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?

Newbiggin by the sea. My DM raved about it so we went to visit when we were in the area.

Full of betting shops and ankle tags.

Stoke on Trent- bloody awful
Luton
Harlow

I didn't find Newport that bad to be honest- better than I expected

Croydon. I just despise it.

Newport is very bad on first impressions. The road system through the town is awful. There are rough parts for sure and deprivation. But there is investment and some positives. Nice market, theatre, some of the communities, nearby countryside.

Poundbury. Horrid weird place. Also, Welwyn Garden City. Soulless and bizarre.

Has no one posted this yet? 😁

Grimsby - takes after it’s name!

Bristol. Hate it.

If you were visiting the passport office then you were in the most run down part of Newport.
There are some nice parts too. I have to defend it, I grew up in Newport.
It's salubrious in comparison to towns further up the valleys such as Brynmawr and Merthyr.

Luton and Stevenage

I came to say Slough, it just feels oppressive.

For extra confusion, there are (at least) two Newports in Wales.

I think it'd be easier to list the places that you don't find yourself desperate to leave. There are so many absolute shit holes in this country. Humans are digusting.

I live in wrexham, moved back to area after living in Leyton. It is getting better. We have been here 20 years. If I hear racism I call it out and yes I have heard it unfortunately. There are good a bad parts like most places. There have been huge improvements though.

Stevenage, felt lucky to get out without being stabbed. Grim.

Your going to get loads of replies saying Blackpool because we haven't had a good Blackpool bashing for a while.

Its a shame that the first Place most people see is Central Drive because believe it or not, most Of the town, away from the torist areas are quite nice with lovely residents too.

Um, I think you got the wrong end of the stick there. I certainly didn’t say you were pretentious, I was just talking from experience. Many, many years ago I had a holiday job in a cafe literally next door to the passport office, every day we would get people coming in before or after their appointments, having travelled hours to get there, in utter shock at the state of the place. I was merely pointing out that there is a long tradition of passport applicants being less than impressed with the setting. I think there’s bern a fair bit of commercial development in the last 30 years, but more shops are now standing empty, and I think that gives the place a real feeling of despair.

Blackpool, smells like the utter shit hole it is.

Also, Sevenoaks. Residents so far up their own arse they could make it an Olympic sport.

Every UK town high street is now betting shops/charity shops/nail bars, there’s not much difference between any of them

Kirkaldy, Fife

Peterborough. I lived there for 2 years and hated every second, now when we go back to visit in laws I feel uncomfortable and down the whole time. The whole city is awful

Nunney in Somerset. Had an awful feeling about it.

Yeah I thought this too. Sprawling and nothingy.

Southampton - ugly shit hole stuck in 2008.

It doesn’t make me feel uneasy but I do find it faded and sad. Not awful or anything, but I find the love for it inexplicable.

I have had to spend a bit of time in Swindon over the past few decades and it’s a place that has just never found it’s feat. And as it’s a lot less affluent now probably won’t.

I really wanted to like Bristol but I don’t. Never feels like there’s a centre.

2 good things came out of Canvey
The road and Dr Feelgood !