What's the Most Boring City in America?

[JCMach1]

I have a nomination... I just happen to be there on business:

Houston, TX!

Home of... not so much, traffic, suburban blight, and just ugg.

The food hasn't been so bad though.

[GoCubsGo]

1. Augusta, GA

Houston without the decent food. The Nitty Gritty Dirt band was right when they said it was no place to be.

[era veteran]

5. Got out in '67

Kentucky seemed progressive! Not an American dream for sure. I like the Dirt Band too.

[CherokeeDem]

89. Left the Augusta area...

right before high school, was born in Aiken, SC, then lived in North Augusta for jr. high, high school in Greenville. Family from KY, UK grad and after living in Florida for many years, back in Lexington. Tell ya...used to be progressive but not so sure. I used to pass a sign for Rand Paul on the way to a friend's house in Georgetown a year before the election thinking, absolutely no way that bastard could win. Boy, was I wrong....

Lexington is not that hot...but then I think we are never really happy where we are...always want something more....

[catabryna]

2. Boring, OR

Yes, there is such a place. Look it up!

[begin_within]

18. Found it

[krispos42]

21. For the win! n/t

[catabryna]

30. That pretty much sums it up!

:rofl:

[catabryna]

31. Good find! Tee Hee!

:hi:

[Ohio Joe]

3. Hartford, CT

Boring!

[madinmaryland]

10. They used to have some really good bars in downtown Hartford 25 years ago.

Haven't been there since the late 80's, so I can't say about now.

The Russian Lady. Great bands and parties.

[Chan790]

22. All gone now...

downtown went through a massive slump as the nightlife moved to the suburbs. It's now going through a revitalization, lots of little shops on Pratt St., new highrise luxury condos overlooking the park. bistros, wine bars, restaurants. The traffic situation is still f**ked though and will be until the day they make all the streets two-way again and get rid of the rotary in the middle of downtown.

The one thing they were adamant to keep from coming back were the huge warehouse 400 occupant bars and clubs. They don't want them and say "Let Simsbury/Avon and the Berlin Tpke. have them if they want them."

[KamaAina]

13. I see you have a hockey avatar

Hartford's only boring because of Karmanos' epic suckitude. :grr: :banghead:

[Chan790]

23. Someday...

If a backwater piss-stop like Winnipeg can have a team, then I think we can manage it.

[City of Mills]

59. Just spent a week there for certification training

You're not kidding, couldn't wait to get home.

[Sequoia]

83. Reallly? A lot of historical things have happened there.

Maybe they were boring too. But there was that awful circus fire.

[Tuesday Afternoon]

4. where I live and I am not saying because I want to keep it that way.

boring is under rated.

[Brigid]

6. Terre Haute, IN

Let's just say Steve Martin was right.

[hobbit709]

7. Ever been to Marion, OH?

[Ohio Joe]

9. Actually... I have

I dated a woman in Belfountaine and her mother lived in Marion, we would go and visit from time to time.... Yeah, it was pretty boring :D

[madinmaryland]

11. Try Lima or Ada!

Yee Haw!! Tons of fun. :sleep:

[hobbit709]

27. When I lived in Marion, we'd go to Lima for something to do.

[madmom]

32. Yeah right there with you. I'm about 50 from Lima, the whole of NW Ohio,. We say the

only thing around here to do is watch paint dry or corn grow. In the summer all there is to see is cows and corn. HELP!!!!

[woo me with science]

43. Are you kidding?

Marion is the hometown of Warren G. Harding! King of scandal!

:rofl:

[hobbit709]

47. And they haven't come up with anything else new since 1920

[woo me with science]

49. Why should they EVER try to top Harding?

He still makes that town jump!
:woohoo:

[rurallib]

8. Cincinnati, O.

used to go there on business. More life in my town of 3,000

[av8rdave]

77. I have to disagree on Cincinnati...

I used to do a lot of layovers there...great town.

The Great American Ball Park is just a few steps from downtown. Easy to get into a Reds game. If you're there during football season and you have a sense of humor, you can always watch the Bengals (also walking distance from downtown). A short cab ride north will take you to the University of Cincinnati, where you can take in a Bearcats game for just a few bucks. Downtown has some great restaurants/night spots (Palomino has a killer Pomegranate martini, and for a good scotch visit Nicholson's). Just across the river is Newport on the Levee, with great night life, restaurants, and a comedy club. Historic Main Street in Covington is well worth the visit. About a $5 cab ride takes you to Mount Adams, where restaurants, cafes and coffee houses occupy shade tree lined streets. Most offer spectacular views of downtown. If you're a night owl, O'Malley's in the Alley stays open until 3:30.

