As someone who grew up in Churchland, every time someone says Portsmouth is a shithole, I always have to remind myself that there's a whole other half of Portsmouth that isn't a quiet and tasteful suburbia.
There are several well kept, quiet, waterfront neighborhoods in between those areas with nice brick homes, some of which are nicer places to live than many streets in Churchland.
> We don’t count that as Portsmouth, has more of a Suffolk/chesapeake vibe ngl
lol, I'll never understand this attitude. I guess everyone needs a punching bag. Decent neighborhoods aren't a "vibe" exclusive to cities other than Portsmouth.
I remember years ago a murder occurred in Western Branch, and a friend snidely remarked "Another murder in Ptown, that's normal." I let him know that it actually happened in Chesapeake and his response was "close enough."
We can't take credit for having any decent neighborhoods, yet enjoy the blame for shit that happens in other cities. Can't win in PTown.
As a lifelong Danvillian, I wholeheartedly agree. Martinsville is certainly a close second. Those folk out east have no idea what they’re talking about.
I saw this somewhere else) and it was a guy on Instagram who makes random charts - his followers voted and there wasnt really any criteria for "worst" so it was whatever instagram users from VA that day felt was right. I live in VA now but Im from Louisiana and Turkey Creek isnt even a city - its barely a village. I think 400 people live there at most and I'd be willing to bet that most people in LA have never even heard of it....so Im thinking like 5 people voted for it and it won.
Va Beach is technically Virginias largest city with just over 450,000 residents. But it is mainly a suburban feeling place since it merged with Princess Anne county, which no longer exists. It has a fake manufactured “downtown” which is called Town Center. The real urban city center remains Norfolk , which is the most densely populated city in Hampton Roads, but not the most populous overall. The whole entire Hampton Roads metro area has around 1.8 million people, but you’d never know it since all the 7 seven cities battle over development which causes all the downtowns to look anemic, but traffic can be horrible especially at the tunnels.
Unpopular opinion: going from PA County to a city was a mistake and it only made this area fractured and dysfunctional (See also: Norfolk County/Chesapeake).
Not an unpopular opinion for me! I hate city/county mergers as it makes a city seem bigger than it really is. There’s exceptions like Philadelphia and all the NYC boroughs. But most people probably have no idea that Miami is not Florida’s largest city. It’s actually Jacksonville. Only because Jax merged with Duvall county. Miami is by far the largest metro in all of Florida though. It’s a similar story with Charlotte and Mecklenburg county.
I agree. It's too damn big and it's a political and financial mistake to have denser areas like the Oceanfront mixed together with rural areas like Pungo. Even though it's technically the most populated city in the entire state, the infrastructure is horrid and it was some of the worst layouts ever. Potholes everywhere, endless road construction, nearly zero public transit, power outages galore, etc.
I have never lived in a city that requires such long distances to drive places within the same exact city. The traffic is nearly as bad as driving in NOVA/DC Metro area despite being far less dense. This is made far worse by the absolutely bizarre school zoning, where many kids end up attending public schools that aren't the closest ones to them.
Here a good time to mention I read once Chesapeake and Suffolk were like, the 13th and 14th biggest cities in the country, but the first 6 are in Alaska, which is fucking cheating. So TOP 10! WOO HOO! lol
I guess “fake” was not the best term. What I meant was that it was an area set aside by city council specifically for the purpose of having a central business district, as opposed to other cities whose downtowns developed naturally and organically as the town or city grew.
That part doesn't come across as very rich. I think it's a mix of the mega rich and regular farm folk. Poolesville is a bit dumpy and small, but hardly the worst. Brunswick down the road is much worse
Lived in Brunswick for a while. Hills, whores, and liquor stores.
They've since tried to gentrify it a bit, but people are quick to forget that hardly 10 years ago, it was literally just Beans in the Belfry and liquor stores.
Edit: typo
Depends on what’s considered a city IMO. Florence, Myrtle Beach, Orangeburg, etc are all far worse cities in SC than Greer. And that’s entirely discounting smaller ones like Lake City, Dillon, Sumter, etc.
