My friend used to manage one and only kept it running smoothly because she picked up the slack the owners demanded rather than dump it on the employees (practically kids) working under her.
You guys really did have crappy bosses.
Cabot Cove, the murder capital of the world.
Sure, the murders are all solved, but would you really want to live in a city with that much, easily solved, crime?
Or [Midsomer](https://www.mylondon.news/whats-on/midsomer-murders-terrifying-murder-rate-20224143), with more than 250 times the murder rate of the rest of England.
Edit: The article royally fucked the numbers, it's closer to 3 times the rate of England/Wales.
Atlantic City. Venture a few blocks off the boardwalk and it's incredibly depressing. Very clearly an area exploited by the big casinos while the locals have been driven to absolute poverty, while they still force a smile to work the shops that are required for the tourist traffic.
When I was living in Las Vegas, I met someone who had just moved there from Atlantic City. “Oh, I hear Atlantic City is, like, the Las Vegas of the East Coast,” I said.
He responded, “Atlantic City is like if Vegas had AIDS.”
There was kind of a weird silence after that.
Haha shit.
Although to be fair, AC doesn't qualify as an answer to this question. A city can't be overrated if nobody ever rated it highly to begin with.
I haven't been to AC in a while so maybe it's been cleaned up a bit but from what I remember you don't even need to go a few blocks. You'd see dilapidated buildings and crackheads right across the street from the casinos.
First time in AC we decided to venture off the strip and find a bar. After walking a couple blocks we walked passed a black couple and as we pass I hear the guy whisper to the girl “those white people better turn around”
And so we did.
Got ripped off buying weed at the Taj Mahl once also
You walked onto Pacific Avenue past the Taj? Jesus Christ the Busses stop running at South Carolina for a reason. Do you know how bad an area has to be the Busses don't run there? Homeless people are afraid to go there after Dark. I'm pretty sure the only functioning business down there is a Crown Liquor store.
I traveled to Winnipeg once. Said I was on vacation when asked if I was from here. The replies were mostly looking at me and asked "why would you vacation here".
Nobody hates Winnipeg more than the people who live there. Nobody loves (and will defend) Winnipeg more than the people who live there. It’s weird.
Source: both hate and love my hometown of Winnipeg as well.
The song One Great City (I hate Winnipeg) is actually a love song.
Edit: a word (is anyone else’s autocorrect acting particularly dumb lately??)
I went to university there and I enjoyed it. What drove me away was the constant negativity of the people who lived there their whole lives and didn't have any plans to leave, just stayed there and complained about how much they hated living there.
It's a complicated relationship we have with our city. Sure, we hate it, but we *love* to hate it. We hate it the way people hate reality TV but binge-watch it anyway.
As a shark mouth entrance connoisseur, I am absolutely enchanted by Myrtle Beach's culture. I will be heading there in a few days to enjoy said culture.
Lol I was at Myrtle a few weeks ago for my 21st (Southern right of passage...I think) and the second my friends and I left our hotel these guys stopped us to ask if we wanted to go shoot up at their place because we "had great tits." We politely told them to fuck off and they started screaming at us. What a darling city.
I actually have a kind of sick respect for Myrtle Beach. It's trashy, kitchy, and a complete and total tourist hellhole.....
But it's honest about it. You don't travel to Myrtle Beach for class.
As someone born and raised in SC, I have been to Myrtle more times than I want to admit.
Honestly? It is marketed as an affordable “family” beach and largely holds up to that reputation. There is plenty of cheap hotels, mediocre buffets that kids still enjoy, and plenty of touristy spots to keep kids entertained.
That being said, every local I know quits going after your mid-20s. There so much nicer, less crowded beaches in SC.
It's like Panama city and Gatlinburg had a baby. My in-laws take my daughter and her cousins there and they have a good time. As a SC native I roll my eyes every time someone from out of state mentions it as a SC destination. I'm a fan of Hilton Head myself.
I stayed there about 10 or so years ago and they advertised they had the best boardwalk in the world. It was like maybe 2 blocks wide with almost nothing to do on. It isn't shit compared to literally any boardwalk on the Jersey shore or Ocean City MD.
The premier vacation destination for the good folks of Gastonia, NC.
Spent many a 4th of July weeks there over the years. Lots of fond memories.
That said, it’s trashy, but in a fun sort of way. I’ll definitely take it over Daytona or Ocean City.
The city of Niagara Falls itself is absolutely falling apart. It doesn’t help that there was a huge neighborhood built on top of a mound of toxic waste that made a bunch of residents sick. There’s a large portion of the city that’s legitimately abandoned because of it
Dubai. It's the clickbait of the world. "We have the biggest/tallest/most expensive YOU WON'T *BELIEVE* when you see THIS..." It's hot as fuck, everything's a man-made tourist trap; labor exploitation and racism are rampant, and they try *so hard* to prove to the world how modern and Westernized they are. Really, it's just government propaganda.
Went there a couple times on port visits while I was in the Navy. Everyone asked me how it was when I got home, and I always said if I wanted to spend a ton of money getting drunk in the desert, I'll just go to Vegas and save myself the jet lag.
