| Worst place you ever been?
Posted: 6/23/2007 8:54:52 PM |
The United States.
Granted, the USA isn't as friendly and as welcoming as it used to be, but please, elaborate so that the rest of us can further understand your point. | |
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| Worst place you ever been?
Posted: 6/26/2007 3:06:24 AM | Hi everyone...great discussion!
Barbados is nice - my brother was married on the beaches there about 4yrs ago!
I think the worst place I've been to was Tenerife while working on a cruise ship - creepy! right out of a movie creepy!
Mexico, definitely, is my fav place in the world - I lived all over Mexico for about 15yrs mostly but also worked on cruise ships and in the Caribbean but I keep coming back to Mexico - travel is the greatest industry in the world! This website says it all: www.ytbTravelMovie.com
By the way, anyone looking for jobs-on-cruise-ships(.com) can contact me at www.peopleinparadise.com - that's what I do!
Happy travels!
PeopleInParadiseTRAVEL.com | |
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| Worst place you ever been?
Posted: 6/26/2007 9:34:22 AM | | The Gambia... The corruption, total lack of ability to sustain its own people never mind tourists. But by far the scariest aspect for me was the disregard for life. You could be killed for a plastic biro. The Police are as bad as the populace | |
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| Worst place you ever been?
Posted: 8/21/2007 1:36:01 PM | | Fort Wayne, Indiana. Went there for a family reunion and it seemed like everyone we encountered was just flat-out rude. | |
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| Worst place you ever been?
Posted: 8/23/2007 9:53:12 AM | I just posted this elsewhere but it fits here too.
Italy
The year was 1982. It's the only place I spent most of my time trying to get out. We had rail passes, we were traveling along the French Riviera, we got into Italy about 10am and the lights in the train started to flicker, the AC went out, we got to Milan, and they informed us over the loud speakers the country was on strike, don't bother asking questions unless you spoke the language. We were pointed to a line waiting for the next train out of the country. Waited in that line for 6 hours. Finally got onto a Snell Zug ( fast train) headed up the Swiss alps. Didn't care where it was going just out. We had a lovely dinner on the train in the fancy dinning car of white asparagus with a cheese sauce and white wine. It was great to be out of Italy, never been back.
The trip was thanks to the Hunt brothers trying to corner the market on silver, made tons of money on that one.
I'll stop there in a couple years on my boat trip around the world. Still looking for a mate. | |
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Posted: 8/23/2007 4:48:57 PM | I have not travelled that much outside US. I have been to Bahamas via cruise and Toronto Canada. Worst places I have visited in this order . No offense to these cities . 1 Toronto
2 Los Angeles
3 Baltimore
4 New Orleans- before Katrina
5 Atlanta | |
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| Worst place you ever been?
Posted: 8/25/2007 2:46:29 PM | Hmmm just shows how one bad experience can colour your whole perception. Been to Italy loads of times and love it.
Worst place for me was Nigeria. On account of the corruption. Not keen on some parts of Kenya these days either. Sorry but when they have to put armed police on tourist buses, it ceases to be 'fun'. Kenya is just going downhill. There are parts of Nairobi that have become no go areas since I was there.
Then I'm afraid I have to add London to the list. It's dirty, crowded, overhyped and expensive - and car drivers won't give another car driver the time of day.
To the person who doesn't like the sound of Zaire, it's quite common throughout Africa to have to iron even your undies in case a bug has laid it's eggs in your knicker elastic. I didn't notice if he/she was American but I have to say that when I ran a safari lodge in Uganda our American guests had by far the worst reputation for being shocked to find even a mosquito. I think some of them expected a sterile Disney theme park. | |
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| Worst place you ever been?
Posted: 8/29/2007 12:40:22 PM | Yiwu city China ..
boring and shit business ppl .
but the rest are great .. | |
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| Worst place you ever been?
Posted: 8/30/2007 9:40:37 PM | Sure there are lots of crappy ugly places with ignorant rude people in this world, but beauty & happiness can also be found everywhere, even in the most amazing & unexpected places.
Where you are is always relative to where you have been, whether it is Cairo or New York. As soon as I crossed the boarder to Yugoslavia (Croatia) someone said "hey buddy, you want a banana?" So I got a special welcome to Yugoslavia & thought what an amazing place. I arrived in Italy by train, it was hot so everyone was leaning out the windows. Just across the boarder there were kids on a fence spitting at the train. SO I got a special welcome to Italy & thought too bad this train ain't leaving, I just got here & want out already.
Maybe where you are isn't so great, so put a smile on your face and be happy you are from somewhere better and be thankful that you can return. | |
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Posted: 8/31/2007 3:10:50 AM | | ^^^^ You are correct. I was in SF once and not overly enamored by the city to be honest. The one night we[ex gf] hung out in the local 'Cheers' like pub was phenomenal, just hanging out and relaxing with the locals . It truly was like we were part of the regular crowd that night. The unexpected is always good . | |
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Posted: 9/1/2007 6:28:27 PM | Genoa, Italy. My partner arrived just after a G8 summit in which there had been large riots. We were basically treated like scum even when were just asking for directions (few people spoke English), ended up sleeping in a train station and eventually finding some cheap accommodation the following night. Interestingly enough, I had went there about 5 years previous with an Italian family and really enjoyed it.