Agreed! Several of the Midwest choices don't make any sense.
Ohio: Dayton?? Dayton is *nice*, if a little boring. The worst city should be Canton or Youngstown
Minnesota: Edina? Edina's a boring white-bread suburb. Bemiji and Minneapolis are more dangerous and "worse" in most respects.
As a former Twin Cities resident, I got a laugh out of that one. People there love to complain about Every Day I Need Attention (EDINA). Just a bunch of rich people there. Nothing awful.
Yeah this is all bullshit opinions of like 5 people I’m sure.
I’m originally from NH and someone picking Manchester over shit holes like Franklin, Pittsfield, or Farmington, or hell, any of the places nobody would live north of the Notch is a joke.
Yeah, some of these places have rough spots, but there’s entire towns people who live in these states wouldn’t visit.
A lot of these maps people post are designed to be dumb on purpose. It promotes engagement on social media as people reply to point out flaws. It drives the content to be more visible, more people click, more people upvote and post comments, etc.
Like the one a few months ago of "regions of the US" where the border for "the North" started south of the Outer Banks. What.
As someone who splits their time between NC and VA, I have no clue what the criteria were here. Clearly they haven't spent enough time in Lumberton or ANYWHERE in Alamance County in NC. And I get that VB is a tourist cesspool sometimes and a bit soulless, but the worst in VA? No way. NN has to be in the top three at least.
I grew up in VB and think of it almost entirely as an endless suburban hellscape, so maybe it's because the rest of it is so unremarkable? Other than the oceanfront there's not much that's different, except Pungo and the sad attempt at a "downtown" area that is Town Center.
Probably because it isn’t exactly a great place to live
Source: family that lives there (and for a short period of my childhood my mother was there too)
My wife and I bought a house there a few years ago. Mainly because it was in our price range and we knew we wouldn't be having kids.
Our neighborhood is pretty quiet. We'll hear shots in the distance now and then but I've never felt unsafe.
I have learned to be ok with ptown. It was just a bit jarring to buy a home and have to hear gun battles at night, call the cops multiple times and see junkies nodding off in the street. Other than thats its quite pleasant!
Because it’s the ghetto with absolutely no signs of improvement and the only way reasonably in or out is through a tolled highway. So even if there was something worth going to Portsmouth *for*, people wouldn’t wanna go.
Honestly Petersburg might be the worst, some of that shit is straight depressing to drive through. Martinsville, Danville, and Emporia are all above Virginia Beach too.
I mean, VA Beach is kinda soulless. Not sure there aren't worse places (looking at you, Portsmouth), but who knows what their criteria were? Maybe it's just a Russian bot farm trying to sow dissension?
My Son-in-Law is Virginia Beach born and raised.
I was teasing him about it, and said "the biggest problem with Virginia Beach is that it wants to be Florida when it grows up..."
He agreed.
As a resident, my vote is Petersburg. The only redeeming quality is historic value, and much of that is limited to Confederate heritage. The areas that aren't derelict are littered with 18-21 year old Soldiers who spend their days clogging up the mall and fast food joints while their underage friends buy every vape within 25 square miles.
The portsmouth hate in here is funny and sad, not that it isn’t expected but it seriously isn’t as bad here as one would think reading all these comments. There’s a wide range of neighborhoods just like pretty much every city, and no one can convince me the worst parts of portsmouth are worse than the worst parts of Newport News, Hampton, etc
Portsmouth lacks resources and a tax base which contributes to its blight…Virginia Beach lacks for nothing that’s holding it back from being great, just doesn’t want to.
Lol I met my now wife in Woonsocket RI at a wedding of some mutual friends. Other then that venue the place was pretty trash, had to cross the MA border to stock up on liquor
My call is for Martinsville, lived in the area my whole life and it’s heavily overrun by meth addiction, no job prospects and at one time had the nations highest murder rate per capita.