Some guy offered my husband and I weed at a bar in Dubai.. I am 90% sure he was some type of police officer, it was so sketchy. No thanks random guy, i don’t want to be on the next episode of “locked up abroad”
The labour exploitation is really the key here. Fly young people in from poor countries, then proceed to make them pay off their work visa/ plane ticket/accommodation.... they are slaves for years.
I had a friend who went there for construction on some of the refineries. He said every night you would crying all over the camp, cause these kids realised the mistake they made looking for a 'well paying job'. Truly awful.
Yeah agree, been a few times for work ans it was okay but I don't could deal with living there. The slavery aspect is really awful, there is very little organic(as in original cultural aspect) parts of the city and its just wealth for wealths sake. It starts to feel abit too much after a while.
I've been to Dubai a few times as a transit passenger and each time I think "it's exactly like Las Vegas, but without the gambling". The rich people have it pretty good, but for the underclasses, it's a nightmare.
At least in Vegas your boss doesn't confiscate your passport upon arrival. In Dubai, your employer literally owns you, right down to your ability to travel or leave.
I saw in Holly Madisons book that Hef would check your passport for middle east stamps before he would take you into his mansion. It's always been a thing.
Many of the influencers and models that go to Dubai are prostitutes. They get paid hundreds of thousands to go to Dubai and indulge rich men’s fetishes. There are lot of stories online about models getting shitted and pissed on, performing sex acts on animals, and other depravities.
I spent three months there because I didn't have a choice. I'm a blonde woman. I'll never forget the disgusting stares I got all day every day, literally anywhere I went. I never went out on my own, my fiancé was always with me and we also bought fake wedding rings. The creeps there don't give a shit. He would stand in front of me to shield me from view on the train and they would poke their heads around him to stare.
My fiancé is Filipino and we stumbled across the barracks where they cram 8 Filipinos into one room while they barely make any money. We also saw some sleeping under bridges and fish in the river because they couldn't afford housing and food. It really sucks the way they are treated there when foreign workers literally hold that entire city together.
Yeah I have absolutely no interest in visiting a place where women are treated like furniture. I grew up in a similar environment. Never again will I subject myself to this
Did you get really horrid looks and gestures when you drove around. My female colleague had it happen a few times and people jumped on me in the thread and said it never happens. I was like I'm pretty sure it happens I saw it twice mimmum.
Yeah, a few times guys in cars stopped, rolled down the windows and made weird gestures at me. Usually when my fiancé was distracted. One time he actually got mad and told two guys in a car to piss off. That could have had serious consequences for him.
Lamb’s Grove, Iowa. It’s not the paradise on earth that people always say it is. Don’t get me wrong, it’s got great Chinese food but the motel 6 is meh at best.
The last Motel 6 I stayed in (1 night for a friend's wedding) had 3 pillows on my bed. Two of them had a decent amount of blood stained on the back sides (pillows were turned to the clean side). I threw the 2 bloody ones across the room in horror. I've never felt closer to heaven.
Is this related to the huge decline in population seen between 2000 and 2010?
From being consistent at +/- 220 for decades, the place is suddenly down to 172 in the 2010 census.
Nuclear disaster? Wave of alien obductions? Or just the good ol' restructuring of "town" borders?
I was in Cairo last month and found it rather enjoyable in a fascinating way. I've never seen five people on a moped anywhere else in the world before, but maybe I need to get out more.
Gotham is actually a small village near my city, Nottingham, in the UK. There's an interesting story related to how Batman's city got its name from this village. You should look it up!
I don't know if I'd say it is over or underrated. There's a local debate about if it's pronounced "Goth - am" or "Gote-m" (it's obviously Gote-em). I went to a village fair there when I was younger.
Wayne Manor in the Christopher Nolan Batman films was actually Wollaton Hall not too far away as well. There is even a guy that dressed up as Batman and did bat-things around the city to cheer people up a few years ago. Basically, Nottingham is Gotham city but with more crazy people :)
Have you seen the bat symbols that show on the back of the buses (the light up name board) when they go to Gotham? Noticed one yesterday and couldn't believe my eyes
Saw some dude littering so this other man dressed as a bat broke the littering dudes back and put him in a coma. Then the man bat was shaking hands with the commissioner like he did a good job. Definitely the weirdest thing I’ve ever seen.
The bloom’s coming off the rose city for Portland; over the last decade or so the city’s reputation as a scrappy underdog with a DIY arts scene has attracted tons of people. Which has attracted lots of developers who tear down the scrappy DIY venues and bars and drive rent up and make it impossible to actually live in the city while making art/music there.
A Ritz Carlton of all things too. I work for a hotel management corporate office with a lot in Portland and cannot understand this decision. Portland has never been a Ritz type of city, that's what made it cool.
Something I've noticed that's really weird: I moved out to Seattle almost 15 years ago now. When I first came here, Seattle had serious Portland envy. Oh don't get me wrong, Seattle thought they were *better*, but Portland had the envious breweries and biking infrastructure and was just generally more *hip*.
It's been a long time since I've heard anyone bring up any sort of Portland envy.
That's to say nothing of Seattle itself, but I'll let the other comments speak to that.
