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

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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?

Was it the Tory party conference last year? 😁

Curledupwithagoodbook what was it about Cockermouth that spooked you? I've been a few times and it always seems like a pretty amiable little market town. When it's not flooded out

Melksham and the surrounding area.

I found the Lake District to be very odd and eerie.

Why does everyone in Exeter walk so slow? Every time I've been there it's snail speed (grew up locally so spent a fair amount of time there)

London (especially South)
Slough
Luton
Basingstoke

Parts of a A74(M) south of Glasgow, and the raised part of the M6 around Shap. Both roads seem to go on forever. Bleak, foreboding feel to both in these areas.

I adore Bristol and it will always be my home, but it is ‘unusual’ - sort of the Brighton of the West Country. And I get the creeps from Brighton! So I would probably feel the same way about Bristol if I wasn’t so used to it. You can smell weed everywhere you walk and there are a lot of ‘characters’. Plus it’s very rainy and hilly.

Controversially, Glastonbury. I love the Tor and the springs and the Chalice Well gardens, but the town centre always gives me a migraine and I just feel deeply uncomfortable and unwell there. I'm about as woo as they come, so on paper I should love it, but I've been three times and struggled there every time.

Belfast. Wild horses couldn’t drag me back.

On all these threads I see Tintagel and Glastonbury being mentioned a lot and I am really intrigued to know why? I've always wanted to go to both as they are supposed to be so beautiful!

Went cycling there as I somehow thought it would be romantic with the old medieval churches. Didn’t find it sinister, but quite boring and the HGVs thundering around didn’t help. Won’t rush back. I love Rye though.

Out of Britain, Boulogne could be twinned with wherever the Dementors’ hometown is.
The place where I’ve been most in fear of my life was when the satnav sent us through an Orlando underpass and surrounding area andI say that as someone who used to stagger walk through the mean streets of Rhyl after midnight!

Not being catty (honestly) but what’s with all the ‘…’ in your post? Some posters do it but I just don’t get why?

Overseas, I'd say Hurghada, just awful.

In this country, Hull used to be quite grim but that's going back to early 2000s. I went the other day and it seemed much nicer. In recent years it was Whitstable. Maybe it was just that I was unlucky with the weather but I found the whole place depressing.

Also, Portadown. Friend and I popped into a pub to use the loo and it was like opening the saloon door where the one patron at the bar looked up. Bizarre and freaky, plus I’m Catholic and it was right in the middle of marching season

There's also a Brixton in Devon!

My hometown has been mentioned (I knew it would be !)

Colchester- nothing against the town itelf and I haven't been there for ages but the town knackers me , DH always falls asleep on the way home (I'm driving ) . Maybe it's because it's the oldest town-strange forces abound?
I just feel drained !

I have a long history with the Isle of Sheppey - as a kid we holidayed there every year and my grandparents had a caravan on the bit just down from Leysdown - where 'tourists' didn't really venture. It was a truly amazing place - fossils by the bucketload, deep, dark woods to explore (complete with a horror story-worthy abandoned house right in the middle of them), old WWII concrete batteries half hidden in the mud on the beach - and hearing the incoming tide booming inside as the waves smashed through them, trees loaded with cherries, blackberry bushes, meadows with grass taller than I was, wildflowers by the billion and the ever-present threat of cliff landslides. It was honestly an absolute wonderland of adventure and discovery.

I go back every now and then and that 'bit' of Sheppey is still just as weird and awesome as I recall it. Especially because coastal erosion means it's ever-changing. Being there a few years ago, right at the point a massive part of the cliff sheared away, and hearing the sound of the landscape literally tearing itself apart is something I will never, ever forget.

Leysdown feels like a town at the end of its life, sadly, and many parts of Sheppey suffer from endemic issues related to social and economic decline, but I think there are parts of it that should be protected in perpetuity for their interest and uniqueness.

My 'get me out of here NOW' place is anywhere identikit - with nothing to differentiate it from any other place built exactly like it. That goes for holiday resorts, too.

Newhaven. I wondered why the car park was so cheap - soon found out when I walked down the high street.

Some of these places I love. We all have different taste.

It's Brixham in Devon, CountryMouse22 - though they're quite used to being called the other name by visitors!!

My hometown has been mentioned (I knew it would be !

So is mine and I’m just a wee bit surprised.

Completely agree! Lewes especially feels very weird and scary. The East Sussex coast definitely has a weird vibe, but West Sussex and the West Sussex coast has a much happier, positive feel.

Another vote for Blackpool. Absolute shit hole.