Ones that come to mind for me are Vegas, Toronto, Paris
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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.
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…
Edit: I wrote this on a base level comment but I’m going to put it here too:
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.
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’m from Dallas and this is exactly how is describe it too. It’s an absymally failed attempt to create a human society.
I used to be a trucker, and ya Dallas had bad vibes. It was always so sad seeing all the stray dogs running around.
Literally read a Texas Monthly article asking What’s Wrong with Downtown Dallas today: https://www.texasmonthly.com/news-politics/whats-wrong-with-downtown-dallas/
I grew up in one of the (many) suburbs of Dallas in the late 90’s early 00’s and the problem I had with it is it’s the most extreme form of gentrification I’ve ever witnessed. You can probably estimate an individual’s annual salary within about $20k based on their zip code. The city is so concerned with seeming like a good place to visit, they don’t seem to care if it’s a good place to live.
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
Trenton, NJ
Newark, NJ
actually just the whole New Jerseywait no Asbury Park is nice.
most of New Jersey
New Hope is solid.
Because that’s PA.
Jersey City has its own charm in a gritty sort of way.
oh man I do not enjoy Jersey City
the PATH train and having to wait 20+ minutes for it can fuck all the way offalthough at least there is a train I guess
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
How I felt going through Sacramento
Reminds me of the show Baskets
Wow, New Orleans? I love that city.
Downtown Clearwater FL has been pretty much taken over by Scientologists and is quite creepy now.
I love Nola too but I could see it overwhelming people that are unacquainted or less… let’s say libertine
Charlotte, NC. That place is still segregated
Luton
I see your Luton and raise you a Swindon.
The Swindon lot are little slugs, little slugs with no personality who are just jealous of us because we’re better than them at everything.
Cleveland, Ohio
Yeah, Cleveland was always an uncomfortable stop on road trips. I’m not entirely sure why, nothing else felt like that. But it was the only place I always wanted to get out asap.
I’m sure there are places that people like, but I never saw them
Apologies for the 2009 r-word in the second video.
Yeah, that seems about right.
What specifically about Cleveland? Can’t think of anything unusual compared to other midwest cities
Seems about right.
Honestly, it’s just the vibe. I’m sure there’s something that makes me feel that way in Cleveland, but I don’t know what it is. It’s uncomfortable. It just doesn’t feel right.
Vegas, no doubt! And I don’t really remember the name of the country all that much, it was somewhere in the Pacific Islands. I was really young, but I remember not ever feeling comfortable.
The Vegas Strip is the only thing remotely interesting (the rest of Vegas is just a huge car park in the desert) and it is somsoul suckingly vapid, void of culture even though they try so hard to shove artists down your throat.
Gambling everywhere of course and nobody gives a fuck, just gamble, lose all your money, fuck a destitute prostitute who desperately needs to leave that hell hole, and then fuck off.
Vegas is the asshole of the world
I think you need to have a large and varied drug collection and the will to commit capital fraud to enjoy Vegas.
Or enjoy live shows. Vegas has a thriving live events industry.
- Newport, Wales.
- Wisbech, England.
My parents came to visit me in Wales. They suggested we go to Newport to look around. I just answered “Hm, let’s not”. There’s just such an odd feeling walking around that city.
As in dangerous or what exactly?
It is very poverty stricken. There’s plenty of dangerous/sketchy characters if you go looking for it. Clearly quite drugged people are everywhere. Young kids with the iconic gray tracksuit and balaclavas racing about on bikes. Closed shops and signs of attempts at reviving the city are abundant. Me and a friend walking down the main street saw this really odd shop. It was the size of a moderate clothes shop, but it was like stripped down to the concrete, no music, little to no shelving, just random products stacked on the floor on pallets. Things like microwaves, bbqs, fans, and such. A couple of guy were eyeing us the entire time. What my friend told me is that’s a store for things “that fall off a lorry”.
Edit: I should add though that the city as a whole is surprisingly low on actual crime. I think it has a pretty decent community mindset. Just don’t go to Pillgwenlly :P
Hmmm…I think I got the vibe.
Yeah, I’d pass k owijg that too :p
Oh, I’ve been through a few. Most places in Ohio, but particularly Toledo and Cleveland. Sandusky, OH is also pretty off. Oh, and Cincinnati for hiring demons for its urban planning. I visited once and felt queasy the whole time. I mean, I don’t have a problem with hills but Cinci is an M C Escher print mixed with a Sonic the Hedgehog stage. Helen, Georgia has a pretty rotten energy. Atlanta, GA isn’t much better around Easter. Now, Atlanta was better when I lived there some years ago, but it seems to have dropped off sharply around the time I left. I’d say before that specifically Five Points and Buckhead, sometimes Inman Park, felt not good, but now a days it’s probably the whole city. I definitely felt a shift which prompted me to get out when I did. Dallas, Texas. What cold, miserable people. And I can’t really pick a place in Florida. I’ve been to a few, they all suck.
I don’t know there names but north east US have these suburbs that just feel like I wouldnt have been allowed to hang out in as a kid
Some are still like it, like Clarkkk, NJ.
Yep… That’s the kind … Just heebeejeebies in those kind of places to me
I like Las Vegas but I was a child so my memories are visiting my grandmother’s trailer home, going to the YMCA, seeing kids that had year round school, going to a single show on the strip where I got heat exhaustion and threw up, and great grandmother and her cutting out paper dollies.
