What is the Worst Town in California?

[foodguy]

Originally Posted by HORNS

A methed-out shithole in the middle of beautiful country is Willits.

Originally Posted by whodini

I was trying to remember the name of the town to catch the skunk train the other day. This description is fairly accurate, though.

yes, this is the place, and yes, this is a fairly accurate representation. it's the heart of the northern california appalachia.

 

[thinman]

Do people actually live in Gilroy (I'm not actually nominating Gilroy, it looks like pretty country)? Do they become de-sensitized to the smell of garlic?

 

[uhurit]

Escondido
La Canada/Flintridge

 

[whodini]

Originally Posted by uhurit

Escondido
La Canada/Flintridge

lol. What?

 

[ConcernedParent]

Originally Posted by whodini

lol. What?

Self loathing upper middle class guy who wishes he came from somewhere trendier or ghetto for the "edgy" credibility?

 

[uhurit]

^^^
Shi-i-te! You got it!

 

[whodini]

Originally Posted by ConcernedParent

Self loathing upper middle class guy who wishes he came from somewhere trendier or ghetto for the "edgy" credibility?
Ah. Yeah, we can't all grow up in paradise, aka, Los Feliz.

 

[Manton]

I don't know if you are being ironic but I used to hang out in Los Feliz and I thought it was lovely. I love those old LA neighborhoods.

 

[whodini]

Born and raised, sir. And proud. There's nothing like being that close (Griffith) to not being in LA.

 

[fffffut]

Originally Posted by musicguy

Bakersfield sucks, or so I hear. I had a friend in HS who always trashed the place saying how there was nothing to do, so many rednecks and everyone just got high to while away the time. He may have been biased, but I can imagine there is some truth to it.

this is pretty much true
bakersfield is a ****** place

 

[BDC2823]

Originally Posted by Dakota rube

Have either Desert Hot Springs or Indio been nominated?

Originally Posted by Baron

I actually do some business in DHS and the worst parts of that town rival any single micro-neighborhoods in the state for worst places to live. But there are natural hot springs and it's just a few miles away from Joshua Tree and Palm Springs, so it's not the worst overall.

This.

I worked on a project in DHS (2007) and had a good laugh looking at their map of planned and approved projects in the city. Of course I had to take all planned projects into account, and this amounted to about tripling the size of the city within a few years time (mostly all residential).

 

[cheessus]

east palo alto has really gotten a lot better.

 

[foodguy]

Originally Posted by thinman

Do people actually live in Gilroy (I'm not actually nominating Gilroy, it looks like pretty country)? Do they become de-sensitized to the smell of garlic?

gilroy and environs (san juan bautista, etc.) are actually quite lovely. except for the constant shaking (they're right on the san andreas fault line ... some places you can see where the ground has slipped 20-30 feet). never notice the garlic smell. in fact, not really all that much garlic grown there anymore ... one of the legacies of monocropping is you sometimes get very specific, very ferocious soil-borne diseases that can wipe out the crop (think irish potato famine). for several years, most of the "gilroy" garlic was actually packaged there and imported from china.

 

[Manton]

Gilroy definitely used to smell overwhelmingly like garic. The last time I was there it did not but I did not know why. I went to this cheezy little amusement park called Gilroy Gardens. It was about ten million degrees. To this day I have no idea why we went when the Boardwalk is so much closer and so much cooler.

 

[foodguy]

Originally Posted by Manton

Gilroy definitely used to smell overwhelmingly like garic. The last time I was there it did not but I did not know why. I went to this cheezy little amusement park called Gilroy Gardens. It was about ten million degrees. To this day I have no idea why we went when the Boardwalk is so much closer and so much cooler.

yeah, if you're there in late summer when the plants are up, and it's hot, you can get a whiff.