The Anti-City Discussion

Suddenly, I feel the need to express my hatred and utter dislike of the numerous cities (in the US). Follow suit. Any city/cities, anywhere in the world.
Only criteria is that you have to have at least 2 solid reasons for each city's suckage.
And maybe if this catches on, I'll update it and have a 'Most Hated City of the Month' sorta thing.

I'm going to give all of mine right now to start this bugger off:

1: New York
Its a filthy, crowded city full of *******s. It's overrated, and all of the sports fans feel it's their God-given right to win and be the best, and when they aren't they ***** and moan about it.
2: Boston
Bostonians are the exact same as New Yorkers, but they have convinced themselves they aren't. Fans act the same way, and I honestly don't see that much of a difference. Not to mention, most of the fans only show up after they've won something.
3: New Jersey
No one cares about specific cities in NJ, it's a state-wide phenomenon. NJ is just like NY and Boston, only jealous that they constantly have almost nothing to be proud of lately. The fans are arguably the worst of these 3 cities so far, and perhaps the biggest whiners as well.
4: Pittsburgh
God, they just keep on coming... They're freaking everywhere. They pop up out of nowhere, and they come out hard. Probably THE most annoying fans I know (along with Buffalo...) they don't know when to give up and shut up. Yes, you're the Steel City. Yes, you helped build our nation. No, that does not make you the greatest city in the country. It makes you the cockiest.
5: Buffalo
See New York but to a lesser extent, seeing as they only have a hockey, football, and Minor League baseball team.
6: Detroit
Meh. Mostly just because I'm a Chicago boy. We're taught to hate Detroit. No real conflicts tho, just rivalries.

That about does it for me. And note, none of these comments are meant to offend specific persons, they are just generalizations about the cities. I realize that there ARE indeed decent people from these cities, or that have ties to these cities, and I apologize to them for being a part of the populus that I am bashing.

Eh, I only have two cities that I really hate.

1. San Francisco
This city is the most overrated city ever. I have family there and I loathe going to visit (even though I love the family). San Francisco is widely known for the "golden gate bridge", or as it should really be known, a copy of almost every major city bridge painted red (look up pictures, you'll see). The China town and other sections are direct copies of any china town in any city in the US. The fake Victorian houses are just that--fake. The food is wildly overpriced (even compared to New York), and while the city advertises itself as a center for "culture" it's really close-minded and ignorant. They're accepting and open-minded as long as you're gay or flaunt how different you are from other people. If you act vanilla in any way, people are snobby to you. You see girls in designer clothing everywhere and the only people who actually love the city are people who have never been to other cities. It's a ****ty version of New York.

2. Las Vegas
Don't even get me started. People go to Vegas to do one of two things: drink and gamble. Everyone talks about how much fun they have, yet in reality they look like complete morons. Have you seen what drunk people look like? There are a lot of them there. The only good thing about Vegas is the mass quantity of hotels with awesome pools. But wait, you can get that in thousands of other cities. Everyone talks about how you have to go to Vegas once, and I'm sick of hearing it. Vegas is just a money leech that people go to to validate their own shallow existence.

Urgh.

Mother****er, New Jersey is the best place in the world.
You best check yoself fo I wreck yoself.

That being said...

New York- Dont get me wrong, its a cool city to visit, for like, a daytrip. But...to live there? And some of the people you run into? Ugh. I suppose New York can both be the greatest city in the world, or the absolute worse.

And this guy.

Pittsburgh- Growing up right over the river from Philly, you learn to dislike Pittsburgh pretty quick. I've been there before, and I really didnt like it. Maybe I just didn't find anything to do...but I just didn't find anything to do.

This is how I feel.

Vancouver:
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Honestly though, I haven't been to many other places I didn't like. Hell, I haven't been to many other places in general.

I am not really fond of any city in California. Too crowded, too expensive, and the people there can be really rude sometimes -- from all sides of the spectrum, hipsters who are more hipster than me, wealthy people, bumpkins... they're all in California. @_@

Oh, and Scottsdale AZ. I have never met anyone except for douchebags in Scottsdale.
So much so:



(PS: **** you South Jersey 4eva)

New York City.

Or, should I say, "New Yorkers." The city itself is oversized, overpriced and dirty- but it would be tolerable were it not for the people that live in it. While I have not met the entire population of the city of New York, I have 7 or 8 close friends from the various boroughs and they all fit the following stereotypes. They're all loud, self-centered, self-righteous, unwilling to accept that they are wrong, jaded, and talk of little but how great New York is. And they're all one-uppers. You had a bad day? Theirs was worse. You didn't get any sleep last night? You can't IMAGINE how late they were up. Yeah, your story was interesting--but listen to THEIRS. It's WAY more interesting. Because it takes place in New York.

When you transplant a New Yorker to anywhere outside of New York, they become even more obnoxious. I know it doesn't sound possible, but it is. They'll find anything to complain about- the local architecture, the train routes, the bus routes, the food. They are always bored, but whatever place they are in, if it's not New York, it fails to satisfy. And why do things have to close? Nothing EVER closes in New York. EVER. I always want to stand up and shout, "Okay, we get it. New York is great. so PLEASE. for the LOVE OF GOD. GO BACK." That way we can have all the world's obnoxious, vain, high-maintenance people in one place.

