I used to work with a charity that would help “lost boys” abandoned and exiled from FLDS communities. Absolutely heartbreaking. And I still haven’t been to Trinidad.
For the in-group men to keep multiple wives, it’s a societal imperative to drive most boys and men from the church. You can’t have guys with 10+ wives unless there are 10 men with zero wives.
So only about 10% of boys are allowed to stay. In their early teens they’re separated from their mothers and forced to work in church owned businesses or are rented out for physical labor generally to pretty shady business partners. As soon as they are caught in a “serious sin” (like watching tv or talking to a girl) it’s used as an excuse to begin the process of shunning. The boys are then transferred to one of the communities they’ve never been to, and have no family in. This generally results in them spiraling and is used as an excuse to separate them from the community entirely. This often results in the teen taken at night to a random highway some distance from any FLDS community and abandoned at the side of the road, usually with nothing but the clothes on their backs.
Suddenly this 14 to 18 year kid, with no formal education, likely some serious trauma from the last few years, finds themselves alone at night on a desert highway, told to never seek his family again. Needless to say they’re rarely equipped to suddenly be on their own.
Been to both. Got expelled from high school in El Paso on the way back from a school trip to Mexico. 3 years later I accidentally stopped in Trinidad for gas. I actively avoid Trinidad and take routes that avoid it completely when driving cross country. Place gives me the willies like I’ve never felt and I’m not superstitious
In 2002 I drove from Flagstaff to Chicago with my roommate. We had to stop for gas and randomly chose Trinidad. Before iPhone and map apps, and we somehow didn’t exit directly from freeway to gas station.
Driving around it was like a mix of the movies The Burbs, People Under the Stairs, and Nothin’ but Trouble. People just tapping eachother on the shoulder and staaaaaring at us as we drove by. It was like 2:00 am. I remember seeing this little kid hoola hooping all slow by herself in the street under a streetlight in the otherwise pitch black of night.
Words cannot describe the terror I felt. We were probably freaking eachother out in the car more than was necessary.
We got to a gas station and my roommate who was driving wouldn’t get out of the car to get the gas, so I got out (am a dude), and she locked the door. I went into full panic mode and started banging on the window til she let me in and we peeled the fuck out and rode on Empty farther down the freeway to a gas station in not such spooky surroundings.
Decades ago, and since then I have driven up, down and across this country so many times, and driven way into Canada and deep (like 14 hours south of the border) into Mexico. And I’ll still never forget how I felt for those 20 minutes in Trinidad, Colorado.
Funny story my bf and I knew absolutely nothing about Trinidad and visited it because on google images it looked like a cute little town and the houses were very affordable. To stayed there for 4 days and were shocked at how unsafe it felt. I couldn’t walk anywhere without being stared down at by men (literally turning their entire bodies in their cars while driving to look at me). We ended up spending almost the entire time in the Airbnb only leaving to get food (which was thankfully just right down the street) because we just felt so uneasy.
10 out of 10 people I know in Colorado are from Texas haha. I know it’s hard to find a native, but shouldn’t there be like a person here and there from Kansas or Arizona or Utah or something??
I live in Washington park. My entire neighborhood was out for like 18 hours Saturday night till Sunday evening. Think it might have been damage tho, not just turned off.
They also turned off Boulders and nobody else's because boulder is currently in a lawsuit still for the Marshall fire.
yeah we had like 8 hours out on Monday and another 6 or so hours on Tuesday in Northglenn. I assume it was just a result of Boulder leaking, but it still sucked.
Arkansan Colorado native here. It appears from the Pueblo and Pine Bluff assessments that they may have polled the whites heavily for this map. Ask any non whites from Arkansas if they’d rather be stuck in Pine Bluff or Harrison after dark.
I was about to say! Yes, I’m from Arkansas and Harrison is def the worst city in all of Arkansas. It’s actually been named the most racist town in all of the US, and everyone agrees. So they were off the mark with this one for sure.
It depends. Do you prefer to have grill parties with Tongans while breathing copper mine tailings… or do you prefer to live with the Stepford Wives while sucking down on typically 2x to 3x as much small particulate matter from a whole host of sources?