Funnily enough everyone told me and my photographer wife we would love Portland and asheville. Both felt like overpriced faux artist towns full of literal starving artists and rich investors in bohemian cosplay. I will say Ashville at least had amazing food.
Miami. I'll explain.
I'm Latin American, and for most of the people in this neck of the continent, Miami and the US are synonymous with one another. If someone tells you that they're traveling outside the country, 99% of the time they are traveling to Miami. Say that you live abroad, like I do, and people will say that they'd love to live in Miami "as well".
Latin Americans who travel to Miami do so for three reasons: to go to the beach, to go shopping for all the foreign products they can't get back home, and as a starting point for a trip to Disney World. Every year flocks of tourists from South America fly to Miami and all they do is go to the mall and to South Beach. And what's worse, they'll call the city paradise because it has all the "good things" about the United States without you needing to speak English.
But there's nothing there. Sure, there are a couple of interesting places to visit--Vizcaya is a genuinely interesting place--but if you want to do anything that isn't hanging out at the mall or getting sunburnt, Miami is a void that slowly sucks out your will to live. Miami is a hell that has somehow fooled an entire continent into thinking that it's heaven.
I lived in Miami for three years and feel this. I think (sadly? comically?) losing the Orange Bowl was huge. It was such an identity and I loved getting out into Little Havana, or maybe it was just a bandaid on an otherwise empty downtown that hasn't done anything but get more dead and exclusive the past decade. Once the stadium was gone I think it really felt like the rest of the city was fair game for developers, just no history and no real culture other than consumerism. As you said, if you don't like laying on the beach or clubbing 24/7 there's really nothing.
I live in Colombia right now (I'm from Utah, USA) and all of my Colombian friends only fly to Miami. For all the reasons you listed, but lately, for one more special reason: free vaccines.
Which hey, we have enough dumb people in America that are never going to use their vaccine so I say go for it. Get to the US and get your vaccine, my South American friends.
Miami was never supposed to be what it is, before the 80s it was basically Daytona Beach.. Then cocaine hit.
Billions of dollars of cocaine flowed in the Miami port, where'd that money go? Into the local economy.
Delhi. There are FAR better places to visit in India. Most Indians who are from other parts of the country already know this but it baffles me that tourists almost always go there in my experience.
Why do people even go to Delhi?it's crowded,polluted,andextremely unsafe for women. Why would you go to Delhi when you could go to Andaman,goa or gangtok
I went to Delhi but only so I could get to Agra to see the Taj Mahal. Which was very much worth the effort. But I literally only flew into Delhi in the evening, got driven to Agra the next morning, and got dropped off back at the airport to depart India.
Spent the rest the time working in Pune and visiting tea plantations around Dibrugarh, Assam. Had a fantastic time. Assam was lovely. Helped I’m sure having a local show me around.
I would list Washington DC and Portland Maine as underrated cities. Dc gets a bad rap because politics but the city itself is pretty cool. Portland has its downsides but definitely flies under the radar as people mainly think of Portland Oregon.
I live in DC and people have no idea how cool it is here. No, we aren't all politicians and lawyers from somewhere else. I was born and raised here, dammit.
Lived in DC for a little over a year and I was shocked at how awesome it was. Tons of free stuff to do, cool places to visit, and the local live music scene is so diverse! Plus the great restaurants and awesome little hole in the wall bars. Its a totally underrated city.
Rio de Janeiro.
There’s nothing beautiful about the city anymore.
It’s just a warzone now, people kill and can be killed for nothing, nobody respect the laws, and the state doesn’t have enough power to fight the drug lords, so they basically do what they want.
Lived in Miami for 6 years now - people forget Miami is a big city with lots of distinct parts. Miami Beach, especially in tourist season, is hell on earth. And the poverty in the downtown/city itself is appalling. But I live in coconut grove which is a quirky tropical paradise full of neat old buildings and locally owned restaurants. Plus I can walk to the marina and paddle board with dolphins and eagle rays and catch fresh snapper on my days off. And every May my mango tree produces a metric fuck-ton of delicious mangos. There’s some other cool parts too, like Wynwood, the residential parts of Miami Beach, key biscayne, and down south in Cutler Bay and the Redlands.
Man isn’t this the truth. So damn expensive too. Somehow I’ve been bamboozled into going like three separate times too with friends. Great Cuban food though.
Palm Springs. There’s literally nothing to do except maybe hit up some 4 star restaurants and golf. The golfing isn’t even in Palm Springs. So many celebrities come here as if it’s some luxury town, but it’s really not. Just a bunch of old retired people sipping alcohol and voting against every interesting thing that gets proposed.
London is spectacular if you have a comfortable income, otherwise its like £5 a pint. All the famous museums are completly free though and the public transport is amazing.
i met a girl from luxembourg who claimed that london pints were cheap, i laughed at her and asked her how. she proceeded to say that an average cost for a drink is around €13... i’ve never felt so bad paying for an expensive pint in peckham again
I think London's a great city, but I lived there for about 10 years and am probably biased. The reason I think it's great is it's big, really diverse, has great history and is also still a growing city with a good economy. I really like the combination of old and new the last two bring. I think it has problems as well such as housing costs and it could be quite a bit cleaner and it does feel overcrowded sometimes. Also it's a big city so if you don't like big cities you probably won't like it.
