What major city would you refuse to live in?

I'll go first: Portland, OR

 

New York, Chicago, San Francisco, and Portland all come to mind.

 

The thread title should be changed to "what shithole would you refuse in live in". Other than Miami, Salt Lake City and St. Louis, you cherry-picked some real turds. You should have added Los Angeles and San Francisco.

 

If given a choice i wouldn't live in any major city.

I did live in Memphis for about 10 years. I can say that i never once felt unsafe, even when i lived and worked downtown.

PS: The poll should allow multiple choices.

 

Any major city isn't bad if you can live way outside in the suburbs preferably on a plot of land within an hours drive from any major city. Still, New York and LA traffic are the worst so there really is no such commute. Still, Portland appears to be the worst city in the country right now. Democrat run cities appear to be the worst places to live in current times. A decade or two ago, they were preferred places to live.

 

All.

I voted New York, but I'd rather be a homeless drifter than live in any of those places.

 

I'm also voting "all," mainly because I think cities are all zoos. I much prefer the rural life.

 

......Why is there only US cities in your list..........

 

I do wish that we had not been restricted to just one city -- there are several of them in this list that I wouldn't live in unless my only other choice was some third-world shithole in Sub-Saharan Africa or something even worse....

I chose New York City to avoid, for a variety of fairly well-known reasons, including crime and cost-of-living, taxes, etc.

Interestingly, back in the mid-1990's, I had the opportunity of being relocated by the corporation I was working for to Portland, Oregon. My wife and I were flown out there a week to kind of look the place over so that I could make a decision to go, or not. Even way back then, our opinion was, "Yeah, it's got beautiful scenery, it's close to ocean beaches and the Cascade Mountains, the house prices are fairly high, but affordable", and so on. But -- WHO LAID THIS MESS OUT? If I ever saw a city that needed to have had PLANNING, and ZONING, it was Portland, Oregon. I decided to stay in the greater Denver, Colorado area, which, back then, hadn't yet become yet another Democrat mosh-pit, like it is today....

Today, almost thirty years later, poor Portland (along with other Democrat strongholds on the West Coast) is an ungovernable, unstable, unruly, pile of criminality, filth, fiscal insanity, and 'woke' sh!t. Still, if you were to buy a home in a gated community WAY out in the suburbs, it would still be better than the ultimate hyperliberal slag-hole that is New York City!

 

I don't see Detroit, Cleveland,Philadelphia?

Detroit is a shithole.

 

What does it matter Bill....you live in a frozen $hithole of Mafialand.....it must be freezing right about now.....what about -25c....not including windchill?....and it's only December....wait til Jan/Feb.

 

Portland PD no longer even responds to reports of stolen catalytic converters. Its because if they did, they would not be able to do anything else, it happens so often (and usually its impossible to track down the thief anyway).

Thats not the worst part tho...

A few months ago we had the cat converter stolen off our work truck in a hotel parking lot in Portland overnight. Its just two cuts with a battery powered reciprocating saw, so it prolly took all of a minute or two from start to finish. I dunno how much the platinum plating in those things goes for on the scrap market, but they're $1000-$1500 to replace at a shop.

The repair shops in Portland are all booked up for weeks replacing stolen catalytic converters. And they're making bank on it. Most everyone in Portland that can't always park in a secured area has had their converter stolen multiple times. One solution to this problem is to bypass the converter with a straight peice of exhaust pipe. This is called 'straight piping' the exhaust, and is common in racing where weight reduction is a priority. All the converter does is convert some of the more polluting exhaust gasses into less polluting gasses. Its not essential to the function of the car (though with the converter missing and nothing in its place, the exhaust vents upstream of the muffler so the noise of combustion is fairly defenning).

The City of Portland (and perhaps the entire state of OR, I would guess) is now fining any shop that 'straight pipe's a car $20,000 per infraction to protect the environment. So unless a Portlander (or their buddy) can 'straight pipe' their car themselves at home, everyone in Portland assumes a high risk of $1000-$1500 in damages every time they park their car in a public space. And everyone I talked to about it on the job has had theirs stolen more than once (except for the ones who DIY 'straight pipe'd, of course).

This is the prelude to anarchy.

 

Cause it's a troll thread meant to attack American liberals, of course.

 

ah...gotcha!!
oh well...I'll let you all alone then....shout when you need more beers and stuff....

 

Per capita crime rate in NYC is lower than in quite a few much smaller cities and even towns.

Pretty sure it's quite a bit lower than in Dallas.

 

SUGGESTION, @Durandal -- start your own thread asking the same question, "What major city would you refuse to live in", and list only those cities that aren't ruled by liberal, 'woke' Democrats.

There aren't a hell of a lot of them in the United States anymore, but try to choose the ones that you on the Left dislike the most, mostly because you believe that they're chock-full of Nazis, racists, predatory capitalists, Trump-worshippers, etc. Your poll might produce some interesting results....

 

I thought it was multiple choice. But just based on crime, tax load, and incivility, and the options on the list, Chicago comes top of mind.

 

Perhaps because most folks that live in the US already fled from the rest of the world.....

 

Chicago... the big "Mistake by the Lake". The other well-known Democrat-infested 'mistake' is Cleveland.

 

Not at all. Dallas and Miami are included.

 

Those same trolls hating on said American cities ....would probably gladly trade places for those same "$hitholes" compared to the bungholes they live in.,, probably somewhere in Mafialand.


BTW...move to Milwaukee(my birthplace), good German town....Minneapolis(lotsa Scandinavians Danes,Norwegians), Denver, Omaha(near me,also lotsa Germans).

 

I wouldn't live in any of them. I wouldn't even live close to one. But if I had to put one at the top of the list, I would put the one the OP put at the top of the list.

 

I live in New York City. My family traces back many generations here. I've no intention of leaving. Were I to move, though, I would wish to go to another large city. The cultural advantages of living in or near a large city are manifold. Museums, music such as opera and symphony concerts and the availability of multiple ethnic cuisines in restaurants just scratches the surface..

Regards, stay safe and well.

 

Well no wonder you're so anti-gun.... You live in a city where the authorities make it all but impossible for anyone but criminals to own guns

 

Hi, FatBack.

To be more precise, I'm anti-death by gunshot. The data for 2020* lists 45,222 of them. On average, that works out to a death by gunshot in the United States of America roughly every 12-13 minutes around the clock.

Regards, stay safe 'n well . . . 'n un-shot.

* Ref: Gun deaths in the U.S.: 10 key questions answered | Pew Research Center