What is the worst place you have ever visited?

[Washingforweeks]

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?

Algiers or Luanda when I was a cabin crew. Men trying to grab at me on the street.

I’ve seen enough of that online. But seem to forget white Americans aren’t native to the US and descend from British and other European countries. They’re literally shooting themselves in the foot when they come out with that drivel.

Blackpool and Lloret de Mar in Costa Brava

HeHeHe

Croydon. I grew up there so I know.

Also Florida. Went once, no need to return. I hate anywhere that you can't navigate without a car.

And Detroit. Like Croydon after The Bomb. Though tbf this was in the late 80s, I hear its improved. Met a sweet old lady who told me I had a lovely voice - "just like Margaret Thatcher".

Barrow, Rochdale, Naples,
Florida - all dumps.

I went to Morocco years ago as a blonde 18 year old. The men wete lovely to me. No sleeze...very respectful and I went round a lot of the cities. Planning on going bk soon.

This made me laugh so much!

Leicester. Filthy, rundown and devoid of anything interesting. Bradford is also awful. Cuba had some beautiful areas but the most sullen people I’ve ever encountered and horrendous food, perhaps why they were so sullen.

What was actually there?

I get the impression that Boston is pretty anti-British - there's the War of Independence but also it has a big Irish diaspora population, many who settled there as a result of the Famine.

The Famine was appalling and I get why there was bad feeling, but really! They need to get over it if they're taking it out on teenagers (or anyone, really) in 2026! That's just nasty and there's no excuse.

Be glad you’ve never been to Bradford- beggars at the traffic lights, drug users, pound shops and betting shops in the city centre

Well, you weren't there long enough to see the nice parts of it, or the history of it. You mean you missed Rennie's bridges and didn't climb the Stump?

Crumbs! Well now I know. Yes, they were much bigger than the black ones.

I've just remembered that we had black ones living in the cookers when I was in the student hostel in Moscow. Yeuch.

Cornwall. Really far away, everyone hated us, they drove like maniacs on tiny narrow roads, and the cider I had gave me a stomach ache.
Dh says Erbil airport (!), oklahoma, and north texas

No, i spent 2 weeks in Olu Deniz. The country is beautiful but the men are disgusting, constant harassment.
Been twice to Egypt, never again

Paris. The people were so rude and the underground was very dark and intimidating

Romania and Transylvania. I got stuck in the mountains with a theoretical physicist who unbeknownst to me, had stopped taking her anti-psychotic medication. She got upset when her voices supposedly started talking to me directly instead of going through her (honestly you could not make this stuff up!). Aside from this, I found the people to be rude and the country depressing. The street dog situation was heartbreaking. I would have gladly impaled myself had Vlad appeared, rather than remain.

I sometimes feel I'm the only person who objects to centuries-old grudges being kept going and taken out on people who had nothing to do with the original issue. I've come across people on here who think it's fine to be nasty to English people in Wales, Ireland and Scotland because of things those particular people had nothing to do with.

When I was in France once I got a very cold reception from a shopkeeper (I was speaking my very poor French..) and then suddenly, her face brightened and she said 'Oh - are you English?' I said I was, and she became super-friendly! She said 'I thought you were German!' Doesn't say much for my French accent, but even so, it's another example of ancient grudges being held against modern people. I know the Germans devastated that area in the two world wars, but we have to move on, don't we?

Really surprised to hear that about Boston. My father is from Boston and his family live there, we are all English and have very English accents, and we visit frequently and I have only ever considered it one of the greatest cities on Earth. I cry every time I leave.

TBF it is a city in which people don't have to tell people I'm 'Irish'. (I am short and ginger and have a v Irish surname, but would be considered a plastic Paddy by actual Irish people). I literally get ushered through passport control/customs, practically with a pat on the back. My husband was shocked the first time he witnessed it.

I actually came onto this thread to say how much I didn't like New York, but I would wouldn't I.

I will concede that New York bagels are better, but all bagels in the US are better than here.

Morocco. Absolute shithole, awful to women, no booze. Hideous

Everything closed too early, even the supermarkets were closed by 6pm. And all the pubs/restaurants we went to lacked any character.

Newquay - this was quite a few years back it was the.main town part - so tacky we stayed 20 minutes.

Niort. The airb&b was awful and the city was so dull. My child had to go to a&e as she hurt herself on the furniture at the ”family friendly” airb&b and the hospital was also awful.

I got spat at on the high street - racially motivated. Lovely.