What's the Worst Place You Ever Lived?

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OceanTiara @RebeccasFarm got me to remembering the worst place I ever lived. I was 12 years old and my parents had just gotten divorced. My mom got custody of me and we moved two hours away from my Dad and Brother to the inner city of Covington, KY, a very poor rough city in Northern Kentucky near Cincinnati. My mom had never worked a job until after the divorce, so she got a job in a factory and we got a basement apartment in somebody's house. It was horrible! It wasn't a finished basement, still all concrete, and had dark purple paint on the bathroom and bedroom concrete walls and dark paneling in the kitchen and living room. There were no windows. It was very dark. My mom didn't have any furniture so it was a furnished apartment with awful scratchy furniture. There was only one bed so I had to share it with my mom. There were roaches. Hundreds upon hundreds of roaches. When you clicked on a light fixture, they would run and scatter by the dozens. You could hear their little feet running there were so many of them. I don't think I slept the whole time we lived there for fear of the roaches crawling up in the bed and crawling into my ears and nose. What's the worst place you ever lived?