Where's the Biggest Shithole You've Ever Been?
Rio Gallegas, Argentina.
But if you are talking real shitholes (like ones you can get killed in)
I would say the neighborhoods up the hills in Medellin.
The ones where the tram goes. I think Santo Domingo is what one of them is called.
The outskirts of Salvador are pretty rough too. Probably the poor areas of anywhere in South America
are shitholes
But if you are talking real shitholes (like ones you can get killed in)
I would say the neighborhoods up the hills in Medellin.
The ones where the tram goes. I think Santo Domingo is what one of them is called.
The outskirts of Salvador are pretty rough too. Probably the poor areas of anywhere in South America
are shitholes
Quote: (02-19-2013 12:15 AM)LowerCaseG Wrote:
Madras India. Muy shithole.
I liked Chennai though only spent 24 hours there. There was one public place I visited with a gigantic elephant statue--I mention because, hey, at least it was some kind of artistic "park"--and the beach was fun to walk along in the evening. There was a regional chain of vegetarian restaurants with lots of locations that were clean and had decent food. Sitting in one at night, A well-educated software engineer struck up a conversation with me, and I'd had other interactions with educated people who had decent social skills (i.e. were comfortable interacting with a Westerner as equals). Clean places to eat and educated people precludes world-class shit-hole status!
Not saying I don't feel sorry for you if you live there. I've heard that night life is non-existent and it's tough to get girls even relative to other parts of India. Also, that it's oppressively hot and humid (not when I was there though).
Pacasmayo, Peru. Makes Padang look like paradise and Gary, IN look like a vibrant manufacturing base.
Quote: (04-23-2013 08:27 PM)Tim9000 Wrote:
Quote: (02-19-2013 12:15 AM)LowerCaseG Wrote:
Madras India. Muy shithole.
I liked Chennai though only spent 24 hours there. There was one public place I visited with a gigantic elephant statue--I mention because, hey, at least it was some kind of artistic "park"--and the beach was fun to walk along in the evening. There was a regional chain of vegetarian restaurants with lots of locations that were clean and had decent food. Sitting in one at night, A well-educated software engineer struck up a conversation with me, and I'd had other interactions with educated people who had decent social skills (i.e. were comfortable interacting with a Westerner as equals). Clean places to eat and educated people precludes world-class shit-hole status!
Not saying I don't feel sorry for you if you live there. I've heard that night life is non-existent and it's tough to get girls even relative to other parts of India. Also, that it's oppressively hot and humid (not when I was there though).
Very well could be, I was there for less than a day in 1998, but the area just outside of the port was the dirtiest place i've ever been.
Quote: (04-23-2013 09:06 PM)lurker Wrote:
Pacasmayo, Peru. Makes Padang look like paradise and Gary, IN look like a vibrant manufacturing base.
Outside of Lima and the "major" cities, Peru is pretty much one giant shithole. I'm sure the amazon and macchu pichu are cool, but all those little towns are so shitty.
Quote: (04-23-2013 07:49 PM)EisenBarde Wrote:
Most of Nassau in the Bahamas outside of the overpriced resort tourist area.
Agreed.
I was in Nassau last week and there are some rough areas, places you don't want to have to stop at traffic lights. Plenty of nice areas like Cable Beach though. Going to the Bahamas only to see Nassau however is a waste, need to hit the family islands.
Roughest places I have been that had fewest redeeming qualities: Bombay and Jakarta. Rats the size of cats and slum stench in the air. At least in Jakarta you can't fail to get laid though.
Varanasi in India aka floating rotting corps city.
"Luckily" I was so sick that I didn't leave the hotel room much. Sometimes shitting 25 times a day can be a blessing.
"Luckily" I was so sick that I didn't leave the hotel room much. Sometimes shitting 25 times a day can be a blessing.
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I read the title to this post and thought Guayaquil! It was funny when I opened it and it said that right off the bat. It is a huge shithole with stray dogs feeding off the piles of garbage that are everywhere. Im a dog person so that sort of bothered me. I had some pretty bad food there too. The best thing i ate was some sort of eggy soupy shit that comes in a baggy (help me out if you know what im talking about). The women are ugly for the most part. Sequestro express is a huge problem (express taxi-kidnappings). I even heard ecuadorians talking about how kids are getting taken and their organs are being sold now but you don't hear that on the news or anywhere except from them so I can't confirm it. The beach I went to (i think that it was called las playas about 1 or 2 hours away) was ugly with grey water. Salinas is supposed to be nice and is closer to Guayaquil but I'm skeptical. To be honest though, the people were great. Really nice and hospitable. I would go again just to party with the friends I made. I almost feel bad knocking it but its the truth.