HatehatehateNewYork

Originally Posted by Lly

New York City.

Or, should I say, "New Yorkers." The city itself is oversized, overpriced and dirty- but it would be tolerable were it not for the people that live in it. While I have not met the entire population of the city of New York, I have 7 or 8 close friends from the various boroughs and they all fit the following stereotypes. They're all loud, self-centered, self-righteous, unwilling to accept that they are wrong, jaded, and talk of little but how great New York is. And they're all one-uppers. You had a bad day? Theirs was worse. You didn't get any sleep last night? You can't IMAGINE how late they were up. Yeah, your story was interesting--but listen to THEIRS. It's WAY more interesting. Because it takes place in New York.

When you transplant a New Yorker to anywhere outside of New York, they become even more obnoxious. I know it doesn't sound possible, but it is. They'll find anything to complain about- the local architecture, the train routes, the bus routes, the food. They are always bored, but whatever place they are in, if it's not New York, it fails to satisfy. And why do things have to close? Nothing EVER closes in New York. EVER. I always want to stand up and shout, "Okay, we get it. New York is great. so PLEASE. for the LOVE OF GOD. GO BACK." That way we can have all the world's obnoxious, vain, high-maintenance people in one place.

HatehatehateNewYork

I used to go to New York on a weekly basis to hang out with friends (from north Jersey). Most New Yorkers are like that. It's not so bad if you stay in Time Square, but if you venture out to other areas it gets nasty. People act like complete snobs to you. In one neighborhood, I had someone actually call me poor because I could "never afford their apartment". Their dingy, fifty-year-old, 400 sq ft apartment. Oh, right I'm so jealous that you're paid $700,000 for that. So jealous. :|

Originally Posted by tnf

I am not really fond of any city in California. Too crowded, too expensive, and the people there can be really rude sometimes -- from all sides of the spectrum, hipsters who are more hipster than me, wealthy people, bumpkins... they're all in California. @_@

Oh, and Scottsdale AZ. I have never met anyone except for douchebags in Scottsdale.
So much so:



(PS: **** you South Jersey 4eva)

This. Seriously **** anything in California.

The outer suburbs of any major city:

Since they have more people combined than the major city that they border, it makes sense. Nothing but sprawl, monotony, traffic, and snooty uptight pricks who lock their car doors on their gas guzzling SUV's and ****ty, overpriced luxury cars even if they are in the nicest part of the city. They get freaked out if one black person comes into their neighborhood. I do have friends from these places yes, but even they notice the crap that goes on here and hate it. I really don't blame them if they want to move and a good example of these type of ****ty burbs in my hometown is Wildwood, Ballwin, Chesterfield, and Town and Country.

Cleveland, OH

Don't believe Drew Carry, it sucks. Gray skies for 363 days of the year, a river that caught fire and is still polluted, a football team that even the Lions think sucks, and well . . its not great even to visit. Maybe the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, but that's it.

Oh and I didn't say my city, because while we do have some ****ty flaws, we're not Detroit! Or Cleveland!

Originally Posted by Pseudomorph

1: New York
Its a filthy, crowded city full of *******s. It's overrated, and all of the sports fans feel it's their God-given right to win and be the best, and when they aren't they ***** and moan about it.

I'm not like that. At least I don't think so.

Maybe we have our God-given right to moan and complain like the %!#%@#$ we are. I was born and raised in New York, and I swear, only Yankee fans are like that with the sports. With the Mets (which I am a fan of the Mets), we are used to being at the bottom, so we deal with it.

Also, I do not live in Manhattan. Many people stereotype New York as that. NEW YORK ISN'T JUST MANHATTAN. If you have been to Queens, it is a marvelous area. There are tons of very nice people here. Sure, Manhattan is smelly, and such. People are unfriendly because most of them don't live there, many of them live in a different borough and just work there so they don't have time to chat. People stereotype New York as this big place where all the business @#%^$%** come to just be nasty to other people. Queens is definitely a great place to live. At least, I think so.

Well NYC isn't that bad at all, hell I visited there this summer and didn't once bump into a rude *******s. If anything, the only rude people I dealt with were tourists.

Every city has their share of loud mouth *******s. Yes NYC does have a lot of them, but they all come from the ****hole that is North New Jersey. (south Jersey is cool) Or they live on the West Coast in LA and San Francisco.

Mets fan?

I should ban you on the very principle.

Originally Posted by Notsil

Mets fan?

I should ban you on the very principle.

Well, I have already been banned from many things. So take a crack at it.

Originally Posted by Nox

Well NYC isn't that bad at all, hell I visited there this summer and didn't once bump into a rude *******s. If anything, the only rude people I dealt with were tourists.