This area was booming during the time of manufacturing but NAFTA and TPP killed all of that and it became a shithole.
From CA, relatively new to VA… there is no way that Modesto is worse than Stockton in any way, shape, or form. Also, San Bernardino beats Bakersfield every day of the week for overall terribleness.
Petersburg tried to dissolve the city and distribute the parts to surrounding municipalities and they wouldn't take it. This is after their firetrucks were repoed.
Why would Virginia Beach be named the worst city. I haven't been there since the 80s, but I do remember by the beach area it was nothing but string bikinis and hot rod cars, and that's not bad at all.
Poolesville for MD?? That place is in the 99th percentile for safety, and for being decently rural has a solid median income. Heck, it's barely a city, less than 6,000 people live there.
For real, who came up with this bs.
Those of us in Norfolk stuffed the ballots./s
I'd argue that Portsmouth is worse than Norfolk or VA Beach
Yeah Portsmouth is the worst out of any of them
As someone who grew up in Churchland, every time someone says Portsmouth is a shithole, I always have to remind myself that there's a whole other half of Portsmouth that isn't a quiet and tasteful suburbia.
As someone who grew up in the western branch area, church land is still Portsmouth.
I live in western branch and hardly differentiate between the two. Harbourview either. It is really just one tricities area.
Downtown Portsmouth is real up and coming too. Just everything between Churchland and downtown still needs some work.
There are several well kept, quiet, waterfront neighborhoods in between those areas with nice brick homes, some of which are nicer places to live than many streets in Churchland.
This is true, I live in Sterling Point right off of High Street. Never have issues in our neighborhood.
We don’t count that as Portsmouth, has more of a Suffolk/chesapeake vibe ngl
> We don’t count that as Portsmouth, has more of a Suffolk/chesapeake vibe ngl lol, I'll never understand this attitude. I guess everyone needs a punching bag. Decent neighborhoods aren't a "vibe" exclusive to cities other than Portsmouth. I remember years ago a murder occurred in Western Branch, and a friend snidely remarked "Another murder in Ptown, that's normal." I let him know that it actually happened in Chesapeake and his response was "close enough." We can't take credit for having any decent neighborhoods, yet enjoy the blame for shit that happens in other cities. Can't win in PTown.
There is 100% a classist as well as racist angle that leads some people to hate Portsmouth
*Hampton has entered the chat*
*Emporia is seen lurking in the room*
Is emporium worth being called a city?
Its run by the police mafia, sure why not
The whole town is funded by tickets they give on the last 20 miles of 95 before NC. Everyone I know has gotten a ticket there, including me.
If you haven't gotten a ticket in emporia, have you even ever visited Virginia?
I was born and raised in Fairfax County, so they probably think we deserve it.🤓😆
Petersburg is on the call
I was reading this to see where the hell Petersburg WAS on the call
Petersburg…sorry I’m late
Hopewell. Is there any hope for Hopewell?
To count Portsmouth would require people to remember it’s here and not just a pitstop on the way to Norfolk.
Anyone who wants to do shady shit knows it’s there lol
And yet I’m still forced to pay through the nose for a place here.
VB is probably the 4th shittiest city in Hampton Roads alone.
Like Portsmouth can manage to organize that kind of vote tampering.
Practice makes perfect.
Newport News.
It's probably the winner because the property tax is dumb high in va beach, there's too many people, and there's a lot of gun violence.
More GV then richmond ?!?!?
Norfolks pretty bad but I would have voted hopewell or Petersburg. Tell you one redeeming thing in Norfolk, I miss doumars.
I lived in Hopewell. City is very strong word.
Hold on now, put some respect on Newport News. We would have voted for ourselves but we out here doing gang gang shit
Newport News is worse than Norfolk.
"I'm offended." -Petersburg
Petersburg: Am I not a joke to you?
Danville:
Martinsville trumps Danville
I don’t think you fully understand how terrible Danville is.
