Most disgusting food, stupidest people, worst weather, whatever reason. What is the shittiest part of your country?
Probably only because of my closeness to it probably blinded me too much to see a lot of the decent people that probably exists, but where I grew up. A small coastal town in Telemark, Norway. They are just so goddarn closeminded, unapologetic assholes, casually sexist, ignorant tribal grouped, backtalking rednecks of a people. And I thought that was the uncomfortable norm until I moved just a bit out from there.
I’m just glad they aren’t very religious on top of that or they would have been completely insufferable. On the other hand, I haven’t seen them racist, ableist, nor lazy. So there are probably worse places in Norway.
The capital, everything is so expensive there…
Objectively for the US it might be the Kensington area of Philadelphia. It’s the poorest neighborhood of a poor city that became known for a massive open drug and prostitution market. At any time of the day or night you can find tons of people stumbling through the streets out of their minds. People are frequently killed by violence and accidentally hit by cars. The most common drug there “tranq” is literally the horse tranquilizer Xylazine that is resistant to narcan.
I found two news headlines from days apart side by side that kind of signify how the entire situation is being viewed and addressed.
“Philadelphia neighborhood worries sinkhole will swallow their cars on Keim Street.”
“30-foot sinkhole in Philadelphia swallows car.” No kidding.
The capital. People there are such assholes. So entitled.
The capital area. Too many people.
New Zealand has a ‘Shit town of the year’ election and honestly it’s a gamble each year because all the towns are shit.
Bavaria
We should just give Bavaria to the Austrians.
Araucanía (Chile 🇨🇱), does not matter your skin colour, language or religion, nobody is safe there.
Special mentions:
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Talca, every single bad thing that happens in my country happens there first (COVID, floodings, forest fires, etc). It’s a common joke among chileans that we should just “Blow-up Talca” or that “Talca doesn’t exist”.
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Estación Central (Santiago), you take your bus or train as soon as possible and you get the hell out of there, because the odds of you getting robbed (or even worse, stabbed 🔪) by staying too long are very far from 0. Do not ever go near that place at night time. 🌃🚫
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Texas or Florida
‘Red’ states. Texas, Florida, etc.
The sad part is they have a lot of really nice stuff in them. It’s just that the people in them want me not to exist, or, if they concede my right to exist, want me to be an underclass citizen who anyone who isn’t in my reference class can shit on.
It’s hard to be in the metro areas of these states (Atlanta, Austin, Miami, etc) because they are being held hostage by the state government and are gerrymandered to hell.
Ah yes, the shithole states.
Problem is, the stupidest people live in the most beautiful areas and make the worst, but also most unique food. But it’s probably St. Gallen.
For social idealogy the American South takes the cake for stupidity.
I’m from Venezuela. It’s really hard to say, most of the border with Colombia and Brasil is dominated by crime and the law of the Paracos or Guerrilleros.
I might say La Guajira in Zulio might be the worst region, but also Petare in Caracas is the biggest favela in the world and is way too dangerous, a straight up no-go-zone.
Germany: Probably my old hometown of Chemnitz
Shitting on the federal state it’s in (Saxony) is very common among other Germans, especially from former West-Germany. I dont think it’s that bad here tbh.
Except for Chemnitz. What a depressing grey blob of a city. Historically, it was fairly important, Germanys first locally built steam engine came from there and it was the workbench of Saxony, back when Saxony was an industrial and economic center.
However, this is no more. Nowadays, after having been bombed to the ground and mismanaged to hell by the Soviets, Chemnitz is just an all around ugly and dirty city. Pretty much no noteworthy historical landmarks, fairly depressed people all around, a deep split in the population between political extremes and little perspective for the future.
Not that I dont understand how the situation came to be, but damn is it one ugly city.
Scotland. Just insert the Groundskeeper Willie meme here and that should cover it.
Nice enough place but people can be so adversirial within in the same city, region or coast depending on the issue at hand. Some really annoying polarising opinions with seemingly no room for negotiation?
Maybe it’s an older generation and rattling their cages though? Here’s hoping.
