"Phoenix, Arizona": People Are Not Holding Back Their Hatred For These 19 Cities, And The Reasons They "Should Have Never Been Populated"

u/TrixoftheTrade precocious referenced this King Of The Hill clip wherever the household is successful the Phoenix, Arizona heat, and Tilly Hill says, "This metropolis should not exist. It is simply a monument to man's arrogance." u/TrixoftheTrade past wanted to cognize from Redditors what different cities marque radical wonder, "Why would anyone physique a metropolis there?"Trix past referenced that it could beryllium owed to things similar geographic isolation, inhospitable weather, and deficiency of earthy resources that shouldn’t beryllium big to a large city.

u/cream_top_yogurt agreed with the King Of The Hill reference: "Phoenix, Arizona, nary question: it is the fifth-largest metropolis successful the US, is located successful the mediate of the godforsaken and gets 17 centimeters of rainfall a year... the existent irony is that Arizona is ultra-conservative, and yet its monolithic large metropolis exists lone owed to galore billions of dollars of authorities investment."

Here is what other radical said successful the thread:

1."Las Vegas makes consciousness arsenic a smallish work hub for determination transport and the dam. In its existent form, it is preposterous."

—u/cg12983

2."Dubai (actually, astir different Gulf cities are nary better)."

—u/Sir_TF-BUNDY

"Dubai tin scope Phoenix temperatures WITH the humidity if I americium not wrong."

—u/Swimming_Concern7662

"Oh indeed, for definite men similar maine 🌈, it is criminalized :("

—u/Victorian_Rebel

3."New Orleans. Nothing says humans are arrogant similar gathering a metropolis successful a flood-prone vessel nether oversea level."

—u/InAllThingsBalance

4."Definitely New Administrative Capital, Egypt. Dude comes to powerfulness arsenic a effect of a nationalist revolt against corrupt governments that support screwing implicit the poor, and his full takeaway from it is, 'I should truly physique a full dystopian metropolis truthful that my aristocrats and I tin enactment distant from the plebs.'"

—u/Lookoot_behind_you

5."Dallas. Never person I seen specified a discarded of land."

—u/peskypedaler

"Such a frustrating place. There’s really immoderate truly chill worldly successful DFW but it’s conscionable specified a terribly designed clusterfuck that you can’t truly bask it."

—u/Goodbusiness24

6."Mexico City successful the mode it presently exists. Originally, the Aztec metropolis upon which the modern-day Mexico City was built (Tenochtitlán) sat upon some earthy and artificial islands successful Lake Texcoco. The water was drained to forestall flooding, and underground h2o deposits were pumped to proviso the city, turning the determination clime into a semi-arid portion and making it truthful that the metropolis suffers from h2o issues to this day. With the unplanned and uncontrolled maturation the metropolis has suffered, the existing issues person worsened, particularly the deficiency of water, which is becoming a captious issue. It besides doesn't assistance that the crushed upon which the archetypal metropolis was built is soft, and the buildings determination are dilatory sinking."

—u/Chench3

7."The Villages, Florida."

—u/BellyDancerEm

"Nothing says affront to the volition of God similar a rampant geriatric venereal disease."

—u/mstrdsastr

(The Villages are known arsenic the STD superior of the world.)

8."Jakarta, Indonesia. We volition support pumping retired the groundwater, clogging the rivers with garbage, and concreting implicit each quadrate inch until this full spot sinks nether the waves."

—u/Outrageous_Giraffe43

9."San Francisco, California. It's a small beneath 1 cardinal people, but it is simply a cleanable illustration of a metropolis being forced connected a geographic spot. The country is constricted successful size; fractional of what is present the metropolis was miles of soil dunes, and different ample information is mud flats, which is not optimal for gathering infrastructure successful a seismically progressive area. The metropolis has 2 microclimates wherever it tin beryllium sunny successful the eastbound fractional and rainy successful the occidental half. There is not capable h2o oregon powerfulness nearby, and it relies connected a 100+ mile agelong waterway from the Sierras to conscionable its needs. It is simply a metropolis that was forced into the geographic spot to instrumentality vantage of an easy-to-defend harbor."

—u/PizzaWall

10."Adelaide. Take the driest continent connected world and gully a container astir the driest portion of that. We’ll telephone that South Australia. Then plop a metropolis successful the container and invitation English radical to unrecorded connected the aboveground of the prima successful the lone escaped colony connected the continent portion surrounded by convict settlements."

—u/Twistedjustice

11."London. It’s been determination truthful agelong we’ve forgotten, but practically the full halfway is simply a reclaimed marsh that lies astatine oversea level, and if the Thames obstruction ever fails, it volition flood acold inland."

—u/Didsburyflaneur

12."Minneapolis. It’s not astir radical surviving there, it’s astir the magnitude of radical surviving there. Some places wherever humans person lived for thousands of years conscionable aren’t suited for the monolithic assets needs of a 1 million+ colonisation modern city. Like if the autochthonal Americans who primitively lived successful what is present Pheonix ever attempted to make a play course, they each would person died of dehydration instantly due to the fact that each their h2o would spell towards attempting to cultivate greens lol...just due to the fact that we tin make a metropolis astir anyplace present doesn’t mean we should."

—u/SirJoeffer

13."In The Netherlands, possibly Almere. We turned the oversea into onshore and built a metropolis connected it."

—u/Frietworld_Hallum

14."Houston. Fucking. Texas. Sprawling shithole that is hot, humid, afloat of bugs, with atrocious postulation and hurricanes."

—u/bananastand512

15."Macau, China is truthful weird. All the casinos person advertizing with beauteous slim Chinese radical successful tuxedos and gowns too luxe sportscars, and the wide patronage is abdominous mainlanders successful sports cogwheel clutching integrative bags."

—u/Blitzer046

16."Washington, DC, is genuinely a hive of scum and villainy, to punctuation Obi-Wan."

—u/rwade71

17."Naples. Let's physique a metropolis nether an progressive volcano (Vesuvius) successful 1 of the astir seismically progressive locations connected the full European continent. Somehow, it is besides 1 of the oldest continuously inhabited cities successful Western Europe. Maybe the concealed to longevity is insanity."

—u/Mattavi

18."Canberra. As we couldn't determine betwixt Sydney oregon Melbourne arsenic Australia's capital, Canberra was placed astir midway betwixt the two. It was designed by American designer Walter Burley Griffin. Everything is truthful dispersed out, filled with brutalist architecture, and is described by galore arsenic bare and soulless."

—u/VBlinds

19."Edmonton, Canada. The radical are precise nice, and I consciousness atrocious for insulting their beauteous city. But it's excessively acold northbound and is specified a God-forsaken acold hellhole spread successful the lengthy winter. The prima rises astatine 10 a.m. and sets astatine 3 p.m. connected the shortest time of the winter. There was 1 February wherever it was -30 C aerial temperature, but -50 C with windchill. Edmonton is VERY level and windy, FOR THE ENTIRE MONTH FFS! Who enactment that metropolis successful the mediate of obscurity similar that? Wtf?"

—u/Tribe303

Well, what bash you deliberation of this list? Got immoderate cities to add? Let america cognize successful the comments!

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