What's THE WORST Place You Ever Lived In?- Page 2

[judy_in_disguise]

Posted: 11/30/04 at 11:38am

Absolut- have I lived somewhere COLD?
I live in Kingston, Ontario. Which last year reached MINUS 40 degress celcius, 50 with the wind chill. In fact, I did a quick weather network search to find another place that cold, and the only one that turned up was Rankin Inlet, Nunavut, on the Arctic ocean.
This city has been named "the city with the most extreme weather" in Canada. That is due to our unique location at the mouth of the St. Lawrence where it meets Lake Ontario, among other factors.
So yes....I have lived somewhere cold.
I also grew up on a mountain. Not quite as cold as Kingston, but still effing chilly. Of course, it is Canada, we need the cold to keep our igloos frozen!

Posted: 11/30/04 at 12:23pm

Bonham, TX. Horrible. I transfered to Bonham High from Denison, which was a lot more fun. If I stayed in Denison I would've graduated with about ten gay guys. Anyway, so here I am at Bonham and on teh FIRST day of school some jock boy comes up to me and says I shouldn't talk **** about the football team because I'm not the one out in the mud. Apparently, someone mistook something I said about Denison volleyball into Bonham football. So yeah, after that I wasn't liked too much. Oh well.

[AbsolutKnight]

Posted: 11/30/04 at 12:26pm

Hey that actually sounds close to where I lived in potsdam. we were like a half hour from the St Lawrence river and Lake Ontario.

[Mary_Ethel]

Posted: 11/30/04 at 12:30pm

Oh yes, Bonham... I've never been there myself, but I heard its frenzied pace is beyond belief...

Why, their official website has gotten a grand total of TWENTY-EIGHT visits since 2002.

I think the VA does have a BIG Medical Facility up there. . .

[Borstalboy]

Posted: 11/30/04 at 12:55pm

My dorm at North Carolina School of the Arts...as if dealing with all the bullsh** at that bloody mess of a school wasn't bad enough, you are trapped (if you don't have a car) in a TINY campus that you can't really walk outside of because it's placed right near the Happy Hills housing project--nuthin' happy about it, honey...every year some dumbass would leave campus and get mugged. Oh! And the administration are total Nazis about getting housing further off-campus. Fun, fun, fun!!!

[laactress]

Posted: 11/30/04 at 1:21pm

Westport, Connecticut! Coming from LA it was the most BOARING place EVER!

[bta212]

Posted: 11/30/04 at 1:24pm

Yeah, Westport is bad. I lived there for a while, too. But I lived RIGHT across the street from the Diva of Domesticity herself, so there were some yuks.

[The Grovers Corners Yenta]

Posted: 11/30/04 at 2:45pm

I just know I am going to take the prize with this one.........I lived in a nursing home for four years and I was only 40! I had been living on disability in the YWCA which was a hell hole in itself. I had to have surgery and went into this home for a few weeks rehab. When rehab was over, I stayed until I could find affordable housing in Hartford where I live. It was certainly better than the Y and my multiple medical problems could be better managed there. It was a Jewish facility and the first thing I would hear in the AM was everyone saying OY as they tried to get out of bed. The staff had trouble dealing with me because I didn't even need help with anything. They would always barge into my room without knocking to try to dress me. At night they would wake me up by checking me to see if I was wet. Couldn't they give me a break? My dignity was being severely compromised by living there. Affordable housing in my area is very difficult to obtain. I was finally put on a waiting list for the apartment that I am in now. They also made me eat prunes and tracked my bowel movements to see that I as regular. I must be a strong woman to have survived that for over 4 years.

[Dollypop]

Posted: 11/30/04 at 4:50pm

Billings, Montana.

That town's cultural level can be weighed by the fact that their idea of a Fashion Show is to open a Sears catalogue and point.

[son_of_a_gunn_25]

Posted: 11/30/04 at 4:59pm

Not my story, but a friend of mine's dad lived in a hole. I kid you not he lived in a hole he dug in the ground. I was something he had always wanted to do. He had his bed and everything down there. One night he heard squeaking coming from inside his pillow. A mouse had made it's nest in his pillow. He had some sort of cover for the top and he was in a frat so he would go there to shower and do laundry.

[amasis]

Posted: 11/30/04 at 5:25pm

M_E, you went to Boston U?

Strangely enough, BU Housing was also one of my worst living experiences. Our heat was on overdrive though; we couldn't get it to turn down, so for that winter we had the windows open the whole time. Every time I returned from class, I would stand in the hallway, take off my coat, scarf, sweaters, etc., and only after that I would unlock the door, walking into the room with as little clothing as was appropriate . We were baking in there.

