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?

Great Yarmouth - visited when on a Norfolk Broads sailing holiday. Walked round the town, DH didn't speak and when we got back to the boat DH announced that we were leaving!!

Seconded !!!

Leiston in Suffolk.... Aside from the lovely cinema I find it a miserable place...

Well, I don't live in a working class town so there's a good chance it won't hit the radar of the bulk of posters.

Berwick upon Tweed
Wilmslow

Dawlish Warren. Passed through on our way home after a family holiday last summer and I couldn't get out of there fast enough (despite the rest of them wanting to stay longer). I remember standing on the path above the beach and just feeling this awful churning feeling, just 'wrong'.

London.

With the occasional exception of Kew Gardens.

Ha ha, I live here it wasn’t always that way and to be honest we feel the same ! We have a beautiful house in a nice suburb though . When I was growing up the high street was clean and thriving. The buildings are beautiful but have been left to deteriorate, can’t wait to leave when the kids have left education. It’s a real shame and many blame the local council 😞
Google Victorian Newport and you will see the beauty it once was !

Torquay town centre.

Very below par.

Oh I've just scrolled back and seen you too!

There are definitely bits of West Cumbria I wouldn't want to break down in. Bleak and feels like the back of beyond.

Yes! How strange that someone else should get that feeling.

I think most town centres are shit these days.

Jaywick, dump
Croydon, dump
Maidstone, full of yobs and alcoholics
Grimsby, grim

Seascale
Barrow in Furness
Billingham
Dove Holes
Others that people have mentioned too.

Although Darlington has improved in the last ten years and Durham is nice IMO!

Sheffield and Manchester

@JesusInTheCabbageVan weird you should say that as many people have reported to see the ghosts of monks walking through this area .

And Bolton

Bradford.

I had a lot of horrific comments from Muslim men, and I was really quite scared sitting in the car waiting on my partner. The whole area seemed grim, run down and I felt a weird deep unease...and I grew up in a very rough part of the Scottish West Coast!!!

See I read these threads and can think of plenty of places that are run down, deprived and well just ugly. For example people have mentioned Bradford and Blackpool upthread. I get why objectively these places are mentioned. I quite like both though and am happy to spend time there. For me it's more about there being something else you can't quite fathom about a place that feels bad to you personally.

I was born in Newport and its my nearest city, any time I have to go there for anything I absolutely cannot wait to leave. I know what you mean about feeling uneasy and I'm constantly on edge there too. Can't put my finger on it really but it's known for being rough.

A lot of towns & cities in the UK are ugly. However, sometimes it's just that you've seen the wrong parts of them. I would cite Luton and Reading as places I thought were just horrible, but I've only been to each of them once and only saw a small part of each. I've been to Exeter twice: first time I saw lovely parts but the second time I saw horrible parts. If I'd made a judgement just on the second visit I think it would have been misleading.

There are also places that are just run-down rather than horrible. I can think of several in Shopshire - Wem and Ellesmere are two that spring to mind - and dozens in Wales.

Also, places can change over time. I grew up in Birmingham in the nineteen-seventies and it was a complete dump that I couldn't wait to get away from. I definitely don't think it's a dump now, even though there are parts of the city that are pretty rough.

I've seen Grimsby mentioned a few times also, DPs family are there and it's where he grew up, and he agrees BUT it makes me sad seeing how cheap many large, beautiful houses are there, so much potential 😪

Very surprised Doncaster hasn't come up.Ive lived here all my life and the town centre is grim.

Margate. No idea why it's trendy. Boyfriend and I went there for the weekend once four years ago and it was one of the worst days ever. Broke up shortly afterwards (we did get back together but resolved never to go to Margate again).