Creepiest, bleakest places you've ever been to
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Anonymous
| Bleak and depressing: the Kenilworth area in DC right along 295. Every time I drive 295 I think how awful it must be to live there. |
Anonymous
| Forks, WA - almost ruined the Olympic National Park for me |
Anonymous
Is that where the Twilight movies took place? |
Anonymous
Clearly you’ve never been to PG county. |
Anonymous
| Downtown Johannesberg - whoa - tall skyscrapers with windows blown out/covered by sheets with squatters living many stories up . .. looked super post-apocolyptic. |
Anonymous
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Fort Morgan, Colorado
Ugly, dirty, smelly town. Just hold your breath and drive right past. |
Anonymous
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ITA with Gary, IN and Camden, NJ
Troy, NY was truly creepy, too. Dc and I toured Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. Liked the school, was completely creeped out by Troy. Unfortunately, there are many places in upstate NY that have a creepy, bleak vibe. Sligo, Ireland was creepy as hell. We loved our trip to Ireland except for our last day in Sligo. What a dump. Charmless, ugly, bleak. Honorable mentions to Yucaipa, CA, and Apple Valley, CA. |
Anonymous
I can tell you why. Way back when, this was cheap snowbird housing-it still is to some extent. In Fl, mobile homes are affordable housing, and at one time, that area you describe was rural and cheap land. I live along the west coast (15 minutes inland), about an hr north of where you speak of, and it's weird to see cheap old trailers on beautiful coastal lots. In my area, it's like -trailer, trailer, HUGE new elevated home, lot for sale , trailer, trailer, new huge house. Oh, the doctors are for the Canadians who snowbird here, my area has eye doctors, dermatologists and orthopedic docs. I guess they are in short supply in Canada? |
Anonymous
Tell us more. That is one isolated place. I've never been but I remember writing a college paper about American logging and probably wrote too many paragraph's about that town's economy. |
Anonymous
| Clarksburg, WV |
Anonymous
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The border crossing between Hungary and Slovenia. We were there in the early 2000s, and the checkpoint was clearly still the dilapidated Soviet-era checkpoint. Old guys in old uniforms with old guns. They took our passports and were gone for probably five minutes, which felt like an eternity, and we just sat there, the only people around for miles, hoping that they returned with our passports and we didn't end up in some gulag or something.
Once we got through the checkpoint, Slovenia was AMAZING and most of the country was beautiful, and the people were charming and welcoming. But every once in a while you still ran into some remnant of gloom and destruction that they hadn't gotten to revitalizing yet. I'd love to go back again - I'm sure it's a totally different country. |
Anonymous
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A timeshare in Jamaica. Sad roaming wild dogs and creepy empty grocery stores.
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Anonymous
I went to Prague a couple of times in the late 90s and had a wonderful time. It was full of life and energy but not over run with tourists as it is now. Bucharest is bleak even now. |
Anonymous
| Beaver, PA. Creeptastic |
Anonymous
| The area around Notre Dame in Indiana. So flat. everything looks the same. Creepy as hell. |