Towns you avoid?

[tdindy88]

Also Indiana seems to have several cities that are larger cities in other states such as Nashville, Columbus, Baltimore (ghost town), Portland, Rochester and others.

A single county has three Latin American countries: Peru, Mexico, Chili (not spelled the same) and several US locales: Denver, Miami, Bunker Hill, Brimingham, Erie, Peoria, Santa Fe.

Of course Miami isn't named after the Florida city but rather the Native American tribe, as is the county itself.

[STLmapboy]

Bumfuck towns in Oklahoma are actually less threatening than bumfuck towns in any other state. If a town here gets more than a certain percentage of revenue from traffic fines, the city loses the right to issue any traffic tickets (the county and OHP step in). This has caused at least one bumfuck town to dissolve because they went over the percentage, then suddenly they had no money coming in to pay government officials.

There are other states that have speedtrap laws providing for compulsory disincorporation of small towns that get too large a share of their revenue from traffic fines.  Missouri's statute is informally called the "Macks Creek law" after a small town on US 54 just west of Camdenton that is now an unincorporated CDP as a result of it.

A town in my county (St George) had residents vote overwhelmingly in favor of disincorporation in 2011. The police had long been shady (garnering around 30% of their revenue from traffic citations, abuse and harrassment were also cited), and the mayor got mixed up with pot and child porn.

[STLmapboy]

I don't have any towns that I avoid. Either by traffic, or by being speed traps (there are none of the latter in Spain that I'm aware of). However, when you mentioned speed traps, the first place that came to mind was New Rome, Ohio. Also, when a town dissolves, does it need to be demolished altogether?

Not exactly demolished, but the village of Dutchtown MO was disincorporated after constant flooding and is now nearly a ghost town.

[D-Dey65]

I understand, the fear factor is different when you're up close, but cmon Camden isn't that bad.

There are blocks in N philly that will make Camden look like ardmore, PA.

Any chance some of those areas might be along the SEPTA Route 10 Trolley?

http://www.septa.org/schedules/trolley/pdf/010.pdf