Anyone ever felt depressed driving through somewhere?

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It was so odd!

I drove through the centre of somewhere yesterday at around 7.30pm.

I got this strange feeling, like a strong depressive state and low mood. It just felt really off! I have never felt like this anywhere in my life. The whole place 'just felt wrong'. And do you know what? I can't tell you why, I've no idea

I use to live in a rough part of east London. It's nothing like that. It just felt eerie

It's interesting that so many people are saying Somerset, along with the other posts about Radon. I live in Somerset and there is a LOT of Radon here. I had to get special insurance on my house for it.

Saying that, I love where I live. It's quiet, friendly and peaceful. Although, I do have chronic anxiety and depression so maybe if I left Somerset I'd feel better 🤣

Penzance makes me feel a bit edgy, but that's down to the "was once quite trendy now it's filled with empty shops and discount stores" feel. I generally adore the far west of Cornwall and think there is nothing better than Botallack or Cape Cornwall on a windy winter day.

I went to France by myself and stayed in a village called Tende in the Alpes Maritimes. I hated it and couldn't even explain why. I just had really bad vibes there and ended up moving accommodation to a different village instead.

Interesting about Somerset and Radon. I drove through Somerset and however scenic it was on paper just didn't feel it. Didn't get a nice or welcoming vibe from it at all.

However, I live in Wales (not from here) where there is also high radon, and I love it so much. I feel so content and 'at one' with nature here, if you'll pardon my corniness.

I tried to warn Dh and his mates about basing themselves in Neath for a cycling trip - they came back with some hair raising tales!

Hull's changing. The boom caught up there far, far later than everywhere else. There is long overdue investment in its economy, which has been dead since the demise of the fishing industry.

The area around the football stadium is dreadful, very deprived. The east is also a waste land! But the centre is undergoing a renaissance, especially around the waterfront area and old fruit market. There's a relaxed vibe too rather than the vaguely threatening one surrounding the railway station area. The university area also has some very pleasant places surrounding it.

I spent a period of time working in the city and was quite happy there.

I'm wondering whether that would be Scarborough. A pretty town, but it has that effect on me. Whitehaven and Berwick-on-Tweed have a similar effect, but worse.

Someone else mentioned Portland. Portland Bill and Chesil Beach weigh heavily on my senses, too.

Odd how places affect us.

In the UK, the Lizard in Cornwall. It felt desolate and just ‘wrong’.

Fenland feels the same to me, especially the area Wisbech and the Norfolk/Lincolnshire border. Miles and miles or flat land that feels so oppressive even though it’s vast space.

Also driving the M62 going from Yorkshire to Manchester in the early hours. I remember the temperature dropping and finding the atmosphere to be incredibly creepy.

If you mean Buxton, I get a weird vibe from there too. I think it's almost like a forgotten town somehow. I can't explain...

Sorry, that was about the "spa town in Derbyshire"

Whitehaven in the Lakes made me feel
this way. Also some parts of Bradford. I was born and raised there, some areas are fine but others just make me feel depressed for every inhabitant and relieved I moved away.

Cambridgeshire and the fens, parts of Norfolk too. It's all too flat, it gives me the willies. Even when it's sunny, the sky looks sort of huge and oppressively heavy, somehow.

agree about Scarborough, Whitehaven and Berwick on Tweed!
I also find South Cornwall really unsettling. The area around the Minack Theatre particularly. It really spooks me. I love North Cornwall though.
North Devon feels very odd to me and gives me bad vibes.
I’ve only been to Norfolk once , near Cromer. I hated it and will never go back.

DH grew up on the Mediterranean

I thought he might like Rhyl
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I thought DH might like Blackpool, as seen as he used to holiday in Old Orchard

🤣🤣

Central Bradford arriving on the train.
The A 69 between Newcastle and Carlisle - it feels scrubby and grim.

Oh and the north end of Winnipeg, Canada, when it is -30 and a northerly wind is howling in January. I defy anyone to find a more depressing place in the western world.

Surrey villages are plastic? Which Surrey villages? The ones I know of are idyllic / chocolate box gorgeous

Fort William in the Highlands. Makes me feel like I'm in a fishbowl made of stone.
And a place near where my dad's mother used to live- Pleasley Vale. Very pretty, lots of old mill type buildings, but it gives me the creeps.

Yes, Fort William is a bleak place. So much loveliness near by, but ‘The Fort’ fills me with gloom.

Malvern for me…… just find it oppressive and ( I know sounds weird) full of ghosts from times past.

Not depressing but there's a long stretch of the M3 heading south towards Winchester, it goes from three lanes to two, deeply wooded on either side and pitch black, there's no junctions to turn off or join, I was on there at night not so long ago and it gives me the creeps, I fhink it's because it's so dark surrounded by woodland, and the fact I was the only car on the road which didn't help matters.

Blackpool

I live in Dorchester and have to agree. It's like a film set. You never see anybody actually walking in the streets. Very weird place, but I quite like the aloneness of it, but it's definitely odd!

That was in answer to the one about Poundbury 😁

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Ukraine. We stayed in Lviv last year for 11 days. We couldn't wait to leave. Everything about the place was odd. The people were surly and unfriendly. Maybe now I know why they all seemed so miserable!