Mombassa Kenya was very dusty. Smelled a little, too.
But what made it unforgivably unsatisfactory was the fact that the beer was warm!

Corpas Christi, TX. Ranked the #1 worst city to live in the United States just about every year.

I reeeeeeally dislike detroit.

its filthy, and everyone wants to either mug you or sell you hard drugs or give you VD.

Lol Corpus is really that bad off? Never heard that before lol I've been there a few times didn't strike me as that awful.

Wasilla, Alaska.

Meth is wack, kids.

Fairbanks, Alaska
Hot in the summer, tons of mosquitos through much of the year, cold as hell in the winter, smelly and smoggy in the winter due to inversion layers, muddy/dusty in the spring, full of crazy people, far from everything...

Wasilla is definitely the worst of the towns close to Anchorage...

Baltimore, MD. Hands down.

lol i think you've convinced me dexter ive never liked alaska

I need to take back my earlier statement of Wasilla as the worst city in the world.

You know how "Air Force One" is the call sign of any Air Force craft carrying the President? Well, the worst city in the world is whichever one contains Sarah "Epic Fail" Palin.

By worst I mean any combination of factors that make it stand out as the worst in the world. And remember that you have been to.

Lagos Nigeria is notable for me because of
1. outrageous corruption
2. massive crime
3. indifference of the populace
4. horrible government
5. dangerous any time any place
6. prospects for help nil
7. attitude of the people combined aggressiveness and acceptance


etc.

Well, it's no Lagos but Memphis kinda sucks.

Winnipeg, Canada. =D

1. Unreasonable winters. (-50 C windchill anyone? There's not even much snow! Just ice!)
2. Unreasonable mosquitoes (they have to spray gas at night and they're still huge and malicious! Represent West Nile!)
3. Highest murder rate per capita for a provincial capital in Canada. (Trumps Toronto...)
4. Disproportionate gang presence. (Seriously, why?)
5. BORING! NOTHING TO DO!(Can't go outdoors for fear from frost and mosquito bites...)

Also no matter what their license plates say about Friendly Manitoba I find that Winnipeggers are generally less friendly than say Torontonians, which is saying something! They don't have a very good sense of humour either. At least that's what I've found from the two years I lived there.

Barren west Bum****, Wilderness of Canada...
..No Internet.........
AAAAHHH!

Jakarta, Indonesia
gridlocked, unfriendly polluted hole made up of slums built alongside mud flows(formerly known as "rivers") alongside huge mansions with pretentious corrupt snobs.
thucy, have you actually been to Mogadishu? i have no doubt that its a dangerous place but best to keep to cities you have been too.

Worst in the world I have been to: Montego Bay, Jamaica

Worst in the United States: a tie between Baltimore & Detroit, though I have heard Baltimore has gotten significantly better since I was last there.

Oh, and my home town (Houston) is pretty bad, too.

Colombo, Sri Lanka
Omaha, Nebraska, USA

Paris, France
Barcelona, Spain

These two places are so up themselves with really no reason to be,... All fur coat and no knickers.

Toledo, Spain (saw something like 20 swastikas spraypainted throughout the city, and its claustrophobic)

Seattle, U.S.A. (too depressing with all the rain)

I can't stand New York.

Paris, France
seedy and overrated with few attractions. The Eiffel Tower is just an eyesore that should have been demolished over 100 years ago.

so you'd rather live in Lagos than Paris?

My worst list primarily features various grim Chinese cities like Guangzhou, Chongqing. Though I suspect India could compete with come of these (but have not been). And I have yet to visit west or central africa. Hate Dubai too for being completely soulless and ridiculous.

Port Morseby - PNG
Hot, dirty, violent

Camden, NJ

Delhi, India - hot, polluted, noisy, filthy, crowded, etc.
Houston, USA - cultural wasteland. :)

Why does everyone hate Baltimore? Is it really that boring? Well, yes, but there are a million interesting things nearby.


Houston, Texas is bad, yes. Dhaka, Bangladesh is worse.

I liked Baltimore. The wharf/waterfront is nice at least.

@Dingleberry: There isn't really much of a waterfront in Baltimore these days. No, I'm not insane - I mean the development recently has put most Marylanders farther inland. If you were at a good, non-polluted waterfront you were probably closer to Annapolis (which I thought was a really nice place, btw).

Paulg: I suppose you know it was supposed to? ;)

Katrineholm, Sweden. Dullest place I've ever been to.

Yes, and Edinburgh is a close second to Paris for a similar reason. Dublin comes third.

Washington D.C. the polticians, the feeling that your being watched and heard by the FBI...

I'll second airborne on that.

Silly airborne,

Thanks to Bush & co, they're watching you in EVERY city.

stoke or Glasgow

Belize City, Belize. I would say Zurich, but I was only there for the night and the next mroning, so I can't judge it beyond the intense, chest pressure inducing smog in and around the airport. But the Swiss Alps were breathtaking in a different, much better way!

oops, morning. We need an edit capability on the forum.

No I've never been to Mogadishu but... considering as there is no rule of law there... I don't think anyone wants to go. You don't have to go to a city to know it's a terrible place to be.... that's how travelers make decisions. Anyway..

So what makes Houston a cultural wasteland lol I'm not offended just curious.

Camden, NJ +2
If Southwest DC were its own city, you'd have something similar to Camden.

Glasgow rocks.... crazy fool!!

Baltimore and Edinburgh are both pretty good cities in my opinion. Baltimore won't win any awards (except for traffic management) but Edinburgh is great - at least when there are more than 10 hours of daylight.

Now St. Louis on the other hand had very little redeeming. Even the Arch is a huge let down.

Oh, and how could I forget New York. It really doesn't matter what else they've got. They Yankees are a huge lead weight around the city's neck and now I can add all of those morons on Wall Street to the bunch.

Dangermouse, you hit St. Louis right on the head. Been there, done that, would just as soon have stayed home. DORING. But Belize has 100+ temperatures with 90% humidity and these nasty bugs that, if you walk on the grass, will eat you alive.

Oops, BORING. Wereally need that editor.

grrrrrrr

Cleveland

Carlisle - at 3AM on a wet Sunday morning is the ass end of the universe.

Tangier, Morocco. Dodgy!
(Nogales, Mexico would have to be a close second...)