Worst city center/downtown you've been to?

[Penn_Quaker_Girl]

Downtown Baltimore.  Nothing against Baltimore, but I groped in a bar there, so don't have any plans to go back anytime soon. 

[Penn_Quaker_Girl]

Downtown Baltimore.  Nothing against Baltimore, but I groped in a bar there, so don't have any plans to go back anytime soon.  

having been there for the AMS conference, even in the "safe/bougie" areas of downtown I felt unsafe traveling alone and constantly looked over my back during the mile walk to my hotel from the convention center. One night I tried to stop by CVS for some ibuprofen because of some killer headaches and it turns out they only let like 5 people in at a time then lock the store to prevent theft. Not even the bad parts of NY I visited were that bad. I think I have to agree here.

If we're telling stories: yeah I went to a bar with a couple of girlfriends.  This guy and what I assume were his fratboy buddies came up and started hitting on us.  He sat down next to me and just started stroking my leg -- I was wearing tights, but still...gross. 

[Penn_Quaker_Girl]

Tallahassee, I guess? All the one way streets are grating. I tried to Uber downtown when it was possible because parking was always hard.

this is up there too, went for a college tour and left early in part because the whole place reeked of sewage.

That was probably paper mills.  There are (or at least were) a bunch of them in the Panhandle, and you can smell them for many miles if you're unlucky enough for the wind to be blowing from their direction. 

probably a combo of that and the decision for the university to have the septic tank crew there on the day they were giving campus tours.

I threw up in front of a campus tour group.  But that's another story lol. 

[Penn_Quaker_Girl]

Tallahassee, I guess? All the one way streets are grating. I tried to Uber downtown when it was possible because parking was always hard.

this is up there too, went for a college tour and left early in part because the whole place reeked of sewage.

That was probably paper mills.  There are (or at least were) a bunch of them in the Panhandle, and you can smell them for many miles if you're unlucky enough for the wind to be blowing from their direction. 

probably a combo of that and the decision for the university to have the septic tank crew there on the day they were giving campus tours.

I threw up in front of a campus tour group.  But that's another story lol. 

The “After” half of the party-school element of the tour.

They were standing by the trash can and I was hungover.  Perfect storm. 

[Penn_Quaker_Girl]

Cancún, Mexico -- not the hotel zone, the 'downtown' is awful, ugly and completely devoid of interest. Playa del Carmen's downtown is not all that much better but still less terrible than Cancún. Whatever downtown Cozumel is is also terrible and boring.

Did the whole "sorority girl spring break" in Cancun.  It was soooo overrated.  For somewhere that's touted as being vibrant and tropical, I found it to be incredibly tacky and sterile.