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What are the most beatdown places you've visited?

Going to the Salton Sea tomorrow.
 
spent many weekends in a favala a few years back when I spent a summer in rio working with a group of catadores
 
myDeaconmyhand said:
Awesome, you should checkout Salvation Mountain and Slab City while you're in that area.
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Niland, the community just outside the Salvation mountain is pretty beat, as is the Salton Sea.

Tops for me is, without a doubt, Kandahar and Helmand. Didn't help that people there were trying to kill me, but living in those places redefined my understanding of poverty. I thought I had seen what "poor" looked like, growing up near the border and spending time in Meheeco as a kid....and then I went to A-stan.
 
Atlanta City Jail on a Friday night- man I got some funny and scary ass stories from that one.
Five Points area in Atlanta- every day for work. Shithole.
Gulfport one week after Katrina, doing relief work. The force of nature, the hubris of man, and that scale of devastation gave me nightmares.
 
leftcoastdeac said:
Niland, the community just outside the Salvation mountain is pretty beat, as is the Salton Sea.
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Me and some friends took Leonard Knight, the creator of Salvation Mountain, out to a 4pm dinner at his favorite restaurant-the only restaurant in Niland coincidentally, this beyond shitty Chinese restaurant. He told us his whole life's story for an hour or so and promptly forgot who we were after we drove him back, that was of the coolest experiences I've ever had.
 
myDeaconmyhand said:
Me and some friends took Leonard Knight, the creator of Salvation Mountain, out to a 4pm dinner at his favorite restaurant-the only restaurant in Niland coincidentally, this beyond shitty Chinese restaurant. He told us his whole life's story for an hour or so and promptly forgot who we were after we drove him back, that was of the coolest experiences I've ever had.
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He was a character; met him many times (I grew up near Salvation Mountain). Saw this short film not long ago commemorating his life and passing:

http://www.thefourohfive.com/news/a...t-documentary-the-man-behind-the-mountain-139
 
Eagleton, IN

“Slamming Eagleton is the easiest way to score some points. Am I proud of it? Yes, because Eagleton sucks. Is it the classiest move? Yes, because Eagleton sucks. Would I do it again? Yes, because Eagleton sucks.”
 
BobStackFan4Life said:
Anyone been to third world countries and places like San Salvador or visited a favela?
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I’ve been to a township in South Africa. There was a group that did a music tour in the townships, where you’d visit different bars and experience the music that was going on there at the time. I wanted to go but never got around to it, which is one of my bigger regrets from my time there.
 
Illapel, Chile (and the town of Matancilla which was about 40km NE of there up in the Andes that I spent 2 days in)

As far as big cities, Montevideo, Uruguay is pretty busted.
 
94Deac said:
Atlanta City Jail on a Friday night- man I got some funny and scary ass stories from that one.
Five Points area in Atlanta- every day for work. Shithole.
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Not the most depressing place in the world, I'm sure... but the area near Turner Field (across I-75/85) is quite miserable. I've parked in a few backyards / vacant lots for bigger games and was genuinely surprised when my (rental) car was still there afterwards. Traffic issues aside, I'm glad they are building a new stadium.

There are some lovely parts of Houston near Hobby Airport.
 
Been to Guatemala, both in Guatemala City and driving (riding technically) in the rural parts to go to a lake house and then to a big farm. Even had an armed motor escort for part of the drive, though that was just two dudes with machine guns in a beaten up old pick-up truck. Some of the towns/villages out there had virtually no infrastructure, and it looked like a lot of people lived in domiciles that were probably more in-line with a carport than what we would call a house. You would see crews doing work on the side of the highway and it would be like 2 trucks and 200 hundred guys with shovels and hoes. It was pretty clear that it was one of those places where 99% of the people probably posses 1% of the wealth and made you appreciate some of the stuff we take for granted here.

Having said that, I was working in B'more for a week several years ago, and decided I was going to make a pilgrimige to check out Dunbar HS and probably saw even worse conditions. For miles it seemed like each block just kept getting worse and worse. I can't imagine a bombed out part of Irag looked any worse.
 
I would like to provide positive reputation to the owner of the "maryland has aids" tag on this thread. Reveal yourself, please.
 
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