Name a small, tiny, sh*thole, 1-horse village you hate

[LynneSin]

Why should we only denounce the big cities

:shrug:

[1gobluedem]

1. Crawford, TX.

Only because of a certain 'rancher.'

[NewWaveChick1981]

24. Gotta second that one...

:patriot:

[Liberalynn]

103. Me three!

They shouldn't have let their "idiot" loose like that on an unsuspecting world.

[Broken_Hero]

2. Noel, Missouri....

is the worst small town I have ever seen, or been too...of the bigger cities, I still think Riverside, CA takes the cake...but they really aren't that big...:)

[ohiosmith]

3. Crawford Texas

[azmouse]

4. Boyertown, PA

Arrogant people living in the armpit of PA!!!

[LynneSin]

7. I've been to Boyertown, they caused me no harm

but it wasn't a memorable place either

[azmouse]

11. I'm curious.

What could be in that town that would cause anyone to go there who didn't live there?

I was raised about 5 mi outside of Boyertown and always hated it. I got away from there as fast and as soon as I could.

[LynneSin]

62. I think I was driving to Allentown and passed through it

:shrug:

[leftofthedial]

5. cherry hills, colorado

crawling with repuke vermin

[greatauntoftriplets]

6. Muleshoe, TX.

My :loveya: 's great grandfather was once the sheriff there.

[ceile]

9. I love the mule!

I have many pictures of me and my friends on that thing!
But you're right-it's a hole.

[greatauntoftriplets]

29. None of his family now lives in Muleshoe....

I thought it was the funniest name for a town.

[ceile]

55. It was our through town

on the way to NM or CO. Never actually spent any time there.

[bif]

8. Washington, PA

Or was Mt. Washington? I've been trying to forget.

[Name removed]

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[Critters2]

14. Someone sounds envious

I met every Dem candidate but Clarke last time. And my ancestors didn't come over on the Mayflower.

[Radical Activist]

17. That's something a new englander would say.

No, the rest of the nation does not think new englanders are as wonderful as new englanders think they are.

Sharpton and Lieberman were the only candidates I didn't meet last time and I'm not to upset about that.

[Critters2]

21. I'm not a New Englander

New Hampshire is not the only state candidates visit.

[skygazer]

58. And thank goodness for that

Otherwise they'd all be in New England! ;)

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

18. I'd rather be in New England than Illinois.

What do you guys have out there? Corn?

[Critters2]

19. Chicago, dontcha know!

It's so special! Yet they have to keep moving the suburbs further west, so Chicagoans can keep moving further away from it!

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

22. Well, I've never been to Chicago, but I've never felt a calling to it.

Or anyplace else in the mid-west for that matter.

[Critters2]

23. You have missed

not a thing!

[Radical Activist]

25. Yep. Corn.

Chicago has everything meaningful a city can offer. Great natural beauty in the Southern part of the state. Character, history, without the arrogance.

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

26. I'll stick with NYC to get "everything meaningful a city can offer"

and the great natural beauty of the northeast. Character, history, without the arrogance of bitter Illnoisians.

[Critters2]

27. Chicago wants to be NY when it grows up

So, you're fine.

[Radical Activist]

31. I have never met someone in Chicago

that was trying to be like NY or even gave the slightest hint of caring what New York did, other than to mention shows like The Producers that went to New York after premiering in Chicago.

[Critters2]

33. Everyone I knew in Chicago

was running like hell from the fact that it's in the Midwest. They were always comparing it to NY, with this hope that one day it would be just like that.

[Radical Activist]

34. I would respond

if I actually believed you and that anyone who said those things were actually from Chicago. Did you live in the suburbs or something?

[Critters2]

37. Lincoln and Diversey

Hardly a suburb.

[xmas74]

70. Neither have I

and most of my family lives in one town or another around the Chicago tri state area.

I've been to New York many times-stayed w/ a friend for a few months when I was 19. I still prefer Chicago to this day.

Big city environment w/ a midwestern friendliness.

[mitchum]

99. No, that would be Atlanta...

I've always thought that the city's motto should be "Hey, We're Just Like New York, but Without So many of 'Them' and With 5 star Restaurants in Strip Malls"

[Radical Activist]

32. oh please

Just because a few small states in the nation have more than its fair share of arrogant people doesn't make me bitter.
I'm sure NYC is nice in its own way.

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

35. I don't think New Englanders are particulary arrogant.

[Critters2]

38. They're not

I never found them to be. They were really warm and friendly when I lived there.

[zanne]

88. That's true.

I'm humble and friendly as hell.

