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I wish I can give this site a zero star, but 1 is the lowest it can go. Long story short extreme right wing viewpoints gets posted here. If you attempt to post a counterargument, you will be banned pretty quickly.

There was this thread in the Florida Section of the Forum that this guy only wants to move his family to a Pro-Trump area. He is also pretty big on making sure that he raise his children under his worldview and he must not be in a liberal area. His viewpoints are so what I call borderline Alt-Right that I made a post questioning his parenting style, saying it is better to have his kids in a mixed environment where their viewpoints are questioned. I also stated that why he must be big on areas that must be Trump only. I was quickly banned with the reason as troll after having my account for months.

This review have some posts from this guy. He was pretty anti-vaccines and possible he is with the Alt-Right or an Extreme Trump fan that is take it or leave it my way or the highway. This is the type of posts you will find on City-Data. The mods are quick to ban if you say something negative about their Right-Wing/Pro-Trump viewpoint. Avoid at all cost.

If you read their forums and you are not white, Trump loving, hate Californians... this site is not for you. Also, I am in Montana and the postings are so awful, they also give a false view of my state. We are not a bunch if redneck Trump lovers. There are lots of Californians here, and many if them are nice people! We vote the person -not the party. Party affiliation does not even mean much here. People rarely talk politics.
But after looking at other threads about other states, they all have these same gate filled comments. I am going to New Mexico soon, which is a blue state. The forums are about avoiding the "liberal tears" of Santa Fe. WTH? Who constantly thinks like this?
Who judges everything and everyone through such a narrow lens? How Californians are all horrible people. I guess even the Republicans from California are worthy of this hatred.
But the racism stuff bothers me the most.

I will never, ever, ever join that site or look at it again. It us full of trolls and disgusting.

I came to City-Data for advice about finding a job, finances, and teaching. Today I got banned for life because I was tired of the mods giving me infractions for every little thing while I was getting bullied left and right by a bunch of old school baby boomers in the frugal living section. I told the Mod to F-off and go get a real job. The mod then banned me for "trolling"

The people there are harsh and tried their best to somehow pick through my life from the small amount of information that I provided about me and my boyfriend. I was hoping for some sound advice. However, the advice I received was anything, but sound. The posters seemed as if they wanted my life to fail. They also picked at my grammar skills. City-Data is an informal board. Why would I write like I am in a college classroom?

I came for advice about moving into a cheaper place. The posters told me to do away with cable and that would save a lot than moving into a cheaper place. That just does not make any sense. My rent costs more than the cable. Thank God I came from a home that offers love and communication because if I didn't I probably would have taken their advice seriously. It is like the people on the site get a thrill out of speaking down on others.

Do not come on the site if you are young, liberal, and black. I have got into so many debates and arguments with people giving the wrong advice.

I would highly recommend you stay away from this message board unless you like conspiracy theories and mods that protect posters that lie and make up stuff on a daily basis. To say the mods are biased is not saying enough. Two mods in particular will target certain posters that tell the truth and protect the ones that post endless lies and conspiracy theories as if they are the truth. Their screen names are CaseyB and Ibginnie. Stay as far away from this message board as possible. Some of the notorious posters on the forum are BentBow, WaldoKitty and Dashrendar. If you attempt to prove them wrong you will either get suspended or kicked off the site entirely. You could get suspended for responding to a troll that you didn't even know was a troll. Free speech is discouraged unless you have the same beliefs and values of the mods and the crazy posters.

For you that don't know what Alt Right is or means, it's basically short for Alternative Right Wing. It's a collection of White Supremacists, tin foil hat conspiracy nut preppers, misogynistic sexists, anti government right wing militia nutcases, flat earth religious extremists, anti gay bigots, anti Muslim extremists, and run of the mill authoritarian Fascists. This is their playground. Mundane questions about what's the area around Cubs park like get answers like "It's liberal heaven, full of fags"

I used to go on there regularly then I noticed that I was becoming very jaded. If you spend enough time on here you will start losing faith in humanity
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Currently the threads about the pandemic, COVID-19 and the vaccines are dominated by the ant-vax community. ( the anti-governmental types, the anti-science crowd & the Q type conspiracists) These prolific trolls post non-stop disinformation and misinformation and links to the anti-vax bad actors and agitators that have been debunked by credible and reputable science. They attack and assault knowledgeable posters who provide pushback and who are then suspended with their reasonable & logical posts deleted. CD has also become a forum for those actively agitating for harmful and dangerous violence.
IMO this site(CD) has become a R wing extremist social media outlet that supports terrorism and ideas that clearly are meant to undermine the USA.

I don't know about the other sections of City Data but their religious site is absolutely awful! There are some good people there but City-Data allows racist bigot people to post hateful speech towards people that are not right wing conservative. Several comments were made that Native American Indians should pay taxes before they have the right to speak. Considering the broken treaties, the stealing of land, and death march genocide statement that was made, this individual was insensitive, demeaning, and intentionally trying to make Indians look bad to prove a point.

Here is another quote from a thread titled: Navajo Indians object NASA moon launch on religious grounds:

"Considering the living conditions I have personally seen on a number of Indian reservations, considering the level of drug and alcohol addiction on many reservations, and the condition of cemeteries I have seen on a couple of Indian reservations, I don't think they have the moral right to lecture the rest of us on the moon."

This statement is so typical of demeaning a person or race to invalidate them. According to this statement Native Americans are drug addicts, that don't have the moral right to lecture people about religion.

I just gave a two examples of the hate projected against people of different faiths, but there are so many demeaning, bullying, and disgusting comments made on their religious site and especially their Christian one as well!

Instead of having mutual respect and tolerance with people of different faiths, they attack anyone that doesn't have conservative right wing views. Amazingly enough Christians attack Christians on this site and try to invalidate each other if people are not from their denomination.

In general, City-Data religious site is too toxic, argumentative, bullying, intimidating, insensitive, and disgusting it will make you disillusioned with religion and people in general. Please don't go to this site it will make you lose faith in humanity!

I found over time, that while good posters exist there, it is littered with people with little-to-no insight on most subject matter. And do some of these folks ever come out of their bedrooms? People lashing out for actually suggesting British royal weddings is big news. Really? No where else have I ever come across anyone who cares: I thought that was pretty well established in regards to the harping on the mainstream media's coverage being out-of-touch with what Americans care about. Weird threads down to, "What Are You Thinking About Right Now?" Wow- talk about a bunch of lifeless internet zombies. The sports forum has some weird threads as well: the absurd elementary comments: I mean c'mon guys, can we get some insight here beyond, "I hope my team wins the Super Bowl this year". "Jordan is better than Lebron... no he's not." Like a bunch of juvenile kids carrying pom poms. One month ago SCOTUS granted the states the right to legalize sports gambling. Monumental event that transcends just sports. Guess to date how many threads/comments it has warranted? ZERO. Zilch. None. Yet we get such juicy debate regarding why You Tube users always think refs cheated his/her favorite team. I rid of my account finally. I was losing brain cells every time I scoured the existing conversations.

Pathetic excuse for a website ran by pathetic excuses for human beings. Most of the posters are cowards who have no real world experience. Intelligent opinions are chastised and quickly removed from the website in favor of ignorant, right wing extremist drivel. Most of the popular postings for cities feature race baiting threads where someone asks a narrow question or delivers a narrow opinion and flocks of fellow ignoramuses take the bait. The general forums are used to bash minority groups, women, low income people, homosexuals, Muslims, atheists -- anyone who has a culture or lifestyle that they are unable to understand. These are some of the most hateful, psychotic, passive-aggressive individuals I have ever noticed online. Clearly these people are not mentally stable. They are true keyboard warriors who only feel powerful when behind the screen of their computers in the computer chairs they are glued to indefinitely. This site is useless for people who are not ignorant and capable of complex, logical thought. Facts are frowned upon here too. I see the previous posters understand how ridiculous of a site this is as well. Sites similar to this are Topix and Stormfront. Avoid.

SN: Even their actual data is outdated. Be careful utilizing the data they post; I have checked it against actual census data and found much of it to be estimates and projections. You are better off visiting the US Census Bureau website if you are looking for accurate information.

Every criticism you read here is true. The mods really are right wing trolls who will delete posts and ban people if they are either A-liberal or B-intelligent. The place is full of boosters who never saw a bad thing about their city, and if you try to post a helpful idea or two to help the folks who are being willfully mislead you will be attacked and/or banned. It truly is the worst forum on the web. It has to be the fault of the website owners, who else could be responsible for this cesspool of hate and ignorance?

A lot of people say that the site is backed by the right wing hate group website Stormfront. The minute I mentioned that site on city data forum I was banned. Which brings up an important point... there is no such thing as being banned from any online forum. All anyone needs to do is get a different email address and user name, then use a browser like TOR that masks your IP address. No one can ban anyone if they are anonymous. I'm sure there are other ways to do this, such as using incognito and private browsing options with Firebox related browsers.

It's a moot point though, because once you go to the city data forum and see the quality of people there and the ridiculously right wing, heavy handed moderation, well, why would you ever want to go back?

Apparently, not racist remarks. Discussing racism gets you banned off the site. This piece of $#*!. Mensaguy. More like Ima$#*!, threatened ONLY me in that fashion. He doesn't do it to anyone else.
Piece of crap. This scumbag is a little twerp who dislikes me for some reason. I have no rights. Biased piece of $#*! websiterighton this site. This site is good for wiping your culo with it.

Probably is a moron who thinks "bro" is black, white, or "Visigothic," as though they aren't white, slang. Instead of Latin--and I don't mean traitors--slang as it is XD

Liberal moderators in the local forums will edit or delete posts of conservative posters, marking them as trolling or bickering, when the posts are in their own defense.

Liberal posters are allowed to attack, threaten, & harass conservative posters without consequence and these posts are never edited or removed. Some of the same posters have been doing this for years to the point that it might even be considered a criminal issue.

Reporting posts that violate the rules typically results in a mod like ibginnie entering the thread and editing or deleting all of your posts, marking them as trolling, while leaving the posts you complained about entirely intact.

There is an obvious pattern of abuse from certain posters who are clearly signing up NUMEROUS (I mean 20+) sock accounts they use to harass posters they don't like or who they disagree with.

Many of the posters don't even reside in the local area and never have, but stop by to berate other posters, spew complete nonsense, or to politically troll conservatives.

I find the comments surprising that some label this an alt-right or storefront op when the experience I've had with the forum is the exact opposite. Conservative posters are routinely silenced by moderators.

This website is alt-right friendly, so beware. Liberals are outnumbered, unwanted and often have posts deleted. You will read racist, sexist, insulting comments and stupid generalizations that are allowed (if they are about liberals).

You may not criticize the alt-right or the current admin too harshly or your post will be deleted. You will read misspelled comments that are beyond ignorant. It has become much worse since the election, as difficult as this is to believe.

I wrote a derogatory post regarding Trump in reply to someone's lunatic post. Two seconds after I wrote it, it was deleted by the mod for being 'off topic' yet I made reference to something in the lunatic's post. It was like being under surveillance.

You are not allowed to make a derogatory comment about Trump if they can help it. Either they are afraid of being sued by the Litigator in Chief, or they are owned by him.

Honestly, it feels like North Korea over there. The ignorant illogical uneducated and unbalanced users are given free reign, and they come up with some bizarre conspiracy stuff. Intelligent logical people are basically leaving as it is simply too ridiculous to read some of the comments.

I'm guessing at this point that only land/home owners are on that site... I found it originally searching for tenant problems, and while I got some useful answers, it seemed like most people were just belligerently telling me to stop complaining and shut up and just take the abuse. Now that I'm seeing the SiteJabber description and rating and reviews and questions and answers, I'm seeing that city-data is just a trash fire masquerading as a hugbox for abusive property owners.

I'm not really sure of another forum to post tenant issues, but city-data is the furthest thing from it. Reddit's a zillion times better even as hard as it can be to have a good all-around comment karma (due to people just not liking a comment even if it's just stating a flat demonstrable fact).

I've been blocked multiple times from city-data, and I can't even see why because I just get a private message notification email but anything in my account just gives me the generic error saying there's a problem with the account. How am I supposed to know what I did wrong if they block my access to view their admonishment?! They make zero sense to me now. So my search continues...

I figured I would participate in the (nonpolitical) forums on this website, since there is one about the area I live in, and I figured I could provide some helpful feedback. What I instead found was a lot of complaining about racial minorities and "radical liberals". When I, respectfully, argued against these attitudes, I was permanently banned almost immediately, based on the insane allegation that I was a previous user in disguise. When I made another account and tried to make a simple, respectful case against the ban, my IP address was banned forever. Never, in any of my posts, did I swear, use vulgar language, or use hateful insults. The only "offensive" thing that these snowflakes seem to think I did was to have a different opinion than them.

The kicker, and the reason why I am making this post, is that the moderator then went back through the posts I made about the place I live, praising the ethnic food and the local diversity in the population, and deleted them. Now, that thread has been edited to paint an artificially negative image of my neighborhood's racial diversity, which is absolutely infuriating.

Summary, this website is a front for right-wing cultists and power-tripping neo-nazi moderators. Stay away if you value intelligent discussion, freedom of speech, and diversity of opinion.

Strange site-full of real estate hawkers on the Florida sites for sure. Other sites are needlessly cliquish with agenda of mindless boosterism and Paid Perfromances by the locals. Extremely defensive and narrow participants, and the moderators must get paid too, or simply don't have a job worth a crap, or they must subscribe to every thread through their smart phones so they get INSTANT notification if someone posts something they can DELETE or "BAN" for allegedly being a TROLL. Posters get labeled as "trolls" if they don't agree with the cyber clique and gang mentality. Very odd indeed. Lousy stuff, but shows how people really are in certain cities and states.

Originally Posted by bissettbd View Post
CT is a dying state. It is one of two states where more than 50% of residents would move if they could. It is expensive and has few good paying jobs. When GE leaves CT to move to Boston, MA; you know it is a bad business climate and dying state. GE, Pfizer, Bristol Meyers Squibb, Bayer, and the Naval Undersea Warfare Center have all left. They have been trying to close the submarine base in Groton for years, it is only a matter of time before it is back on the BRAC list and gone.