Those threads where people say places have bad vibes

[TheMithrasDirective]

I always read with interest as I've never felt a bad vibe in a place, not that I can remember.

But I'm in Liverpool right now and the opposite is happening- there's just a really positive, happy feeling, for no discernible reason. I don't even normally like cities or noise or loads of people. I don't think it's me, I'm not in an especially good or bad mood at the mo.

That's it, that's the thread!

Liverpool is indeed a fantastic city, beautiful architecture, great vibes and super ebullient people
Love it. Has all the vibes

I work in a newish building and can’t go into a certain area in it as it feels so oppressive it makes me nauseous and weepy. Until experiencing this in ever really felt the vibes of a place.

I learnt recently that the building was built over the site of ruins of another which had quite a tragic history and several people died there!

I used to live in Bristol, and never felt at ease there for some reason. Whenever we go into Bristol now I instantly feel that horrible feeling in the pit of my stomach and end up on edge all day. My nerves calm as we drive back home, and there's a certain point in the journey when you're heading up a steep hill into our village that just gives me an instant state of peace. I actually have such good memories of living in Bristol, nothing "bad" happened when we lived there, and I spent a few decades there, so I don't know why it makes me feel that way. The only other place I got bad vibes was in this air bnb we rented in Spain. Absolutely lovely place, no reason to not like it, but the second we walked in I felt panicked, and insisted on dragging all the beds into one room as I didn't want the kids sleeping away from us. Husband thought I was crazy, but I kept saying I felt like someone had been murdered in there. Not helped by the fact on the 3rd night, I was putting my toddler to bed, and there was a window behind me. We were lying there on the bed, and she pointed at the window and whispered "who's that?" I was too petrified to even turn around!

Obviously some places have vibe and feels, but I do think there is a lot of performative aww I’m soooo moved that some people put on and they naturally also have an acccompanying chilled to the bones, there were dark deeds undertaken here narrative . It’s all. Bit woo hoo, look at me, I’m so sensitive

I think that the 'bad vibes' are most often produced by

(1) specific architectural features/dimensions/decisions -- there's quite a lot of research on the relationship between architecture/urban planning and feelings of stress and oppression.

and/or

(2) people's beliefs that 'bad events' leave, or should leave, some kind of imprint eg the notion that birds do not sing near the site of the Auschwitz concentration camp. (They do, it's just become something of an urban myth.)

Agree. Without a doubt there are architectural cues and repeating patterns that evoke a response and give a place the vibes
Best place I’ve ever been in term of vibes was the coliseum, had it and reeked of histo