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

*Devon not Cornwall

onitlikeacarbonnet, both DM and DMIL felt exactly like that about Culloden. I, on the other hand, felt nothing but wet and windswept.

Is that where the village is you pay to go in and is very steep?

Newcastle
Jedburgh

Yes, there's an entrance fee.

Clapton?!! That's aspirational where I'm from!!

Now if you'd said Clacton (on-sea) I'd agree with you!

to the pp saying the whole of London though.

I felt like this about an island in Thailand I stayed on. Ko Samet

was beautiful the whitest sand I’ve ever seen and friendly people. Just had this air of depression in a setting of such beauty the place made me feel sad was very odd my ex felt it too and another couple we met there

Red Lodge in Suffolk. Weird, eerie place.

Ah but Red Lodge has the most random but best steakhouse ever

I get this in parts of certain northern towns. It feels really oppressive, sort of 'stuck'. It's usually the systematically underfunded places with a high percentage of people who for various social and economic reasons don't have the means or reason to leave, so the town is their whole world.

Clophill church is haunted apparently. A reason why it’s so creepy.

I felt the same driving through Port Talbot in Wales. Also the same driving through some of the smaller old tin mining towns in Cornwall. They just seem like such depressing nothingless places and I cannot imagine living there. However, it's easy to write off a place when you drive through, usually on main road through the worst parts. I'm sure that within the own centres/residential areas there are some nicer parts. The other places that I find quite depressing are the big austere boarding school villages. The sort where there is nothing for miles around, then a big stone building and a couple of local teashops to cater solely to the visiting parents. I can't relate to growing up like that.

Completely agree about the M50.

Warrington

@Redcupbluecuppa I used to go to a salsa club in Stoke Newington, and my route there, every Friday, took me down Clapton's Murder Mile. I got to know Clapton quite well as my route home was so frequently blocked by Police tape, following yet another stabbing/shooting, that it was necessary to find alternative routes down side streets. And there were so many murders outside the Chimes nightclub I'm surprised they had any clientele left.

I don't think it's quite so bad now. But surely only aspirational if you live in Dagenham ...

Central Croydon, the bit with the underpass. Grimmer than grim. Huge fag packet concrete tower block monstrosities all around. Can’t believe I used to walk through there when I lived in West Croydon in the 90s.

@CorsicaDreaming I get what you mean about that stretch of the M25. I think the concrete slab surface is what makes it unpleasant too, so noisy!

@onitlikeacarbonnet

I always wonder whether people would feel the same if they didn't know the history of the place.

I love driving and will happily drive up and down the A1 but the M3, which is only about an hour from top to bottom makes me feel soooooo bored 😴

This happens often. I thought I was just unstable😀

I feel like this driving back into my home county (West Midlands) when I've been any distance away. I don't hate where I actually live but find the wider area utterly grim and depressing, even though I'm looking forward to getting home

Blaenau Ffestiniog.

I knew about Culloden as I’d walked through the visitor centre beforehand and had gone specifically.
However, the first time I drove through Glencoe I didn’t really know where I was until we’d got through it. I didn’t speak the whole time (my exh was in the car too and he was twittering on about some shit) because I just felt terribly sad and thought I might cry even though it was the most beautiful sunny day. I thought it was because the view was so stunning but it was sadness I was feeling, not awe. I’ve driven through a few times and I still feel it every time but it’s a memory of that first time not the thought of what happened there as I didn’t know till after.

The M5 from south of Birmingham right up to Stafford, Mike's on miles of scrapyards, factories and warehouses - totally depressing although I appreciate it probably provides lots of work if I can also say Stoke on Trent-probably the grimmest place I've driven through- thoroughly depressing a great many run down seaside towns make me feel depressed too--

I get a claustrophobic feeling in a lot of towns in Devon and also parts of Wales. I can’t explain why. It is like the emotional equivalent of a hand closing around my throat.

I had this same feeling on Koh Samui .We were in Thailand for our Honeymoon in 1996.We were backpacking so thankfully not tied to one place .The place we were staying in i just found eerie .It rained for a couple of days non stop but when we went out I just felt uneasy .Then seeing all the stray dogs and perky men picking on young women and young boys .All I could do was cry.we left the next day and went elsewhere and had a wonderful holiday.