TOP 10 Reasons why HARTFORD, CONNECTICUT is the WORST city in the US!

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Hartford is the capital of Connecticut. It’s home to the Mark Twain House & Museum. The 1874 mansion contains thousands of artifacts, including the desk at which Twain wrote his best-known works. The Harriet Beecher Stowe Center includes the author’s Victorian house and many period furnishings, plus a garden. The broad collection of the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art includes Renaissance and impressionist works.

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[Unknown-bqid]

I don't even live in Connecticut, but Hartford is NOT the worst city in the US--my picks would be Detroit, Flint, and/or Gary, Indiana...

[Faithful]

I worked in Hartford for a few years at one of the major insurance companies. It is NOT the worst city in the US (click bait?) but neither is it the shining gem it was in its hey day (early 1900s to 1950) there is so much history here and architecture and that’s cool but the current politics does nothing to enhance the quality of life. It could be so much better than it is but it has lost its soul. Fortunately it is surrounded by some of the most geographically beautiful parts of the state and that is probably the nicest thing I can say about it.

[atonmartell]

We can't keep bashing Hartford like this, HTFD is only boring because people are ungrateful and look at everything at the other side, like get to know your city and participate in it's economy. If you don't like it then help better your city by building business and events, it's never going to get better by just looking at it, how do we think other cities got better

[michaelbrown]

Being from Hartford originally, there are a lot of things I don't like about city and it has its share of problems, while I plan on to move back to CT, I don't plan on moving back to Hartford, but it's not the worst city in the US, not even close. I visited Hartford last year, I did see some potential growth and hope it continue to improve and grow to become a more family oriented city.

[usa]

I was born in Hartford and I agree there is really no reason to go there. Whalers are gone. Bar scene is dead. Cold and depressing in the winter. Downtown is small. It's just office buildings. North or south of downtown is the hood. Good place to get car jacked. CT has some nice areas but Hartford is not one of them. West Hartford is better. Or Glastonbury on the east side of the river.

[DarjeelingEnjoyer]

There is no way that Hartford is the worst city in the ENTIRE US. That is just absurd. My family was from Hartford (never lived there myself) and they said it was bad, but visiting for family, it's really not too bad. I've been there a few times in my life to visit relatives and it was a nice atmosphere. Yeah, looked poor as shit, but that didn't bother me at all. There was a lot of sketchy shit, and I would never walk on the street alone, but apart from that I never felt in danger much. Went there for a show in the civics center a while back and wasn't really that bad either. There are definitely worse cities.

Not a great city by any means, but it's far from the worst. I would say Detroit or Flint are worse by a longshot.

[kennethn.]

Hartford isn’t that bad. It’s just such an uninspiring city compared to other New England states.

[scamonehiphop]

There really is no reason to go to Hartford, or any city in CT. (Except maybe New Haven)
The state as a whole is depressing if you are not wealthy.
Hartford has little going on.

[MAWSHASPAWS]

As a person Living in Hartford, ITS not the worst city ever or in the US. Its not good either. However its one of the places I could find the easiest to live in, because like, Id rather live somewhere than nowhere. Im also a black person so yea. Its not like I wanna live in Hartford. I used to live in West Hartford for a while when I was evicted for NO REASON (A new rental apartment boss took over) and was trying to find another place. West Hartford is SM better honestly, its alot cleaner and yes I HATE LITTERING AND THERES SOO MUCH I SEE IN HARTFORD. I see alot of people doing drugs in hartford (no i saw it in weha too) but they literally you see alcohol bottles (would not say littered everywhere) BUT ITS LITERED ALOT AND ALSO ALOT OF VIOLENCE! I dont attend the Hartford Public Schools System (it sucks) but i attend a private school. Ik its expensive, but were fine. WHPS IS DOPE! and Sm better in education. It saddened me to leave it. HOWEVER THERE IS GOOD THINGS ABOUT HARTFORD! Bushnell Park, Bushnell Theater, CT Science Center, Downtown is nice, and the West End of hartford is good. I dont like Hartford, but i would not say thats the WORST city. Yes it is dangerous, SO IS EVERYWHERE ELSE! Hartford does have high crime rates compared to everywhere else, but i would not overexaggerate how bad Hartford is. Also its the capitol of CT. but yea. Not everyone who lives there is a nutmegger. And not everyone who lives there is bad. So yea. I would not recommend living here, but however if its the only choice you have, ITS REASONABLE!! Im actually grateful that im living here rather than noowhere. Ang again. its not like everyone who lived in Hartford had a choice to live there, so when you ask "Why would you wanna live there" Just think.

[burcoman]

Left three yrs ago. Place is a sh*t hole

[thewhale]

Well I am from Harford, sure Hartford seen better days. But with the highway system cutting the city literally in half, the exodus of manufacturing jobs in the past decades that made the city what it was, competing not only with two powerful cities north and side of it, and its suburbs and two other casinos then you can see why it becomes a victim of its own entropy and have everything stacked against us. Another thing folks outside the city do not realize is that there are projects in place to help things turn around but they do take time.