All in all, a great city with lots to do.

[sakabatou]

81. Except during the summer. The weather is, "UGGGGGGH."

[Arugula Latte]

12. Toledo, Ohio (according to John Denver)

Saturday night in Toledo, Ohio is like being nowhere at all
All through the day how the hours rush by
You sit in the park and you watch the grass die!
Ah, but after the sunset, the dusk and the twilight
When shadows of night start to fall
They roll back the sidewalk precisely at ten
And people who live there are not seen again!
Just two lonely truckers from Great Falls, Montana
And a salesman from places unknown
All huddled together in downtown Toledo
To spend their big night all alone!

[fishwax]

14. great art museum there, though

http://www.mfah.org/

[Archae]

15. Sheboygan. WI

I live here in Sheerboredom, Wisconsin. :boring: :-)

[JVS]

46. But it's the vibrant home of future president Asher Heimerman

[MrScorpio]

67. Asher Heimermann is going places

http://sheboygan.a.wiki-site.com/index.php/User:WikiSysop

[Brother Buzz]

16. Bakersfield, California

Even the Bakersfield Sound has moved on.

[EFerrari]

17. My Volve station wagon dropped a rod in Bakersfield.

And then there was one.

[OffWithTheirHeads]

19. Ya ain't seen nothin till you been to Sulpher Louisianna.

Spent a couple of days there on a recent trip. We re named it Slit Your Wrists La.

[Broken_Hero]

20. In my experience, Tulsa Oklahoma, nt

[Manifestor_of_Light]

52. The Home of Six Flags over Jesus!!

Oral Roberts University.

[Chan790]

24. Jacksonville, FL.

It's a lot like Hell but hotter and with less evangelical Christian Conservatives. There's nothing to do and what there is to do, there are plenty of "godly" people to tell you that it's sinful to do that.

[BlueJazz]

26. I couldn't agree more. I lived there for 5 years (Job)...and I found it..

....boring and Hicky.

[JCMach1]

28. Tulsa is more interesting than Houston

at least there is some interesting architecture and a couple of really good museums in T-Town.

[JCMach1]

29. At least JAX has the beaches and the river and St. Aug to the south

I still argue Houston is WORSE!

[Dappleganger]

42. Definitely agree with this, we live just south of here.

Have been here for right at 10 years and it's the most dull city and progressively getting worse.

[xchrom]

25. peoria, illinois.

i got bored even typing that.

[La Lioness Priyanka]

33. exciting list would be much shorter

[Taverner]

34. At least Houston has stuck up trophy wives dressed horribly for people to laugh at

Fargo, ND doesn't even have that!

[ScreamingMeemie]

39. You're thinking Dallas darling...

I live here and have yet to meet one stuck up trophy wife. What I do meet are a wide and diverse range of people. :shrug:

[Taverner]

50. I dunno, I saw a lot of 'Oil Wives'

...or 'Awl Wives' as they say...

[ScreamingMeemie]

56. Not a one in my neighborhood.

:shrug:

[Throd]

35. San Jose, CA

[hunter]

62. San Jose? In comparison to what? San Francisco?

Maybe like Peoria IL is boring in comparison to Chicago.

To me the most boring towns in the world are predominantly white, conservative, monocultural "bedroom community" suburbs.

[Sequoia]

84. The cops there are mean to any brown person.

Maybe this should be on, What's the most racist city in the USA.

[XemaSab]

92. San Jose?

Dude, I live in Redding.

San Jose is not even close to Redding as far as racism goes.

[Sequoia]

93. San Jose is always on the news featuring the cops cracking down

on people of Mexican descent. I'm sick of all this anti-Mexican bs. Where would we be without salsa and Octovia Paz? Hopelessy boring just to name a few.

[PassingFair]

36. DesMoines, Iowa...

Not a vacation destination.

Worse than Detroit!

I arranged to meet my sister there (she lives in Minneapolis,
and I live in Detroit) on my way down to Texas with the family...

It was the best spot (3 or 4 hour drive for her) to meet, and
it was a city I'd heard of, there HAD to be something there to see...

Nope.

No one on the streets during the weekend. At. All.

I was told by the (rude) hotel staff, that all the "action"
takes place in the suburbs.

