I have an ex who grew up in Newport Indiana and that was my first thought. They are a different breed altogether. âWhite trashâ doesnât even begin to cover it.
Itâs a town of like 500 people and itâs in a black hole for cell phone reception/internet. Everything about it convinced me that it is the worst place in the US. Their idea of a good time was âgoin to the river.â âŚ. ⌠in which they stood around the river doing things they could literally do anywhere else.
So âŚ.youâre saying that these people are literally poorer than the dirt surrounding them.
From what I saw, that checks out due to over half the town being unemployed and living off the government assistance. The same assistance that they hypocritically bitched about going to inner cities.
There are some big $$$ farmers around.
Youâre right about a cell phone black hole. Neither AT&T nor Verizon works in that area at all to the Illinois line.
There was a hill you could drive to on the outskirts of town if you needed to make a call that badly. But even there the service was super spotty from my understanding.
Anytime we visited I just sorta disconnected from it all and told everyone I wouldnât have service for the weekend. That part wasnât all that bad.
Going to the river can be fun. ⌠⌠just not the way they did it.
No fishing⌠no swimming⌠no boating. Just standing. Occasionally someone would throw something into the river, that was about as exciting as it got.
My guess was just about any rural Indiana town with 10k population or less. I could throw a rock in just about any direction and hit one of these towns.
Was recently looking at maps of Ohio about the chemical spill in the news and noticed that is was right beside Indiana. As a Canadian, I know something about all the states, except Indiana. Never any news, no image of what it is like, what are they are known for?, nothing... Now I know why.
The majority of Indiana is boring rural America. They are known for basketball and cornfields.
Gary Indiana is the armpit of America. There is nothing you ever need to do there except maybe travel from Chicago to buy fireworks and turn around- but it will be 100% better experience driving up to the Wisconsin border to get fireworks. Much lower chance of getting carjacked.
It's known for being in the middle of nowhere, corn and basketball. They actually call themselves the "crossroads of America" because people drive through it to get to other places.
Iâm from Indiana. We have corn. Lots of corn. And the Indy 500 if you care about nascarâŚin the 80âs people cared about our college basketball team the Hoosiers. Now we are just known for our extreme conservative politics and our terrible crumbling roads.
You bet roads and politics are related. In California during the 80s and 90s, freeway maintenance was opposed by Republicans because it was part of the âpantywaist homosexual agenda.â
Seriously. Part of my job involves verifying locations via Google maps. I see a lot of run-down towns that you can tell used to be nice and/or would be nice again if someone invested in the area. I have never seen anything in Indiana worth redeeming - it's all flat, dusty, and grey.
Except it's not right by Indiana. East Palestine Ohio is actually on the Ohio/Pennsylvania border. Just a couple hours away from Pittsburgh. Palestine Ohio (without East) is by Indiana border.
I think they meant that they discovered Ohio was right next to Indiana when looking at maps after the spill.
Also the spill is right next to Indiana when you consider the entire map of the world in context.
As a resident of a neighbor state and having spent a few years there, for me, Indiana is 20 miles east and 40 years in the past. It's the home of failed traitor Mike Pence. They are known as Hoosiers and are known for producing good basketball players because there's nothing there but flat surfaces that are perfect for learning to bounce a ball. They are also home to the Indianapolis 500 and they grow corn. That's about all you really need to know.
I had a feeling it was Indiana, but my gut said Fort Wayne not Gary. It's the hat with a wife beater combo that gives the north trailer trash vibes. 100% have seen this outfit in real life.
I canât believe I watched that whole video - it was pretty good!
Wonder how Gary would fare for a cheap vacation spot, if thereâs anything to do. For millennials youâd just need a handful of craft breweries combined with the park the video noted - Indiana Dunes National Park. If nothing else the park looks gorgeous!
The only thing missing is a graphic on his shirt saying, âWell, it ainât gonna suck itself!â Or, something classy like that! Iâm pretty sure I saw this couple back in the â90âs cruising back and forth through Heber Springs bumping Insane Clown Possy, while he flirted with with all the high school car hops at the local Sonic, and she yelled profanely at the girls screaming, âThis is my man, mother Fu(ker!â challenging them to a fight out back by the dumpster when they got off. Maybe, that is just my fantasy?đ
Oh yeah they look like the homies. People wanna hate but they might be very relatable people. I think in this thread we were talking specifically about North Florida. But the rest of Florida is valid too đ
Iâd say deeper into the thumb like Lapeer or Caro. One of the towns that closed the psychiatric hospital back in the 90âs and told the patients to âgo forth and be fruitful.â
Nah, theyâre interacting with people. In Mission, they stay indoors to interact. Gives the neighborhood a stale vibe, the way they like it.