[celtdem]

106. Best party I was ever at

was when the T stalled in a tunnel, full of people just coming from a Sox game. Really, everyone was friendly, outgoing, drunk. A good time was had by all. I was on my way home from work.

[skygazer]

61. Pssst. NYC isn't in New England

What's all this bashing of New England? I'm always perplexed when people on DU start getting nasty about other regions - I don't like the south bashing, though I'm not a southernor but I am a New Englander and I don't get the "arrogant" reference at all. Nor do I understand why that's popping up here.

There are arrogant people everywhere and there are morans, and idiots and rude people and jerks and slobs and racists and homophobes and every other unsavory characteristic you can think of in every state of the union. Why smear an entire region? How unfair.

I've been to every one of the lower 48 and I've found something to enjoy about every one, including things about the people I've met. Get rid of the broad brush - it doesn't become you.

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

63. Yeah, I know, but I've been to NYC way more than I've been in Boston.

I myself live in NJ, but I've spent a lot of time up in New England and I think the majority of the people are really nice up there.

On the other hand, I met a ton of assholes when I was in VA, but I'm not saying that everyone in VA is arrogant. Apparently, the OP thought that New Englanders were arrogant because NH starts off the presidental primaries and apparently all New Englanders are descendants of those on the Mayflower. :shrug:

[JVS]

126. Don't forget the farmers' daughters!

They make life so sweet among the cornfields!

[Critters2]

12. I only hate Chicago

But I truly hate it.

[fudge stripe cookays]

36. We know....we KNOW.

Give it a FUCKING rest.

[Susang]

45. No, let's hear more

:hi:

Speaking of Chicago, when are you coming back?

[fudge stripe cookays]

60. Wish I knew!

Our next trip is going to HAVE to be to Washington State. Just found a new mess of cousins. But I do need to make another trip to Madison, and have freebie airmiles to use again (THAT'S how much I've been traveling this year!)

You guys are on the list, and I AM dragging Al with me this time.

[ronnykmarshall]

74. No shit!

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

13. Tidioute, PA

While I normally appreciate places filled with drunkards, these are the ultimate in redneck drunkards, and so we must hate each other.

[LynneSin]

65. Pennsylvania is filled with redneck bars with redneck drunkards

I went to college in Pennsylvania and two of the 3 bars in our college town only served beer and then it was crap like PBR or Schlitz (but we went - can't be 35cent drafts)

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

102. Yeah, personally I try to avoid bars in towns where the activities are

carp fishin' and queer bashin' I know one gay guy from there. He bolted the second he graduated HS. As far as I'm concerned the only thing I like about the place is I did catch a very nice sized Walleye out of the Allegheny River there (we have family friends with a "camp" on the river).

[Reverend_Smitty]

121. I often ponder how Pennsylvania could elect someone like Santorum

because of Philly and Pittsburgh and then I remember that Pa is a big state with a whole lot of rednecks in the middle of it

[Ravenseye]

114. Yeah it's scary up there

I've gone fishing or canoeing up there a number of times. The locals are some scary scary people.

[Xipe Totec]

15. Cacalilao, Tam, Mexico

They definitely put the caca in Cacalilao.

:puke:

[ZombieNixon]

16. Kirtland, New Mexico

or maybe Bloomfield, New Mexico. Either way: x(. Just x(.

[Nicholas D Wolfwood]

20. LaPlata, MD.

That is one fundy-lovin' hell hole if I've ever seen one.

[graywarrior]

28. N. Conway NH

[peacefreak]

68. Ah come on

North Conway isn't bad if you don't mind torn up roads & wall to wall tourists (I live near Freeport, Me. so I know!)

[graywarrior]

82. It sucks.

The politics are worse.

It's like living in a big group home. Tis why I don't live there no mo.

[KamaAina]

30. Dry Prong, LA

never actually been there; I just wanted to post "Dry Prong, LA" :P

edit: caps

[fudge stripe cookays]

40. Sounds like something...

your oral surgeon tells you to avoid after a root canal! :scared:

:D

[fudge stripe cookays]

39. Elm Mott, TX

on the outskirts of Waco.

When I was in college, my car died on the highway heading through. I am SO lucky the guy who drove me to a phone was not a serial killer!

[Lethe]

125. heh my uncle owned a farm there

used to go fishing on his tanks

not much there

[ChickMagic]

41. Meridian, TX

I was a park ranger there, and boy, did it blow hard.
They have a siren that sounds for lunch. I figured
that the bad guys would strike at noon.

