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

Yes I can second that, we've got relatives in that part of the world but we hardly ever go there thank goodness, when we have been in the past I can't wait to leave, it's so suffocating..

This is so, so weird. I had this exact feeling a few years ago driving through an old town in north wales. I felt really uncomfortable and it made me feel depressed and shivery. I couldn’t explain it to my family and they thought I was just bonkers! Nice to finally read I’m not the only person haha.

Jordans. It's really creepy

Was going to say Hull.

They’re only one letter out.

Shap in the NW of England. Eerie and ghostly.

They’re only one letter out.

So true

Wareham in Dorset. It had such a weird unfriendly vibe.

I’m putting in a vote for Blunsdon. We regularly used to drive through there pre-Swindon bypass and it was a depressing bit of road, through endless rows of ageing semis with greying render and constant noisy traffic. Tolworth looks similar - can’t imagine anyone living there actually wants to stay there.

There used to be fencing by a field on the M40 which said “why do I do this everyday?” and that used to depress me a bit! I didn’t even drive there every day at all but felt sad for all those who did and hated their lives.

Yes
Stoke on Trent & Southampton

Wow, that's quite a powerful vision re jungle deforestation @TargusEasting

@Lesperance

No I don't think (know) that Port Talbot would have seemed lovely even if you stopped, having spent one summer there with an eXDP who had work there... it made Barnsley look positively cheery...

Oh and most ‘naice’ commuter towns just outside London. They feel so… forced somehow; devoid of personality and try-hard.

@TargusEasting

"Parts of central Devon, where tourists never go, feel like that also. Real poverty too. "

Yes agree - although even coastal parts aren't always all that - my PiL live in Devon and are evangelical about the place, as if you couldn't possibly want to live anywhere else. And the actual village they live is by a lovely coastline, but it's also v near Plymouth. And although some bits are okay, much of Plymouth is horrendously ugly and almost American in the way roads rule over people.

Wrexham

@FrownedUpon - glad it's not just me!

Slough town ccentre.

Well not 'driving' but walking past parts of Coventry.
Looked like a wasteland, and genuinely considered hanging myself on one of the leafless, sickly looking trees lining the very industrial road.

No suicidal tendencies or otherwise tendency to be so down (I have ADHD so emotional disregulation, but usually get back up). Not this time though, I couldn't wait to be out of there. thank GOD I didn't choose Warwick Uni for my degree...

Clovelly for me too. Visited as a child and it gave me the creeps.

Another vote for Dagenham. I didn't realise how claustrophobic and depressing it was until we moved out over 2 years ago. I think while we lived there it was easy to block out how awful it is, but when we have to go back there (only very occasionally) I realise that moving away was for the best.

I agree with this and I grew up in one. I think of them as plastic villages. It’s something to do with London being where the action is and sucking the life out of the surrounding areas.

Norfolk. It’s too flat - from south west so rolling hills is my norm. Plus in laws live there so not great associations

Stoke on Trent.

Bits of Abergavenny feel like that although most of it is fine. The old swimming pool in the park! I think that just looks creepy because it's old fashioned and abandoned though. I can see from googling that a local group want it to be restored which would probably help.

Driving through Monmouth always made me feel the same as well.

Going through Leeds on the train/Bus to where my cousin lived felt depressing.

We always used to get the train to my Dad's house in about 2004 and there was an advert when you approached Telford station with the most 90s mobile phone ever, advertising One2One, which had at the time been absorbed into Vodafone or something. I always used to feel like it was a kind of time warp. Probably just not a very high traffic section of track!