Quote: (02-11-2013 11:01 AM)scotian Wrote:
Of all the places I've travelled its a tie between Manila and Bogota but at least both of those cities have attractive women so it sounds like Guayaquil has them both beat.
Weren't you in fort Mac? Bogota does have dodgy areas, but zone rosa c'mon, Bogota ain't that bad.
Quote: (02-20-2013 07:15 AM)silverbullit Wrote:
Flint Michigan.
For what its worth, people underestimate michigan as an american pussy oasis. But around detroit it sucks.
Easy pull here. People need to come here and head to the popular lake areas in the summer. Sleezy drunk white woman for the taking. Even easier if you know someone with a boat or can rent one. Girls are not very atttractive though.
I"ll have to throw up a data sheet sometime about boat partying in Michigan during the summer.
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Quote: (02-19-2013 12:30 AM)WesternCancer Wrote:
The downtown east side in Vancouver.
Hundreds of mentally ill, rotting, drug addicted and disabled people just stumbling around yelling to themselves. One of the saddest things I've ever seen was when me and some friends left a strip club that is pretty close to main/hastings. My friend was drunk and putting on his hoodie while walking. As soon as he puts the hoodie over his head (can't see at this point) a crackwhore runs up to ask for change or something. Hes struggling to get his arm through the hoodie and ends up sticking it through and swinging hard knocking her straight in the face. We all kind of went silent. She started crying and saying how sorry she was for bothering him and that she would go away etc. He gave her $10 and she left.
I saw her eyes just as she looked up, they were just vacuous pits of sadness.
this, it feels like it's straight out of some zombie movie
Quote: (02-14-2013 05:24 PM)AlbertoDelMuerto Wrote:
Quote: (02-14-2013 05:03 PM)Fortitudinal Wrote:
I second Tijuana, Mexico. Sad city, a vibe of broken dreams and crushed souls.
The town is basically built 5m from the border. You can see the desert, and the search lights across the metal wall. Really weird.
Tijuana isn't all that bad,I don't get why so many people hate it. You can live in Tijuana, and be in California in a matter of 30 minutes. It is really cheap, and there are lots of pretty girls, and the food is awesome, and you still hate it because it's not safe and dirty? Every city has it's ups and downs, TJ is no different.
That is being pretty generous.
The border line can be hours.
And that is if you don't get thrown into secondary.
Do you have a Sentri Pass or something?
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Tijuana isn't all that bad,I don't get why so many people hate it.
People hate it because they don't go to the high end parts, they just go to Avenida Revolucion.
Canton, Ohio. I dont see how they have the Football Hall of Fame there. I couldnt wait to get out of there.
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Quote: (04-24-2013 11:29 AM)MidWest Wrote:
Canton, Ohio. I dont see how they have the Football Hall of Fame there. I couldnt wait to get out of there.
How does it compare to Zanesville? I've been to Zanesville, but not Canton.
Never been to Zanesville but Canton was just bad. Hobos everywhere, dirty streets and garbage everywhere, old abandoned factories. To be honest with you I think the whole state of Ohio is a shithole (No offense to anyone from there), I dont blame Lebron James for leaving Cleveland to go to Miami, I would have done the same thing.
Quote: (04-24-2013 08:41 AM)Weebs Wrote:
I read the title to this post and thought Guayaquil! It was funny when I opened it and it said that right off the bat. It is a huge shithole with stray dogs feeding off the piles of garbage that are everywhere. Im a dog person so that sort of bothered me. I had some pretty bad food there too. The best thing i ate was some sort of eggy soupy shit that comes in a baggy (help me out if you know what im talking about). The women are ugly for the most part. Sequestro express is a huge problem (express taxi-kidnappings). I even heard ecuadorians talking about how kids are getting taken and their organs are being sold now but you don't hear that on the news or anywhere except from them so I can't confirm it. The beach I went to (i think that it was called las playas about 1 or 2 hours away) was ugly with grey water. Salinas is supposed to be nice and is closer to Guayaquil but I'm skeptical. To be honest though, the people were great. Really nice and hospitable. I would go again just to party with the friends I made. I almost feel bad knocking it but its the truth.