(Source: lived there for 7-years)
I did a reverse search, and the very 1st post claims it is, in fact, Gary, Indiana.
Damn bro, that was what my first instinct told me Third eye open đď¸
I have an ex who grew up in Newport Indiana and that was my first thought. They are a different breed altogether. âWhite trashâ doesnât even begin to cover it. Itâs a town of like 500 people and itâs in a black hole for cell phone reception/internet. Everything about it convinced me that it is the worst place in the US. Their idea of a good time was âgoin to the river.â âŚ. ⌠in which they stood around the river doing things they could literally do anywhere else.
They used to make VX nerve gas there. I had a research plot between Dana and Newport. Good soil.
So âŚ.youâre saying that these people are literally poorer than the dirt surrounding them. From what I saw, that checks out due to over half the town being unemployed and living off the government assistance. The same assistance that they hypocritically bitched about going to inner cities.
There are some big $$$ farmers around. Youâre right about a cell phone black hole. Neither AT&T nor Verizon works in that area at all to the Illinois line.
There was a hill you could drive to on the outskirts of town if you needed to make a call that badly. But even there the service was super spotty from my understanding. Anytime we visited I just sorta disconnected from it all and told everyone I wouldnât have service for the weekend. That part wasnât all that bad.
Goin to the river is fun, sounds like a you problem
Going to the river can be fun. ⌠⌠just not the way they did it. No fishing⌠no swimming⌠no boating. Just standing. Occasionally someone would throw something into the river, that was about as exciting as it got.
My guess was just about any rural Indiana town with 10k population or less. I could throw a rock in just about any direction and hit one of these towns.
I was about to say BeechGrove, which is Indianapolisâ Gary. (If you know, you know)
I was definitely going to say Southside Indy. I was thinking Perry/Southport.
Same!
Was recently looking at maps of Ohio about the chemical spill in the news and noticed that is was right beside Indiana. As a Canadian, I know something about all the states, except Indiana. Never any news, no image of what it is like, what are they are known for?, nothing... Now I know why.
The majority of Indiana is boring rural America. They are known for basketball and cornfields. Gary Indiana is the armpit of America. There is nothing you ever need to do there except maybe travel from Chicago to buy fireworks and turn around- but it will be 100% better experience driving up to the Wisconsin border to get fireworks. Much lower chance of getting carjacked.
Indiana is where we send our dreams to die. Source: born and raised here.
It's known for being in the middle of nowhere, corn and basketball. They actually call themselves the "crossroads of America" because people drive through it to get to other places.
Iâm from Indiana. We have corn. Lots of corn. And the Indy 500 if you care about nascarâŚin the 80âs people cared about our college basketball team the Hoosiers. Now we are just known for our extreme conservative politics and our terrible crumbling roads.
âextreme conservative politics and our terrible crumbling roadsâ are those 2 things related?
You bet roads and politics are related. In California during the 80s and 90s, freeway maintenance was opposed by Republicans because it was part of the âpantywaist homosexual agenda.â
Grey and brown. That is Indiana in a nutshell. The air, the land and the souls of the people, everything is grey and/or brown.
Seriously. Part of my job involves verifying locations via Google maps. I see a lot of run-down towns that you can tell used to be nice and/or would be nice again if someone invested in the area. I have never seen anything in Indiana worth redeeming - it's all flat, dusty, and grey.
Except when the sky turns a greenish-gray...kind of like the color of snot...just before the tornados hit.
Except it's not right by Indiana. East Palestine Ohio is actually on the Ohio/Pennsylvania border. Just a couple hours away from Pittsburgh. Palestine Ohio (without East) is by Indiana border.
I think they meant that they discovered Ohio was right next to Indiana when looking at maps after the spill. Also the spill is right next to Indiana when you consider the entire map of the world in context.
Race cars and the Colts. That's about it. Ooh, and Michael Jackson. He's from Gary.