Every city has their share of loud mouth *******s. Yes NYC does have a lot of them, but they all come from the ****hole that is North New Jersey. (south Jersey is cool) Or they live on the West Coast in LA and San Francisco.

Excuse me, not all of us are from Bergen county. Speaking of Bergen county, though, they can all go to hell.

If you're like, 10-20miles North of the Philly line, you probably suck.

I'm sorry, Kreeby. Its true though.

Originally Posted by kreebby

Excuse me, not all of us are from Bergen county. Speaking of Bergen county, though, they can all go to hell.

I define North Jersey as anywhere near the Newark and whereever you can see guido's.

Originally Posted by Notsil

If you're like, 10-20miles North of the Philly line, you probably suck.

I'm sorry, Kreeby. Its true though.

I was on the border of the state of New York, up in the mountains. We didn't get along very well with the rest of NJ. We were kind of cut off. We had the honor of drive through twenty minutes of nothing but windy roads and forest to go grocery shopping.

They're accepting and open-minded as long as you're gay or flaunt how different you are from other people. If you act vanilla in any way, people are snobby to you.

Odd considering ive been greeted with smiles by random people in that town. I dont understand that reasoning considering ive never been greeted or even had any inkling of people judging me there at all. I spend a great deal of time there (once a month in fact) and really never encountered that.

Los Angeles.
I dont necessarily hate it but i am not fond of that town. Its rather smelly and extremely hazy and smoggy. Theres graffiti everywhere and it just has an overall very unpleasant vibe about it.

Oakland.
San Francisco's rather ill-tempered next door neighbor. The place is a nightmare to navigate through and the people are rather off putting. A lot of natives rush around as if they dont want to be out of doors for too long. Rather unsettling, that. Has a very ominous feeling and you cannot help but feel malign forces lurk in every alleyway.

Sacramento.
Hard for me to outright hate this place since the origin of my existence happened here. However, like Oakland, it can feel very unpleasant. Not in the same way though. You dont feel like youre in any real danger in Sactown but you do feel as if people are purposely ignoring you. People are unfriendly, the overall layout is jagged (one way..ONE WAY...ONE WAY...) and there really isnt much to see. I do have family there and pass through it often to go see closer relatives in Woodland.

Overall though, i do not hate cities.

Originally Posted by kreebby

2. Las Vegas
Don't even get me started. People go to Vegas to do one of two things: drink and gamble. Everyone talks about how much fun they have, yet in reality they look like complete morons. Have you seen what drunk people look like? There are a lot of them there. The only good thing about Vegas is the mass quantity of hotels with awesome pools. But wait, you can get that in thousands of other cities. Everyone talks about how you have to go to Vegas once, and I'm sick of hearing it. Vegas is just a money leech that people go to to validate their own shallow existence.

Couldn't have explained it any better. It sucks even more growing up in this city.

Sydney - Australia
Sydney is the worst place in the world. Wtf is wrong with your roads? Did your town planner scribble on a sheet of paper and decide that would be the city? **** you Sydney, I ****ing hate you.

Also your music scene is ****, when ever I tour there it's boring as ****, you guys care more about drugs than music and you're a crappy uninspiring crowd.

If Brisbane, Melbourne and Sydney were women, Brisbane would be a teenage girl, Melbourne would be a lady and Sydney would be a whore.

East and North St. Louis. Because of this:



West St. Louis County Because of this:



coons and honkies.

Dallas, Tx--Flat, boring, crowded, and spread-out. This city has very little culture, save for the "Rich conservative southern baptist snob" culture. The rich, largely white people are snooty, spoiled, and ignorant, and will automatically deem you unworthy of existence if you make less than $50 million dollars a year and/or are brown. And my poor younger sister goes to SMU....

Austin, Tx--Way overrated. If you're under 21, there's nothing for you to do, except maybe go to a park. Except whoops! Everyone's already at the park! If you are 21, then there's nothing for you to do except get drunk at bars, go to clubs, and listen to ****ty indie-rock-jazz-country music. And the infamous 6th street? It's just...gross. Bunch of high/drunk black dudes (well, Messcans too) grabbing your ass and trying to holla at you, and slutty white girls in booty shorts and pasties.

Paris, France--I have a hate/love relationship with this city, but I will voice my distaste to it. If you're not filthy rich, or have a history of being in a rich family, then you're doomed to live in the city's dingy, dangerous suburbs, where various angry gangs of second-generation immigrants will taunt/rape/beat you up for no apparent reason other than they're bored. Especially if you're a girl. Recently, my aunt was attacked--they wanted to steal her purse--and when she refused, they beat her up so badly she's had to have her hip replaced, as her real one was shattered by them. In the previous month, a girl was killed when another theif running knocked her down the stairs and broke her neck (all in the Metro). Less serious, I recently got spit on and insulted. Yeah, this is becoming really commonplace. Gone are the days of the romantic "city of lights". Those lights are painted over by grafitti and blood. Also, damn tourists freakin everywhere being ignorant and thinking everything is due to them. You should automatically speak English, because everyone should know English, but they more often than not don't attempt a word of French. :/