Yeah, what a shit hole that place is. No idea about the eggy soupy stuff. I only spent two days in Guayaquil because I just couldn't stand being there. It was depressing. Once I got to Montanita, I tried ordering a normal place of food, and it was shit too, so I just stuck to burgers, hot dogs, and empanadas pretty much the whole time I was in Ecuador because they seemed like the only edible food.
I drove through Salinas and it looks like it has potential. Definitely a nice beach, but the town itself is a bit of a run down shit hole. If you're going to Salinas, you may as well drive the extra hour and a half though and go to Montanita. The Ecuadorian coast is very nice. Many of the towns are shit holes but it's not hard to look past when you have such a nice coast. Thing is, in a lot of the towns I have a sense that there isn't much to do, as many of them are very small. So if you are looking for fun and nice beaches, Montanita is where to go. If you want to escape the craziness that is Montanity, you can hit up one of the neighboring towns with equally as nice of a coast for a couple days.
Camden. Makes Jersey City look like Paris.
Although if you're looking for $20 street BJ from crack whores, you will love it.
Although if you're looking for $20 street BJ from crack whores, you will love it.
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Quote: (04-24-2013 11:29 AM)thegmanifesto Wrote:
Quote: (02-14-2013 05:24 PM)AlbertoDelMuerto Wrote:
Quote: (02-14-2013 05:03 PM)Fortitudinal Wrote:
I second Tijuana, Mexico. Sad city, a vibe of broken dreams and crushed souls.
The town is basically built 5m from the border. You can see the desert, and the search lights across the metal wall. Really weird.
Tijuana isn't all that bad,I don't get why so many people hate it. You can live in Tijuana, and be in California in a matter of 30 minutes. It is really cheap, and there are lots of pretty girls, and the food is awesome, and you still hate it because it's not safe and dirty? Every city has it's ups and downs, TJ is no different.
That is being pretty generous.
The border line can be hours.
And that is if you don't get thrown into secondary.
Do you have a Sentri Pass or something?
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Tijuana isn't all that bad,I don't get why so many people hate it.
People hate it because they don't go to the high end parts, they just go to Avenida Revolucion.
TJ was nice the last time I went through, and I was in a formerly shitty part. The town has cleaned up a bit.
East St. Louis. Shitty downtown. I can't imagine any other US city with a worst DT. Southside ChiTown maybe? Youngstown, Ohio?
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Agra, India, without a doubt. The drive into Agra is one of the most shocking things a foreign visitor ever will see. The streets resemble small landfills, the people are tiny and emaciated, and the sidewalks(if they could be called that) are lined with hovels built out of discarded leather and newspaper. Half the buildings are wrecked and populated by monkeys that attack people, and the dogs, horses, and camels that for some reason wander the city are stick-thin and resemble zombies. Oh, and the river Yamuna, which runs through the city, is filthy, depressing and foggy. Plus there are random open areas that, for no good reason, are just full of garbage.
It is a fascinating place, though. If any of you ever visit India, drop in on Agra. Not only is the Taj Mahal spectacular, but some of the other tourist attractions, like the marbleworker's center, are well worth a visit. Plus the food is pretty damn good. Out of all the places that I've seen, however, Agra stands head and shoulders over the others in terms in general crappiness.
Mumbai is definitely up there. The most diverse city in the world, Mumbai's streets are stalked by burn victims aplenty, various disfigured beggars, and gigantic transvestites who scare the fuck out of everyone. Plus the streets are as trash-ridden and disgusting as everywhere else in India(even in the so-called nice areas). The place resembles New York on cocaine. Oh, and the airport generally reeks of urine.
Medford, Oregon, also deserves an honorable mention. Avoid it at all costs.
It is a fascinating place, though. If any of you ever visit India, drop in on Agra. Not only is the Taj Mahal spectacular, but some of the other tourist attractions, like the marbleworker's center, are well worth a visit. Plus the food is pretty damn good. Out of all the places that I've seen, however, Agra stands head and shoulders over the others in terms in general crappiness.
Mumbai is definitely up there. The most diverse city in the world, Mumbai's streets are stalked by burn victims aplenty, various disfigured beggars, and gigantic transvestites who scare the fuck out of everyone. Plus the streets are as trash-ridden and disgusting as everywhere else in India(even in the so-called nice areas). The place resembles New York on cocaine. Oh, and the airport generally reeks of urine.
Medford, Oregon, also deserves an honorable mention. Avoid it at all costs.
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