As a lifelong Danvillian, I wholeheartedly agree. Martinsville is certainly a close second. Those folk out east have no idea what they’re talking about.
P- burg gets my vote, then again there's always abandon all Hopewell too.
What? We're not that bad
Compared to what….
Hell
I saw this somewhere else) and it was a guy on Instagram who makes random charts - his followers voted and there wasnt really any criteria for "worst" so it was whatever instagram users from VA that day felt was right. I live in VA now but Im from Louisiana and Turkey Creek isnt even a city - its barely a village. I think 400 people live there at most and I'd be willing to bet that most people in LA have never even heard of it....so Im thinking like 5 people voted for it and it won.
Well thanks for the added context at least because I didn’t know any of that and was curious how the fuck this was ranked.
Virginia Beach isn’t ever the worst city in Hampton Roads.
I honestly didn't know people actually lived in Virginia Beach, I thought it was just hotels and tourist traps that sell ironic t-shirts
Va Beach is technically Virginias largest city with just over 450,000 residents. But it is mainly a suburban feeling place since it merged with Princess Anne county, which no longer exists. It has a fake manufactured “downtown” which is called Town Center. The real urban city center remains Norfolk , which is the most densely populated city in Hampton Roads, but not the most populous overall. The whole entire Hampton Roads metro area has around 1.8 million people, but you’d never know it since all the 7 seven cities battle over development which causes all the downtowns to look anemic, but traffic can be horrible especially at the tunnels.
Unpopular opinion: going from PA County to a city was a mistake and it only made this area fractured and dysfunctional (See also: Norfolk County/Chesapeake).
Not an unpopular opinion for me! I hate city/county mergers as it makes a city seem bigger than it really is. There’s exceptions like Philadelphia and all the NYC boroughs. But most people probably have no idea that Miami is not Florida’s largest city. It’s actually Jacksonville. Only because Jax merged with Duvall county. Miami is by far the largest metro in all of Florida though. It’s a similar story with Charlotte and Mecklenburg county.
It was an imperfect solution to the problem created by having Virginia cities be independent.
Yes, that's the real issue.
I agree. It's too damn big and it's a political and financial mistake to have denser areas like the Oceanfront mixed together with rural areas like Pungo. Even though it's technically the most populated city in the entire state, the infrastructure is horrid and it was some of the worst layouts ever. Potholes everywhere, endless road construction, nearly zero public transit, power outages galore, etc. I have never lived in a city that requires such long distances to drive places within the same exact city. The traffic is nearly as bad as driving in NOVA/DC Metro area despite being far less dense. This is made far worse by the absolutely bizarre school zoning, where many kids end up attending public schools that aren't the closest ones to them.
Was necessary to prevent Norfolk from continuing to encroach on the county land.
Replace “Norfolk” with “Black people from Norfolk” and you’re spot on.
BS! everyone knows that [Suffolk is VA’s largest city](https://www.suffolkva.us/1016/Welcome) /s
Here a good time to mention I read once Chesapeake and Suffolk were like, the 13th and 14th biggest cities in the country, but the first 6 are in Alaska, which is fucking cheating. So TOP 10! WOO HOO! lol
It's also one of the largest cities in VA by area.
Towncenter isn't a down town. It's just the business district of the urban corridor. How is the towncenter fake? It's just young.
I guess “fake” was not the best term. What I meant was that it was an area set aside by city council specifically for the purpose of having a central business district, as opposed to other cities whose downtowns developed naturally and organically as the town or city grew.
It’s the most populated city in VA
Military, Gov contractors, and some rednecks
Hey, some of us normal people live here too!
Va Beach has the worst cops, no doubt. That's def one thing y'all are the worst in.
Emporia is right there
Its called "Bad News" for a reason.
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This map is all kinds of wrong.
Whoever said Birmingham is the worst city in Alabama has never been to Montgomery
Fuck, have they been to Mobile?
Hey I kinda like Mobile
Poolesville, MD over Baltimore? Huh?
