What is the worst place you have ever visited?

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I saw a thread on instagram about this and found it really interesting and wanted to hear more. What is the worst place you have visited and why?

Tunisia. Men grabbing me and dragging me into their shops, being harassed as soon as I stepped outside of the hotel, and shitting brown water for a week.

That's a unique story. Love that.

Vietnam.
Egypt.

I've been to about 50 countries in my life but those two are head and shoulders above anywhere else in terms of most horrible people and not even being able to breathe without someone sprinting over to try and scam you.

Boston uk. I was only there 24hrs thank god most depressing place I have ever seen.

As far as tourists go in New York, the locals seem to be reasonably welcoming to white Europeans. Much less so to everyone else.

I don't undertand people saying Birmingham, Manchester, Middlesbrough and Stoke? Surely these are all typical big towns and cities, shops and residential areas. You don't go for the sight seeing.

One of the worst touristy place though in this country yes has to Blackpool.

Yorkshire is huge how can you write the whole place off and everyone who lives there with one visit?

Egypt - just the amount of horrible male attention, even when shopping with my kids the men do not leave you alone. Put me right off and will never return. Which is a shame because it’s so interesting historically.

I was thinking this too. I’m racking my brain to think of anywhere I didn’t find something to like and I’ve been to a lot of the places mentioned. Never been to Hull though, granted.

Nice - horrible place - dirty, noisy, expensive. Would never go back.

Loved NYC - the Americans just cannot help but comment when they hear an English accent - I find it quite endearing!

Loved Boston! Went for two nights.

Loved MIT museum, drinks in a pub at Harvard. Shopping and many many flat whites.

Also so many bookshops because of all the universities.

Brilliant place for a short break.

Dublin. Boring, dull, not very attractive, grubby, unfriendly, expensive.

Loughborough, the uni is excellent clearly but the town centre not so much.

Westward Ho! I thought I was going to love it given the name but it was all amusements and pubs. Much more interesting places in North Devon.

I’ve been a couple of times. Stay out of a small handful of central tourist trap bits and you’re grand.

'I once had to kill an afternoon in Stockton-on-Tees. I felt like I'd lost something the whole time I was there, a sort of despairing and panicky feeling set in'

Isn't it just a town like any other with Boots Costa and B&M kind of shops? I mean this kindly maybe you need a quick GP review about the panic and despair?

Oh wow that sounds awful. It’s the aggression I can’t stand.

No way! Me and my husband want to go, might rethink 🤣

Different Boston! 😂

I hope you're rich!

Honestly, that's just my taste, others probably love it! I tend to like places where I can just wander around for hours, but if there's attractions there you're interested in you might enjoy it?

Cornwall in the winter. We went to collect two puppies from the breeder some 20 years ago and decided to make a weekend of it. The Eden project was cold and the food was dreadful. Everywhere was shut and the hotel we had booked for our overnight stay (plan was to have a day free, stay overnight, collect pups and go straight home) was dire. It was almost christmas and there were no lights up, nothing jingly at all.

Probably just a hang up from hearing so much stuff about the Troubles growing up. I’ve been there several times and it’s a completely normal city, akin to any other UK city of a similar size.

I know 🤣 Crazy talk.

Luton, without a doubt. I've visited over 50 countries & have never felt as unsafe as I did wandering around the town centre at 7pm on a mid-week evening. Gangs of teenagers everywhere sizing you up to work out how easy you'd be to mug, or worse.

Dominican Republic...only due to the tarantula I saw in the restaurant on day 2.Don't think I slept for the next 10 days.Beautiful place and lovely people but there was no recovery from that...twas the size of a dinner plate.