Just visited Newport, couldn’t wait to leave, what’s your get me outta here place?

[TheChristmasElf]

Just have just visited Newport for an appointment, we weren’t there long, toilet stop and cuppa in Asda, half hour appointment in city centre and then got lost on the way out but felt very uneasy the whole time were there. It had quite a menacing feel to it and even on the bare aesthetics of the city seemed quite run down with a lots of old closed pubs, shops etc…

I would actually go as far to say it made me feel quite unwell but I guess that would just be coincidence!!

We actually live rural Devon so not even like I’m not used to the odd lay line of two but I was quite relieved to get back on the road…

Has anyone else felt that about a place before?

Blackpool. Fucking hell on earth and ALWAYS colder than you would expect whatever time of year you go.

Yes I must admit I felt the same about Newport too! We had a work thing there ages ago which I normally love, but I really couldn't leave fast enough. Very depressing.

Newport. Slough is just as shit

When I was house hunting in Newport, my parents suggested I didn’t go out after dark. At the time I lived in South London in an area nobody would describe as salubrious. Trust me Newport is fine.

I often am sitting at the coach stop in Newport at 3am and it’s absolutely fine. It’s rural areas that give me that feeling, after all if you’re going to be murdered by a stranger it will be in that remote farmhouse where they can torture you in privacy not in your two up, two down terrace in the city.

The Gwent Levels. It's a historic area of scientific interest, but also eerie as fuck.

Blackpool!!!

I feel that way about average suburban towns which have a sad high street and pylons everywhere and always seem to be grey with loads of new build houses.

Nuneaton is quite sad.

My ex is from Newport, and he once made me take a bus there and back from London. So I share your sentiment.

My get out place is Darlington. Sorry, but I spent a few days there for work and was so utterly depressed by the time I left.

Margate and Luton.

Stoke on Trent

Grim.

Torquay, the only place I have ever wanted to tunnel out of.

Yes, Blackpool.

@Hoowhoowho this wasn’t anything to do with crime or feeling intimidated by the people necessarily it was more an odd feeling I got from the place, quite oppressive.

Honestly? I felt like that about Bangkok.

Not a place so much but I hate the north circular everything looks so grim along it.

Which Newport are you all talking about? Although I find both the one in Wales and the one on the Isle of Wight a bit unsettling.

Not a town, but I found driving in the Northumberland / Scottish border hills quite eerie, particularly with the very straight roads over hills and no other cars in sight.

Were you at the passport office? You‘re not the first person to go there from some rural idyll and be totally horrified by the reality. Newport bus station at 11pm (back in the 80s) was honestly one of the scariest things I‘ve ever experienced, New York was a doddle by comparison.

@FluffyYucca Oh I didn’t realise there was two places called Newport, it was the one in Wales…

Wolverhampton / Dudley, just feel so so unsettled there. Hence I haven’t been back in 20 years

Darlington. The water is so bad we couldn’t drink tea. Even bought bottled water to boil but still tasted disgusting. The centre is just a bit meh.

Yes re: Torquay. It looked very run down when I saw it. The Pizza Express is in a lovely old building facing onto a marina. That was ok.

Southall. Everyone we came across was really mean and unfriendly and it’s a dump.

Dublin. Fucking boring

Stockport is a bit horrible.

Plymouth town centre, about 20 years ago. It was just a nothing place.