[fudge stripe cookays]

49. And not far from Elm Mott!

:D

Coincidence? I think not!

:hi: ginbarn!

[ChickMagic]

56. Woo hoo!

Or Norse, or Clifton, or any number of places you
could give the earth an enema.

FSC!!!!! :hi: backatcha! :loveya:

[Susang]

42. Carlisle, Iowa

They have a stop sign and the stink of cow-shit. My husband was born there and managed to claw his way out of there relatively unscathed. He was one of the lucky ones. ;-)

[Critters2]

47. It wouldn't be cow shit.

City people who can't tell one animal from another just make me laugh!

[greatauntoftriplets]

48. There are no cows in Iowa???

That news will come as a big shock to my cousins who own a dairy farm near Waterloo.

[Critters2]

50. Dairy is a tiny industry in Iowa

Hogs and chickens are much larger as industries. And cow shit barely smells compared to the egg and hog factories that are mass producing "food" because, as a politician once explained to me "People in Chicago need their bacon and eggs".

The area around Carlisle is heavy hog country. If you're smelling shit around Carlisle, it's hogs. They're the pinkish creatures with little hair.

[fudge stripe cookays]

52. You talk to your congregation with that mouth?

Aren't you some sort of minister or something? Perhaps the diocese needs to know about your need to be nasty to people.

[Critters2]

54. My bishop has heard me say "shit"

and I've heard him say it, too.

Also knows how I feel about Chicago.

[fudge stripe cookays]

57. I'm not talking about the cursing.

PS...Your knowledge of pigs suits you well.

[Critters2]

67. Why do Chicagoans take things so seriously

and it should be obviously by how I lay it on, that some of this is in jest.

[fudge stripe cookays]

87. I'm not a CHICAGOAN.

I'm a Texan, fer God's sake. It's been pointed out already.

[Susang]

64. Since my husband grew up there

Have you ever been to Carlisle? I've been there several times and my husband grew up there. You'll excuse me if I trust his word and my own eyes over your opinion. Next you'll be telling me they don't grow corn there. I'll make sure to tell my husband, he'll be glad to know that the farm he lived near was a figment of his imagination. :eyes:

[begin_within]

43. Bombay Beach, California

And it's NOT on the Pacific coast.

[XemaSab]

97. I decided this weekend

that every last town in Riverside and Imperial Counties, California, sucks hard.

The verdict is still out on San Bernardino. :P

[begin_within]

110. Well, the mountain areas (Idylwild, Big Bear, Lake Arrowhead, and the top

of the Palm Springs Aerial Tramway, etc.) are beautiful places within Riverside and San Bernardino counties. Other than those areas they are very hot and boring. As for Imperial County, I can't think of a single reason to live there, unless you are a farmer. Great recreation to be had in the Imperial Sand Dunes in Glamis, though. (And where parts of "Star Wars" and "Lawrence of Arabia" were filmed. But as far as living in Imperial county, that would be one of my last choices on Earth, becauseI don't like heat.

[begin_within]

44. Gila Bend, Arizona

Why, why, why?

It's only saving grace is the googie-style Space Age Lodge, but then, why even have a lodge in this place?

[Ptah]

107. I'm with you on that.

:sucks:

[begin_within]

111. I can't believe anyone would actually choose to live in Gila Bend. It's

very hot and boring, and there is absolutely nothing to do there, from what I could tell. I don't even know why a town was built there, unless it was some kind of resting place for stagecoaches going west, or something like that. It can't possibly have been a destination.

[BreweryYardRat]

46. Waldo, Florida.

It's a shitty little speedtrap. That's how they make most of their revenue.

[Fox Mulder]

51. The town I live in.

Full of closed-minded conservative assholes.

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

53. Lynden, Washington.

[SOteric]

71. Nah, Lynden's a suckhole. But I nominate Hayden Lake, ID

for a real shithole, one-horse, backward-ass town filled with Neo-Nazis the good citizens are powerless to evict.

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

75. Hayden Lake's got nothing on Lynden.

Hayden Lake's just a backwoods Deliverance shack compared to Lynden's Village of the Damned/Pleasantville before the color.

[LeftyMom]

59. Olivehurst, California, the town Meth built.

Trailers, tract homes and tweakers. There's a whole lot of uneducated, racist nasty people up there. :scared: A whole lot of rural California is like that, but Olivehurst is the worst I've ever seen.

[LynneSin]

66. I'd rather live next to crackheads any day over crankheads

well personally, I don't want to live near any of them but crankheads are a special breed of extremely vile existances

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

78. Cokeheads are the easiest.

As one of my friends said about Madison, NJ (where I lived for two years), "you know you're living in a Republican town when you can't find weed anywhere, but coke is everywhere and the people with it are wearing suits."