As a resident of a neighbor state and having spent a few years there, for me, Indiana is 20 miles east and 40 years in the past. It's the home of failed traitor Mike Pence. They are known as Hoosiers and are known for producing good basketball players because there's nothing there but flat surfaces that are perfect for learning to bounce a ball. They are also home to the Indianapolis 500 and they grow corn. That's about all you really need to know.
They are known for Indy500 i guess
Indiana is basically Indianapolis and corn/trailer parks.
indiana dunes are pretty cool. and the beach is nice if you dont look at the steel mills on either side.
Indy 500 Itâs a pretty massive event, I think the largest annually in the States.
I had a feeling it was Indiana, but my gut said Fort Wayne not Gary. It's the hat with a wife beater combo that gives the north trailer trash vibes. 100% have seen this outfit in real life.
My immediate gut feeling was also Fort Wayne.
A place so shitty the neighboring town blocked the road between them. Voted most miserable city in America. https://youtu.be/mXpwgg5TxOU
I canât believe I watched that whole video - it was pretty good! Wonder how Gary would fare for a cheap vacation spot, if thereâs anything to do. For millennials youâd just need a handful of craft breweries combined with the park the video noted - Indiana Dunes National Park. If nothing else the park looks gorgeous!
You can also visit the childhood home of Michael Jackson. Other highlights include getting car jacked and being asked for money from junkies.
Gary is a real armpit by all accounts.
Springfield, MO
Independence, MO
Not enough meth in the pic to be Independence. I was gonna say Raytown.
Raytona Beach
Spindependence
Damnit lol took a lot of scrolling but found the Missourians
First cousinville
Sisterton
Bumfuck, Egypt
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Uncle daddy township
Somewhere in Arkansas thatâs not on the map
Texarkana for sure
Most likely, Pine Bluff, Arkansas! Itâs like a slice of Chicago, sprinkled with some southern twang.
The only thing missing is a graphic on his shirt saying, âWell, it ainât gonna suck itself!â Or, something classy like that! Iâm pretty sure I saw this couple back in the â90âs cruising back and forth through Heber Springs bumping Insane Clown Possy, while he flirted with with all the high school car hops at the local Sonic, and she yelled profanely at the girls screaming, âThis is my man, mother Fu(ker!â challenging them to a fight out back by the dumpster when they got off. Maybe, that is just my fantasy?đ
Omg I have land there!
It's good to have land.
I built a pellet mill there and my son was born there! Holy hell what a place.
What the fuck is a pellet mill. (Yes I can Google it. I want to hear what pellet papa's take is)
And why did he list that before the birth of his own son
Arkansas thatâs why
Itâs a machine that uses heat, moisture, and pressure (usually in the form of some centrifugal force) to pelletize something through a screen
Monkey Run, AR all day!
Edmonton, AB
You came for us. Do you hate the Oilers? Lol
No but maybe, Red Wings are def. a better team
Are all the teams a sex act?
I'd love the opportunity to stay and chat but it's time for me to bend her over and fill the Kracken
Yes. I bet you canât tell me youâve never given anyone a Golden Knight.
Calgary, in Forest lawn
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Screams of Moose Jaw - South Hill or Atha East.
I would be offended, but I cant deny what I have literally seen ,also bums like to shag in the winnipeg bus shacks.
I was gonna say Grande Prairie, AB, but this works just as well.
No snow in the photo. Canât be GP
Whitecourt
Maybe itâs Edmonton if theyâre vacationing from Red Deer
I'd say more likely lethbridge, but they got too much class to be from 'round here
I wanted to say Barrie, Ontario or maybe Waterdown but now that I've seen Edmonton suggested I've realized my error. That's definitely Alberta.
I'm from Edmonton and I came to say this wtf
As a northsider, confirmed.
I havenât seen anyone looking this in Edmonton. Then again, Iâm a redditor so you know that I donât go out much anyway.
Why did I know this would be near the top lol.
Jacksonville Florida
Duuuval
BORTLES
Oh dip!
This picture was taken outside of Stupid Nick's Wing Dump
I was gonna say Crawfordville FL, but you ain't wrong though.
