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

@Oblomov22

That reminds me. I used to live with my family in East Dulwich and went flat hunting opposite Kings College Hospital in Camberwell, actually down the road around the corner from the Maudsley mental hospital. The bloke who owned the place was obviously an ex /present out patient, told me all the guys who rented from him in the past were jealous of him and pissed the bed (lovely). The rooms were very dark. I knew I could not stay there!

I don't mind Camberwell but sadly the actual Green would have families of drunks sitting on the benches on the green. I went in a newsagent to get a paper. A bloke was doing that bloke thing of reading a paper but obvs not intending to buy it. There was a whole pile of said paper. I took the top one and he said "Oi, I was reading that!"

I cannot remember anywhere being depressed feeling though know what people mean about Dagenham. I always laugh when papers do a survey about the cheapest places to live in London and mention Dagenham and Barking as if they are doing you a favour!!!

That part of the world went through unimaginable trauma in WW2 as well; it used to be part of Poland and I had an uncle-by-marriage who came from there. He was brought up by Catholic monks who took him under their wing as a child, after he lost his entire family in the most awful circumstances.

It wouldn’t surprise me if the place was haunted.

Hanley bus station gave me the heebies

Swindon

Hartlepool.

I' was a child driving through, half demolished houses wjrh inhabitants living in them. I remember my whole family Just uttering, oh my god.

I've never seen such poverty like it.

Even in some really poor hut villages in Africa I've not felt the sheer grey desolation and hopelessness of that place.