[LynneSin]

79. When I'm near crankheads I know I'm in red state (regions)

Because Crank is a disease of the poor white trash. I have to sign for fricking cough medicine because these white trash are a bunch of losers tweaked out on meth.

But what pisses me off is the Rich White Male Republicans try to convince us that the problem is the urban areas with the crack and the smack. They need to take a look in their own backyards and find just how widespread crank is.

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

80. Yeah, unfortunately meth is spreading out now.

It's becoming popular on the NYC gay club scene. It's definitely something we don't need to spread across class lines.

[xmas74]

72. We've got some nasty crank probs out here in MO

too.

I sympathize.

[xmas74]

69. Marshall, MO.

Graduated from there and I hated it the entire time I lived there.

[r54w32q1]

73. some of the best

Vernal Utah
Wamsutter Wyoming
LeHigh Iowa

[argyl]

76. Newton,Mississippi. Longhaired kid hitchhiking,Miss. state trooper. I've

had better days.This was way back in 1968.I was going from Dallas to Miami. Maybe it's improved but I'm not going back to find out.

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

83. I doubt it.

My friends took a road trip to NOLA and she said they walked into a diner in some small town in MS and everyone put down their forks and just stared at them. All of them are completely "normal" looking people in NJ. Down there, they were freaks. Also, in Alabama, she was pulled over why driving her own car because he "saw the NJ plates and thought the car was stolen." Once he realized it was her car, he made sure to thoroughly check out Moiz sitting in the back, because he's "one of those Ay-Rabs." Yes, the first sign you're looking at an Islamofascist is if he's wearing a shirt that says, "Just another nice Jewish girl."

[Maddy McCall]

123. It has vastly improved. If you were in Newton...

you weren't too far from Philadelphia, Mississippi, where Edgar Ray Killen was just tried and convicted for killing the "Philadelphia Three."

Mississippi continues to confront it's race-relations history. Many small towns have civil rights museums and interracial groups to work toward better race relations.

In 1968, Mississippi was a terrible place to be.

In 2006, I wish you'd visit again, because I think you might be pleasantly surprised.

[kwolf68]

77. FRONT ROYAL, VIRGINIA

.Case freaking closed. I'm trying to get out of that miserable place right now.

[xchrom]

81. peoria, illinois.

wretched place to grow up.:puke:

[LTR]

84. Kennebunkport, Maine

Do I win?

[XemaSab]

96. The day I was there

half the cars in town had stickers that said "Kerrybunkport."

That endeared me to Kennebunkport. :D

[WritingIsMyReligion]

128. How anyone can POSSIBLY hate the 'Port is beyond me.

It is beautiful beyond words. Do you think we all ASKED fucktard to come and live here?

[Blue-Jay]

85. Whitey Town, IL!

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

93. Is that the real name? Is it next to Crackerville?

[Benfea]

86. Other than all of them? Can't think of any specific ones. ;) -NT

[smitty]

89. Moose Junction, Wisconsin

[Gatchaman]

90. Connellsville, Pennsylvania

Jerkwater town with dead industy and residents who still think it's 1970. Myopic, pedestrian, provincial, losers who think their town is the center of the universe.

Yet somehow, many events in my life revolve around this strange place.

[achtung_circus]

91. Bruderheim, Alberta

heart of the welfare belt, hillbillies and gap-toothed inbred mother fuckers (as opposed to motherfuckers).

Pa, I killed my new wife, she were a virgin.

Damn straight, Son, if she ain't good enuff for her own family, she ain't good enough for us.

[fudge stripe cookays]

94. I"ve seen the signs for Bruderheim.

Remind me where it is again?

fsc,
husband reprehensor is from the "thriving" burg of Wabamun

[achtung_circus]

98. Bruderheim.

From Fort Saskatchewan, then east on Hwy 15 towards Lamont and Mundare. Bruderheim is about 8 miles past the big Dow Chemical plant in the Fort. 4 miles further is Lamont, where I lived for many happy years.

I like Wabamun. I hear the water level is going down in the lake, though.

[fudge stripe cookays]

108. Well, after the remediation, God only knows what the levels will be like.

Still can't believe that.

Is Bruderheim historically Hutterite? Just curious. Not only does reprehensor have Alberta roots, but I have ties there too. Found a bunch of my own cousins there as well.

