The Worst Towns in the U.S.A.

The Worst Towns in the U.S.A (Taj Books, 2005, ISBN 1-84406-065-9) is a book by British author Maurice Crow. It is an American version of his The Worst Towns in the U.K., in which the author sent out a number of investigators, dubbed "spies", to comb the United States, looking for "awful" towns "which for one reason or another you wouldn't want to live in." The author used criteria such as quality of life (both for the town and state), income, employment, crime, and leisure amenities.

List of towns

The towns, in alphabetical order by state listed, are:

*Alabama: Montgomery
*Arizona: Lake Havasu City, Phoenix
*Arkansas: Little Rock
*California: Beverly Hills, Oxnard, Porterville, Visalia
*Colorado: Nederland
*Florida: Belle Glade
*Georgia: Sylvester
*Illinois: Markham
*Indiana: Gary
*Iowa: Des Moines
*Louisiana: Baton Rouge
*Maryland: Aberdeen, Accident
*Massachusetts: Melrose, Springfield
*Michigan: Detroit
*Mississippi: Philadelphia
*Missouri: Branson
*Montana: Butte
*Nebraska: Lincoln
*Nevada: Battle Mountain
*New Jersey: Kearney, Pennsville
*New Mexico: Los Alamos, Roswell, Truth or Consequences
*New York: Fleischmanns, Niagara Falls, Roosevelt Island
*North Carolina: Durham
*Ohio: Cheshire
*Oklahoma: Oklahoma City
*Pennsylvania: Centralia, Lancaster, Scranton
*South Dakota: Volga
*Tennessee: Knoxville, Memphis
*Texas: Dallas, El Paso, Houston
*Utah: Hildale
*Virginia: Virginia Beach
*Wyoming: Casper

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