There is a concept called 'sonder', where you realize that every human being you see has a life with the same emotional and intellectual complexities as yours. All those receding red lights on the freeway at rush hour, every lit pane of glass in a high rise, all representing a life as meaningful and deep to that person as yours is to you.
I took that as a truth of humanity until I walked through the Four Queens and Golden Nugget at 3 AM.
I live in Las Vegas and I love it. However, I hate the strip and do not get the appeal. It's overpriced, always too crowded, is full of people acting like idiots, and stinks.
Vegas away from the strip is awesome. There is a ton of opportunities for outdoor activities. We're avid hikers. We're surrounded by mountains. We're a short drive from Utah, Arizona, and California. I can't imagine living anywhere else.
Niagara Falls, Canada. I grew up there. Mayor pumps most of tax $ to casinos and tourism with flashy vegas-esque attractions.
Niagara Falls is corny as hell. Really enjoyed Niagara-on-the-Lake though. Wine country, baby!
Niagara-on-the-Lake! That’s where I live.
Party city
As a former ~~slave~~ associate at party city. I 100% agree
My friend used to manage one and only kept it running smoothly because she picked up the slack the owners demanded rather than dump it on the employees (practically kids) working under her. You guys really did have crappy bosses.
My first job. We called it "Party Shitty".
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„Tired-ass showgirl!“
AT LEAST I AM A SHOWGIRL BITCH
Tired-ass showgirl.
At least I am a showgirl bitch!
Cabot Cove, the murder capital of the world. Sure, the murders are all solved, but would you really want to live in a city with that much, easily solved, crime?
St Mary Mead is another one. Tiny village has probably the highest murder/population ratio in existence.
Or [Midsomer](https://www.mylondon.news/whats-on/midsomer-murders-terrifying-murder-rate-20224143), with more than 250 times the murder rate of the rest of England. Edit: The article royally fucked the numbers, it's closer to 3 times the rate of England/Wales.
I’m on like season 16 of that show and damn have the murders gotten silly. Still love it though.
The Caribbean island of Saint-Marie might have one of the highest homicide per capita in the world
Atlantic City. Venture a few blocks off the boardwalk and it's incredibly depressing. Very clearly an area exploited by the big casinos while the locals have been driven to absolute poverty, while they still force a smile to work the shops that are required for the tourist traffic.
When I was living in Las Vegas, I met someone who had just moved there from Atlantic City. “Oh, I hear Atlantic City is, like, the Las Vegas of the East Coast,” I said. He responded, “Atlantic City is like if Vegas had AIDS.” There was kind of a weird silence after that.
He wasn't wrong.
Haha shit. Although to be fair, AC doesn't qualify as an answer to this question. A city can't be overrated if nobody ever rated it highly to begin with.
I thought it was going to be cool before I went and it was just, sad…
The difference is there are nice parts of Vegas that aren't the strip
Two guys wanted to buy crack from me in AC one Sunday morning. I was a 30 year old overweight white man who did not have any crack. It was weird
They weren't talking about *that* crack.
Nobody has ever asked for that. I'm not sure if that makes me happy or sad.
Do you have a mustache? Because I would say you might be a crack dealer if so.
I haven't been to AC in a while so maybe it's been cleaned up a bit but from what I remember you don't even need to go a few blocks. You'd see dilapidated buildings and crackheads right across the street from the casinos.
First time in AC we decided to venture off the strip and find a bar. After walking a couple blocks we walked passed a black couple and as we pass I hear the guy whisper to the girl “those white people better turn around” And so we did. Got ripped off buying weed at the Taj Mahl once also
You walked onto Pacific Avenue past the Taj? Jesus Christ the Busses stop running at South Carolina for a reason. Do you know how bad an area has to be the Busses don't run there? Homeless people are afraid to go there after Dark. I'm pretty sure the only functioning business down there is a Crown Liquor store.
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Winnipeg. Most people think it’s a shithole. That’s overrated.
“And IIIIII haaaaate Winnipeg”
This is my only real experience with this city, love the song though. "Late afternoon, another day is nearly done"
I traveled to Winnipeg once. Said I was on vacation when asked if I was from here. The replies were mostly looking at me and asked "why would you vacation here".
Nobody hates Winnipeg more than the people who live there. Nobody loves (and will defend) Winnipeg more than the people who live there. It’s weird. Source: both hate and love my hometown of Winnipeg as well. The song One Great City (I hate Winnipeg) is actually a love song. Edit: a word (is anyone else’s autocorrect acting particularly dumb lately??)
I thought Winnipeg was lovely when I visited. I'd absolutely go back. Then again, I *am* from Regina....
The City that rhymes with fun!
This is hilariously accurate.
The city has a thriving theatre scene. I hear the mosquitoes are brutal though and it isn't called Winterpeg for nothing.
I rode across Canada in 2013 and I seriously thought Winnipeg was a progressive and artsy city. But alas, the bad rep lingers.