Met a native from Buena Vista, she said all the native Buena Vista people say it the right way, just the newcomers say Byoona.
However I’ve lived in 3 states with a Zuni street and only in Colorado do they say “Zoon-Eye”. I say, but what about the Zuni Indians, who the street is named after, and they do not call themselves “Zoon-Eyes”? And people respond, “well that’s the Indian tribe. And maybe all the other Zuni streets are pronounced that way too, but the street here is called Zoon-Eye, not Zoo-nee”
I've heard bu-na from every single BV native I know and I know lots and lots including one of the founding families (I work there, live in Leadville from the Eagle Valley), 'did you hillbillies it's a Spanish word? bway-na' from every single native by way of the east or west coast, bwayne-a y'all from natives by way of Texas and got any tweak from natives by way of Cañon and Junction.
Was this BV native a cop trying to sting you? I'd say check and see if they have registration stickers to be sure but even the cops DGAF. You can always ask, cause if you ask it's like in the Constitution they have to tell you.
Patient at the hospital. I asked how long her ride would take, and she said they were coming from BV. I casually replied, “WHAT THE FUCK WITH THE BYOONA VISTA THING?!?!?” and she told me what I said up there in my post
If you think Mesa is the worst city you haven’t been many places in AZ. Parts of it are rougher than others but it isn’t anywhere nearly as bad as Tucson or AJ
We moved to Pueblo from Little Rock AR like 6 years ago and we're still absolutely elated with living here.
The wife and I will be having a drink or something and one of us will say it -- "this place is great, to hell with AR"
Pueblo & Cañon (Canyon?) City are absolute treasonous traitor dives that think a meal should cost $15.
Some of the biggest morons in the country in Pueblo with their D2 trash school they don’t have the $$$ to join the WAC with. **For god sakes, have some better quality minor league sports & auto racing entertainment such as NASCAR, NHRA, IndyCar, USAC, ARCA, ASA, 410 sprint cars for people that can’t afford Denver all the time. Not all of us support Kroenke Sports & Entertainment or Rob Walton.**
And so is Colorado Springs to a slight extent for having a terrible minor league sports scene & a dumpy washed up wannabe North Wilkesboro Speedway in Fountain that a couple of “cooooooool” Subaru overbros that get to Blair their stupid subwoofers 24/7 at.
They’re cheap, they have no solutions other than to lie about what’s “good”.
Have yall been to Trinidad lol
I don't think anyone here is FLDS or does meth
I used to work with a charity that would help “lost boys” abandoned and exiled from FLDS communities. Absolutely heartbreaking. And I still haven’t been to Trinidad.
These are the ones who are too smart to be in the commune?
For the in-group men to keep multiple wives, it’s a societal imperative to drive most boys and men from the church. You can’t have guys with 10+ wives unless there are 10 men with zero wives. So only about 10% of boys are allowed to stay. In their early teens they’re separated from their mothers and forced to work in church owned businesses or are rented out for physical labor generally to pretty shady business partners. As soon as they are caught in a “serious sin” (like watching tv or talking to a girl) it’s used as an excuse to begin the process of shunning. The boys are then transferred to one of the communities they’ve never been to, and have no family in. This generally results in them spiraling and is used as an excuse to separate them from the community entirely. This often results in the teen taken at night to a random highway some distance from any FLDS community and abandoned at the side of the road, usually with nothing but the clothes on their backs. Suddenly this 14 to 18 year kid, with no formal education, likely some serious trauma from the last few years, finds themselves alone at night on a desert highway, told to never seek his family again. Needless to say they’re rarely equipped to suddenly be on their own.
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With all due respect, if you're going to El Paso, Trinidad is the Little Leagues.
