City-Data.com

If you think this site was bad a few years ago, it's worse. Moderators have left or don't show up. Trolls disrupting threads. Long time members leaving and you aren't allowed to say you're leaving or why. It leaves people wondering where they went. But they had enough of it. Sure not the same website it used to be. Politics seeping into threads that aren't supposed to be political. Angry people over there now. Reddit is better now. Don't even bother joining City-Data, unless you're a hardcore right wing nutjob. And forget about getting anyone to help if you're verbally attacked by another member. They'll remove the comment but let the troll go to attack another day.

This is what you get if you point out child abuse by feminists. Then when you report it, you get banned.

Mensaguy, supporter of child abuse, also refuses to give his real name when abusing victims. Criminal offense.

I believe City Data forum is a place where extremists thrive under the pretense of political correctness, by accusing those of minority groups falsely. Racism, ableism, sexism, all common place, and all pretending to be left wing/politically correct.
Quite frankly, there seems to be a superiority group that see disabled and minorities as non-human, then sets their targets on them. Then you have moderators such as toobusytoday, who views certain races as apes, and accuses others of the same view. All fully supported by Yac, one of two most superior mods.
Add to that SouthernBelleInUtah moderator, who labels anyone to acknowledge anything positive about races, as racist, and also states you to be racist if you think humans may be naturally nomadic.

Just to be clear, I'm Autistic, and have been hounded for being so, and especially for being honest.

Many of my posts are deleted while others with similar off topic or even attacking others stay on because it meets their RW political agenda. They are trying to get me booted off permanently and then simply will be an echo chamber. Sad.

This place is a joke. A right Wing Echo Chamber of nonsense. As someone who doesn't lean far left or far right, it's comical the amount of right wing echoing that goes on there. Just boring conversation really as right wing conservatives just echo each other non-stop in the political forum.

I joined up today with a funny name "NakedHunterBiden". I posted one thread on how Trump has added more to the deficit and a few mins later I was banned. The reason given was that I was a troll and that it would be lifted never. That's some $#*!ty moderation you got there.

Fairly new to the politics forum and it's a joke. I like the economic and retirement conversations, but the political forum has right wing nutjob moderators that block any other views. It is just a right wing, conspiracy theory echo chamber. Waste of time and no real political value or discussions.

I joined in 2008 or so and loved City-data. It was a fun place to connect with people who shared my community and interests. While there was the occasional conflict, discussions were productive and well moderated, at least in my state forum. Commenters could and did argue, but we knew where the boundaries were and behaved accordingly. Fast forward to today, and many of the posters I enjoyed in earlier years have been driven off by the toxicity, and I've joined them. It's disheartening. City-Data, if you read reviews, it's time to clean house. Your moderators, with a few notable exceptions (shout out to Mikefrombackeast), are terrible and drive off your most engaging and helpful members. What remains is a cesspool. The "discussions" are not edifying or even entertaining. They're just mind-numbing.

My assessment: Find another discussion forum. This one is very bad news and unlikely to improve.

Heavily censored site to push pro-Trump agenda. Criticism of him is considered trolling and will result in posts being deleted and the account banned. Pro-Trump posters can say whatever they want and personal attacks are tolerated. RW posters dominate the site 10-1 ratio, and they will gang up on anyone who disagrees. Horribly biased mods. Don't waste your time. The Christianity form mods allow atheists and universalists push their nonsense, and Christian posters are infracted for responding.

If you express any kind of negative opinion/question about a city you will be banned. Defeats the entire purpose of a forum that used to be dedicated to discussing the pros and cons of a particular city.

The above makes the forum worthless, and not to be trusted as a resource when you are researching cities in which to move.

I finally walked away from city data. My issue was with political & other controversy. The mods favor left leaners if not outright Trump haters. They cheer on our present bumbler.

The senior areas are rife with self important elderly. Most are spouting about the trips they've taken or will take. Constantly one upmanship regarding retirement and how much $$$$ they will get when they retire.

