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?

Scarborough. So rough on a night out .

Feel exactly the same about Stoke-on-trent

Wolverhapton and Stoke-on-Trent. Met lovely people in both places but the places themselves.....

And next on the list is Stockton-on-Tees which i've heard is just... lovely 😵

Crawley. Total shit hole.

Monaco was too posh for me!

For me it has to be Merthyr Tydfil or Weston Super Mare. Both truly depressing places and huge sympathies to anyone who loves there

Is that because you went round the ring road 4 times by accident whilst trying to get to your friend’s house (which is way before the ring road??)

Agreed, it was horrific. It's improved now, but is by no means a nice place to go (it's my nearest city / big town). Lots of new plans for Union Street and the centre - I hope they all happen!

For me it was Crewe. I was there for a week with work. Dark, dirty and unwelcoming except for two amazing restaurants we went into. Even the Premier Inn was soul destroying.

That's a good point about the different landscapes and going away from what you're used to. I now live in Cambridgeshire and it took me a good few years to get used to the flatness.

Nowadays I love the big sky, openness and seeing for miles. We visited friends in the Lakes recently and I couldn't wait to leave, it felt so closed in and oppressive with the shadows of the hills & mountains.

Oh Yes
Saw somebody mention Canvey Island. Dear God what a Dive.
It probably didn't help that the Man I went on a date with there was a total Dick though, to be fair.

I'm suprised several people mentioned Nottingham- I'm a right old snob about places but a Notts girl originally and I always enjoyed Nottingham- particularly Lace market area, and The Park (great gothic houses) - there are way worse places although can be rough at night

I can't believe two posters have mentioned Durham. I think it is a beautiful place-the city and the surrounding countryside.

I don't particularly like Slough but as a pp mentioned lots of high streets aren't very nice anymore :(

Brighton, felt very unwelcome and it just had an air of judgement about it.

People saying Cardiff, Manchester, Sheffield, Liverpool, Durham, Bath, Bristol… 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 there certainly are some run down places in the UK but come onnnn. Hilarious!

spell checked Brighton North Laines, as i mentioned it earlier.
it is touted as bohemiam
now that is very annoying - the vintage clothing stores are ridiculously over priced and grabby! poor youngsters who fall for this crap

not many mentions of London interestingly

i agree all small towns are depressing, particularly in the winter.
but Hastings isnt appealing at any time.

absolutely!

In the UK, Eastleigh, Stevenage and Northampton are very depressing. Newry is a tip as well, although the shopping centre is OK.
In Ireland, Dublin has gone downhill. It has good points but too many junkies and drunk old men wandering around. I say that as a Dubliner. The graveyard in Askeaton, Co. Limerick gave me the absolute creeps.
More internationally, I found Texas boring and unfriendly. Barcelona is just a den of thieves. I got robbed blind there.

There is some stunning countryside in the South Wales Valleys.

I have also been to beautiful beaches in Pembrokeshire and Anglesey.

I love Cardiff :)

In terms of feeling unsettled, I'd say the Isle of Wight. I will never go there again, it just makes me uneasy. Fleetwood, the Cumbrian coast and Cockermouth are the other places I'd add to the list.

The places which are run down and deprived, sadly there are so many, but I don't really see the point of listing them, they're all easily found on indices of deprivation maps.

Tewkesbury and Evesham are perfectly nice towns, but both induce in me a sense of impending doom. I suspect it is their low-lying proximity to the Avon and the inherent and not infrequent flood risk.

Glen Coe gives me the heebie-jeebies.

Can I nominate a road? The A41 from Aylesbury to Bicester.

St Austell (but it was 25 years ago)
Burnham-on-Sea
Bristol
Sonning ( and various surrounding areas).

I have never been to the Isle of Wight but I read a book once, called Prey, a novel it was, but it scared me so much I never wanted to go.

The one place that always gave me the creeps is Earls Court in London and I have no idea why. We'd drive through frequently when I was a child and it always frightened me, especially when it was dark. It had nothing to do with feeling unsafe as we'd always be in the car. But it always made me feel desolate and sad and I'd have quite dark thoughts, which isn't remotely in my nature usually.

Bristol.

I've got mates who live there and love it, but I just thought it was unbelievably depressingly grey and dull (and I grew up in Glasgow in the 1980s/90s, so I'm not without my grey / dull points of reference).

Forgot to add Deal to my previous post.