re: What’s the dirtiest US city you’ve been to?

Tulsa, OK is a complete shitehole. I hope to never return.

Obviously certain boroughs like Brooklyn and Queens are not going to be as nice as Manhattan

Long Island City, NY

Walmart parking lot, anywhere USA

Syracuse was pretty bad.

Vegas, sex, sex, sex, that's all they ever think about.

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Atlanta felt much cleaner in the 1990s than they do today

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It's actually the other way around.

You couldn't walk in most of Downtown Atlanta in the late 80's-90's due to the fear of having your throat slit, having panhandlers hassle you, etc, now downtown is very safe and clean. Yes, there are still some neighborhoods in Atlanta that are still seedy, but they are few and far between.

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Pittsburgh was surprisingly clean

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I may be biased b/c Pittsburgh is home but you are right. It is a beautiful, pictureresque town.

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I'd put the Hill District up against the worst neighborhoods from St. Louis, Cleveland, Cincy, or Detroit.

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This is true. The show Hill Street Blues was based on the crime in that neighborhood.

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But they also have a huge variety of older middle class neighborhoods that have neither gentrified into expensive housing nor have declined into total crap

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Yep. Squirrel Hill especially stands out.

Not even close - New Orleans. I came to that conclusion on a business trip to that STD infested petri dish town. In particular when my entourage decided to walk to Pat's (is that dungeon still in bidness) to partake of their Hurricane like alcoholic drink. It was then I saw it - a severly emaciated bikini clad woman (somethings cannot be unseen) hanging out (literally) the door of a dimly lit bar. Honestly she looked like an example of a methhead whore hoping to snare a passerby for a 'trick'

My life journey has taken me to many big cities in America, but without a doubt NOLA is an absolute dump.

That was near 35 years ago. Apparently it's gotten worse (much worst) since then. That's unfortunate because I hoped to see the D-Day Museum someday. Excluding the frightening experience of dodging bullets on the way to the entrance to the museum - thank you.

Los Angeles by far.

Everything about the city is shitty. Their “beaches” are full of trash and pigeons. Even the touristy areas are fricking gross. I’ll never forget having to step over junkies with my kid walking down the Hollywood walk of fame.