For me it used to be Boston.

Honorable mention to Tucson, its mix of college students late for class, senior citizens late for heaven mixed in with Sonora, MX license plates always made for challenging driving.

But now for me, it has to be Anchorage. Red lights are a suggestion, maybe even seen as a challenge by some. Then there's the pedestrians that jaywalk across multi-lane streets with no warnings or crosswalks as well as panhandlers. Panhandling seems to take on extra urgency and aggressiveness when the temps drop below 30. And now with the first snow, ice adds even more fun to intersections than color blind drivers.

NYC. Hands down.

Rome was exciting!

Anyplace in New Jersey.

San Juan PR was "interesting."

Having just returned from a week in San Diego, I nominate San Diego.

Those guys would last about five minutes in the Baltimore/DC corridor before either being run off the road or dragged from their cars and beaten, depending on the neighborhood.

-Rob

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Originally posted by V-Tail:
San Juan PR was "interesting."

San Juan, PR gets my vote, although after 3 years working in Old San Juan, I probably fit right in.

Paris, with honorable mention to Rome.

Moscow deserves a shout out, as well. They drive on sidewalks, pedestrian trails, whatever is available. Because of the police corruption, those who suffer accidents abandon their vehicles and flee the scene. Nice.

H&K-Guy

All my last several auto insurance carriers all said that Florida's rates are some of the highest in the nation because we have some of the worst drivers. Living here in Miami fo the last six decades I can attest to it. With the huge amount of hispanic drivers just getting a their first car and learning to drive can be hazardous..not to mention using cell phones everywhere! My wife is Russian and never drove a car in her life until getting here, she's had some unfortunate accidents and it was pretty nerve racking to teach her, I ended up farming it out to a Drivers Ed place to teach her. She's much better now in the last 10yrs but still has a lead foot and brakes at the last second

Any of the large Italian cities where everyone seems to think they’re an Andretti...

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Originally posted by bobandmikako:

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Originally posted by V-Tail:
San Juan PR was "interesting."

San Juan, PR gets my vote, although after 3 years working in Old San Juan, I probably fit right in.

I worked there for several years, commuted daily. Couple of true stories:

• My wife was driving my 356B, she went through an intersection with a green light. Another driver, approaching from her 3 o'clock, ran his red light and nailed my wife. Major damage to the Porsche, my wife had bruises from the seat belts and where her right knee was banged by the shift lever. Other driver was a PR government employee who lied through his teeth, claiming that he had the green and my wife ran a red light. Fortunately there was a witness who went to court and told the truth.
  
  
• VP of a major insurance company was visiting San Juan, from the U.S. mainland, in advance of setting up their PR branch. He looked down at commuting hour traffic from his hotel room window, and canceled all plans to do auto insurance business in PR.

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Originally posted by 2000Z-71:
For me it used to be Boston.

Honorable mention to Tucson, its mix of college students late for class, senior citizens late for heaven mixed in with Sonora, MX license plates always made for challenging driving.

But now for me, it has to be Anchorage. Red lights are a suggestion, maybe even seen as a challenge by some. Then there's the pedestrians that jaywalk across multi-lane streets with no warnings or crosswalks as well as panhandlers. Panhandling seems to take on extra urgency and aggressiveness when the temps drop below 30. And now with the first snow, ice adds even more fun to intersections than color blind drivers.

Boston came to mind first. I didn't think Anchorage was too bad, but when I drove through it was 11:00 on a Sunday morning.

The approximately 30 mile stretch from SLC and Hill AFB from 1996-1999 was full of winners. Turn signals were an alien concept for the locals. Also go like hell then jam on the breaks at the last possible second at each light was the norm.

Santo Domingo, in the Dominican Republic. A city of approximately 1 Million people.

The only real rule is - whomever has the biggest balls and biggest vehicle does whatever the fuck they want, and parks wherever they want. Right way, wrong way, one way, whatever...

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Santo Domingo, in the Dominican Republic. A city of approximately 1 Million people.

The only real rule is - whomever has the biggest balls and biggest vehicle does whatever the fuck they want, and parks wherever they want. Right way, wrong way, one way, whatever...

Same approach is used in Naples, Italy; which is my nomination for traffic anarchy.

Boston

Mexico City...had never feared for my life in a car before being in traffic in that God-foresaken place. And I wasn’t even driving.....

Out of the ones I’ve lived or driven (NYC, Boston, DC, LA, Dallas, Houston, Chicago, Detroit, Seattle, Portland, and Anchorage) it’s hands down San Juan, PR. There is a reason every car is dented up. The shitty signage doesn’t help (eg only exit sign on freeway being 50’ past exit).

I didn’t drive in Italy, but rode in taxis and crossed plenty of streets as a pedestrian. Rome drivers get honorable mention.

I didn’t drive in Japan either, but Tokyo seemed pretty good. The exception being the driver who took me to the airport in a S Class Mercedes and We were above 160 km per hour most of the freeway to Narita. Nobody else was driving like him though.

Seattle and surrounding, west of the Cascades

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Originally posted by H&K-Guy:
Paris, with honorable mention to Rome.

Moscow deserves a shout out, as well. They drive on sidewalks, pedestrian trails, whatever is available. Because of the police corruption, those who suffer accidents abandon their vehicles and flee the scene. Nice.

H&K-Guy

This, but it's a tie. Moscow and Vladivostok are in another realm, but French/Italian driving motto: "My car means nothing to me, and yours means less. "