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 wins hands down

He grew up in Much Marcle (Herefordshire) and also lived for a period in Glasgow.

Blackpool, Dover, Glasgow, south London - but especially Liverpool ughhh

I think Coventry has absorbed the sadness. Can't wait to get out of there when I have to go for very infrequent visits

I went there once (non festival time) and was standing at the top of some hills overlooking it. I couldn't put my finger on it but I wanted to leave (felt I could not relax or enjoy it). I felt the same about Bath too. Very strange it was. Blackpool is "interesting."

Grew up somewhere with a similar accent and on older men it does sound very creepy tbh.

Walsall.

Birkenhead

Hartlepool

Newport is bloody awful. Neck tattoos, vape shops and tramps.

Probably Belle Vale's twin.

Blackpool
Grimsby

Aldershot

Coventry
Norfolk - the dullest place on earth
dont like London much

Bristol,I can't put my finger on it ( the car being broken into in a hotel car park within hours of arriving and the police saying that the area was well known for it didn't help),but I really didn't like it and will never go back.
Berwick upon Tweed
Ingoldmells
Worst of all was Nogales Arizona. I know that border towns aren't great in general,but this was filthy,and felt threatening. We had to leave the car in a guarded lot,and we walked towards the border. By the time we reached it,I'd had enough and changed my mind about crossing into Mexico.
Page Arizona,oppressive, expensive and had a very odd feel. I love Arizona and have spent a lot of time there,but these two places I'd be happy to never visit again.

Newport is the pits. Its a 30 min drive from my hometown. My brother used to live in Newport, whilst he lived there he got stabbed walking along a road in the day by a gang of youths. He also got hit by a car walking across the road, and whilst lying on the ground someone came and stole his shopping.
I find London pretty awful now and I loved there for 10 years.
Hate Torquay. And find Wakefield and Merthyr Tydfil equally depressing.

Milton Keynes is just so, so wrong. It's just so artificial. I know all towns are artificial, but come on. MK gives me the horrors.

Hackney, London. I felt very unsafe and men leering at me as I was walking. Awful

Blackpool so depressing. Was planning on spending the day there because son at Lancaster Uni.Left after an hour.
Also Coventry absolutely soulless place .I lived there for a few weeks and had to leave because it was so depressing .

Great Yarmouth is mine too. Absolutely bleak and depressing. Serious poverty and open drug use. It was eye opening.

Every place, almost every place has its good and bad but places like Blackpool, Glasgow, Manchester, Margate, Liverpool, Preseton, Newport, Bridgend, Sheppy Island, Ramsgate, Ipswich etc etc, some have been described as the 'land of the living dead.'

Dont get me wrong, there are nice areas in there and some nice people but on the whole I would not live there if you paid me along with many other places in the UK

I lived there. Its one of those places that's meant to be lovely but it never grew on me at all. Rather a bland place. Nothing special apart from the cathedral and a couple of interesting old buildings.

I wondered how long it would be before Croydon appeared in the list.

I grew up there, but moved away over 30 years ago. I've been back a few times (MIL still lives there), and it has gone beyond soulless and is fucking dystopian now. And it has an utterly bizarre road system, there's a roundabout that you can only go halfway round, and you go round it the wrong way.

The place is a total mindfuck.

Milton Keynes is pretty dire too, but my DPs moved there from Croydon, and bloody loved it, which shows how awful Croydon is.

I got frightened driving to Aberystwyth. It made me feel panicky. I had no phone signal on a mountain pass. It didn't get any better once I got there. Run down and dilapidated sea front, grey, wet, windy, remote. Not my kind of place.

@OffToThatPlace Gosh yes! I hate driving that route especially the stretch once you get into Dumfries, the areas around Lockerbie, Gretna, Ecclefechan (best name ever though) It just feels so bleak and suffocating. And absolutely never-ending.