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From armpits of the state to middle fingers of the country—some of the cities in the US are known for being the least attractive urban settlements. Of course, beauty is in the eye of the beholder, so not everyone finds NYC or New Orleans pleasing, and perhaps some negative experiences would have influenced one's preferences. But there are definitely a few cities that stand no chance at not being called ugly and we are hoping that you are not living there.

A curious user u/teddyjr32378 on the popular Reddit community r/AskReddit decided to find out ‘What is the ugliest city you have ever visited?’ and below are what the users came up with with, so you can let us know if you agree.

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#1

People In This Online Group Share The 30 Most Unpleasant-Looking Cities In America They’ve Ever Visited Vegas. Although I wouldn’t call it much of a city; it was more of a clusterf*** of buildings, neon, and wasted lives all stitched together smack in the middle of bumf*** nowhere.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Las Vegas is not just the strip...next time drive a few miles in either direction then you can pass judgement. This hiker's paradise is 20 minutes from the strip and still in Las Vegas 29f460d205...f07889.jpg 29f460d2050be0a455e2569de0d7ed9d-60be2a0f07889.jpg

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People In This Online Group Share The 30 Most Unpleasant-Looking Cities In America They’ve Ever Visited Bakersfield, CA - Never in my life have I seen such a sour sight. Oil wells as far the eye can see that it almost looks a heard of stationary ants humping the soil.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I don't know where this picture was taken but it isn't Bakersfield. Bakersfield has a population of almost 400k and while there are oil pumps throughout the city and surrounding areas its not like this. There are also orange groves and many other fruits an vegetables. Bakersfield does have the most unhealthy air in America and terrible traffic. Source: My brother lives in Bakersfield and I live 2 hours away.

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People In This Online Group Share The 30 Most Unpleasant-Looking Cities In America They’ve Ever Visited Gary, Indiana. The entire city was gray. No color. I thought I had gone color blind until I got to Chicago.

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People In This Online Group Share The 30 Most Unpleasant-Looking Cities In America They’ve Ever Visited Youngstown, Ohio. Pure depression.

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People In This Online Group Share The 30 Most Unpleasant-Looking Cities In America They’ve Ever Visited After I visited Aberdeen, Washington I felt like I understood Kurt Cobain better. The natural surroundings are stunningly beautiful, but in the middle of it there’s this gray, dark, depressing town built on a swamp that feels like it’s sucks the life out of you. If a town could have feelings, this one would be utterly, hopelessly depressed.

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People In This Online Group Share The 30 Most Unpleasant-Looking Cities In America They’ve Ever Visited Bakersfield, California, always gives me a headache when I visit it.

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People In This Online Group Share The 30 Most Unpleasant-Looking Cities In America They’ve Ever Visited LA. depressing concrete s***hole and I'm glad I visited nicer cities in the USA. everyone was so angry/sad there.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

You mean Downtown LA - so many people only think of downtown - next time venture out a little and you'll disocver LA is HUGE and there are a lot of great gems. Downtown is indeed depressing though

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People In This Online Group Share The 30 Most Unpleasant-Looking Cities In America They’ve Ever Visited Modesto, CA. It should be a crime to make a city as ugly as Modesto in a state with so much beauty.

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Suzanne Haigh
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Well you know, whoever designed, planned etc this will be related to errrm, well those in control who have the pennies. Same everywhere

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People In This Online Group Share The 30 Most Unpleasant-Looking Cities In America They’ve Ever Visited El Paso, Texas, depresses the hell out of me.

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Vicky Z
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

For me the depression is the laws they have against women, lgbtq and in favour of guns!

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People In This Online Group Share The 30 Most Unpleasant-Looking Cities In America They’ve Ever Visited Birmingham, Alabama. Half the city is just bland brown brick buildings from the 80’s, and the other half is basically abandoned ruins of bland brown brick buildings from the 80’s

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Not to mention "malfunction junction". Mess of roads and ramps that have being built for like 20 years. It's a terrible place, lots of crime.

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People In This Online Group Share The 30 Most Unpleasant-Looking Cities In America They’ve Ever Visited Johnstown, Pennsylvania... You can almost feel that the city is dying a slow, unsettling death...

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People In This Online Group Share The 30 Most Unpleasant-Looking Cities In America They’ve Ever Visited Albuquerque, NM. Let me paint a picture. In a rental car after 14 hours of driving I make it about halfway into town. And need gas badly. I pullover to a pretty empty gas station. Just Some oily cardboard sheets spread out here and there. Trees pretty much envelope 3/4s of the sides of the building itself. I get ready to slide my card in the reader when 6 individuals start exiting the cover of the trees. Three guys take up sitting or lying down on the strewn cardboard and three women/girls of questionable age somewhere between 16 and 40 I ballpark approach my car and try to hem and haw and cough to get my attention. I pull my card back, say "aww s***, declines. F***." Get back in my car and speed away. In my rearview I see more people keep coming out of the trees. They didn't look pleased.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I don't understand why buggs bunny wanted to turn there all the time!!!

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People In This Online Group Share The 30 Most Unpleasant-Looking Cities In America They’ve Ever Visited Independence, MO. — meth capital of the United States. Even the buildings look like they smoke rocks.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Portland oregon. Needles and trash everywhere. The area around my apartment looks like a garbage dump.

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People In This Online Group Share The 30 Most Unpleasant-Looking Cities In America They’ve Ever Visited Gary Indiana is the best reason ever to remove speed limits from freeways. So you can enter and exit Gary in the shortest possible time.

