What is the Worst Town in California?

[foodguy]

Originally Posted by NorCal

Yeah, I'm really thinking that corridor bordered by 5 and 99 from about Stockton to Bakersfield and then E. to Barstow. I can't say I've been each and every where along there and if I have it's all a blur but man. . . that's just another world.

i've spent quite a lot of time up there and it is another world ... but not all bad by any means. the stockton delta area is really quite beautiful. i have a very soft spot in my heart (and possibly my head) for the small farm towns around Fresno, Visalia, et al. Even Bakersfield isn't all bad. but none of them are anything like the stereotypical views of California.

 

[whodini]

Originally Posted by 3 Prague Winters

Delano
Corcoran
Santa Cruz

Pixley, Earlimart, Tulare... Speaking my country.

 

[3 Prague Winters]

Originally Posted by whodini

Pixley, Earlimart, Tulare... Speaking my country.

What the heck, let's add Porterville then.

 

[whodini]

Originally Posted by 3 Prague Winters

What the heck, let's add Porterville then.
It's not that bad. At least they have a lake, unlike Exeter.

 

[TheIdler]

Mojave is pretty depressing, as are Victorville and Adelanto. For aptly named hellholes, how about Boron (world's largest open-pit borax mine) and of course Needles (lots of drugs, plus it was used as the prototype for the computer game Wasteland, yay!).

 

[Manton]

Originally Posted by 3 Prague Winters

Delano
Corcoran
Santa Cruz

you're an idiot

 

[Manton]

Originally Posted by SField

Man california gets ripped on a lot... I'm moving part time to LA... now I'm scared.

I was once in Chatsworth... that was pretty bad.

dude, chatsworth is monaco compared to the places we are discussing.

Also, Appreciation capital of the world.

 

[whodini]

Originally Posted by TheIdler

Mojave is pretty depressing, as are Victorville and Adelanto. For aptly named hellholes, how about Boron (world's largest open-pit borax mine) and of course Needles (lots of drugs, plus it was used as the prototype for the computer game Wasteland, yay!).
Every time I go up to Mammoth I can't help but think of all the places along and off the 395. I have nothing bad to say about Bishop, though.

 

[TheIdler]

Originally Posted by whodini

Every time I go up to Mammoth I can't help but think of all the places along and off the 395. I have nothing bad to say about Bishop, though.

Once you get into Inyo County, all those places further up 395 are cool in a way...Lone Pine, Big Pine, and of course Bishop.

 

[Manton]

395 is spectacular, how can it be anywhere near this thread?

 

[whodini]

Originally Posted by Manton

395 is spectacular, how can it be anywhere near this thread?
I'll wait for your moving party evite and look for your new Ridgecrest or Inyokem address.

 

[kwilkinson]

Originally Posted by Manton

[iammatt]Carmel[/iammatt]

[kwilk]Santa Rosa[/kwilk]

This. Anyone who participates in this thread needs to spend two weeks in Santa Rosa and come back to this thread.

 

[SField]

Originally Posted by Manton

dude, chatsworth is monaco compared to the places we are discussing. Also, Appreciation capital of the world.
Wow, holy ****, really???? Are we discussing like Detroit levels of awful here?

 

[Manton]

Originally Posted by SField

Wow, holy ****, really????

Are we discussing like Detroit levels of awful here?

Well, very different kinds of awful. There is nothing quite like Detroit in California that I know of. That combination of blight, depopulation, physical decay, and dense urbanity does not exist. You can find perhaps any two but not all four.

 

[SField]

What I do get a sense of, from this San Bernardino and others like it, is that moreso than other parts of the US, one can get a sense that you're almost in a different country, and not a nice one at that.

Do you miss California still? Do you regret moving?