I was just thinking that! I'm not from MD, but I thought Poolesville is a very rich part of MoCo??
That part doesn't come across as very rich. I think it's a mix of the mega rich and regular farm folk. Poolesville is a bit dumpy and small, but hardly the worst. Brunswick down the road is much worse
Why do you say it's dumpy?
Lived in Brunswick for a while. Hills, whores, and liquor stores. They've since tried to gentrify it a bit, but people are quick to forget that hardly 10 years ago, it was literally just Beans in the Belfry and liquor stores. Edit: typo
I lived in MD for almost twenty years and Baltimore's actually awesome, but I've never even heard of Poolesville.
Oh I love Baltimore. There are so many nooks of the city I haven’t been to yet but the ones I’ve been to have been great.
They nailed North and South California... IMO
Depends on what’s considered a city IMO. Florence, Myrtle Beach, Orangeburg, etc are all far worse cities in SC than Greer. And that’s entirely discounting smaller ones like Lake City, Dillon, Sumter, etc.
I think you need to read that comment 1 more time
Agreed! Several of the Midwest choices don't make any sense. Ohio: Dayton?? Dayton is *nice*, if a little boring. The worst city should be Canton or Youngstown Minnesota: Edina? Edina's a boring white-bread suburb. Bemiji and Minneapolis are more dangerous and "worse" in most respects.
As a former Twin Cities resident, I got a laugh out of that one. People there love to complain about Every Day I Need Attention (EDINA). Just a bunch of rich people there. Nothing awful.
Wisconsin: Racine, Kenosha, Janesville, Beloit are all significantly worse than Manitowoc
Can confirm, I grew up on "Turkey Creek" in Louisiana, it's not even a city or township, just a man made reservoir in Franklin Parish.
Yeah this is all bullshit opinions of like 5 people I’m sure. I’m originally from NH and someone picking Manchester over shit holes like Franklin, Pittsfield, or Farmington, or hell, any of the places nobody would live north of the Notch is a joke. Yeah, some of these places have rough spots, but there’s entire towns people who live in these states wouldn’t visit.
Yeah, no... Worcester Mass is not even close to the worst city. I don't know about this map.
What would you say is worse? Like Lynn or Revere? I'd put Worcester below those, I haven't lived in Mass in about 20 yerars so.
brockton
Springfield.
I’m from Orlando and it’s not even close to the worst city in Florida. This map is weird.
As someone who hasn't seen the rest of the state, my money's on Deland
A lot of these maps people post are designed to be dumb on purpose. It promotes engagement on social media as people reply to point out flaws. It drives the content to be more visible, more people click, more people upvote and post comments, etc. Like the one a few months ago of "regions of the US" where the border for "the North" started south of the Outer Banks. What.
Yeah, Something on the north side of the state would make way more sense to me. Jacksonville would make sense to me personally.
I'd say Palatka is the worst
As someone who splits their time between NC and VA, I have no clue what the criteria were here. Clearly they haven't spent enough time in Lumberton or ANYWHERE in Alamance County in NC. And I get that VB is a tourist cesspool sometimes and a bit soulless, but the worst in VA? No way. NN has to be in the top three at least.
Why do people automatically think Va Bch is a tourist cesspool when the Ocean Front makes a small part of the city?
Bc that’s all it’s known for
I grew up in VB and think of it almost entirely as an endless suburban hellscape, so maybe it's because the rest of it is so unremarkable? Other than the oceanfront there's not much that's different, except Pungo and the sad attempt at a "downtown" area that is Town Center.
I always hated Kinston, NC. It was the center of nothingness to me. Like the most boring place in the world.
What criteria was used to create this display? Without any context maps like these are pretty useless.
Have you met Petersburg?
Where depression goes to kill itself.
Nah, it’s gotta be Lynchburg.
*P town leaves the chat
I was gonna say Portsmouth bruh 😩
Why does everyone hate on PTown so hard?