I spent six months in Hobart, Tasmania and it didn't start off well: we reached our accommodation to find out it had been closed for the staff Christmas party and no one was there. After hanging around for 3 hours no one had returned. Incredibly expensive accommodation for a small city, and the scariest place I've ever been to: a suburb called Clarendon Vale. It's a housing commission estate and I felt unsafe just driving through there. Poor infrastructure, couldn't find any place open on January 2nd for a birthday meal, a generally unattractive city and the McDonalds didn't even have any warm apple pies ready to go in the middle of winter (a pet hate). That said it did improve and there are definitely some beautiful things about Hobart and Tasmania in general. | |
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| Worst place you ever been?
Posted: 9/3/2007 10:28:37 PM | Waffle House resturants in North carolina
why is it that none of the cooks or employees have teeth ? | |
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| Worst place you ever been?
Posted: 9/4/2007 1:09:53 AM | Jogjakarta Airport in Indonesia.
Besides the fact a Garuda jet crashed killing 50, including 5 Australians in April?, I spent 18hours being treated like a piece of crap by said airline a few weeks ago whilst on terminal waitlist on the busiest day of the year.
I finally got booked on another airline on a flight that should have taken off at 6.30pm... it ended up leaving at half past midnight because they had to get the plane from Medan!
The single worst travel experience. | |
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| Worst place you ever been?
Posted: 9/5/2007 6:39:32 PM | There are a few places that I have been too that I have zero interest in returning too, but I must say in almost every foreign country I have visited some of my fellow Americans have embarrassed me.
Just one example would be when I went to Ireland and took a bus tour of the country. Some of my fellow travelers kept comparing everything to their home, didn't understand why the people would not take dollars and insisted on Euros, and weren't happy with anything the entire trip (music, food, accommodations, people, etc.). I can't speak for everyone's experiences, but most of the people I have seen who have not enjoyed some of the places I have visited (14 countries, 45 states and counting) would not have been happy with almost anything. They set their expectations too high. I wonder if this applies to some of the people whom have posted previously. | |
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Posted: 9/7/2007 4:51:42 AM | Tijuana. I've been there twice, and hated it both times. What absolutely blew me away is that both times I was there, a drunken US military jerk tried to pick a fight to prove how tough he is. Let's see, I'm a US citizen who was in a foreign country and a member of my own country's armed services tried to start a fight with me. If you're wondering, no...I didn't say or do anything to either of them, I just don't know what the reasoning was.
Yeah, TJ was the worst, hands down. | |
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Posted: 9/7/2007 4:21:55 PM | | being military doesnt mean your honest and good natured you still have those who would act like a jerk whether they were military or regular joe szmo. and there are a go od number of military in TJ but they arent suppose to be. | |
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Posted: 9/7/2007 5:51:04 PM | | Monterrey Mexico, I flew in there once to do a demo on a machine AT&T bought from us. The sent two men to meet me at the airport I get off the plane and there's these two very large American men dressed in t-shirts and levi's. They hustle me out to a beat up red toyota and have me sit in the back. One the way there I asked why I couldn’t just rent a car and drive there. On they way to the compound where AT&T visitors stayed they pointed out all the police checkpoints that most likely I would have never made it through. Once we get to the compound, its like camp felujga, armed men everywhere guarding all the various kids of visitors the plant down there. I could hear gunfire all night long and didn't get much sleep. I was escorted to and from the facility by these two men, who I believed to be heavily armed ex military hired by AT&T. Once my task was completed they took me back to the airport. Then warned me not to talk to anyone before I boarded the plane home. They both stood and watched me at the ticket counter checking in. I was standing there and this little old women taps me on the shoulder and asks me if I could carry a painting back to America for her sister. As I was turned looking down at her I glanced up and there was a Federali staring straight at me as if to see if I would take the bait or not, DAMN what a scary trip. | |
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Posted: 9/9/2007 7:43:56 AM | To me this thread just shows that your whole perception of a place can be fixed by one or two unfortunate experiences.
I will always remember Prague for the mad butch woman who pursued me and my mate through the streets and for having our money stolen in the railway station. Paris was the place we got attacked in the night and the police didn't want to know. Yet most people love these places! I hated Rome too - but there again I don't like cities much.
I wasn't keen on Morocco, mainly because of the way me and my friends were stared at by the men - no matter how modestly we were dressed!
In my own country, I'm sorry but Barnsley and South Yorkshire generally have felt like the land that time forgot.
I loved most of West Africa and in Madagascar, despite some frightening experiences, the people were fantastic.
I guess there is only Nigeria I wouldn't go back to. And that's because so many people I know have also had a bad experience there. | |
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| Worst place you ever been?
Posted: 9/9/2007 1:22:10 PM | | although a scenic place, really beautiful actually---PRESIDIO, TEXAS was the PITS!!!and it had to do w/the attitude of the folks living there that did it for me. | |
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| Worst place you ever been?
Posted: 9/9/2007 3:09:39 PM | | The worst place that I have ever been,hard to pick one since I have been to a lot of places but I guess the choice has to be France after all.For two reasons they have living 'seafood' at the plates and they pretend to not speak English.I also dislike how they sell dogs and cats in small cages in the petstores. | |
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Posted: 9/11/2007 2:48:44 PM | | The worst place I have ever been ... Atlanta, GA. Or a suburb of it, when I got lost. There was this one place that had no people in it and it was amazingly creepy. I saw this one really ugly woman dragging along 3 pit bulls with spike collars, and a car full of gangsters blasting sub-bass notes everywhere within 3 miles!!! I am never going back there again. | |
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