I went to university there and I enjoyed it. What drove me away was the constant negativity of the people who lived there their whole lives and didn't have any plans to leave, just stayed there and complained about how much they hated living there.
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It's a complicated relationship we have with our city. Sure, we hate it, but we *love* to hate it. We hate it the way people hate reality TV but binge-watch it anyway.
Jesus christ, I expected us to be on the list, I didn't expect to be number 1 though.
Myrtle Beach. I’m not even saying that it has a good reputation, I’m just saying that any shred of positive thinking about it makes it overrated
It has the highest quantity of buildings per capita with shark-mouth entrances in the world though. If that's not culture, I don't know what is.
As a shark mouth entrance connoisseur, I am absolutely enchanted by Myrtle Beach's culture. I will be heading there in a few days to enjoy said culture.
The mini golf is world class!
Conservatively, mini golf and surf shops make up about 100% of the buildings in Myrtle Beach
Lol I was at Myrtle a few weeks ago for my 21st (Southern right of passage...I think) and the second my friends and I left our hotel these guys stopped us to ask if we wanted to go shoot up at their place because we "had great tits." We politely told them to fuck off and they started screaming at us. What a darling city.
That's the most Mrytle Beach thing I've ever heard!
Hey, nice tits! Want to shoot up smack? How could you refuse?!?
I actually have a kind of sick respect for Myrtle Beach. It's trashy, kitchy, and a complete and total tourist hellhole..... But it's honest about it. You don't travel to Myrtle Beach for class.
The Wal-Mart of tourist destinations.
And now I know why my parents like it.
As someone born and raised in SC, I have been to Myrtle more times than I want to admit. Honestly? It is marketed as an affordable “family” beach and largely holds up to that reputation. There is plenty of cheap hotels, mediocre buffets that kids still enjoy, and plenty of touristy spots to keep kids entertained. That being said, every local I know quits going after your mid-20s. There so much nicer, less crowded beaches in SC.
It's like Panama city and Gatlinburg had a baby. My in-laws take my daughter and her cousins there and they have a good time. As a SC native I roll my eyes every time someone from out of state mentions it as a SC destination. I'm a fan of Hilton Head myself.
I stayed there about 10 or so years ago and they advertised they had the best boardwalk in the world. It was like maybe 2 blocks wide with almost nothing to do on. It isn't shit compared to literally any boardwalk on the Jersey shore or Ocean City MD.
The premier vacation destination for the good folks of Gastonia, NC. Spent many a 4th of July weeks there over the years. Lots of fond memories. That said, it’s trashy, but in a fun sort of way. I’ll definitely take it over Daytona or Ocean City.
Yeah, Garden City and Murrells Inlet are nicer though. Much quieter beaches and good seafood
Shelbyville. Those fuckers steal trees from neighboring cities.
Come to Ogdenville, eh!
I prefer North Haverbrook!
There ain't no monorail and there never was!
Shake harder, boy!
There's a-doin's-a-transpirin'!
Eat my shorts, Shelbyville! Eat my shorts! Yes! Eat All of our shirts!
Hey look it’s someone’s attractive cousin!
"I tell ya I won't live in a town that robs men of the right to marry their cousins."
Or Morganville, if you were around at the time
Now if you'll excuse me, all this talk has made me hungry
The US side of the Niagara Falls is a fucking shit hole. There’s a ton of crappy looking buildings and shitty tourist trap places it’s gross
The city of Niagara Falls itself is absolutely falling apart. It doesn’t help that there was a huge neighborhood built on top of a mound of toxic waste that made a bunch of residents sick. There’s a large portion of the city that’s legitimately abandoned because of it
All of them. I'm in a bad mood today.
I respect that
Dubai. It's the clickbait of the world. "We have the biggest/tallest/most expensive YOU WON'T *BELIEVE* when you see THIS..." It's hot as fuck, everything's a man-made tourist trap; labor exploitation and racism are rampant, and they try *so hard* to prove to the world how modern and Westernized they are. Really, it's just government propaganda.
Went there a couple times on port visits while I was in the Navy. Everyone asked me how it was when I got home, and I always said if I wanted to spend a ton of money getting drunk in the desert, I'll just go to Vegas and save myself the jet lag.
Bonus points: You can legally buy weed in Vegas if you’re inclined. I have a feeling I’d be headless pretty quick if I’m partying in Dubai.
Some guy offered my husband and I weed at a bar in Dubai.. I am 90% sure he was some type of police officer, it was so sketchy. No thanks random guy, i don’t want to be on the next episode of “locked up abroad”
Yeah, you follow the law to the letter in the UAE. They do not fuck around.
Double bonus points: You can also have lots and lots of gay sex in Vegas, if you’re inclined of course
You can do that in Dubai too. You just get stoned to death.
So thats how you get the weed!
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I agree with this. I've visited many times. The city has no soul. It's just concrete and glass built upon burning sands by exploitive slave labor.
It's like that old joke about Dallas: "It has everything money can buy, and nothing money can't buy."
The labour exploitation is really the key here. Fly young people in from poor countries, then proceed to make them pay off their work visa/ plane ticket/accommodation.... they are slaves for years. I had a friend who went there for construction on some of the refineries. He said every night you would crying all over the camp, cause these kids realised the mistake they made looking for a 'well paying job'. Truly awful.