We did tour the capitol building, where there are
nice pictures of corn.


I believe someone once counted the individual kernels, which
is laudable.

[bif]

45. Hey Detroit isn't so bad.

As I tell visitors, "It's a nice place to live, but I wouldn't want to visit it."

[pitohui]

91. i've visited detroit twice

actually i had very good experiences there

no gunshots, car accidents, or cocaine like in houston, i must have visited the wrong neighborhoods

will prob never visit in the winter tho...

[bif]

95. Winters are pretty brutal

Except for the late January thaw, when it gets in the 50s.

[Bladian]

37. Norco, California.

Look us up. Really.

[bif]

38. Livonia, Michigan

I worked there for a couple years. About the most exotic restaurant there is the Chinese Buffet! They're years away from getting a Thai restaurant.

[ScreamingMeemie]

40. I love it here, in Houston.

Discovery Green is amazing. Check out the museum district if you get a chance. Take a walk along the Buffalo Bayou... I've been here 2 and a half years and have yet to even get halfway through exploring. Also, you are less than an hour from Galveston. It's beautiful there.

[Manifestor_of_Light]

54. Houston has the Beer Can House!

And the Art Car Museum. And the Orange Show.

Museum of Fine Arts, Contemporary Arts Museum, Museum of Natural Science, Medical Science Museum, Children's Museum.

The Houston Symphony Orchestra, Houston Grand Opera, Houston Ballet, Alley Theater, Society for the Performing Arts. Very high quality productions at the Opera, often imported from Europe, sometimes they are original at HGO.

Universities: University of Houston (state school), Texas Southern University, University of Saint Thomas, University of Texas at Houston medical school, Baylor University medical school, Texas Woman's University nursing school, Prairie View A&M Nursing School, Rice University, Houston Community College, South Texas College of Law (free standing private law school).

Lots of cool places.

And Glenwood Cemetery, where Howard Hughes, Gene Tierney and Anson Jones (Last president of the Republic of Texas) are buried.


Houston is NOT boring. There's lots of stuff to do there. A thriving arts community.


You want boring? I'm 80 miles from the nearest Target store, 150 miles from a Costco. I have to drive twenty miles just to buy groceries at the Evil Empire.

[Manifestor_of_Light]

69. I forgot to mention the clubs and live music and plays.

AvantGarden on Westheimer and Taft has musical talent on a regular basis. I was in a play there a few years ago, done in their backyard. Back then the name of the place was Helios.

Mariana runs it and her husband Nestor is quite talented: www.nestortopchy.com

Lots of places with live music. Talento Bilingue Houston is a theater that has plays and art exhibits.

Super Happy Fun Land. Alamo Drafthouse Cinema (two of them).

DiverseWorks, the ArtCrawl, Free Range Studios, Space City Gamelan(an indonesian gamelan band).

Houston Civic Symphony, Houston Youth Symphony (I played in both of them many years ago).

Those are just the ones I know about, there are a lot more. Read the Houston Press: www.houstonpress.com

No way in hell that Houston is boring.

I live in Redneckistan now.

[Initech]

41. San Bernardino, CA

As a friend of mine explains - "it's for the newly wed and nearly dead."

[Flaxbee]

44. used to be beautiful, back in the early to mid 1950s -- my

dad grew up in Rialto, and I went to high school in Redlands.

Before they became sleeper towns for L.A. Not exciting, but some beautiful countryside.

[WinkyDink]

66. My PA G.I. dad trained there; always later said he'd have liked to live there.

Probably did make the Coal Region look even bleaker.

[bluedigger]

48. Jackson, Mississippi

There's just...nothing...

[mainstreetonce]

51. Buffalo NY

Once was enough and I am never going back.

[kwassa]

53. Most cities between the east coast and west coast are boring.

We are a country full of boring.

[KamaAina]

73. The "World's Most Interesting City" lies squarely between the coasts.

To wit, New Orleans.

Chicago, Atlanta, Denver and Memphis are also found in what some term "flyover country".

[txwhitedove]

55. Bloom where you are planted, even if it is temporary. I believe boring, like

beauty, is in the eye of the beholder. Houston is a very exciting city, more so than Tulsa. I've lived in Tulsa, and much prefer Houston. Maybe you just haven't found Rick's Cabaret yet, hummm?

[provis99]

57. Indianapolis. Hands down.

How could Houston be boring when it has Telephone road?
There must be exciting wild west gunfights every night at the honkytonks!

