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Anyone ever felt depressed driving through somewhere?

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beddingwedding · 07/05/2022 10:18

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

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Katjolo · 07/05/2022 22:34

Dagenham and Milton Keynes

Sodullincomparison · 07/05/2022 22:35

I felt the same about Glencoe as PP. didn’t know anything about the history and felt really ill at ease and didn’t want to get out of the car.

RecoveringShopaholic · 07/05/2022 22:37

So interesting re Clophill. I used to drive through there regularly when I lived in Beds, there was a particular stretch of the A6 which always felt a bit eerie to me
As far as depressing towns can I add West Bromwich

Wrongkindofovercoat · 07/05/2022 22:38

I get a weird vibe with a certain era of buildings, I drive past some quite a bit and it feels like a sort of repressed memory, but not in a bad way, more a I have been here before kind of thing. Even though they are as about as far from the sea as you can get, I get a seaside feeling from them and we never went to the seaside when I was as a child, so I don't know why I would associate them with it and the seaside I visit as an adult doesn't have this era of buildings in the bit we visit.

PineMartenPeanutbutter · 07/05/2022 22:40

Iknowthisdickhead · 07/05/2022 13:27

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.

Yes me too. Wales , Devon and Norfolk plus some parts of Cornwall make me feel like this.

PineMartenPeanutbutter · 07/05/2022 22:43

Namechanger355 · 07/05/2022 19:15

Ridiculous comment about Surrey - the vast majority of it isn’t plastic at all

Just like the Pp above who mentioned the whole of London as giving them dread 🤔

for me it’s Somerset and Gloucester

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Gloucester is the most depressing town I think have ever been in. I hate everything about it.

GoonersGirl · 07/05/2022 22:47

Lockerbie…. Awful feeling, we were followed and stared at! We only stopped off on the way home for fish & Chips but couldn’t bear the oppressive feeling and hate vibes so barely ate anything and left quickly.
Dont know if it was anything to do with the Pan Am plane disaster but that was many years previous.

TheNewFleabag · 07/05/2022 22:47

I felt very strange driving in Portland, Dorset. Couldn't wait to leave and will never go back. I can't explain it, just a weird feeling of dread

Member869894 · 07/05/2022 22:48

Plymouth makes me feel depressed always

caecilius1 · 07/05/2022 22:48

The snake pass isn't depressing imo but driving along it definitely is anxiety-inducing ! No wonder your mood is lifted at either Glossop or Sheffield !

GoonersGirl · 07/05/2022 22:51

Also… Halifax … just wanted to go home!

Vicliz24 · 07/05/2022 22:52

Not in the UK but I visited Berlin a few years ago and somehow I felt it exuded sadness. Not related to the wall just the whole place made me feel sad.

FrancescaContini · 07/05/2022 22:54

Upton upon Severn had a definite League of Gentlemen vibe. Couldn’t wait to get out.

mumda · 07/05/2022 22:54

Was it Harperhey?

WibblyWobblyLane · 07/05/2022 22:55

It's weird but everytime I travel in the direction of Surbiton/Chessington I feel dread and an oppressive sadness. I once turned up to an appointment early in Surbiton so took DD to the park opposite and I just remember bursting out crying for no reason. If I'm heading to the motorway, between the BP garage as you get off the A road at the round about, right up until you get to the 60mph road just passed Chessington world of adventures, I feel like something terrible is going to happen.

PineMartenPeanutbutter · 07/05/2022 23:04

Tewkesbury has a very weird vibe.

transformandriseup · 07/05/2022 23:06

Plymouth makes me feel depressed always

Me too. Even years before it was a run down as it is now it always felt sad and a little bit creepy. Especially around Toys R Us and the Pannier Market.

Clovacloud · 07/05/2022 23:08

@Lesperance I agree Walsingham is just odd. It feels dead, and like you shouldn’t be there. We’ve been there a few times, beautiful sunny days but it always feels the same. We avoid it now.

peterpiperpickedapiece · 07/05/2022 23:11

Huddersfield and the moors made me feel exactly as you describe.

ronjobbins · 07/05/2022 23:14

Hutton Buscel near Scarborough, awful draining and sad atmosphere.

Fuckthetories · 07/05/2022 23:17

I've been to some fairly bleak spots in Scotland/North of England over the years, but only got the creeps on a random road near my home once. I posted about it before.

I was walking on this quiet rural back eoad- suddenly the atmosphere changed. It was extremely silent, overcast and humid, like before rain in summer. No houses, no people, just fields and high hedges in a straight line, leading to a bend where I couldn't see. It was super weird and I rang home for a lift. I just wasn't comfortable.

Strangely, shitty areas of cities don't frighten me generally if there are people around, I just don't like being in really isolated places in case of weirdos.

I'm not a particularly "sensitive" person but the worst I've ever been in was an old mother and baby home. Sad, dark place. Thankfully demolished now.

I found a red toy car lying on the ground outside and it made me think of all the poor little children passed through its walls 😢

grossnessewwww · 07/05/2022 23:23

Mortehoe and part of Ilfracombe. Just feels like there have been lots of tragic deaths.

CatrinVennastin · 07/05/2022 23:25

Weirdly I felt like this in Rome. DH had saved up for us to go there as a surprise for my 30th and I didn’t want to admit it but I just felt odd the whole time we were there.

I live in london and I hate The Shard. I feel really depressed when I am near it. My friend lives in a lovely house but as it’s on a hill you can see The shard from her bedroom.

If the eye of sauron appeared on top of it I wouldn’t be surprised.

Violinist64 · 07/05/2022 23:32

I felt this way in Carlisle. It had a dark, brooding, oppressive atmosphere about it. When I mentioned this to my Dad, who was a Cumbrian, he told me to remember its history

tigerbear · 07/05/2022 23:36

Santorini

Blackpool

Both very different, but had the same feeling of sadness in each.