THE ROAST BLOG
EVERY TOWN HAS A STORY
In-depth roasts and real talk about every town we've destroyed.
Welcome to Boston, Massachusetts – a city that somehow convinced 675,647 people that paying $3.50 for watery coffee while dodging death-t...
Picture this: You're Germany's second-largest city, home to over 1.9 million people and the country's largest port. You've been dubbed "G...
Welcome, brave souls, to the city that has mastered the art of turning basic pub food into "cultural heritage" and somehow convinced ever...
Oh, Singapore. The tiny island nation that somehow convinced the world it's a cultural powerhouse while simultaneously being the most exp...
Dubai is what happens when someone wins the lottery and decides the first purchase should be "everything gold-plated in the middle of a d...
Welcome to Sydney, Australia's glittering harbor city where the Opera House's white sails catch more sunlight than your savings account w...
Where "The Most Multicultural City" Still Can't Handle Pineapple Pizza
Welcome to London, a city that's spent 2,000 years perfecting the art of making everything cost more than your mortgage while somehow con...
Welcome to Miami, where the American dream comes with a side of stone crab and a 29% APR! This sultry South Florida metropolis has master...
The Numbers Don't Lie (But the Botox Helps)
Picture this: You've just dropped nearly three-quarters of a million dollars on a house so you can be really close to Target. Welcome to ...
Ah, San Diego — the city that desperately wants you to believe it's "America's Finest City" while simultaneously charging you $940,000 fo...
Welcome to the Big Apple, where 10,020,520 inhabitants have collectively decided that paying $3,000 a month to live in what's essentially...
Welcome to Laguna Beach, where the donation is the largest in the Laguna Beach museum's history because apparently spending millions on c...
Welcome to Hollywood, California — the only place on Earth where your parking meter costs more than your hometown's monthly rent, and eve...
From Hay Capital to Hockey Parent Paradise
Welcome to Oak Ridge, Tennessee—the "Atomic City, the Secret City, and the City Behind a Fence"—where the most dangerous weapons in human...
Welcome to Knoxville, Tennessee—a city that somehow convinced 11 million people to pay to see the Big Ears Festival and built a new Sunsp...
Welcome to Argos, Indiana—a place so small that its population of 1,777 could comfortably fit in a mid-sized concert venue, and probably ...
Welcome to Music City, where the honky-tonk never stops, the hot chicken burns eternally, and approximately 689,447 people live in denial...
Kingston is a city in and the county seat of Roane County, Tennessee, United States. As of the 2020 census, Kingston had a population of ...
Welcome to Lake Balboa, California — the neighborhood with an identity crisis so severe it literally changed its name and hoped no one wo...
Where Six-Figure Incomes Buy Strip Mall Dreams
Welcome to New Haven, Connecticut—the first planned city in the United States, founded in 1638 as a co-capital of the state during the Co...
When 2,936 people decide to declare themselves the epicenter of Cajun music, you know you're either witnessing the birth of delusions of ...