Whats the roughest place you have been to in the UK or US ?

[Swbluebird]

Washington DC. On a motoring holiday up the east coast of the U.S. we booked into a motel in advance over the phone. It was on a road called New York Avenue East which sounded quite grand and therefore presumably safe. When we got the key to our room we found that the door had been jemmied at some time and there was a flimsy metal plate over the gap. Looking at the neighbouring rooms we found they were all the same so no point in asking for a different room. Thankfully the night passed without incident. The following morning we walked to the nearest underground station to travel into the city to do the sightseeing stuff. This was scary, like a scene from a film. There were small groups of lads sitting on the steps of practically every house watching us intently as we walked down their street. Clearly we were tourists with our backpacks. We were too nervous to go back that way after dark so we got a taxi - the driver could not believe that we had walked where we had walked, even in daylight!

I toured around some spots on the East Coast of the states with some pals and finished up in Washington DC, assumed it would be a nice spot but was very wrong, roughest place we visited by some distance. Place felt very unsafe whilst we were there. Was only there 1 night, walked back after an evening out and found out there had been a serious shooting about a mile from where we were staying:

https://time.com/5681928/washington-...ghts-shooting/

[Gofer Blue]

I toured around some spots on the East Coast of the states with some pals and finished up in Washington DC, assumed it would be a nice spot but was very wrong, roughest place we visited by some distance. Place felt very unsafe whilst we were there. Was only there 1 night, walked back after an evening out and found out there had been a serious shooting about a mile from where we were staying:

https://time.com/5681928/washington-...ghts-shooting/

On the same trip we got lost driving into Miami from the airport in a hire car. Apparently this was a very dodgy thing to do at the time because cars with Hertz Rental stickers in the back window were a dead giveaway for muggers. Anyway we eventually found the motel we had booked. In the middle of the night we were awakened by the sound of people shouting outside our window. There was a police car with red/blue lights flashing and a policeman standing near another car shouting "get out with your hands up" or words to that effect. Wow, what a start to the holiday we thought! Our kids thought it was a great adventure of course.