You know a city is bad when the local government boasts there's been less than a dozen murders and less than 20 dead crack babies this month!

Things are Lookin' up for Gary, Indiana!

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People In This Online Group Share The 30 Most Unpleasant-Looking Cities In America They’ve Ever Visited 'City' would be generous, but take it upon yourself to never stop in Stark or Waldo, FL.

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People In This Online Group Share The 30 Most Unpleasant-Looking Cities In America They’ve Ever Visited Abilene, Tx. just empty buildings, ghettos, and more churches than i've ever seen. the churches are doing well. the city, not so much.

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Emma Byrne
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Interesting. I wonder if folk pay more to the tax avoiding church than they do in taxes?

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People In This Online Group Share The 30 Most Unpleasant-Looking Cities In America They’ve Ever Visited No one has mentioned Watertown NY so I guess I'll make the case for it. I grew up in the Watertown area. Have since traveled all over the US many times. I've seen some downright awful places but I've yet to see a place that captures the same kind of energy that Watertown does.

Watertown is unique in that it has the perfect combination of a depressed economy, dilapidated infrastructure and poor weather. It gets positively hammered with snow in the winter due to its proximity to Lake Ontario and often sets records for snowfall and low temperatures. The winters are brutal and sometimes start as early as October and can last into May. It exists in what was once the bottom of an ancient glacial lake so the low elevation means constant cloud cover which makes it gray and bleak during the summertime.

On top of that, almost any art or music that is written about the place is about how bad it is. Frank Sinatra's album Watertown is depressing as hell. Harry Chapin wrote the song "A Better Place To Be" while he was in Watertown. There are more examples too. It's so depressing that it inspires people to write about how depressing it is.

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Cain Hargreaves
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

There are so many towns in New York state that are absolutely miserable (Mechanicville is another one).

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People In This Online Group Share The 30 Most Unpleasant-Looking Cities In America They’ve Ever Visited Albany, NY just feels like a really big Greyhound bus station to me. In the summer it's kinda gross, but in the winter it's a muddy gray sh*tpile. Whenever I've found myself there I've felt like I need to escape it - probably in an old school bus with razor wire strung around it with sharpened broomstick handles protruding from the windows.

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People In This Online Group Share The 30 Most Unpleasant-Looking Cities In America They’ve Ever Visited Cleveland Ohio. That place irritates my soul

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Hmmm, I don't understand. It's not the most beautiful city, but it is not ugly at all. Lots of features, lots of culture. Surrounding areas are gorgeous.

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People In This Online Group Share The 30 Most Unpleasant-Looking Cities In America They’ve Ever Visited Stockton, CA is some big yikes. Maybe not aesthetically ugly, but definitely socioeconomically ugly.

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People In This Online Group Share The 30 Most Unpleasant-Looking Cities In America They’ve Ever Visited Laurel, MS. The try to doll it up on the HGTV show, but it's a cesspool. Upgraded to the most violent city in Mississippi last year, if I'm not mistaken.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

There used to be a local musician who sang a song that went "Laurel, is a dirty stinking place." It's the Gary, Indiana of Mississippi.

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People In This Online Group Share The 30 Most Unpleasant-Looking Cities In America They’ve Ever Visited Oh my god. Why has no one said Houston yet?

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People In This Online Group Share The 30 Most Unpleasant-Looking Cities In America They’ve Ever Visited I can’t believe no one had mentioned Rochester NY, Anything past Culver road. The worst parts are near Lyell and Monroe Ave. Place is a sh*t hole.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Dude. .... I LOVE rochester. There's soooo much history. Yes there's some s**t parts. (especially Monroe ave) but I like to describe it as the most beautiful ghetto I've ever seen. Can't be too mad when there's trees grass and friggin squirrels everywhere. lol. But upstate NY is my fave. Rochester, Medina, Irondaquoit (I spelled that wrong I'm sure), you name it. Amazing.

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People In This Online Group Share The 30 Most Unpleasant-Looking Cities In America They’ve Ever Visited Blyth California

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

But if you’re in Blythe, the shining star is the Courtesy Coffee Shop diner. Food is great and make sure to ask them to show you the amazing vintage dining room hidden behind the red padded door! They only use it for prime rib night.

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People In This Online Group Share The 30 Most Unpleasant-Looking Cities In America They’ve Ever Visited Lawton, OK also. Only been on a few quick in and out missions into the town, but by golly does look like a mess.

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People In This Online Group Share The 30 Most Unpleasant-Looking Cities In America They’ve Ever Visited Stockton California no doubt.

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People In This Online Group Share The 30 Most Unpleasant-Looking Cities In America They’ve Ever Visited Terre Haute, IN. Truly the armpit of the state.

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People In This Online Group Share The 30 Most Unpleasant-Looking Cities In America They’ve Ever Visited Cañon City, CO. The Royal Gorge is lovely, but as it's also home to multiple prisons, the rest of it is bleak as hell.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I told a friend that I was on line checking out Canon City's rents. She practically barked at me to avoid that town because of all the prisons.

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People In This Online Group Share The 30 Most Unpleasant-Looking Cities In America They’ve Ever Visited Spokane,WA. It feels like it got left behind in the late 80s when Seattle became a major destination with no vibrancy or anything attractive about the city in general. Just bunches of residential neighborhoods with a few upscale eateries to keep it just out of last place.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I am thinking that perhaps Spokane intentionally avoided becoming "another Seattle" on purpose. There were many very-desirable rural/suburban features that faded out as Seattle became a major destination. Spokane would have been smart to retain those things.

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