[lightskinnedbrother]

Don’t talk about my city in a negative fashion
Half y’all don’t really interact or engage with Hartford residents like myself y’all come here for concerts museums the bushel sports bars and clubs
How I know? I’m an Uber driver in CT I’m from Hartford born and raised and I don’t think anyone that is from CT really go to Hartford unless they have to
So how would you know what is there to do? There’s tons of people that come here from different states as well not even to mention the college students who are here 6-9 months out the year

So to say any thing without truly experiencing the city is asinine cause many college students and residents who aren’t boomers love coming out to Hartford
You get what you put out in life, period. Anywhere you go

[lordofduct]

If you think Hartford is the worst city in the US... you haven't been around the US that much.

Take it from someone who has not only lived in all 4 corners of the nation (la, sofla, new england, and washington state), but also drove tractor trailer through a great deal of it.

Hartford is.... fine.

Sure it ain't great, but it ain't bad, and it certainly ain't the "worst".

I swear, my wife and I just moved here a couple years ago, and y'all love to shit on yourselves so damn much. Y'all don't know what you have here. It's nice here. It's really fucking nice.

I live right outside of the city, east of the river, my wife drives in every morning for work. I swear... the shit y'all freak out about up here. Like there was a stabbing in the village/town/whatever the fuck this thing is a while back when we first moved in. Some domestic dispute. Y'all lost your god damn minds. Months have passed and people would hear we live where we live they'd be like "oh man, that areas is shitty... you hear about the stabbing?"

"You mean the stabbing like 7 months ago?"

"Yeah, so you you know about it!"

"Yeah... why do you? Why do any of you know about it?"

Where I'm from in sofla, if you know about stabbing... it's cause you were involved in the stabbing. There's more stabbings per god damn hour where I'm from then y'all see in a fucking decade in this town (not hartford). Even Hartford, while definitely having its dangerous spots, is still what... fine?

I'll give you an example... I currently live about the same distance from my city downtown now as I did in Florida. About 10 miles, or a 15-20 minute drive (depending route). In the quiet neighborhood I lived in, in sofla, at the intersection right outside my community where the grocery store was in the 10 years I lived there had been shut down on 5 occasions that I'm personally aware of because there was a machine gun shootout in the middle of the road with cops/swat/etc.

Now this area I lived was not the "ghetto", it was not some dark seedy depressed corner of the city... it was a plane ass suburban neighborhood similar to what I currently live in (just now there's more hills and snow, and a lot less HOAs). And this neighborhood freaks out cause of a fucking stabbing a year ago that didn't even involve their asses.

Of course, I have seen some areas of CT I've been through that well... aren't the sort of place one wants to hang out for too long. Not trying to say CT is some perfect place or nothing. Far from. Y'all got your dark seedy corners. My point is... you know when you're where you shouldn't be when in the greater Hartford area. So much so that y'all think perfectly reasonable neighborhoods are bad just cause lower income people (see: brown) live there.

No... y'all are like "West Hartford looks safe, neat and tidy though!" (actual comment found on this video shitting on all of greater Hartford)

FUCKING BARF... West Hartford is a fucking white washed shithole. It's the suburban residential equivalent of a Cheesecake Factory. Talk about being "basic".... ugh. Srsly... y'all. do. not. know. what. you. have.

[eddietowers]

Thing is, when I was a boy, Hartford seemed like New York during the day (key word being seemed). everything was operational even the (in)famous "Butt ugly building, which was at one time a State run facility. Everything was running, open, bustling and busy. It's funny, this video mentions peddlers because there were street peddlers out on Main Street in Down Town Hartford, that peddled there wares just outside big named stores and reputable business. from G. Fox, The Richardson Mall, Brown Thompson, Sage Allen and the Pavilion mall to across the street where American Airlines had an office building, casual corners with its penthouse department above it to J.J. Newberry's and up along asylum street and hill. They were cheap Asian made wares and novelties but they were one of a kind finds of various iterations of robots, exceedingly tall for a toy and exceedingly small to pose a choking hazard but it WAS AWESOME! Then the "Change" happened. I guess the Down Town legitimated business and city councils did away with the peddlers and when the peddlers were all but gone the street preachers that were always there with the peddlers were being seen and heard, preaching misguided words and calculations of the "END TIMES COMING NIGH" within a month...every month. Then, as though one of their misguided predictions, they too seemed to have vanished. Gradually Hartford wasn't as bustling anymore, busy with rush hour morning of just working people catching buses to go to and fro work and home and in between lunch. Then the White Washing Gentrification that seems to have happened within the last 13 years, where Down Town Hartford has become busy again, not on the Main Street as was intended when such a bustling city was founded, but one block over, behind Main Street where Uconn, college a movie theater and other new businesses, that don't seem to be for the traditional Hartford resident had taken root, as a Shangri La or a Shambala but not for the Heart beat of Hartford. but yeah, Hartford is not good.

[wardragonprime]

The I-84 and I-91 highways led to people not having to travel through Hartford which resulted in its decline.

[Kittylicable]

Hartford is not as dangerous as people make it out to be… if you’re not involved in street activity no one will bother you. Number 7 and 2 were pretty accurate.

[Moonix_Iris]

Ma’am I’m next to Hartford,
and I wanna tell you all that it’s a great city.
Great downtown I would recommend visiting there.

[JERios-wvlx]

Hmm, as a 15 years old teenager never thought things were so bad down there; I lived there when i was 15...now i'm 65. (West Hartford looks safe, neat and tidy though!)

[matthewryan]

Definitely not the worst in the country.

[seniorjuniortv]

Hartford is NOT THAT BAD. She was exaggerating a bunch lol