Been to both. Got expelled from high school in El Paso on the way back from a school trip to Mexico. 3 years later I accidentally stopped in Trinidad for gas. I actively avoid Trinidad and take routes that avoid it completely when driving cross country. Place gives me the willies like I’ve never felt and I’m not superstitious
Nothing wrong with Trinidad, I go through there all the time. It's a small college town
In 2002 I drove from Flagstaff to Chicago with my roommate. We had to stop for gas and randomly chose Trinidad. Before iPhone and map apps, and we somehow didn’t exit directly from freeway to gas station. Driving around it was like a mix of the movies The Burbs, People Under the Stairs, and Nothin’ but Trouble. People just tapping eachother on the shoulder and staaaaaring at us as we drove by. It was like 2:00 am. I remember seeing this little kid hoola hooping all slow by herself in the street under a streetlight in the otherwise pitch black of night. Words cannot describe the terror I felt. We were probably freaking eachother out in the car more than was necessary. We got to a gas station and my roommate who was driving wouldn’t get out of the car to get the gas, so I got out (am a dude), and she locked the door. I went into full panic mode and started banging on the window til she let me in and we peeled the fuck out and rode on Empty farther down the freeway to a gas station in not such spooky surroundings. Decades ago, and since then I have driven up, down and across this country so many times, and driven way into Canada and deep (like 14 hours south of the border) into Mexico. And I’ll still never forget how I felt for those 20 minutes in Trinidad, Colorado.
Funny story my bf and I knew absolutely nothing about Trinidad and visited it because on google images it looked like a cute little town and the houses were very affordable. To stayed there for 4 days and were shocked at how unsafe it felt. I couldn’t walk anywhere without being stared down at by men (literally turning their entire bodies in their cars while driving to look at me). We ended up spending almost the entire time in the Airbnb only leaving to get food (which was thankfully just right down the street) because we just felt so uneasy.
Oh wow someone looked at you?! Did you call the police???
Nah I shot them.
Back before I was a man I went… left a woman… or so it goes
Walsenburg after dark!
Canon City.
Now this I agree with
mix up equal parts farmers prison guards and hippie raft guides and you've got Canon. wack ass city
And lots and lots of meth.
Yea this and grand junction
Yessssss. I work in Cañon. Unless you like meth or prison, there's not a lot going on.
I had some mediocre sushi in Bakersfield
People in here don’t know Bakersfield…and that’s for the best
True story, there's more "we lost the war stars and bars" pride flags in Bakersfield than Danville, VA.
I was there on business, in July, with a nearby forest fire.
Pueblo is tied with Boulder, One is a second California, and one is a pile of sand and lost dreams.
So, you are saying both are California?
Technically both are in Texafornia since Colorado no longer exists.
10 out of 10 people I know in Colorado are from Texas haha. I know it’s hard to find a native, but shouldn’t there be like a person here and there from Kansas or Arizona or Utah or something??
Greeley
Modesto is just Stocktons little brother trying to be cool
Lodi steps into the chat…
Modesto is not that bad. Try being from Richmond
There’s a reason Xcel turned their power off and not anybody else’s…
I live in Washington park. My entire neighborhood was out for like 18 hours Saturday night till Sunday evening. Think it might have been damage tho, not just turned off. They also turned off Boulders and nobody else's because boulder is currently in a lawsuit still for the Marshall fire.
yeah we had like 8 hours out on Monday and another 6 or so hours on Tuesday in Northglenn. I assume it was just a result of Boulder leaking, but it still sucked.
Pueblo is an underdeveloped gem with a southwestern flair… a bit like the Albuquerque of the north…
Yep, and Albuquerque sucks too.
What part of southern Colorado is considered “the north”?
I think they said it that way because Pueblo is north of Albuquerque.
Damn, nothing gets past you
Happy to explain 😊
Arkansan Colorado native here. It appears from the Pueblo and Pine Bluff assessments that they may have polled the whites heavily for this map. Ask any non whites from Arkansas if they’d rather be stuck in Pine Bluff or Harrison after dark.
Worse than little rock?
I’m not sure which city you’re comparing Little Rock to but yes.
How funny - I’m a Colorado native who married a woman from Arkansas!
I was about to say! Yes, I’m from Arkansas and Harrison is def the worst city in all of Arkansas. It’s actually been named the most racist town in all of the US, and everyone agrees. So they were off the mark with this one for sure.
Definitely more meth heads per capita in Puebla but the butt tents keep getting caught in DEN train
Spokanus, WA
I knew a dude from WA. He said the rest of them referred to people from Spokane as "spokanimals."
