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?

Towyn shudder

Hull.

Went to the stadium, one stand sponsored by a toilet manufacturer, another make chemicals some of which go down toilets, a third by a car dealer that sell polluting vehicles.

I felt exactly the same

I always thought that Newport looked like a dump from the train but was pleasantly surprised the one time I got out and wandered around the town centre (this was a while ago now).

Someone mentioned Norris Green in Liverpool, I raise you the Belle Vale shopping centre.

There are two Newports in Wales! (That I know of)

I never go to Newport in Gwent though - or as rarely as I can help! I used to go as a teenager to TJs and shopping in the cool shops in the market and the arcades. I suspect it has changed a great deal since those days…

Hemsby. We drove through accidentally and couldn't find a road out. It was just... awful

Blackpool in November <shudders> on a work trip. Never again.

Outside of the UK, I really dislike the Gare du Nord area of Paris. Awful energy there.

Only good thing I see in Newport is the velodrome and cycling speedway track🚲

Between family and work I've travelled fairly extensively across the UK. By far the worst place I've ever visited is Birmingham.

It is the only place in the UK I've felt genuinely unsafe in broad daylight. Thankfully it was a one day conference so I didn't have to hang around long.

Never again!

Romney Marsh. So flat and bleak. Dungeness was pretty awful too

There are two Newports in Wales! (That I know of)

There are. And two in England that I know of (Shropshire and Isle of Wight). It was the fact the OP referred to it as a city that made me assume she was talking about Newport in Gwent.

Stockport. Dismal and depressing. I felt like a weight pressing on my chest the whole time I was there.

Oxshot in Surrey, it should be lovely given the wealth, but it feels lonely, sinister and dying

@sparklyWand - Where was your conference? I find the centre of Birmingham has quite a safe feel, but I can see there are areas away from the centre that wouldn't. Again, it's easy to get misleading impressions from only seeing one part of a large city.

Skopje. Should be demolished.

Chatham, Gravesend, Salisbury and St Albans

I get a weird vibe about Bodmin. As if I have a connection with it many centuries ago. Not a good connection. And I'm not at all a woo person.

Going back to Dagenham to visit my family. I feel like I'm in Inception.

Bracknell in Berkshire. It had Eerie Indiana vibes.

I also agree about the Gare du Nord area of Paris, but I think that can be explained by all the pickpockets around that area, so you are constantly being watched.

Skeggy.

Torquay really? I’m surprised by that , the shopping but seems nice to me 😂

Yes. I once booked a two week retreat with a few days in Bangkok prior to arriving at the retreat. I didn’t last long and 36 hours later I went home on the same aircraft I’d arrived on. I’ve since been back to Thailand, to a different place, but it’s an awful place and I’ll never go back.

Holyhead.

Yes, it's shit!
I live nearby and I never go there now, it doesn't feel safe!