re: Cities that look terrible judging from what you see passing through on the interstate

I have always thought Dallas in the south loop of I-20 was interesting. When they chose a "south' loop, they put that sucker out in the boonies.

I was shocked how Buffalo Ny looked passing through.

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NOLA from 610 to 510

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I remember a time when NOLA wasn’t terrible looking from the interstate. Back when City Park had 4 golf courses and they were all kept up, and the east around Read and Bullard still had businesses in all the retail spaces. The turd in the punchbowl was the massive “Adult Movies” sign over the interstate on the other side of the highrise.

First time I remember feeling like it looked bad was months after Katrina. Little cleanup had been done, businesses hadn’t come back, and there were burned out houses scattered in the neighborhoods along the interstate.

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Continuing east, Beaumont, Texas isn’t much better.

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All these years I thought Beaumont was west of lake Charles. Learn something new every day.

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Lafayette has to be the weirdest 100k population city in the country. You don’t see a single tall building downtown from I-10.

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That has always freaked me out. You see as much evidence of a city driving thru Gonzales and Denham Springs.

There's a decent view when crossing the river into St Louis, but I remember a lot of the other parts of the interstate looking crappy.

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Unfortunately all the shanty houses now include blue roofs from the storms.

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Kind of an improvement TBH.

Lafayette hands down.
From I-10, it looks like no-man's land. The exits haven't been updated since 1964.

Then, there's I-49..er... the Thruway, which cuts through the worst, most blighted part of Acadiana.

Took a salesman to lunch one day in River Ranch. He was stunned, the thought Lafayette was just one big oilfield-industrial shithole.

Ciudad Juarez as you drive on the I-10 through El Paso. Shacks and more shacks.