What would be the worst city you visited and why ?

Kuala Lumpur

boring as hell
expensive
rained all the time
muslims

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Memphis Tennessee is very ghetto.

+1. Although I don't remember it being expensive at all

I second that. Very ghetto... ugly place, miserable weather, ugly people generally, lots of slummy areas. Fairly high rate of crime, poorly educated populus. The commute to work at the Tunica pokerrooms is an ugly dreadful trip. Not sure I remember one thing I liked about the area. Horseshoe poker room is nice and their steak sandwiches are good. Also easy to pick up on single women considering there is not much male competition.

Marseille France,
ugly, nothing to do, smell s*** everywhere

Gary, Indiana seemed like a real armpit of a place, but I have only passed through there on several occassions.

alcohol is expensive otherwise it's w/e.

There isn't a whole lot to do in KL but the food is amazing. I was there during Ramadan and the night markets were the best I have ever been to. I enjoyed KL.

Nowhere comes to mind. For me it comes down to the people I meet, and I meet good people everywhere. Especially in KL, now have many friends there

If I had to give an answer I will go with Sharm El Sheikh

taxis were expensive too and ******ed to deal with.
and the airport is so far away its ******ed
alcohol was really expensive and the availability was really ****ty

I've heard Marseille and Naples are huge holes but haven't been there myself.

I try to avoid going to terrible places so I don't have many places that have been really awful. Podgorica, Montenegro was bad. Chau Doc in Vietnam was maybe the worst. There were loudspeakers on poles all through town and Commies would start yelling propaganda at you through them from 4:30am onwards. No joke.

Don't agree with KL. I've had some good times there, i'd say Penang is much more boring.

Guess we'd better keep it to reasonably First World cities though otherwise some guy who's been to Mogadishu or somewhere will pipe up and the thread will be over.

Tai'shan - China

Denpasar

Isn't this where Michael Jackson was born?

This all depends what you define as worst. I travel a lot in Africa and Lagos in Nigeria is pretty insane but I find it much more fun that somewhere like Accra in Ghana which is quieter but much more boring.

"Worst" is probably best defined by the place in which you'd least rather live for a year.

No, it would define it as a place that even though people would visit the town under normal circumstances, is a terrible experience.

I wouldnt wanna live in bumble**** bible belt, so I would name every city there.
Tennessee and Indiana (I know not part of the bible belt, but mentioned) are not places that people would visit as a tourist (under normal circumstances).


My vote goes to Tromso, Norway. That place is boring as **** and besides the Northern Lights has literally nothing to offer.

Another vote goes to Lloret de Mar, Spain, but that's a place mostly for young people.

I loved Naples. I had a really good hostel owner though and the first thing he did when I got there was give me a map of the city and tell me what things to see and what areas to avoid.

Also, amazing pizza.

Worst "touristy" city that comes to mind is Newquay, England.

Heh. I've been there and that's a ludicrous choice imo. Apart from anything else it's set in pretty nice scenery, and failing anything else to do you can climb that mountain just out of town and get a nice view. And it's a University town so there are plenty of young people around and the nightlife is decent. Yeah, it's expensive (it's Norway, so no ****) and isn't a 24 hour excitement machine, but cmon it's a town with a population of like 70,000! I bet it stacks up pretty well worldwide against similarly sized places. I shudder to think the kind of ****holes of that size that would be scattered through the American Midwest and South. I could name you a bunch of commonly visited towns in Australia that are worse for sure.

Tijuana ....

I am not disagreeing. I lived in Oslo for 6 months (so I didnt think it was expensive) and came to Tromso, actually with a big group, but the nightlife wasnt very good (compared to Oslo) and overall it seemed hyped to me.
Obviously, it's probably a better place than most cities that size, but it was one of the only trips in my life that I regretted to go on.

Most European cities have horrible weather, are overpriced and outdated. Most tend to offer very little in the form of entertainment or sight seeing. You definitely need to be selective and generally stick to the obvious places...Prague, Paris, London, Amsterdamn, Berlin, and Rome. Otherwise you will be paying too much for a boring experience.

Greeley, Colorado.