Ones that come to mind for me are Vegas, Toronto, Paris
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Spartanburg, SC in the States, Purmerend in the Netherlands.
That’s a diverse set of cities.
Purmerend is the worst
Charlotte, NC. That place is still segregated
Stuart , Florida. Dark vibes everywhere. Even though it looks clean , and nice. It has a very seedy underbelly.
Luton
I see your Luton and raise you a Swindon.
Dallas is a soulless corpse where you can’t walk anywhere due to highways, but it you use the highways then it’s like trying to dodge clicking on sketchy ads trying to trick you to click them on PC, except the ads are toll roads. Also every car is trying to kill you.
I tried to go to a music show once. It was in a really run down part of town with sketchy people standing around staring at us. There was no signage. We weren’t even sure we were in the right place and no one looked friendly so we just left, and got hit by more surprise tolls on the way back. You can’t leave your house there without having to pay money. It is the most miserable place I’ve ever been.
Second runner up is Port Arthur, Texas. Going to take the scenic route down the coast, are you? Well it’s nothing but pipes and smoke stacks. You can see only a little bit of the marsh that used to be there. The city itself is run down, rotting houses leaning sideways with the pipes and industry always being in the backdrop. Clearly the town is receiving no tax money from the oil corporations infesting their coast in what would otherwise be a nice place. It was a mostly black population I saw outside. Inside stores the people I saw wearing plant uniforms were white or Hispanic and clearly didn’t live in the immediate area. The story writes itself.
I Google the town and it turns out it used to be a nice place with a little permanent carnival on the coast with a ferris wheel and rides with a flourishing tourist industry, but all those people who could afford it moved out when the oil industry moved in and drained the town. Now the only people there are the ones who can’t get out.
It was the most depressing town I’ve ever been through.
God I fucking hate Texas.
I used to be a trucker, and ya Dallas had bad vibes. It was always so sad seeing all the stray dogs running around.
I’m from Dallas and this is exactly how is describe it too. It’s an absymally failed attempt to create a human society.
Glasgow in the 90s. I live in rural Scotland, but while studying in Edinburgh I used to travel through to see my girlfriend. As soon as I got off the bus I’d get this weird, hostile vibe. I was approached all the time by folk trying to hustle me for money or crazies just being weird AF. The city aggressively prides itself on being friendly, but I always found it intimidating.
Memphis, TN. There was literally no one there on the streets and the high crime didn’t make it any more appealing. Your city really sucks when the best thing to see there is a Bass Pro Shops lol
Fucking Dallas, TX. Of all the major cities in North America, Dallas is the most devoid of culture. It is a city inhabited by cars, not people. If you took the average of all North American cities, it would be Dallas, but not in a way that derives any value from the cities included in the average. If you asked an LLM to generate an American metroplex, you would get a low-resolution, but otherwise one-to-one map of Dallas and Ft. Worth. Dallas is the backrooms except with a clear view of the sky.
Dallas is Night City without the cool tech or culture, just the crushing capitalism and roads.
Dubai is the most liminal fucking city in the world. If a hospital corridor was a city, it would be Dubai.
The opposite of this would be Hanoi. That’s a city where each street feels like a living, breathing animal.
As someone who grew up and lived in Dubai in the 80s to the late 2000s I cannot find fault in your assessment.
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Bakersfield California, drive through it once. It was like someone was making the most depressing movie about drugs and prostitution and dilapidated infrastructure so they built Bakersfield to be the backdrop
Reminds me of the show Baskets
How I felt going through Sacramento
Has anyone said this yet? Every U.S. city
IME, Brussels is truly awful. Grey, ugly, depressing and decaying.
I happened to be there during the Ommegang and got tickets. It was awesome. That square is the only bit I enjoyed about Brussels, though. And the fries, naturally.
There is one nice square with the Leonidas place and that’s it. You don’t need more than a few hours there.
I hated Brussels… it was so depressing. I took the high-speed train from Amsterdam… my introduction to the city was stepping into Midi Station, which smelled like a urinal. The sheer number of homeless people was shocking. No one cared about them either, they were sat on the ground surrounded by garbage 💔
It’s like Marseille without the sun and friendly Southern vibes, that’s what it reminds me of, especially the Midi area. I recall walking nearby and there’s like a tunnel where the tram goes by, and people had set up tents and impromptu “restaurants” in it. What a mess. But my brother and his lady just went to Bruges and they said it was beautiful so it’s not like the whole of Belgium is as ugly. 🙏
I love Belgium but Brussels is alarmingly lame
Houston.
Having lived a number of years there, where in Houston you are can feel like entirely different cities (and, in terms of distance, probably should be).
- San Pedro Sula, Honduras
- Kingston, Jamaica
- Salvador de Bahia, Brazil
- Calgary, Canada
- Miami, USA
- Naples, Italy
- Abu Dhabi, UAE
- Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Salvador may be dangerous and dirty and the hills incredibly steep, but at least
I also hate Miami so I’ll trust your judgement on the others, but to be fair I never had any positive expectations about UAE or Saudi.
Why Calgary? One of the nicest large cities I’ve spent time in.
Stampede is bad energy though.
What about Deadmonton, especially the last 10 years? It’s like a giant liminal space
It’s the people. Calgary is a beautiful city (but built in a very exposed flood plain), but the people are really ugly (on the inside).
In comparison, Edmonton looks ugly on the outside, but the people are beautiful (on the inside).
Someone explained it to me once and it made a lot of sense.
Calgary = White collar, free lunch
Edmonton = Blue collar, load the truck.Calgary has no soul, and Stampede is a straight-up alcohol-fueled rape-fest.
Strange. I lived in both Calgary and Edmonton and didn’t notice much of a difference in how people treated me between the two. I worked as a carpenter in both places.
I lived in Calgary while I went to college and I made so many friends with zero effort. I thought that the huge transient population was kind of cool. I live on vancouver island now and connecting with people here is almost impossible by comparison
Fair enough, actually. I lived in Edmonton and making friends was effortless. I live in Victoria now, and making friends here is damn near impossible…unless you went to elementary school with them (and your family is in the right wealth class).
If you think Calgary is friendly, you should try Edmonton…best people ever up there.
I’m in Victoria, too. 8 years here and not much of a friend group even with such like minded people at work.
I feel like Victoria is maybe the best city in all of NA but man the vibes here are strange. Go out west into the woods and it just gets weirder. I have stories and those woods breathe evil I swear.
It’s a tough town. I moved here after elementary school, and it’s the most cliquey place i’ve ever lived. The old money locals here are some of the worst human beings i have ever met. Entitled, NIMBY, hypocritical, sociopathic and straight up evil…and they can’t drive worth shit either.
Victoria has some really dark clouds hanging over it…you can feel it when you drive through the Uplands. Old, dark money hides here. These people took what they have, and have no respect for what they have. They think they’re beautiful people, because they live in a beautiful place.
But, Victoria is a beautiful place, and there are beautiful people here too. It’s gotten a lot more multicultural lately, and the new Victorians are the best Victorians. There are things happening too.
SkaFest is a bunch of good people. That’s coming up…you should check that out.
Why Miami, I know the florida man stories but I assumed that happens more in the north and areas outside the main city ?
