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?

Herefordshire. Fred West country.

Amsterdam. Full of whores, thieves and drug dealers!

UK - Worthing.

CountryMouse22 please ignore my previous post - I just checked and there is indeed a Brixton village in Devon, which is something else I've learned today

Still true that the seaport gets called the wrong name a lot though!!

I presume you mean Newport Gwent, not Newport Pembrokeshire!!

Oh it's somewhere along that strech of road going North that you see Cock'n'Balls Wood* , copse of trees that look like a giant penis

*Might not be the real name

Walsall, specifically the town centre. Dudley.

alum rock Birmingham

East Grinstead is very weird and bleak. Never felt happy there.

I moved to Newport nearly 4 years ago for my sins. I'd actually been living in the SW before too. I never go into town as it's just dire and depressing. I've never really settled here tbh and wanted to move away but I'm a bit stuck here at the moment for different reasons. It's certainly not a 'welcoming' place! The kids want out too!

@byvirtue
Do you mean North Circular Road, Dublin? Just asking

Agreed. Old Stratford and New Stratford remind me of Berlin before the Wall came down.

His 'house of horror' (now demolished) was in Gloucester.

@TheChristmasElf
Newprt Gwent or Newport Shropshire?

@TheBelmont my daughter went to Brighton on a school trip at 16 and hated it! I don't quite see the attraction either (it's ok but wouldn't care to live there particularly).
A friend moved to St Leonard’s on Sea after falling in love with it - not for me at all.

Brean Sands. Look at the trip advisor reviews!

Became a habit when doing my masters. I did it to identify an area I hadnt finished writing.

What a nasty thread.

London has this effect on me.

My nomination is the newer part of Trumpington on the outskirts of Cambridge. Now I know where the former eastern bloc architects went. Grim and unkempt flatroofed blocks, some quite new build houses falling apart.

How so? It's a pretty tame thread for MN.

Wisbech, Cambs. Spooky place

Oh, but he got about a bit, did old Fred.

it is a depressing thread tbh

i love london

Bristol always made me feel uneasy.

Slough town centre

Torquay - and it calls itself part of ‘The English Riviera’

Have name changed. I live in Nuneaton and agree, it’s not a nice town, a bit rundown and bleak.