What is the shittiest city in Iowa? (big city metro areas included)
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You get 2 votes
Let's settle this once in for all, Iowa
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- Sep 13, 2002
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Like the Sioux Indians themselves, the ‘I’ in souix was forced to move very far from its native lands
This poll is invalid without Ottumwa as an option
I didn’t see Keokuk, Fort Madison or Clinton on the list.
Based on my travels they Ioway the past 5 years, one if these has to be the runner up to Knoxville…
Based on my travels they Ioway the past 5 years, one if these has to be the runner up to Knoxville…
There are 943 towns in Iowa. I don't think it would be asking much for OP to create a bracket type playoff for each of them.
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Keokuk is also a shithole, but in my mind, it really belongs to Missouri anyway.
Trip review.
I recently took a trip to Clinton Iowa for my boyfriend's brothers wedding. I have traveled around the country and this is by far the worst town I have visited. The stench of this town made me gag. We could not travel with the windows open due to the grotesque smell. We stopped at the Phillips 66 gas station in town and encountered a man behind the counter smoking a cigarette with 3 of his friends loitering around the counter, I had to ask them to move so I could pay for my gas. As I was walking to my car, one of the men approached me and asked if he could have a dollar. I then got lost and stopped at another gas station to ask for directions and they wanted money for the directions! I found nothing warm or inviting about the people or the town. A lot of old boarded up buildings with no recent activity. I was never so glad to get home and see the bright lights of Minneapolis!!
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Clinton may be ok for some but for myself and many I have spoken with, the rotten, overpowering smells in this city are enough to make even pigs run far away, never to return.
I recently took a trip to Clinton Iowa for my boyfriend's brothers wedding. I have traveled around the country and this is by far the worst town I have visited. The stench of this town made me gag. We could not travel with the windows open due to the grotesque smell. We stopped at the Phillips 66 gas station in town and encountered a man behind the counter smoking a cigarette with 3 of his friends loitering around the counter, I had to ask them to move so I could pay for my gas. As I was walking to my car, one of the men approached me and asked if he could have a dollar. I then got lost and stopped at another gas station to ask for directions and they wanted money for the directions! I found nothing warm or inviting about the people or the town. A lot of old boarded up buildings with no recent activity. I was never so glad to get home and see the bright lights of Minneapolis!!
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Clinton may be ok for some but for myself and many I have spoken with, the rotten, overpowering smells in this city are enough to make even pigs run far away, never to return.
Same kind of moron that thinks Ames is a shit hole. Forget about your sports bias with this vote.No Ottumwa?
Council Bluffs and Pella. I'm not sure why we don't just give CB to Nebraska. Pella is two bologna stores, and a tulip festival for old rubes.
- Sep 13, 2002
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I see you are not counting opossums, just crack zombies.
Agree poll is invalid - no Ft. Dodge or Creston
Spot on. The town reeks. Although, I have a buddy from there and he loves his trips back home and his townie buddies in the townie bars. To me it sounds like going to a bar in your hometown and seeing all your HS friends who became alcoholics. Then they ask you for a dollar.
Outside of Des Moines and Iowa City Coralville Tiffin improving the rest ties for the crapper.
In fairness, I believe the nasty smell in Clinton actually comes from LaGrange.
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Mrs. Torbee’s company has a location there. It smells terrible. The shame is the downtown has/had potential. It was one of the wealthiest towns in the country in the late 1800s - nearly all the lumber from Wisconsin and Minnesota was milled and shipped from there. Weyerhaeuser started there. When it and others migrated to Pacific Northwest, it started trending down and never recovered.
Still some amazing mansions from lumber and steamboat barons of the age there.
No Ottumwa?
I've never actually stepped foot in Iowa and Ottumwa was my first thought based on hanging around this forum.
Lucas… do you live in Knoxville or Osky?
Clinton Iowa is the shittiest town in Iowa. Small towns that just don't have shit don't make the cut. "Ames"/cr/dm yada yada all suck Iowa style but those are just small dicks who want to waste a vote. Clinton Iowa is a dirthole.
If I had to go with an off the shelf answer I would go with Waterloo.
If I had to go with an off the shelf answer I would go with Waterloo.
Ottumwa has made giant strides ever since OiT moved to Texas.
I voted Council Bluffs, but Fort Dodge and Marshalltown are pretty big ommissions.
The worst city in the state doesn’t belong in OTHER. Burlington belongs in OTHER. Not Ottumwa.
- Sep 13, 2002
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You know how you get to Ames from Iowa City?
Go west until you smell it and north until you step in it.
i'm sure we could replace Faulty's fruit bracket and no one would give a shit.
Only ever spent time in IC and Dubuque. Both are OK.
Pella for sure. They go crazy for their shit shaped pasteries.
Nebraska wouldn't even take Carter Lake, no way they're taking CB.
The Dirty Dodge, Mason City, Creston, Clinton, Counciltucky and Ottumwa are some fine Iowa crap holes.
Yep, but it has such a depressing vibe driving through it. Buildings in disrepair. The whole town needs a coat of paint. The meth heads.Mrs. Torbee’s company has a location there. It smells terrible. The shame is the downtown has/had potential. It was one of the wealthiest towns in the country in the late 1800s - nearly all the lumber from Wisconsin and Minnesota was milled and shipped from there. Weyerhaeuser started there. When it and others migrated to Pacific Northwest, it started trending down and never recovered.
Still some amazing mansions from lumber and steamboat barons of the age there.