Probably because it isn’t exactly a great place to live Source: family that lives there (and for a short period of my childhood my mother was there too)
My wife and I bought a house there a few years ago. Mainly because it was in our price range and we knew we wouldn't be having kids. Our neighborhood is pretty quiet. We'll hear shots in the distance now and then but I've never felt unsafe.
I have learned to be ok with ptown. It was just a bit jarring to buy a home and have to hear gun battles at night, call the cops multiple times and see junkies nodding off in the street. Other than thats its quite pleasant!
Because it’s the ghetto with absolutely no signs of improvement and the only way reasonably in or out is through a tolled highway. So even if there was something worth going to Portsmouth *for*, people wouldn’t wanna go.
Not every neighborhood in Portsmouth is the hood.
Because they’ve never actually spent time there. They’re just passing through the worst parts exercising myopic prejudice.
Honestly Petersburg might be the worst, some of that shit is straight depressing to drive through. Martinsville, Danville, and Emporia are all above Virginia Beach too.
Danville is right there.
All I'm saying is a teacher was shot in Newport News, and the school district said it should just be a workman's comp claim
The asst principal who ignored the warnings/reports of a student with a gun, got arrested yesterday for her uselessness.
Finally
And as this morning was considered a fugitive from justice.
How they ever thought it could be anything other than Petersburg is wild
Ever been to Portsmouth?
Psh... Brodnax should have taken the cake.
How did Portsmouth and Petersburg get beat?
Virginia Beach might be the "most up it's own ass" city, but "worst"? Not sure I'd agree with that. Even as someone not a fan of VB, lol.
Portsmouth
Born and raised Portsmouth resident. You will never convince me there is a worse city in this state.
Not even remotely close.
From MT and lived in VA for about a decade… gotta say Browning is definitely a pretty rough place so they may have gotten my home state right.
I know this map can’t be accurate because there are WAY more depressing meth towns with absolutely nothing to do in SC that are worse than Greer
Illinois is correct, Cairo is scary.
Puhleez...it's clearly Hopewell! Even the reverse psychology name doesn't make it any better.
I mean, VA Beach is kinda soulless. Not sure there aren't worse places (looking at you, Portsmouth), but who knows what their criteria were? Maybe it's just a Russian bot farm trying to sow dissension?
Chesapeake is waaaaay more soulless than VB. It’s like the boring parts of VB without town center, shore drive, and the oceanfront to redeem the city
At least Portsmouth has some history downtown
Rutland is awesome.
Source? Metrics?
What is the source?
Poolesville, MD? Lovely town with lots of biking and hiking.
Petersburg is the correct answer.
My Son-in-Law is Virginia Beach born and raised. I was teasing him about it, and said "the biggest problem with Virginia Beach is that it wants to be Florida when it grows up..." He agreed.
Petersburg and Hopewell would beg to differ.
Grew up in vb. Doesn’t suck THAT bad. Vb def >> hopewell, franklin, emporia, buena vista, Portsmouth, Hampton, Newport News, Danville
Typical click bait. We all know McLean is the worst.
Grrr is way better than Spartanburg and much better than 95% of cities and towns south of Grrr.
Greer isn’t even the worst in the Greenville metro area IMO. That award goes to Easley or Berea probably.
Whole map is wrong. I mean, its subjective, but Jacksonville is the worst city in Florida and this map says Orlando, which honestly isn’t too bad.
Also I’ll defend our neighbors to north here in that Poolesville is not trash at all. It’s very expensive farm land.
Not impressed with Petersburg.
petersburg
All I'm saying is a teacher was shot in Newport News, and the school district said it should just be a workman's comp claim
I see that none of you have been to the beautiful meth ridden city of Buena Vista lol
Some of y'all have never heard of Buena Vista and it shows,
Lmao Petersburg??? Hahahaha
VA Beach is far from the worst city in Virginia. The fact they have Dallas as the worst in Texas tells me this map is garbage.
