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

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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?

Phew, I was expecting a mouthful. Thank you. Yup lived there for 14 months at the end of 1990 - 1992. It was a nightmare, so I dread to think how much it's gone downhill since then

I do have to defend Newport. Having lived there and other places, I can say that Newport people are friendly and have a great sense of sardonic humour.
This is the new market.

newport-market.co.uk

We also have a theatre and beautiful parks. My favourite being Beechwood park with it's lovely cafe.

www.thecafeatbeechwood.co.uk

Cumbernauld definitely. There are many run down places in Scotland but Cumbernauld has a very strange vibe. I always feel I’m never going to get out of there

Would probably help if you read a little history, of the place and outlying area.

I could think of a lot of shitty areas in London and other cities plus boring 1 horse country towns.

Nothing quite like watching a sunset over Westerhailes Shopping Centre.

And they closed TJs 😭 and the market now, built an expensive shopping area that is now full of empty shops because the rent is too high. They keep building hotels, who are all these people who are visiting Newport?? 🤔

I lived briefly in the Aylesbury estate in the late 90s. Huge flats. But very very dodgy area. Being pulled down, if it hasn't already happened ( haven't been past in a year or so).

Bodmin Moor and the Little villages on it. Really unsettling and eerie.

TJs was awesome.

Nope, just don't like rural Devon actually.

I've seen my home town mentioned on here and described as soulless I'm pretty sure it's been confused with somewhere else as it's has such a pretty town centre, nice housing in surrounding areas and is really green. Bit perplexing tbh

You went to the wrong Newport the one in west wales is lovely

Stadium in Hull is in the worst area of Hull so it really gives you a bad impression.
i live in the outskirts of Hull and it’s lovely. I think Hull city centre has become horrific in the last 20 years. The old town is lovely but I do understand why people think it’s awful.

I’m in Blackpool right now - everything you said is true!!

I lived in Stoke-on-Trent for a while and found parts of it really unsettling. I agree with pp who mentioned the fact that it's made up of the five towns gives it an odd sense of not having a heart. It wasn't even the whole city, or the people, just pockets of a strange vibe.

It wasn't the deprivation or aesthetics- just a weird feeling. For context, I left Stoke to return to my hometown of Blackpool so I'm quite used to that 😁

Newport's alright it is, I've never felt that it's oppressive.

Aberystwyth, it may be different now as this was 40 years ago when I was 17, I went with my DSIS as she wanted to visit as on her list of Uni Choices so I went with her for the weekend. We stayed in this place that was really odd, the people working there glared at us and made us feel like we shouldn't be there. I remember having a mixed grill thinking it was like a full English breakfast, but was just an assortment of animals on a plate, I was scared not to eat it as my DSIS and I thought they were the type who may murder us in our sleep, The weather when we visited was awful too which didn't help. As I say this is through the eyes of a teen who was used to London, Brighton and lively towns, it was a culture shock to see this quiet place with locals eyeing us suspiciously. My sister chose Birmingham Uni instead in the end, which I have many happy memories of visiting her there. Not sure I would have been so keen to visit if she had chosen Aberystwyth.

South London. Anywhere over the water really (live in Essex/ East London border) cannot wait to get home from South or Kent - Leysdown where my mum lives. It's like village of the damned lol

I defended Bradford up thread. I can see why first impressions scare people off but it’s a fabulous place, full of culture. I did dis Keighley though

Yup, know it well. The students at the nearby uni nickname it ‘the last resort’.

Boscombe is soulless.
Stevenage is horrible.
Controversially, Paris…

Planet Earth. It's really gone to the dogs in recent years.

Swansea

Cricklade. So depressingly meh.

It’s coastline is weird, very steep drop and steps down the the sea and very rugged. I half expected to have a premonition there, I can’t really explain it.