City-Data.comReviews 286

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.

City-data is a great forum with lots of useful info, once you enter Politics side it all goes down hill. It is dominated by far right extremists who post hateful garbage and conspiracy theories day in and day out and if you challenge any of it the hateful biased mod IBginnie will give you a infraction call you a troll and say you're hijacking a thread and ban you.

I see the usual members on there doing what this biased idiot mod accuses others of doing every day and she never bans them or gives any citations because they hijack threads daily and attack other users that aren't Trump supporters.

There is no one to reach to report this mod for her out of control biased behavior most mods have told me the Admin doesn't care anymore and gives her free reign to do what she wants. A few mods have told me she is hated and they can't stand her and only put up with her because they like the community and agree she is on a power strip and needs to be removed.

Its not just me saying this look at all the other complaints on here regarding her/him. City-data is fun and informative just stay out of politics or she will harass and follow your every move if your not MAGA. She is the definition of a Troll.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

There was a thread recently in the Politics forum concerning Kristi Noem killing her German Wirehaired Pointer. The matter was all over the news cycle, with wide admonishment from the left and right. The thread was 9 pages and totally centered on this very public political issue. The thread was deleted. Not locked- deleted. You cannot post anything that sheds and negative light on far right 'darlings'. It's not a place for true political conversation. That sub-forum is moderated by Ibginnie and she hands out infractions to anyone that sheds the MAGA cult any negative light. Stay away from the place unless you are a true MAGA faithful. There is no room for Independents 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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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.

A lot has been made about so-called "troll farming" attacking Americans. But troll farms are not the only way that enemies of state and fringe groups have been sowing dissension in American. Foreign nationals and fringe groups have been opening and managing so-called "American forums" or US-centric sites for years to spread propaganda and spy on the thoughts of American citizens. For example, I remember not too long ago when a white nationalist site targeting Americans was shut down, because it was really based in Romania.

A lot of "Americancentric" sites are this, just fronts to attract decent American citizens to them and spread propaganda and agitprop to gaslight and confuse. City-Data is one of these sites. Upon research, I read through the grapevine that it's really owned by Eastern Europeans. I don't know how accurate this is, but having also been banned for calling out disinformation, this certainly seems to be the case. I was banned because, as a native New Yorker, I became suspicious of the "regulars" who didn't seem to have any familiarity with NYC culture or history. After several months there, one of the outed themselves as a disinfo troll. They posted a lie that housing rates had soared because Chinese people were doing anything they could to avoid blacks. As soon as I called this comment out, a mod edited my post then gave me a "warning." When I complained, I was banned, with the reason that I was a "troll." I had been a faithful poster there, giving out historical and cultural information about NYC, with photos and everything, because I am actually a New Yorker. The troll who seemed nothing but post racist dog whistles all day was allowed to remain.

If you, as an American, have evidence that this site is really Disinfo, contact the Department of Justice with your story, as well as screenshots. Get this site investigated. Don't just post at Sitejabber; contact your representatives.

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.

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.

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.

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!

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 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

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.