[achtung_circus]

113. Not Hutterite,

although there is a large colony just west of Bruderheim at Scottford. It's across Hwy 15 from the Shell refinery.

Bruderheim was settled by Moravians and the name means "Home of the Brethren".

What remediation are they doing on Wabamun. The effect of the power plants is obvious. I recall there being some talk of piping water from the North Saskatchewan to raise water levels, but I left Alberta in 2001.

[fudge stripe cookays]

115. Well, I didn't read through the whole thing...

but the Humpty's in Spruce Grove had some little pamphlets when we were there in May, so it seems they are making attempts to do more serious cleanup.

My father-in-law (bless his heart, he's 75 now) was out there helping during the spill.

I've had 2 years of German, so actually knew the meaning of Bruderheim, but wasn't sure what flavor of Krauts had settled the place. Moravians, eh? Interesting.

reprehensor left in 2000, but we try to get up as often as we can. Usually every other year or so.

[martymar64]

92. Newport, WA

Went to High School there. For a town as small as it is, it gets alot of murders. It has a weird almost Innsmouth vibe. Sinister place.

[LynneSin]

95. I find irony that I don't like Newport PA OR Newport De

Ex-boyfriend from Newport PA and Speeding Ticket in Newport Delaware. There is something horribly wrong with towns named Newport

[mitchum]

100. Falls Church, VA

[quiet.american]

127. 100 years ago, I used to work at the Red Lobster there.

Used to commute in from D.C., which is the one town I've lived in that I absolutely HATE. Have to admit, though, the Falls Church townfolk gave great tips.

[swag]

101. Havre, Montana

Where I was stuck from age ten through age eighteen.

Not even the handjobs could redeem it.

[Redstone]

104. Gilman, Vermont. A sad, sad place.

Redstone

[Aristus]

105. Spanaway, Washington.

Despite inspiring the title of an album by alternative group Seaweed, Spanaway is not an inspiring place. It is miles and miles of strip malls, fast food joints and discount tire and oil-change businesses.

It is the mirror-image of its sister-city Parkland, only Parkland has an aura of respectability as the home of Pacific Lutheran University.

As Dorothy Parker might have said of Spanaway: "There's no there there."

I say of Spanaway: "It's the kind of place you drive through to get somewhere else."

[fudge stripe cookays]

109. Sounds like our place too.

Rowlett, Texas. Home of nothing.

[Jokerman]

112. Frankfort, Indiana

If you ever see me back there you'll know I fucked up real good.

[GalleryGod]

116. Fascinating Thread Responses.

Try as I might, I couldn't recall a little, what was it? "Shiite hole of a town" in my past that could match the vitriol expressed above. Count me "Lucky"B-) :hippie: :smoke:

[kwassa]

117. Quartzite, Arizona

It was 117 degrees last time I was there.

[NMDemDist2]

118. and it's misnamed sister city Blythe CA (truly should be Blight) n/t

[Deep13]

119. Sorry, those are exactly the kind of towns I like.

I miss my podunk, redneck town with its trees, winding roads and irregular town planning. I liked being able to park on the street, walk through the woods without trespassing, snorkle in the lake without some town official yelling at me and shoot in the backyard. The place is more developed since I left and that has ruined it. The Cleveland/Akron suburbs are like a police state in comparison.

[spacelady]

120. Hebron, Nebraska

Taught school there for 2 years. When my job was eliminated due to reduction in force, the "newspaper" ran front page headlines quoting the principal that I was fired. I angrily confronted him about it & demanded a retraction. He said, "You know, when you get angry your nose turns red." !?
He did submit a retraction and apology that was printed. Also, I lived in an apartment across from
Hacker Funeral Home. :shudder:

[Jamastiene]

122. As I have said repeatedly, Rockingham, NC.

I despise the tiny shithole, 1/2 horse town where I live. Cannot afford to move. Feel trapped. Hate it here. Want out. Too many hatemongers here. They are so lazy here that they constantly use government money to tear buildings down to rebuild new ones instead of doing a little maintenance. I still remember when they tore Hardee's down and moved across the street years ago. Recently, Captain D's moved across the street too. Wondering why I am only mentioning fast food joints in this post? That's all we got other than gun stores and Wal-Mart. Sound like heaven to anyone out there? Let's trade. I'm surrounded by nazi freepers in this town.

[Lethe]

124. College Station, TX

i hate that nazi redneck piece of shit town

(they got a funny street sign where George Bush Dr. and Coke street interstect though)

[quiet.american]

129. Hilarious.

(they got a funny street sign where George Bush Dr. and Coke street interstect though)