re: What is the worst place you have ever been to

McLeansboro, IL

Not reading 8 pages to see if anyone said it but I have been around and, if we are talking abject poverty and living conditions here, it's China by far. Not the industrial areas where the government takes clients and not the cities but the rural areas. I saw people quite literally living in ditches in cardboard boxes and they seemed to be the lucky ones. It was depressing as hell and should be where we send anyone in the US that blathers on about communism / socialism.

Ville Platte, LA
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any county in Appalachia without an interstate

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I grew up in one of these and all I can say is I hope everyone continues to be scared of them because there is no where else I felt safer or more at peace.

For myself I remember going to Baltimore as a kid with homeless people everywhere. Oddly enough right up the road in Annapolis was probably one of the nicest places I have seen.

Port Harcourt, Nigeria

Ferriday

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Vidalia and Waterproof, LA

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Vidalia isn't even in the same conversation with a place like waterproof. Try harder.

Strait of Hormuz

Lower 9th Ward. Can't decide if before or after Katrina though, both were really bad. I've stayed at Jackson Barracks, and it felt like you were in a razor wire compound in Somalia or somewhere. The drive down St. Claude was "scenic." Definitely had the Black Hawk Down vibes when the convoy was trying to make it to the crash site, but there were road blocks on all the streets. This was right when those dash GPS systems came out. The GPS kept saying turn here, we'd look down the street, and say nah, keep going, keep going. Then after Katrina, you really needed an armored convoy.

2nd would be Nuevo Laredo

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any county in Appalachia without an interstate.

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Is there an interstate in Pickens Co, SC?

I didn't think so....