Bad vibes in certain places in london

[stevens27]

Does anyone else just get a horrid feeling in certain places in london?

The only one that particularly freaks me out is Russel Square tube station. I feel so much sadness and get quite on edge down on the platforms and I don't know why! Does anyone else feel this way about anywhere in London?

Haringey just grim now and Wood Green horrible menacing place

Not really. I used to hate Wembley Park but I must say the regeneration has transformed the place for the better.

Russell Square is a deep station, old, and accessible only by the lifts (unless you love pain and tight claustrophobic spiral staircases). I lived next to it when I was at Uni and never had bad feelings, but some people feel trapped and anxious because you always have to wait for a lift to "escape".

What's wrong with Haringey?!

When heading down the long escalator at Kings Cross and just trying to imagine the horror of the fire there.

Conversely I always smile when at Angel tube station as when I was young and stupid (and possibly a bit pissed) we used to run up the down escalator all the way to the top which was pretty damn hard.

Manor House tube.... just so dismal and horrible steep steps up to pavement...

@TheYearOfSmallThings my family came from Haringey and besides my grandad being mugged, some men trying to barge their way into the house to burgle it, it's dirty and run down now. I felt so unsafe walking down Green Lanes when I last visited family there that I haven't done it since and park the car as close to the house as possible, visit and then leave, i would never walk around that area alone again

I don’t mind bustle - I commuted through Victoria for years, and I like St Pancras! I think it’s because everyone is crowded together in a mass of humanity at Euston while the other stations have the platforms spread across different spaces. Plus the shops are pokey especially with a backpack or suitcase.

I so agree with the comments about Euston. I don't get a bad vibe so much as I absolutely hate it and it makes me hate all of humanity. I am very happy to use all other big railway stations, it's just Euston which is terrible.

Indeed it is, but they are not all created equally! Of the ‘big ones’ I like London Bridge the best.

The reason I dislike Euston has sod all to do with bustle!

I used to live on Green Lanes, and though I haven't been back in years, my memories are quite fond -- all those little shops with a million different types of olives and baklava and pideh. And when the riots happened in 2011 and the looters were coming up from Wood Green direction, those shopkeepers sat outside in front with baseball bats and their bodybuilder cousins and frightened them off.

Not really a bad vibe but parts of Clapham have got really full of themselves and it pisses me off 😆

(£8 for a scotch egg at the ‘farmer’s market’ Clapham Common I’m looking at you 😆)

I raise you... £7 for a slice of banana bread with wanky 'espresso butter' in Balham

I'm over there a lot, and you can still get the best burek and pide - I have lots of friends living around the ladder, and it seems fine to me. Bearing in mind I live in Walthamstow so it's not like I'm comparing it to Richmond .

Tube stations like Russell Square and Covent Garden with their lifts do have a bit of a 'bowels of the earth' feel about them.

But once you're above ground all is well!

Pimlico feels cold and soulless with its row upon row of white stucco houses. I had a boyfriend who lived there many moons ago (in a very ordinary flat).
Also, irrationally, it makes me think of the repulsive Charlie Mullins, owner of Pimlico Plumbers.

But you know what this was "about"? Happened in Barclays Moorgate too.
Would have happened too fast for anyone to stop it. I dread it happening in the daytime when staff are around.

The far reaches of the Piccadilly Line, both ends. It's just great swathes of grim and grubby urban decay.

That, and the back entrance of Clapham Junction Station.

I'm too easily offended by Mumsnet nowadays, I'm getting all huffy heard coz meanies that I don't know are bitching about where I live

Oh i like Pimlico.....it feels nicely ordinary

Upper Thames Street is the worst - I made the mistake once of deciding to walk down it one evening from Tower Hill to Blackfriars to take the train home and I was tired and thirsty but figured there must surely be a newsagents or a Tesco Local. Nope. Nothing. For ages. In the middle of London. Just a concrete canyon filled with fumes and I was dying of thirst by the time I got to Blackfriars, which felt like forever.

Victoria Street towards Parliament Square used to feel a bit like that, but it is better since they knocked down the New Scotland Yard building, which was this featureless concrete lump.

Built environment researchers have actually done research about streets where buildings are 'impermiable' eg, they don't have windows you can see into at street level, and apparently it does make people feel depressed, uneasy and just want to get out of anywere like that. This is why most new build offices are designed with big, open glass fronted receptions or public space at ground level, to avoid that feeling of existential dread!

My fave bits of london and my fave Italian 😊

The Euston rectangle of doom comments are soo true. The miserable funnel to the platforms….

I think it’s exacerbated because the other big stations have all been done up - kings x, st p, London Bridge all were like that 15y ago but are really swanky now. Euston is still a depressing mid 20th c hell hole.

Yes, Moorgate and Aldgate both freak me out and I dislike Kennington too.

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