponsored by Target and it is estimated a million people show up. Last year 9 of them were shot. They are threatening to cancel it this year all together because with the reduction in police force there is no semblence of adequate crowd control.

Supposedly there are already articles that Detroit will not be able to come up with the level of security required for the Super Bowl this coming year. How about hosting the first sporting event that has to be patrolled by the National Guard?

Meck77

06-13-2005, 10:39 AM

Jason in LA

06-13-2005, 10:43 AM

My father was in Detroit a couple of years ago. He said there were a number of abandoned office buildings. A lot of the businesses, and people with money, are leaving the city.

Billy Clyde Puckett

06-13-2005, 10:50 AM

My father was in Detroit a couple of years ago. He said there were a number of abandoned office buildings. A lot of the businesses, and people with money, are leaving the city.

I have been to Detroit many times. Downtown is a very nasty place, but there is plenty of money and nice places in the surounding area.

rbackfactory80

06-13-2005, 01:55 PM

Sounds like a lot of hate for LA. Did every chick out here reject you?

Me get rejected, please, Unfortunately I was staying with a girl I know from NY so I ended up chillin with her most of the time.

rbackfactory80

06-13-2005, 01:57 PM