I could humorously say a race track after a triple crown race (like the Preakness), but more seriously slums of any city are ugly. I am more curious about countries. I lived in Okinawa in early 70s and they had open sewers. Stinky and ugly. 57 miles wide and 12 miles long of coral... I suppose it could have changed, but...
2006-06-17 05:16:24 · 13 answers · asked by Wasabandmom 3 in Travel ➔ Travel (General) ➔ Other - Destinations
I meant 57 miles LONG and 12 miles WIDE... sorry.
2006-06-17 05:17:21 · update #1
Sicily was the nastiest place i have ever been, and thats saying a lot considering I have been to the balkans, africa, and asia. There were open sewers, and old women pitching pee out windows(they would yell before they did it), the place smelled like feces, pee, and foot sweat. The only bright spot was the irish pub we found, where we found out that if you could see over the bar you were old enough to drink.
2006-06-17 05:38:07 · answer #1 · answered by irishfan46241 4 · 1⤊ 2⤋
Copta Mica in Romania. It was during the period of their revolution in 1989 and I had to spend some hours at the train station there. The place was notorious in Romania (maybe still is) as a super nasty industrial zone, loaded with pollution and grime. Everything was black, the streets, buildings, everything. There was a greasy, nasty soot that covered everything. Most animals there lived only a few years and humans from the area had shortened life spans.
At one point I slipped and my jeans got a good coating of the oily soot. Later that night in a town an hour away we got to a hotel and gave the maid the jeans to wash. She came back a couple hours later. She had spend a huge amount of time, just trying to get these jeans clean and had not toally succeeded. You could still see the dark stain on the pants. She was very upset because she knew I was an American (most Romanians at that time had never seen ANY foreigners) and thought I would look down on her. My Romanian buddy told her not to worry, that we had come from Copta Mica and that she did a great job considering the grime. She smiled and said she should have realized where the soot had come from. We gave her a tip worth a few days pay (only a few dollars!) and she left happy.
A couple years later in the U.S. ABC News happened to do a piece on the town and gave even more grim information. It really freaked me out that they had found this place. It was truly NASTY.
2006-06-17 12:29:52 · answer #2 · answered by Death_Merchant100 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Charleston, West Virginia in 1976. I was born near there and returned after 16 years. It was so polluted that you couldn't even see the sun or clouds. I was so disappointed and realized that my parents did make the best choice by moving away from that area.
I returned in 2004 and it was totally different. The chemical plants that spewed the pollution out over the skyline were gone. It was a pretty place again just as my parents had remembered in their youth. I am not a green party liberal but after that visit in 1976, I did play a role in keeping toxics out of the environment.
2006-06-17 16:58:59 · answer #3 · answered by Girl Scout 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Gee, I haven't been to any place like that. I guess it was a farm in rural Mexico that friends wanted me to see for some reason. They decided in a group and the only word I understood was my name. There was garbage all over there too, I don't know if the animals were supposed to eat it. While checking a sheep (one of them was a vet in training), it peed on him. They kept turning around to me with smiles like "Isn't this great?" I didn't think so.
2006-06-17 12:24:15 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Kettleman City, Ca
Honorable Mention: my dorm room senior year
2006-06-17 12:22:13 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Upsala - The Land that Man Forgot.
2006-06-17 12:20:14 · answer #6 · answered by ? 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
My mother-in-law's so called, herb garden... Only herb I saw in it worth mentioning lived down the street, and was using it as a shortcut to the store...
2006-06-17 12:26:09 · answer #7 · answered by RIBMASTER 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
the abandoned public housing projcts in Cincinnati, Ohio
Got lost an ended up there, the only police we saw flaged us down and said to get out , forget what we saw, and never ever come back..
2006-06-17 12:22:51 · answer #8 · answered by The Chesire Cat 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It was in Amman, Jordan. There was a creek (river?) with garbage all around it. I guess they used it as a dump but it was smack-dab in the city with no fences.
2006-06-17 12:21:17 · answer #9 · answered by madbaldscotsman 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
San Francisco, CA.
I can't tell you how many times I've seen Human Poop on the sidewalk, Rather- I can't tell you how many times I've seen HUMANS POOP ON the sidewalk.
Okay place to visit- but wouldn't want to live there.
2006-06-18 01:12:16 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