Flipside: What is the worst city you ever visited and why?

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163. Shamrock Texas.

Never have I spent so much money to have so little fun.
In 1990 Donna's real father died there. She never knew him, her parents split up when she was about a year old. His relatives were trying to get their hands on his estate until the lawyer asked them if Jack had any kids.
It was two weeks after he was buried before she found out. By the time we got up there, everything of value had been cleaned out of the house, the utilities had been cut off with food in the fridge in June in TX. You can imagine what that smelled like. Evidently the same family members that stole everything had also complained about having to shell out $2 to buy a decent pair of socks to bury the man in.
By the time we loaded up what was left into a U-Haul truck-which I had to drive to Amarillo to get-motel, food and gas expenses we spent $900.
We went to the diner where his girlfriend worked to get the house key when we got there. It was like a scene out of Easy Rider. People's forks literally stopped on the way to their mouths when we walked in.
The funniest thing was the motels-they all had this huge "AMERICAN OWNED" sign out front and each one had a East Asian woman behind the counter.
The one we stayed in had this combination swimming pool and bomb shelter-the pool was on a raised mound and at one end was this huge steel door to go into the bomb shelter.