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?

Middlesbrough

Skegness, shit all over the beach. Area stinks of shit and chip fat.

We are moving to Newport. I describe it as rough to folks, but I've lived in much much worse places and I can relate so much easier to the people in Newport, than for example in the posh twee market town we are thankfully escaping.

I know it, and it was a lot worse in times gone by, it's central to everyone we need to be able to get to, it's on my preferred side of the bridge, and it has good connections for my partner who had to get back to London. Best option for me to be home and him to still work his specific job.

It's definitely not going to be many folks number one place to live. But it's better than many parts of London, Slough, Bracknell, Liverpool, even possibly Portsmouth - for us at least.

I can absolutely understand how you've felt as unsafe and on edge - we went back there before xmas and when you've been away somewhere like we are leaving, for a length of time, it does feel ominously eerie and like you're being watched almost. But things are very different when you cross the bridge.

Hull.
Leicester.
Canvey Island.
Wokingham.

Always comes up on these threads but Glastonbury. Went once as a child, once as a young teen, both long before it was quite as woo as now. Hated the atmosphere, apart from the area around the Abbey and the Tor gave me the creeps (and I didn't know what had happened to the poor old Abbot then) I can happily tootle around ruins etc on my own at dusk but that place just felt "off".

Oh and the Asda is in Pillgwenlly which is the old docks area, it looks very run down and has a sort of red light thing going on, not all of Newport is the same.

@ItsOnlyWordsInnit Lol…

We are not some pretentious country life dwellers who only mix and travel in a 5 mile bubble…

We have lived all over, Glasgow, Jordan, Plymouth, I’ve never felt like how I felt today.

However, you were right on one thing, it was the passport office we were visiting.

Blackpool
Norris Green ( Liverpool)
Cardiff

Brighton

and I know everyone else loves it…but it just makes me feel uneasy

Luton

Portsmouth. Ugly as heck and weird vibe.

According to Google there are 14 Newport’s in the UK. I stumbled across one in Devon!

Stoke on Trent Stafford Manchester and Coventry

Wrexham. We’re a mixed family and being the white part of it I had never experienced such blatant racism before. It was truly shocking and awful to experience.

Fort William.

Milton Keynes. It has a dystopian present town feel to it. I feel like the "government" is watching me.

Swansea city centre gave me that feeling too.

Agree with Newport. Also Luton and Slough.

I live in Newport IOW, I swore I wouldn't but I love it!

Manchester gives me the shivers. No thank you, won't be going there again.

Bognor Regis. An utter dump

Tintagel was depressing and sinister.

Chichester is so dull. Barry isn't much better either

St Neots in Cambridgeshire. Flat dull land, flat dull town. With pylons everywhere. I was stuck there once on a 2 week professional residential course. I’m sure the organisers deliberately picked the most dull yet claustrophobic place so we never left the venue and worked our asses off.

Rochdale. On. It's. Arse.

Wrexham, is utterly depressing, as is Flint. Caernarfon gives me the willies for some reason. As does Blaneau Ffestiniog. In fact the rawness of some areas the hills where no trees grow whether it's Wales, Yorkshire or Cumbria etc I'm just not comfortable. I find it forbidding rather than beautiful