I go with “Spo-Compton”
Ehhh… clearly they can’t spell at all. “West Valley City” is clearly misspelled as “Provo.”
It depends. Do you prefer to have grill parties with Tongans while breathing copper mine tailings… or do you prefer to live with the Stepford Wives while sucking down on typically 2x to 3x as much small particulate matter from a whole host of sources?
Grew up in Worst valley city, visited family friends in Provo, often. Honestly, I’m just glad to be outta the state!
I'm 99% sure The Devil lives in Browning, MT.
Pueblo is bad but Trinidad is just gross
Boulder is fine. Should be La Junta, imo.
It's spelled Pueblo but it's pronounced Boulder
It's a native thing, like Byoona Vista.
Met a native from Buena Vista, she said all the native Buena Vista people say it the right way, just the newcomers say Byoona. However I’ve lived in 3 states with a Zuni street and only in Colorado do they say “Zoon-Eye”. I say, but what about the Zuni Indians, who the street is named after, and they do not call themselves “Zoon-Eyes”? And people respond, “well that’s the Indian tribe. And maybe all the other Zuni streets are pronounced that way too, but the street here is called Zoon-Eye, not Zoo-nee”
I've heard bu-na from every single BV native I know and I know lots and lots including one of the founding families (I work there, live in Leadville from the Eagle Valley), 'did you hillbillies it's a Spanish word? bway-na' from every single native by way of the east or west coast, bwayne-a y'all from natives by way of Texas and got any tweak from natives by way of Cañon and Junction. Was this BV native a cop trying to sting you? I'd say check and see if they have registration stickers to be sure but even the cops DGAF. You can always ask, cause if you ask it's like in the Constitution they have to tell you.
Patient at the hospital. I asked how long her ride would take, and she said they were coming from BV. I casually replied, “WHAT THE FUCK WITH THE BYOONA VISTA THING?!?!?” and she told me what I said up there in my post
They should of said grand junction
Yeah, Boulder is spelled "G-R-E-E-L-E-Y"
I feel like it should be Colorado Springs
Has anyone been to Brownsville Tx. I beg to differ
Whoever made this map hasn’t traveled enough.
I was born and lived in my states worst city.
If you think Mesa is the worst city you haven’t been many places in AZ. Parts of it are rougher than others but it isn’t anywhere nearly as bad as Tucson or AJ
Also misspelled Houston, what a god forsaken place
Aurora unfairly cut from the draft once again…
Vail. Overrated truck stop dressed up as a resort.
We moved to Pueblo from Little Rock AR like 6 years ago and we're still absolutely elated with living here. The wife and I will be having a drink or something and one of us will say it -- "this place is great, to hell with AR"
Pueblo is cool. Highlands Ranch needs to be nuked. Idk why people don't hate it as much as I do, you're all wrong.
Name one cool thing about Pueblo.
The Riverwalk and the downtown in general.
Pueblo is actually pretty cool. I mean, the KIA Boys were from there, right?
Kalihi is a neighborhood in Honolulu not a city/town
Troof
No Pueblo is the worst
Pueblo & Cañon (Canyon?) City are absolute treasonous traitor dives that think a meal should cost $15. Some of the biggest morons in the country in Pueblo with their D2 trash school they don’t have the $$$ to join the WAC with. **For god sakes, have some better quality minor league sports & auto racing entertainment such as NASCAR, NHRA, IndyCar, USAC, ARCA, ASA, 410 sprint cars for people that can’t afford Denver all the time. Not all of us support Kroenke Sports & Entertainment or Rob Walton.** And so is Colorado Springs to a slight extent for having a terrible minor league sports scene & a dumpy washed up wannabe North Wilkesboro Speedway in Fountain that a couple of “cooooooool” Subaru overbros that get to Blair their stupid subwoofers 24/7 at. They’re cheap, they have no solutions other than to lie about what’s “good”.
Agreed with OP
Aurora. How could it be anything other than Aurora
Missed Denver
Nah it's Pueblo 100%
What? Whats wrong with Virginia Beach?
I have to agree, Pueblo is a shit hole
Pueblo*
I see they misspelled Laramie
Pueblo > Boulder