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What are the most beatdown places you've visited?

Some rough parts of Balmur, Washington, Richmond and N'awleans (before Katrina, haven't been back since). Drove through Hattiesburg MS on the way to N'awleans. That place looked pretty 3rd world.
 
Brangus said:
South Carolina between Columbia and the coast, rural Mississippi, rural Florida between Jacksonville and Gainesville.

All time champion was Freeport, Bahamas. Get away from the casino and marina and most of the homes have bullet homes. Tropical Mogadishu.
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yeah to see pretty stuff in bahama look at the beaches and the reefs and the seas but don't look back on the island itself.
 
You wanna experience soul-crushing depression of a third world country paired with some of the bleakest, most useless land on earth while staying within the friendly confines of the good ole US? There are stretches of the Navajo Indian Reservation in Arizona and New Mexico that are almost surreal.
 
i imagine they're on such prime land due to the generosity of the U.S. govt.
 
mako1331 said:
You wanna experience soul-crushing depression of a third world country paired with some of the bleakest, most useless land on earth while staying within the friendly confines of the good ole US? There are stretches of the Navajo Indian Reservation in Arizona and New Mexico that are almost surreal.
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As my Native American boyfriend says "We're taking this land back ITK, one bingo game at a time".
 
The west side of Jacksonville, Florida is pretty damned undesirable, or at least it was a few years ago.
 
mako1331 said:
You wanna experience soul-crushing depression of a third world country paired with some of the bleakest, most useless land on earth while staying within the friendly confines of the good ole US? There are stretches of the Navajo Indian Reservation in Arizona and New Mexico that are almost surreal.
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Much of which are lethally radioactive over time from tailings from uranium mining and poisoned water sources, which is only now being cleaned up.

https://nuclearstreet.com/nuclear_p...uranium-mine-cleanup-040801.aspx#.U2AW4vldXp4
 
Thought of this thread on a recent work trip to India. We had to stay on the outskirts of Delhi because that's where the company we were visiting is located. Unfortunately that meant staying in a hotel across the street from the industrial slums. The stench of all the factory emissions and runoff plus uncollected mountains of trash and cows walking around defecating everywhere was pretty overwhelming. It's so sad that people have to live in conditions like that.
 
This thread was a depressing reread.

However, I was pretty surprised that I didn't mention my time just past the Ozarks in Western Kentucky. I was only cycling through but it was rural poverty like I'd never seen in America. So many feral dogs, essentially a trailer park shanty town for miles, communities destroyed by meth. Reminded me of some of the ice fishing shanties in Northern Michigan.
 
DeacHead said:
Reasonable nomination, but for perspective, to the people in the rest of Robeson and nearby counties (I'm from a border county) Lumberton is a cultural center. This is said with no irony whatsoever.
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This true.
 
The difference between SD and getting into the slums of TJ is among the most striking immediate disparities you might ever see.
 
I can remember growing up that if Winston and gso were too far or you'd been there last wkend. You could always find some fun in martinsville or Eden. At least I never hit the rock bottom of spending a sat parked at the ingles in walnut cove


19deac92 said:
Brcko, Bosnia-Herzegovina
Baghdad, Iraq
East Berlin -- circa 1981
Lumberton, NC
Laurinburg, NC


Not necessarily in that order.

vtwhat -- My wife is from Martinsville. I agree with you that that town has definitely turned into Shitsville.
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