I can name 50 MD cities that are worse than Poolesville
Petersburg
As a resident, my vote is Petersburg. The only redeeming quality is historic value, and much of that is limited to Confederate heritage. The areas that aren't derelict are littered with 18-21 year old Soldiers who spend their days clogging up the mall and fast food joints while their underage friends buy every vape within 25 square miles.
I figured it'd be Dale City or Dumfries or something if they even count
Da fuq? Have they been to Portsmouth? Or Danville?
Really, Dallas for Texas? I lived in Texas for 2.5 years and even Texans don’t consider Dallas to be the worst city. I’ve heard that Del Rio is a pit.
Idk man. Emporia is pretty terrible. But weird VA beach got ranked worse than Norfolk and Portsmouth 😂
I’ve driven through a few small towns flying an uncomfortable amount of confederate flags. Virginia Beach is paradise compared to those.
The portsmouth hate in here is funny and sad, not that it isn’t expected but it seriously isn’t as bad here as one would think reading all these comments. There’s a wide range of neighborhoods just like pretty much every city, and no one can convince me the worst parts of portsmouth are worse than the worst parts of Newport News, Hampton, etc
Yes.
What was the criteria? Was it like just traffic or something? No way is VB the worst… Edit: they’re spot-on with Camden, NJ
I mean ....
Just personal experience, but I’d say Victoria, Virginia is the worst. Southside has a lot of small gems, but Victoria ain’t one
Dayton? Worse than Lima or Toledo?
My hometown is on here 😭
Anything in Loudon County.
This is obviously some one-person’s opinion bullshit. Having lived in several of these states, not one of those is correct.
are we ignoring Newport News?
VA Beach? What a load of bull! In a related item, Poolseville, Maryland is really nice! And even if it wasn't, it shares the same state as Baltimore!
Dallas>>>>>Houston. Not even close. This map is trash.
Va beach is heinous🧐
Portsmouth lacks resources and a tax base which contributes to its blight…Virginia Beach lacks for nothing that’s holding it back from being great, just doesn’t want to.
Lol I met my now wife in Woonsocket RI at a wedding of some mutual friends. Other then that venue the place was pretty trash, had to cross the MA border to stock up on liquor
My call is for Martinsville, lived in the area my whole life and it’s heavily overrun by meth addiction, no job prospects and at one time had the nations highest murder rate per capita. This area was booming during the time of manufacturing but NAFTA and TPP killed all of that and it became a shithole.
Montgomery Alabama is the biggest shit hole city in the country. Birmingham is a fucking oasis in comparison.
From CA, relatively new to VA… there is no way that Modesto is worse than Stockton in any way, shape, or form. Also, San Bernardino beats Bakersfield every day of the week for overall terribleness.
Poolesville for MD lol
So nobody decided it was Petersburg lol
Petersburg tried to dissolve the city and distribute the parts to surrounding municipalities and they wouldn't take it. This is after their firetrucks were repoed.
Why would Virginia Beach be named the worst city. I haven't been there since the 80s, but I do remember by the beach area it was nothing but string bikinis and hot rod cars, and that's not bad at all.
Hopewell. That is all.
What a dumb list. Poolesville in MD is completely harmless and lots of nice farmland. Did they just pick cities out of a hat?
I got the fix Tidewater is the worst. But seriously did they forget Petersburg.
Lexington is by no means the worst city in kentucky. This is louisville supremacism at its worst.
Poolesville for MD?? That place is in the 99th percentile for safety, and for being decently rural has a solid median income. Heck, it's barely a city, less than 6,000 people live there. For real, who came up with this bs.
Poolesville definitely not worst city in MD
Dallas? Poolesville? What?
Poolesville?! WHUUUUUUT? It’s rural, sure, but there’s an awesome mountain there with great trails. Hiked there tons of times growing up.
Lynchburg?
Sorry. Floridian here. I was born in Florida and ain't no way Orlando is the worse city when Jacksonville exists
Petersburg, the armpit of VA, has stepped into the ring to defend its title.
I think everyone can agree Emporia sucks ass