City-Data.com

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.

Cd can be a "go to source" on a lot of matters. If I have questions about a particular food or brand, I can find it here. Obviously comment will be somebody's opinion.

The politics can get a bit edgy, but in general that is fun.

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.

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.

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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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.

If you're planning on moving to a different state city this site is pretty good there are of course thousands of people on the site and they will help you right and left.

There's work, psychology, personal experiences and non romantic problems stuff like that general things once you get into the politics well some people say it's right wing some people say it's left wing some people say the moderators are too heavy-handed some say they're not heavy-handed enough.

This is also really good is that you can direct mail a message to posters asking questions and probably I'd say 95% of them happily respond with good information and helpful suggestions.

The rest are mean nasty cranky and ignorant...

All i did was say that trans rights in my country were under attack and i made a joke about beer that wasnt even right or left leaning and i got banned for being a "troll" permanently. No option to contact mods that doesnt show the same "you have been banned for the following reason" message. I tried emailing the site about my ban and got no response. I have no clue why this is the case, considering its a pretty conservative place and they claim to care a lot about "free speech". According to a lot of reviews here its full of racists as well so maybe my ban was for the best

Left leaning posters have their post deleted if the post gets too many reps especially if its a sick burn on a right wing poster. The Politics forum seems like its purpose is to foment hate between Americans.

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.

Gathering place for MAGA racists. Moderators who challenge their white supremacist views will be banned immediately. It's so far right and racist that it almost seems like a satire forum. Conspiracy theories that are really out there and outlandish that it's comical.

A lot of the posters who seemed to be in good standing with the forum and the community are suddenly "Not a member". I mean those people were in good standing last time I checked. Now, I got some unfair infractions because of a moderator who had/has it out for me. She decided to twist something I said and falsely accuse me. I thought I'd be one of those that are "not a member". After all, a lot of the other posters were quite irritated and tired of me...

It sure does seem like the City-Data of today is a lot different from City-Data of 10 or so years ago.

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.

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.

Reviewers pointed out, the white supremacist problem. Another one, is that you can't criticize big pharma, dentistry, science taught in schools and universities etc. (You get ridiculed, if you do).
But, the white supremacism tends to go with narrow-mindedness or anti-visionary mindset. Racists have low intelligence and massive egos. Narcissism.
Increasingly, over the years, political and racial stuff has crept into forums, of websites that weren't made for it. Politics and racism, are two of the most toxic, distracting, time-wasting things, to the human mind.

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.

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.

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.