Most boring city in America is Indianapolis. It's most exciting time is when middle-aged guys drive cars around continuously in a circle on Memorial Day weekend.

[eridani]

76. I've seen that spelled Indian-no-place n/t

[Still Blue in PDX]

58. Boring, Oregon

Although I suppose it is more of a town than a city.

[DBoon]

68. there is a natural hot spring up the road from Boring

it is beyond Boring.....

[Still Blue in PDX]

72. LOL - I have to check that out. nt

[Sky Masterson]

60. Kansas City,KS

Nothing to do here but eat and put up with dumb-ass republicans.

[mysuzuki2]

61. Galesburg Illinois

[Orangepeel]

63. nonsense

There's a symphony, some theater, several professional sports teams, a great gay district, a couple of universities...

It ain't close to New York, but it isn't a cultural wasteland either.

[Paladin]

64. I Used To Live In Houston, Now I Live In Denver.

Due respect to my Colorado friends---Houston seems like Manhattan in comparison to Denver.....

[WinkyDink]

65. North Platte, Nebraska.

[spacelady]

85. I'm from Fairbury, Nebraska and it can be boring but I've never

heard anything exciting out of North Platte, it's pretty flat. What was your experience?

[trof]

70. Maybe Scranton, PA?

[Moondog]

71. Montgomery, AL. Had to spend a few months there once.

Uncle Sam insisted. There is also a low-security federal pen there. I was not one of the inmates. But nevertheless I found the town to be lacking in nearly every way imaginable.

:thumbsdown:

[Philippine expat]

74. There may be more boring cities in the country and the

world but the most boring city I have ever been in so far
has been Philadelphia, PA

[chollybocker]

75. Carmel, CA.

'Newly-Weds and Nearly-Deads.' The most bored I've ever been, ever.

[Auggie]

79. I hear you loud and clear

Definitely the most over-rated destination in California

[RedCloud]

78. River City. No longer having troubles.

[brendan120678]

80. Two nominations...my current and former hometowns

Binghamton, NY (former - born and raised)
Waterbury, CT (current)

The best thing about both are the highways, which make it quick and easy to get the heck out of there.

[Sequoia]

82. San Jose or Fresno.

[jmowreader]

86. Dayton, Ohio

I see a pattern in this thread...but seriously, I'd call Dayton a wide spot in the road, except the road is tore up.

[TroglodyteScholar]

87. Warner Robins, GA

Nothing there but an Air Force Base and a ton of chain restaurants. The biggest form of entertainment there is high school football. So glad to have left that hole.

[rbnyc]

88. Peoria, Il

...or maybe it's just the most awful.

[pitohui]

90. what about all the cocaine, gunshots, and car accidents when i was there?

never been bored in houston, count yourself lucky you had that opportunity

[laconicsax]

94. Ogden, UT

I've seen more interesting furniture.

[KatyMan]

96. Where in Houston are you?

Houston has a thriving arts and music scene, great food, NASA, 120 degree heat indexes in June, no rain...
As a resident of the Houston suburbs, I'm a bit offended that you consider my house/neighborhood to be "blight".

[slutticus]

98. It doesn't matter where you live.

Someone on DU will either think:

1. You're too rich
2. You're too poor (ghetto, blight, bla bla bla)
3. You're in a shitty red state
4. You're in a snobby blue state

You really can't win.

[DFW]

97. I defer to W.C. Fields

I went to college in Philadelphia, PA in the 1970s.

Fields once said (or is reputed to have said):

Ah yes, Philadelphia. I remember Philadelphia--spent a week there one day...........

[Lindsey]

99. I can't really comment on boring cities because I've lived in CA

for 23 years and love it here. I go on quite a few road trips and I guess it makes sense that I pick great destinations. I also have a blast along the way! I'm originally from TX and lived in Houston for about five years (back in the 80's). My bro, sis, and nephew live there now and have for most of their adult lives. I'd call Houston ANYTHING but boring. I can't imagine how anyone could get bored there. I guess if someone goes to Houston on business and is stuck in a hotel it would be boring but IMO that would apply to almost anywhere. Sometimes I get down on TX(because of the politics,of course) but I think Houston is a great city. There's a wonderful music scene, a lot of culture, and some really beautiful areas (as in most if not all cities, there are also some not so pretty areas). However, boring is NEVER a word I would use to describe Houston. :shrug: