City-Data.com

UPDATE 5/21/21: If you want info on local communities, you can get good input on those sub-forums. However, many of the other sub-forums are pretty weird. Most members identify as Boomers and conservatives, but few are Christian. The Christianity sub-forum has mostly liberal Christians or atheists on there who poke fun at the 2 or 3 conservative Christians who post sometimes there. The Politics section, meanwhile -- which is MUCH larger -- is generally far-right, but curiously almost completely secular. Most are either pro-abortion or pro-sterilization; they don't want liberal children to be born, or at least don't want liberals to be able to produce children. I didn't know such a large number of people existed in the US, but they sure do gravitate toward CityData's politics forum. I've posted on the forum on and off for a few years, but I think I'm done with such a crowd.

Did you ever see the movie Napoleon Dynamite? It's a movie about an awkward teenager who hangs out with a bunch of misfits. Well picture that but with racists, that's City Data Forum. In the movie Napoleon Dynamite, the characters are odd eccentrics but well meaning and likable. The posters and moderators on city data however don't have any of those redeeming qualities. These are the crazy racist neighbors or co-workers that nobody talks too. The members aren't just your run of the mill racists like your uncle, no, these are the basement dwelling ones that consider Fox news too mainstream or the NRA too soft. Just thinking about these band of miscreants makes me sick. I left the forum recently and never intend to look back. I hope I can save you the time and energy from posting on that time waster.

As an ex-New Yorker, living in Virginia for 32 years and now looking to move to another state I have found City Data to be extremely helpful in weeding out places I would not want to live. The forums are very helpful because they put you in touch with people who actually live in those places and the pages on City Data are overwhelmingly helpful when it comes to things like population and crime statistics. Real estate agents are by law not allowed to discuss things I feel I have a right to know before I move someplace. I check City Data for every city I consider. There are other sites I check also, and the truth is when I do actually visit those cities, while house hunting, I find that the majority of what is written, whether it is good or bad turns out to be true. City Data isn't just helpful, it's a necessity.

This City-Data website is literally a cult! I was giving advice on how to improve people's profiles on Tinder using Photofeeler, and my account got permanently banned for "spam". Most of my threads got deleted, even the one asking to rate my dating app biography. This is a dictatorship. Westboro 2.0

Yes, that's right. The poster ended his post with "88", which is code for the 8th letter of the alphabet, which is "H". I reported the post and was given a lifetime ban. That should tell you all you need to know.

Overzealous moderation, unless you live in southern Oregon, where the California transplant moderator lives.
The moderator has "moderated" this forum into the ground.
It is now useless.

Most of the regular Oregon posters don't even live in Oregon., and they all seem like older preppers or redneck survivalists.

Maybe TWO of the Six Portland posters do live in Portland, but they are geriatrics with a very limited knowledge of modern Portland.

Don't wast your time here.
Useless and outdated information.

Chock full of hillbillies who consider every big city a cesspool. They constantly post threads about how horrible cities and everything they hate about cities (traffic, liberal policies, too many minorities, noise, taxes, etc.) Someone needs to tell these country bumpkins that it's called city data not country data. Nothing wrong with the country, but if you hate cities why go on a site called city data. Ironically many of the people posting are yokels who despise cities and everything about them.

I called out a couple of people who were being insulting and nasty to others. I wasn't insulting or rude in return and I am the one who gets banned. They have a right wing agenda and if you don't the will look to censor you. It's ok to call other people names, be insulting, post racist, misogynist posts but you can't stick up for those people. Marka is a HORRIBLE human being who really needs to be investigated which I have started the process of doing.

The site isn't actually that bad for things that are not related to politics. However, the mods (especially Igibinne) might as well be mouthpieces for Trump or DeSantis. They've gone as far as deleting threads that go hard against far right Republicans. I had a thread that pointed out something pro Biden and got typical blow back from most of their users which at least in the Politics Forum are Right Wing Nut Jobs. However when my thread was locked they deleted my posts in the thread and said it was because of "trolling" but left one in the thread where the poster used terms like "race pimps".

I just got a zero point warning on there for supposedly being rude to a moderator. However, said moderator was rude to me first in her reply to my thread. It's okay if she disagrees with me, but it wasn't okay in how she worded it. I guess being a moderator, a.ka. God, lets her get away with attacking posters, but the same can't be said in reverse.

The cesspool of the internet. This is where logic comes to die. Bunch of ignorant slackjawed racist rednecks. I feel dumber everytime I go on there and read a post. Utter waste of time. Don't bother. Zero useful information. I'll sum it up for you. Cities bad, liberals bad, immigrants bad, non whites bad, christians good, white good, conservatives good. That's every conversation.

I live in the state which protect my rights and they are breaking my rights because they are publishing information about me which is not allowed by the laws in my state. Furthermore, the information on their site is false and misleading and should be removed before litigation is filed.