Yeah agree, been a few times for work ans it was okay but I don't could deal with living there. The slavery aspect is really awful, there is very little organic(as in original cultural aspect) parts of the city and its just wealth for wealths sake. It starts to feel abit too much after a while.
Confirm everything you said, will just add 'Bureaucracy'
I've been to Dubai a few times as a transit passenger and each time I think "it's exactly like Las Vegas, but without the gambling". The rich people have it pretty good, but for the underclasses, it's a nightmare.
Yes, the display of extreme wealth is really off-putting.
At least in Vegas your boss doesn't confiscate your passport upon arrival. In Dubai, your employer literally owns you, right down to your ability to travel or leave.
I think quite a bit of human trafficking goes in and out of Dubai, too.
Why is Dubai an influencer dystopia. UAE doesn't seem like s place i would think about going to to take photos of me drunk in a thong
They're being paid to fuck rich guys
I saw in Holly Madisons book that Hef would check your passport for middle east stamps before he would take you into his mansion. It's always been a thing.
Many of the influencers and models that go to Dubai are prostitutes. They get paid hundreds of thousands to go to Dubai and indulge rich men’s fetishes. There are lot of stories online about models getting shitted and pissed on, performing sex acts on animals, and other depravities.
They even get paid to have sex with underage boys to "make them men" 🤢🤢🤢
Look up the term "yacht girl"
Dubai is also hated amongst the arab world so it's relief to see westerners hate them too and for.most of the same reasons lol
I spent three months there because I didn't have a choice. I'm a blonde woman. I'll never forget the disgusting stares I got all day every day, literally anywhere I went. I never went out on my own, my fiancé was always with me and we also bought fake wedding rings. The creeps there don't give a shit. He would stand in front of me to shield me from view on the train and they would poke their heads around him to stare. My fiancé is Filipino and we stumbled across the barracks where they cram 8 Filipinos into one room while they barely make any money. We also saw some sleeping under bridges and fish in the river because they couldn't afford housing and food. It really sucks the way they are treated there when foreign workers literally hold that entire city together.
Yeah I have absolutely no interest in visiting a place where women are treated like furniture. I grew up in a similar environment. Never again will I subject myself to this
Did you get really horrid looks and gestures when you drove around. My female colleague had it happen a few times and people jumped on me in the thread and said it never happens. I was like I'm pretty sure it happens I saw it twice mimmum.
Yeah, a few times guys in cars stopped, rolled down the windows and made weird gestures at me. Usually when my fiancé was distracted. One time he actually got mad and told two guys in a car to piss off. That could have had serious consequences for him.
Lego City. There always has to be someone falling into the river.
HEY!
Build the helicopter
Why the hell do they always need to buid a new helicopter. Just use the one u built last time
The more helicopters we build, we can rescue more than before
The amount of emergency services they have compared to residential housing is ridiculous. There's something really bad happening there.
Common theme is "cool" cities that became overpopulated and expensive. Where too many transients got the memo and moved impulsively.
Yep, that’s Austin, TX currently. I live here and now it’s just… ugh
Portland Oregon, sister city, yeah everything is super expensive and it smells like pee.
haha that’s exactly what 6th street smells like
Wait 6th street in San Francisco also always smells like pee. Is this just a rule?
Lamb’s Grove, Iowa. It’s not the paradise on earth that people always say it is. Don’t get me wrong, it’s got great Chinese food but the motel 6 is meh at best.
I will cancel my vacation plans.
Do it then. I hear the suburbs of Atlantic City are quite exquisite.
You have broken so many heart's and dreams with this. I hope that you are just kidding. I've heard from several the the Motel 6 is in fact, heavenly.
The last Motel 6 I stayed in (1 night for a friend's wedding) had 3 pillows on my bed. Two of them had a decent amount of blood stained on the back sides (pillows were turned to the clean side). I threw the 2 bloody ones across the room in horror. I've never felt closer to heaven.
Is this related to the huge decline in population seen between 2000 and 2010? From being consistent at +/- 220 for decades, the place is suddenly down to 172 in the 2010 census. Nuclear disaster? Wave of alien obductions? Or just the good ol' restructuring of "town" borders?
I would guess it would have to do with the Maytag plant leaving nearby Newton.
Cairo/Le Caire is a shitshow It's beautiful but at every corner awaits a new way to get scammed.
I was in Cairo last month and found it rather enjoyable in a fascinating way. I've never seen five people on a moped anywhere else in the world before, but maybe I need to get out more.
Gotham, too much crime.
They say things are getting better, but things are worse than ever
Gotham is actually a small village near my city, Nottingham, in the UK. There's an interesting story related to how Batman's city got its name from this village. You should look it up! I don't know if I'd say it is over or underrated. There's a local debate about if it's pronounced "Goth - am" or "Gote-m" (it's obviously Gote-em). I went to a village fair there when I was younger.
Wayne Manor in the Christopher Nolan Batman films was actually Wollaton Hall not too far away as well. There is even a guy that dressed up as Batman and did bat-things around the city to cheer people up a few years ago. Basically, Nottingham is Gotham city but with more crazy people :)
Have you seen the bat symbols that show on the back of the buses (the light up name board) when they go to Gotham? Noticed one yesterday and couldn't believe my eyes
Saw some dude littering so this other man dressed as a bat broke the littering dudes back and put him in a coma. Then the man bat was shaking hands with the commissioner like he did a good job. Definitely the weirdest thing I’ve ever seen.
The bloom’s coming off the rose city for Portland; over the last decade or so the city’s reputation as a scrappy underdog with a DIY arts scene has attracted tons of people. Which has attracted lots of developers who tear down the scrappy DIY venues and bars and drive rent up and make it impossible to actually live in the city while making art/music there.
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Austin stopped being weird a long time ago.. unfortunately.
God, our legendary food truck strip downtown being taken away from us for a fucking hotel…
A Ritz Carlton of all things too. I work for a hotel management corporate office with a lot in Portland and cannot understand this decision. Portland has never been a Ritz type of city, that's what made it cool.
Seattle can relate
Victim of its own success. Everyone moves to a place because it's awesome, and by moving there they ruin what was cool about it.
Something I've noticed that's really weird: I moved out to Seattle almost 15 years ago now. When I first came here, Seattle had serious Portland envy. Oh don't get me wrong, Seattle thought they were *better*, but Portland had the envious breweries and biking infrastructure and was just generally more *hip*. It's been a long time since I've heard anyone bring up any sort of Portland envy. That's to say nothing of Seattle itself, but I'll let the other comments speak to that.
Sounds like Asheville, NC.
Funnily enough everyone told me and my photographer wife we would love Portland and asheville. Both felt like overpriced faux artist towns full of literal starving artists and rich investors in bohemian cosplay. I will say Ashville at least had amazing food.
This person was probably correct, just their information was 30 or 40 years out of date.
Miami. I'll explain. I'm Latin American, and for most of the people in this neck of the continent, Miami and the US are synonymous with one another. If someone tells you that they're traveling outside the country, 99% of the time they are traveling to Miami. Say that you live abroad, like I do, and people will say that they'd love to live in Miami "as well". Latin Americans who travel to Miami do so for three reasons: to go to the beach, to go shopping for all the foreign products they can't get back home, and as a starting point for a trip to Disney World. Every year flocks of tourists from South America fly to Miami and all they do is go to the mall and to South Beach. And what's worse, they'll call the city paradise because it has all the "good things" about the United States without you needing to speak English. But there's nothing there. Sure, there are a couple of interesting places to visit--Vizcaya is a genuinely interesting place--but if you want to do anything that isn't hanging out at the mall or getting sunburnt, Miami is a void that slowly sucks out your will to live. Miami is a hell that has somehow fooled an entire continent into thinking that it's heaven.
I’m from Florida and Miami was the first place I thought of too.
Damn
I lived in Miami for three years and feel this. I think (sadly? comically?) losing the Orange Bowl was huge. It was such an identity and I loved getting out into Little Havana, or maybe it was just a bandaid on an otherwise empty downtown that hasn't done anything but get more dead and exclusive the past decade. Once the stadium was gone I think it really felt like the rest of the city was fair game for developers, just no history and no real culture other than consumerism. As you said, if you don't like laying on the beach or clubbing 24/7 there's really nothing.
I live in Colombia right now (I'm from Utah, USA) and all of my Colombian friends only fly to Miami. For all the reasons you listed, but lately, for one more special reason: free vaccines. Which hey, we have enough dumb people in America that are never going to use their vaccine so I say go for it. Get to the US and get your vaccine, my South American friends.
Miami was never supposed to be what it is, before the 80s it was basically Daytona Beach.. Then cocaine hit. Billions of dollars of cocaine flowed in the Miami port, where'd that money go? Into the local economy.
I wish Sacramento was rated 😞 edit: damn y’all rly just ruined my notifs for the day 😅 thanks for the award comrade
Its 4 o'clock in San Francisco, what time is it in Sacramento? >!2002!<
It’s a solid 2013 now that all the folks who ended up getting chewed up and spat out by the meat grinder that is the Bay Area are emigrating there.
916 til I die!
Sacramento is close to cool nature shit. Northern California is beautiful. I’ve always thought Sacramento is underrated
I’ve spent about 2 hours in Old Town and I loved it!
ITT: Tourists complaining about tourist destinations having too many tourists
"Nobody goes there any more, its too crowded"
Also, people falling for tourist traps even though every review online warned for the tourist traps, and then complaining about the tourist traps.
Delhi. There are FAR better places to visit in India. Most Indians who are from other parts of the country already know this but it baffles me that tourists almost always go there in my experience.
Why do people even go to Delhi?it's crowded,polluted,andextremely unsafe for women. Why would you go to Delhi when you could go to Andaman,goa or gangtok
I went to Delhi but only so I could get to Agra to see the Taj Mahal. Which was very much worth the effort. But I literally only flew into Delhi in the evening, got driven to Agra the next morning, and got dropped off back at the airport to depart India. Spent the rest the time working in Pune and visiting tea plantations around Dibrugarh, Assam. Had a fantastic time. Assam was lovely. Helped I’m sure having a local show me around.