[Plum]

Posted: 11/30/04 at 5:31pm

I hate my dorm, but it's looking pretty damn nice now. The worst we have is really loud music, tons of cigarette and pot smoke, a few mice and roaches, maybe vomit or excrement clogging the shower on weekends, and a brief period when someone kept peeing on the doors. Oh, and the window doesn't quite shut so the wind always blows right on my mouse hand when I'm on the computer.

The town in which my dorm is located has no movie theater, let alone anything else.

Oh, and for a while I lived in Haifa, Israel, which is a lovely city where there's always the possibility of getting blown up. Updated On: 11/30/04 at 05:31 PM

[MaTakeALookAtMe]

Posted: 11/30/04 at 6:01pm

Bonham is not that bad...oh wait, it really, really is!

Durant, OK is not too much better...

[Mr Roxy]

Posted: 11/30/04 at 6:30pm

My old apartment with the landlord from hell

Oscar Madison would have been proud

[DottieD'Luscia]

Posted: 11/30/04 at 6:37pm

Willimantic, CT. I went to college in that town and I couldn't wait to graduate. The campus cleared out on weekends and during those periods it turned into a very lonely place. Now I realize why I'm so content being on my own (I learned at a young age).

[Liam]

Posted: 11/30/04 at 6:41pm

ived only lived in one house but i /hATE HATE HATE HATE sharing a room with my brother becouse our room is so small and he is SO messy

[BwayTheatre11]

Posted: 11/30/04 at 6:46pm

I am extremely thankful that I have always had a nice place to live. My parents are divorced. They both got remarried. Both got divorced. My dad lost his AWESOME paying job. We had to move in with my Grandma, while my dad had to move in with him mother. My mom found a place, but we had to move back into my Grandma's house, which is where I am living now. It is such a pain in the ass for me...it is ruining my awesome relationship with my Grandma, Mimi. I miss it and hope to regain it with her someday...hopefully it will not be too late.

My dad just got another awesome paying job, so hopefully that will help out.

Updated On: 11/30/04 at 06:46 PM

[NYadgal]

Posted: 11/30/04 at 6:56pm

Gosh...I've always enjoyed where I lived. Lucky me...

I was born in NYC, raised in CT, went to College in a charming small town in Ohio, moved back to NYC for Grad school, lived in San Fran for a few months, lived in Paris for about a year, and have been in NYC for all the rest of the time...

[Mary_Ethel]

Posted: 11/30/04 at 6:57pm

What a touching story, BT11.

I hope it all works out for you. . . :)

[harris007]

Posted: 12/2/04 at 10:23pm

For me it's got to be Gainesville,Fl. Now granted i'm a gator in BIG way, and it's good to be Fl gator BUT.This town is sooo boring. Well unless your in your ealy 20's. The gay scene contains one club, woo hooo. The theater here is so-so and very snobby to new comers. It's hard to live here from orlando where ther eis huge gay scene lots of great theater, and stuff to do 24/7 Lol this web site, comedy central, and Gator football has kept me sane. You guys rock, and keep me connected to nyc, Kepp the fan pic's coming,gonna be posting a few of my own soon.

[EvelynNesbit1906]

Posted: 12/2/04 at 10:27pm

I was waiting for someone to surprise by saying Manhattan!

Anyway, the worst place I ever lived was the Salvation Army headquarters. Technically, I was still "living" at home, but because my mother had to do community service for hitting a cop (after the cop shoved her against a filing cabinet), we ended up spending many nights at the headquarters while she worked. It was just so drab, and boring. But my memory of it is pretty vague fourteen years later.

[megannn33]

Posted: 12/3/04 at 11:38am

Dottie you went to ECSU? My brother goes there now, it's terrible. I think it's the heroine capital of CT. My brother tries to come home about every other weekend, but his dorm is pretty nice. When he was a freshman he got new dorms and they were nice until they had to fit 6 people in the room. Now he has his own room I think. He was lucky to get the nice dorms. Updated On: 12/3/04 at 11:38 AM

[Plum]

Posted: 12/3/04 at 12:38pm

Liam, at least you're not sharing a room with your newborn baby sister.

[Mary_Ethel]

Posted: 2/28/05 at 1:02pm

Worst Place Bump!

[MissNY]

Posted: 2/28/05 at 1:03pm

Interesting thread, fortunately I have nothing to contribute. i basically grew up in NYC :)