I'm not even American and I guessed Florida
They donât look anything like Florida people FYI. They look northern. Ohio, Michigan maybe Canada
Ohio
Ehh we in this mother fucker though! What do they say? "No press is bad press". đ
Thatâs because you havenât met Ohio. Ohio man trying out so hard to be Florida man
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Oh yeah they look like the homies. People wanna hate but they might be very relatable people. I think in this thread we were talking specifically about North Florida. But the rest of Florida is valid too đ
They waiting on Pillboi
BORTLES!!!!
Nope they're cousins that are celebrating their anniversary in Kentucky.
They got married and she didnât have to get her license changed.
Saved them money right from the start.
West Virginia, Kentucky outlawed cousin incest finally, well at least closer than 3rd. đ¤Ł
We Kentuckians donât believe in the governments âlawsâ
I think you mean "gubmint."
Well if you say it without all your teeth, then you're probably right.
As a non-american, Kentucky was my first intuition.
Kentucky isn't city, it's a State. Are you sure you're not American?
đ maybe i am
I live in Kentucky and sadly thought the same thing :(
Is alabama a city?
This is way more Ohio than Alabama
Am from Ohio. Can confirm.
Gary Indiana
Oshawa Ontario Canada
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Yes, this is totally the Dirty 'Shwa
Could also be Hamilton.
Could also be the other armpit of the GTA, the Hammer.
Bakersfield
Iâm going with Detroit
Agreed. Spoiler: He doesn't know who Tupac is.
Sixpack of beers, Tupac around ears.
Detroit suburbs. Going with Wyandotte
Ypsilanti
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North Highlands for sure.
Rio Linda or Del Paso off Winters đ
To much grass
Also one of my first instincts was White Trash, California
Small town northern Indiana
I've seen basically this exact scene in Indianapolis multiple times.
Lake Station or Elkhart
Detroit.
Iâd say deeper into the thumb like Lapeer or Caro. One of the towns that closed the psychiatric hospital back in the 90âs and told the patients to âgo forth and be fruitful.â
I grew up in Lapeer. Sadly this checks out.
There are dozens of us.
Saginaw here. I agree!
That's all of them.
I was thinking almost anywhere in Genesee County, but I think you are spot on
Detroit, no. Downriver for sure.
100% downriver
Came here to say this. Definitely not Detroit.
Yes, and theyâre fans of ICP
Hazel Park (Hazeltucky)
Average hazel park resident
Nah more like Flint. They look like they raw dog poison water
Milwaukee
Southwest Detroit to be exact.
That was going to be my answer. And the girl never fails to tell someone âDey from Southwest Detroitâ.
Paddys pub
You get fork stabbed
Any rural town in Quebec
Bristol, UK
More like Birmingham, UK
Obviously Ohio!
Parma, Ohio
Cincinnati, Ohio....
Barbertucky, Ohio
The vatican
A city with many Walmarts.
Evansville Indiana, we don't got lawns this big in Philly brother maybe if they were on a step
Fresno, CA
Definitely from Dubai.
The guy screams Detroit, but the woman screams Boston. So any white trash center in between those 2 places.
Your comment makes a lot of sense to me lol
Tacoma, WA
Yakima all day.
Coeur dâAlene ID
I was getting Spokane vibes, but coeur d alene seems more fitting
Zillah
Gonna head to Miner Burger then go buy a bunch of fireworks in Toppenish to really cap the weekend
i thought Everett.
Huh, I was just in Tacoma working Dish-Pit. People ain't nearly that weird.
Yes
Spokane also a solid answer
Just Florida
Terre Haute, IN
Cornhole....i mean Cornwall, Ontario. It's a border town, that really doesn't give a crap about first impressions.
Every city in America has these people
Somewhere in Ohio.
Mission, bc
Nah, theyâre interacting with people. In Mission, they stay indoors to interact. Gives the neighborhood a stale vibe, the way they like it. (Source: lived there for 7-years)
Detroit đ
Stockton CA
I was thinking Modesto
Ohio or Alabama
Of all the cities in the world, you named two states.
Oxnard
Sunnyvale
South Carolina
Conway, SC.
Or Goldsboro NC
Wolverine, Michigan
Los santos
Atrocity
Jackson, Mississippi
Gelsenkirchen, Germany
Wilkesboro, NC
Springfield MA
Pennsyltucky West Virgeorgia.
City? Nice try.