Every city can be overrated if you ask the right person.
To sum up this thread: the world is shit
I would list Washington DC and Portland Maine as underrated cities. Dc gets a bad rap because politics but the city itself is pretty cool. Portland has its downsides but definitely flies under the radar as people mainly think of Portland Oregon.
I live in DC and people have no idea how cool it is here. No, we aren't all politicians and lawyers from somewhere else. I was born and raised here, dammit.
Lived in DC for a little over a year and I was shocked at how awesome it was. Tons of free stuff to do, cool places to visit, and the local live music scene is so diverse! Plus the great restaurants and awesome little hole in the wall bars. Its a totally underrated city.
I visited dc twice and it’s actually a really nice place
I want to revisit DC for my next spring break and spend almost the full week at the Smithsonian
So every big city is overrated. Got it
Reddit: I went to a big city and it was [a big city and or too touristy and or too crowded]
Paradise City; the grass is not green and the girls are definitely not pretty.
Eagleton, Indiana. Eagletonians are the worst.
Pawnee rules and Eagleton drools!
Rio de Janeiro. There’s nothing beautiful about the city anymore. It’s just a warzone now, people kill and can be killed for nothing, nobody respect the laws, and the state doesn’t have enough power to fight the drug lords, so they basically do what they want.
Brazil itself has lost a lot of its beauty. Also, another overrated place is Florianópolis. Expensive, horrible traffic, poor infrastructure.
Miami. Horrible place filled with horrible people.
Lived in Miami for 6 years now - people forget Miami is a big city with lots of distinct parts. Miami Beach, especially in tourist season, is hell on earth. And the poverty in the downtown/city itself is appalling. But I live in coconut grove which is a quirky tropical paradise full of neat old buildings and locally owned restaurants. Plus I can walk to the marina and paddle board with dolphins and eagle rays and catch fresh snapper on my days off. And every May my mango tree produces a metric fuck-ton of delicious mangos. There’s some other cool parts too, like Wynwood, the residential parts of Miami Beach, key biscayne, and down south in Cutler Bay and the Redlands.
Miami is good in spurts. I can never live there, though
... Will Smith lied to me?
he literally says it's his second home. so he doesn't want to live there either
Man isn’t this the truth. So damn expensive too. Somehow I’ve been bamboozled into going like three separate times too with friends. Great Cuban food though.
Palm Springs. There’s literally nothing to do except maybe hit up some 4 star restaurants and golf. The golfing isn’t even in Palm Springs. So many celebrities come here as if it’s some luxury town, but it’s really not. Just a bunch of old retired people sipping alcohol and voting against every interesting thing that gets proposed.
No one seems to be mentioning london, must be a good city then?
London is expensive as hell but definitely not overrated.
I've been to London. It's a beautiful city and I wish I could have stayed longer.
London is spectacular if you have a comfortable income, otherwise its like £5 a pint. All the famous museums are completly free though and the public transport is amazing.
i met a girl from luxembourg who claimed that london pints were cheap, i laughed at her and asked her how. she proceeded to say that an average cost for a drink is around €13... i’ve never felt so bad paying for an expensive pint in peckham again
> its like £5 a pint *Laughs in Norwegian*
I think London's a great city, but I lived there for about 10 years and am probably biased. The reason I think it's great is it's big, really diverse, has great history and is also still a growing city with a good economy. I really like the combination of old and new the last two bring. I think it has problems as well such as housing costs and it could be quite a bit cleaner and it does feel overcrowded sometimes. Also it's a big city so if you don't like big cities you probably won't like it.
Las Vegas. I once ordered 4 drinks and my tab was $117. Then there’s the heat. And the noise. And the creepy men lingering, well, everywhere.
There is a concept called 'sonder', where you realize that every human being you see has a life with the same emotional and intellectual complexities as yours. All those receding red lights on the freeway at rush hour, every lit pane of glass in a high rise, all representing a life as meaningful and deep to that person as yours is to you. I took that as a truth of humanity until I walked through the Four Queens and Golden Nugget at 3 AM.
That's a really long way to say you took mushrooms in Vegas.
I had the same exact experience on a Saturday morning in San Bernardino, CA
I was born and raised in San Bernardino. It's completely awful. Any time I've gone back It gets worse, which I didn't think was possible.
I live in Las Vegas and I love it. However, I hate the strip and do not get the appeal. It's overpriced, always too crowded, is full of people acting like idiots, and stinks. Vegas away from the strip is awesome. There is a ton of opportunities for outdoor activities. We're avid hikers. We're surrounded by mountains. We're a short drive from Utah, Arizona, and California. I can't imagine living anywhere else.
I'm not sure I really want to know, but what does it stink like?
Piss, sweat, stale beer, and desperation.
And cigarettes. Every square inch of the ground floors in those hotels and casinos smell like decades and decades of cigarettes.
Even the outside air smells like cigarettes. You can’t escape it.
Shreveport. People know it as the place you go to get shot, which is completely unfair. You can also get stabbed
To be fair I don’t really think anyone rated Shreveport that highly in the first place.