'Red' states. Texas, Florida, etc.
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Ah yes, the shithole states.
The sad part is they have a lot of really nice stuff in them. It's just that the people in them want me not to exist, or, if they concede my right to exist, want me to be an underclass citizen who anyone who isn't in my reference class can shit on.
It's hard to be in the metro areas of these states (Atlanta, Austin, Miami, etc) because they are being held hostage by the state government and are gerrymandered to hell.
Texas or Florida
The capital, everything is so expensive there..
I love this answer because it goes for almost every country in the world.
Also, they think they're the centre of the country and ate better than everyone else, right!?
they think they're the centre of the country and ate better than everyone else,
lol this does not apply to Ottawa (Canada). We hate ourselves and know that most of the country forgets we exist. Even the leader of our province forgets we exist 90% of the time
Did you guys have an NHL team at one point? The Monarchs or the Tigers or something?
Bavaria
We should just give Bavaria to the Austrians.
As a Bavarian: Yes absolutely. Itβs not like I hate my fellow Germans but from a cultural and historic standpoint, this makes sense. I think it would get a majority in Bavaria and if Germany wants us to go too. Letβs go!
To be fair, I have never been to Bavaria, but the few interactions I had with Bavarians weren't painting a positive picture. I worked in a theme park in northern Germany on the weekends while I was still in school and my friendly "moin." was answered with a "Das heisst servus, Junge!". Maybe they were just drunk, though. So no bad blood to my southern friends. My previous comment should be taken as friendly banter.
Can we keep the Franconians? They're more middle german anyways
The francs are pretty chill tho. If your immediate reply to being called Bavarian is to distance yourself from that term you have my respect. If we defederate Bavaria they can stay. It would be only fair if Bavaria has to take Thuringia and Saxony tho and integrate those int the new Bavaria/Austria state.
New Zealand has a 'Shit town of the year' election and honestly it's a gamble each year because all the towns are shit.
Probably only because of my closeness to it probably blinded me too much to see a lot of the decent people that probably exists, but where I grew up. A small coastal town in Telemark, Norway. They are just so goddarn closeminded, unapologetic assholes, casually sexist, ignorant tribal grouped, backtalking rednecks of a people. And I thought that was the uncomfortable norm until I moved just a bit out from there.
I'm just glad they aren't very religious on top of that or they would have been completely insufferable. On the other hand, I haven't seen them racist, ableist, nor lazy. So there are probably worse places in Norway.
Madrid. In my opinion, they see themselves as the coolest, the only who matter in Spain, while the rest of us are merely peasants... assuming we exist.
Are you saying their hubris makes them the worst? Or is it actually terrible in Madrid and the locals are unaware?
More about the former, in my opinion.
The capital. People there are such assholes. So entitled.
Man I feel this so much. JΓ€vla stockholmare.
Flevoland (the Netherlands). It has Urk and Almere, what's more to say?
A marvel of engineering, yet we put Almere on top of it.
Scotland. Just insert the Groundskeeper Willie meme here and that should cover it.
Nice enough place but people can be so adversirial within in the same city, region or coast depending on the issue at hand. Some really annoying polarising opinions with seemingly no room for negotiation?
Maybe it's an older generation and rattling their cages though? Here's hoping.
I live in germany and if you ask a german about the worst city in Germany, its always the one next to their own city
The capital area. Too many people.
For social idealogy the American South takes the cake for stupidity.
Problem is, the stupidest people live in the most beautiful areas and make the worst, but also most unique food. But it's probably St. Gallen.
Germany: Probably my old hometown of Chemnitz
Shitting on the federal state it's in (Saxony) is very common among other Germans, especially from former West-Germany. I dont think it's that bad here tbh.
Except for Chemnitz. What a depressing grey blob of a city. Historically, it was fairly important, Germanys first locally built steam engine came from there and it was the workbench of Saxony, back when Saxony was an industrial and economic center.
However, this is no more. Nowadays, after having been bombed to the ground and mismanaged to hell by the Soviets, Chemnitz is just an all around ugly and dirty city. Pretty much no noteworthy historical landmarks, fairly depressed people all around, a deep split in the population between political extremes and little perspective for the future.
Not that I dont understand how the situation came to be, but damn is it one ugly city.
I'm from Venezuela. It's really hard to say, most of the border with Colombia and Brasil is dominated by crime and the law of the Paracos or Guerrilleros.
I might say La Guajira in Zulio might be the worst region, but also Petare in Caracas is the biggest favela in the world and is way too dangerous, a straight up no-go-zone.
London Metro definitely, utter shithole. It's a moneysuck to the extent that I don't know how the average bloke can survive. Run by gigarich fuckronauts, sold off to foreign criminals; one big Β£12-a-pint, can't fucking move for people, money laundering operation.
May not be the most popular opinion in this thread, but hell I love British people hating... stuff.
That's just as well cos we don't get up to much else. Not that we're total cynics; sometimes we're happy enough to break into fits of sarcasm.
This, I got affections to that sarcasm. Besides, I feel that it is usually delivered in a delicate blend of linguistic spices that tickle my senses far beyond that french fries American English.
The Autonomous City of Buenos Aires.
AraucanΓa (Chile π¨π±), does not matter your skin colour, language or religion, nobody is safe there.
Special mentions:
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Talca, every single bad thing that happens in my country happens there first (COVID, floodings, forest fires, etc). It's a common joke among chileans that we should just "Blow-up Talca" or that "Talca doesn't exist".
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EstaciΓ³n Central (Santiago), you take your bus or train as soon as possible and you get the hell out of there, because the odds of you getting robbed (or even worse, stabbed πͺ) by staying too long are very far from 0. Do not ever go near that place at night time. ππ«
Any Autobahn.
washington dc
As cities go, I found New York to be worse on a few days visit. Smelled terrible, and if there was a window open, at any hour of the day or night I could hear sirens. Most of my memories of DC are the subway, which was decent, and marching through the streets / locking down buildings with the group I was with. What's awful about it in your experience?
the government lol. I was making a joke. I've never been there, I'm sure physically it's a nice place (dc, not ny).
It is, yeah. Of course, my visits have been less touristy and more protesting at Health and Human Services, and occupying the House trying to get representatives to meet with us, but what I've seen was nice.
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