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

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TheChristmasElf · 06/01/2023 16:05

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?

OP posts:
Abhannmor · 06/01/2023 21:53

mrswibblywobbly · 06/01/2023 20:31

Burnham on Sea (grim), Blackpool (absolute hole and rude locals), Newport and Newquay.

Ooh I liked Burnham on Crouch. Very spooky Great Expectations vibe. Kept expecting Magwitch to jump out of the bushes after his escape from the rotting prison hulk!

MissingMoominMamma · 06/01/2023 21:54

I love Heysham village itself, the little church, and the walk past the ruins.

NeverGonnaNot · 06/01/2023 21:54

Love that by Goldie Lookin Chain. So Newport!

Spankhorse · 06/01/2023 21:54

hockeysticks89 · 06/01/2023 20:46

I came on to defend Nuneaton as it's my home town and I knew I'd see it here. Hello fellow treacle-towners! Yes it has issues like everywhere but there are positives too.
I give you Bridlington- only been there for half an hour but couldn't find a pub serving food after 8pm so went for takeaway, some really horrible racist people were kicking off with the owners, we had to run out and call the police, had my baby in a pram. Have never gone back since, got a really horrible vibe although I appreciate we could just have been unlucky

Nuneaton has it's perks.

The mannequin, suitably dressed up for all major holidays and sporting events, that stands on the balcony of one of the flats on the corner of Manorcourt Road always cheers me up!

Han99 · 06/01/2023 21:54

Itsrudemeghan · 06/01/2023 17:50

It’s technically nice place but I find Ilkley just has a strange vibe. It’s a mix of the Victorian buildings and the looming moors. Can’t wait to leave whenever I go there.

Nooo...anywhere with a Betty's is good for me!

MissCherryCakeyBun · 06/01/2023 21:57

@Luana1 I put Hatfield on too it's just sucks the life out of you.....it's a soul destroying place. I lived there for 5 years 80/90s and had close family there until very recently and I despise the place it's just such a dementor of a place

Tiredmum100 · 06/01/2023 21:58

TheChristmasElf · 06/01/2023 16:16

@FluffyYucca Oh I didn’t realise there was two places called Newport, it was the one in Wales…

There's a Newport in West Wales too...so 2 in Wales!

Powertoyou · 06/01/2023 21:59

Weston super Mare, Stevenage, Holyhead,Birkenhead, Hatfield, Dungerness.

CockSpadget · 06/01/2023 22:00

crazycrypty · 06/01/2023 16:24

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

Yes! Had to stay there for a week with work, weird weird place.

Notplayingball · 06/01/2023 22:01

FoxtrotOscarFoxtrotOscar · 06/01/2023 16:41

Kirkaldy, Fife

Typo. Kirkcaldy. I agree. It's awful.

Volkswagenitalia · 06/01/2023 22:01

MissCherryCakeyBun · 06/01/2023 21:57

@Luana1 I put Hatfield on too it's just sucks the life out of you.....it's a soul destroying place. I lived there for 5 years 80/90s and had close family there until very recently and I despise the place it's just such a dementor of a place

The weirdest thing about Hatfield is that despite there being an actual university there and loads of students, it's still a total shithole. You would think the student population would bring more of a buzz, but it's just crap.

Even the Galleria isn't a proper shopping centre, just crappy outlets.

Tiredmum100 · 06/01/2023 22:03

MissBattleaxe · 06/01/2023 16:55

@Hoowhoowho Nice to hear good things about Newport. I don't live far from it and it definitely has good points and beautiful parks. And Tredegar House and the Wetlands. I mean there are horrible bits, like anywhere, but it does have positives too.

I spent nearly every Saturday of my childhood at Tredegar house. Lovely memories.

Abhannmor · 06/01/2023 22:03

Holyhead.
Here I sit in Holyhead
With muddy ale and mouldy bread
All Christian victuals stink of fish
I'm where my enemies would wish. - Swift.

I'm biased of course after a lifetime of trudging round empty Customs sheds at 3am. Pembroke no better but Fishguard is quite pretty.

( I'm an old hand at this Welsh seaport caper)

Teateaandmoretea · 06/01/2023 22:04

It's both snobby and yet covers everywhere? Is that what you are saying? Make your mind up! I read the OP as some places where there is a sense of the uncanny. Nasty, but not in the sense you meant.

Nasty in what way then other than looking down on the poor?

Yep it covers most places, but the poor ones far more than the others.

It’s utterly bizarre that people feel the need to defend it.

Idontgiveashitanymore · 06/01/2023 22:05

Nottingham , visited there once . Just student flats being built everywhere.

Volkswagenitalia · 06/01/2023 22:05

Yes, Milton Keynes is so strange. Have only ever really been there to go to the shopping centre/Xscape bit, which is like a little fake town in itself.

Have no idea what else is there or where all the people live! To get to Xscape from the M1 you have to go quite deep into the town, but you don't pass any residential areas at all. Weird......

Woopzies · 06/01/2023 22:06

Coventry

Anisina · 06/01/2023 22:08

Teateaandmoretea · 06/01/2023 22:04

It's both snobby and yet covers everywhere? Is that what you are saying? Make your mind up! I read the OP as some places where there is a sense of the uncanny. Nasty, but not in the sense you meant.

Nasty in what way then other than looking down on the poor?

Yep it covers most places, but the poor ones far more than the others.

It’s utterly bizarre that people feel the need to defend it.

Deprived areas are always fair game on MN. Not many people slagging off the leafy southern hell holes.

PandoraRocks · 06/01/2023 22:08

Walsall - grim as fuck. Margate, depressing as hell, so run down and couldn't wait to leave. Chatham - chav central. Newquay in Cornwall - dirty, overcrowded and full of tat shops.

Volkswagenitalia · 06/01/2023 22:10

Every time I have been to Holyhead, which has been a lot, even as a kid my overwhelming thought was....imagine being from Holyhead?!

Scenekidfringe · 06/01/2023 22:11

Huddersfield Town centre, utterly depressing. I was repeatedly harassed, followed and once almost sexually assaulted over a 3 year period. We moved over a decade ago and nothing could convince me to move back.

NibbledSwitch · 06/01/2023 22:13

Las Vegas...tacky, lowbrow, hot, dangerous and expensive.

Anisina · 06/01/2023 22:13

Oh I have one. Southwold in Suffolk. Couldn't wait to leave. The Joules clad hordes and artisan bakeries made my eyes roll so hard.

dollytot · 06/01/2023 22:14

Rhyl.

Crikeyalmighty · 06/01/2023 22:16

@IamEarthymama as I posted earlier, it was way better than I expected. Sat in the nice 'lounge bar' place by the river whilst waiting for my passport. I'm a fussy bugger and I've been to way worse. I thought the town centre had 'good bones' and the people were friendly and it's bloody handy for Cardiff too. Places like Hatfield and Harlow were way more depressing

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