They usually remove political sniping in other forums, but not always. They also will not respond to explain why your post was deleted except to tag it falsely

If you like to enjoy discussion, don't waste your time there

While this site advertises itself as a relocation guide, it rarely serves its' purpose; as the majority of members post in politics. Unfortunately, even this section fails; as mods simply lock threads even when there are no TOS violations. This makes it impossible to carry on any conversations for any length of time, plus your own threads become useless; and buried intentionally.
I'd be very hesitant to waste any time on this site, as almost all reviews here are the same horror stories. And their software(Vbulletin)has features that are inactive, such as when other comment on your post; you literally have to look up your own post for a reference point. There are no purchases to be made from this site, at least that I'm aware of.
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C-D, specifically P&OC is the ultimate example of online facism. I'm still shocked from coming to city-data to research a move, then checking on a poster's history to end up in the P&OC forum. I think Lech Mazur is a devil and I always wonder how C-D makes money. Once upon a time I'm guessing they made money from realtors, now I think they make money from right wing extremists. Very scary stuff.

One of the mods IBGINNIE is an absolute idiot that deletes posts that he/she/it doesn't agree with or just out of spite. This mod seems to not have a life outside of the forum and takes her/his/its resentment and frustration out on strangers who are are merely commenting on political topics of the day. Not a user friendly site as it is overly moderated by nitwits like this mental midget IBGINNIE. Much better forums to visit.

Most topics on city-data are informative and you can have productive discussion's and get helpful info. That all goes down the toilet when you enter the politics forum

If you aren't a pro MAGA boot licker you will mostly likely be suspended and banned by the pro MAGA moderator.

She has suspended and banned people for simply having a opposing view that is not pro Trump MAGA she will either say you are off topic/hijacking or a troll for no reason just because you challenge the pro Trump discussions and have alternative views. It's pretty much a echo Chamber at this point.

She plays favorites and mostly Targets Democrats/independents she doesn't agree with. And is on a huge power trip.

There is no place to complain or report bad mods even the senior mods have given up and don't care and I'm not sure the Admin is even active or cares either.

Shameful such a great forum but seems to be neglected and going downhill by a few bad apples.

Long Story Short: The members post extreme right-wing view points that are considered to be racist and bigoted. If you attempt to point out their flaws with evidence, you will either be censored by the mods (with them editing the post saying that you are wrong) or they will banned you outright with the reason as "troll."

The Politics Forum is a toilet. Just mostly conservatives hating on liberals non-stop to the point it is quite sad that people will spend hours on City-Data just arguing over people they will never know personally. Some members will even post crap like blacks hate the Jews and we must fight the Democrats since they will attack the white people. Enough said.

Entire site is filled with far right lunatics that post sexist, racist, and homophobic drivel left and right. The racism is barely even veiled, and very reminiscent of Stormfront in ideology. Conspiracy theories also heavily promoted.

The Maine City Data forum is moderated and dominated by people with a far-right agenda, strongly pro-gun and anti-immigrant. They present themselves as representing "real" Mainers, setting up a false divide between people from old Maine families and newcomers. They refer to all immigrants as "illegal aliens," undercutting the state government's efforts to welcome legal immigrants to solve Maine's severe labor shortage. They personally target people who post anything that strikes them as too liberal, like something feminist, and censor their posts. Over the years the overt censorship and hostility has led to a gradual decline in the forum, with far fewer posts and disappearing members. Their agenda is to discourage outsiders from coming to Maine. They're probably succeeding at that. Appealing to the City Data uber moderators will bring no response at all. They obviously support the far-right moderators. This proves that the real agenda of City Data is not to facilitate people moving to other states. Increasingly, the forums seem to be far-right rallying places.

Sure, there are some fringe racists from the right on that site, but I've seen as many if not more bigots from the left. The reason you see people here saying it's an alt-right site is because they are liberals who interpret everything that doesn't subscribe to the liberal narrative as being racist. (Example: explaining why you are opposed to CRT for your young children or saying that singing the Black National Anthem at every football game is divisive rather than unifying will get you called a white nationalist or a racist member of the KKK.)

That said, it is ridiculously moderated. The mods are given full authority to ban posters if they happen to disagree with a post, one where there are no insults, no bullying, no bad language, etc., and posts that lay out good arguments against liberal policies can disappear without warning as well.

Blatant double standards applied when moderators decide who's posts to delete. Don't bother complaining. They don't care.
Moderators are all over the place on what they allow. Some let debate flow a bit too freely, others are absurdly strict.
Has potential as an informative source for moving issues, but walk away before you get hooked.