Creepiest, bleakest places you've ever been to

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DCUM

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Anonymous wrote:DCUM

You win!

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Anonymous wrote:Murphy Village, SC. Irish Travellers live there, and it's truly bizarre. Huge McMansions with covered windows that appear unlived in, with trailers behind the houses where people actually reside. You definitely get the sense of being watched, because you are--I think they contact each other whenever there's a stranger cruising the neighborhood. If you drive around too long or too slow, they will follow you in big pickup trucks to intimidate you into leaving.

This is genuinely so interesting and something I’ve never heard of before. Thanks for sharing n

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East Berlin early 80s
Not all of it, but some of it.

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Heroin alley in downtown Philadelphia ... the Kensington district

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Salinas California. Drive through on way to northern ca. The local deli that we saw got great reviews on Yelp had bars on the windows and the town just seemed dilapidated.

Near Cumberland pa (on the way to deep creek). Weird downtown vibe. Sort of abandoned and sort of functional at the same time.

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Anonymous wrote:Came on here to say Romania late 90s was depressing as hell..as was Bucharest and surprisingly, Prague

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.

I went to Prague for a semester in college in 99. It was vibrant and interesting. But the communist housing developments on the outskirts of the beautiful city were super depressing. My fellow college students and I went to one once to see an American movie playing in the housing complex. Also, the more industrial towns in the countryside were really strange and bleak too.

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Anonymous wrote:I'm talking about desolate downtowns, creepy abandoned houses, lonely streets and eerie vibes. I'm not talking about poverty, crime, or abandonment so much as a sense of gloom and despair.

I'll nominate Utica, NY.

I haven't read any of the 27 pages of thread but saw the title and thought, Utica. I had the saddest job interview ever there. I was single and late 20s and some guy at the interview was like "you're single and young? don't come here"

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Anonymous wrote:Heroin alley in downtown Philadelphia ... the Kensington district

I just wanted a series of Intervention episodes about Kensington. I lived in Philadelphia in the early 90s and don't remember the area being like that. When did it get so bleak?

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Frankfurt, near the main train station. First time that I've seen people shooting up in public and postitution in action (I've been to Amsterdam - I mean the actual exchange of services).

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Anonymous wrote:Frankfurt, near the main train station. First time that I've seen people shooting up in public and postitution in action (I've been to Amsterdam - I mean the actual exchange of services).

I know exactly the area you're referring to. It's not really that uncommon for Germany, idk, that area has some nice cafés and isn't particularly dicey. I mean, it's nicer and has fewer people shooting up than basically any block in San Francisco.

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Barstow, CA. We were on a road trip back east and had to spend a night there because that's where I-40 starts. And that was about the only thing going on there. Just dilapidated, depressed, and grungy.

Also, the entire flat wasteland of Western TX which seems to consist of nothing but endless grass and bugs splatting on the windshield. Capped off by a bizarre, overwhelming stench on the outskirts of Amarillo. It was nighttime and foggy when we went through and it was like you could actually see the piss and death fumes of the slaughterhouses, but couldn't see the slaughterhouses themselves.

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Anonymous wrote:Heroin alley in downtown Philadelphia ... the Kensington district

I just wanted a series of Intervention episodes about Kensington. I lived in Philadelphia in the early 90s and don't remember the area being like that. When did it get so bleak?

One of my relatives married a Kenzo who made it out and I remember that area being run down and depressing in the late 90s. Even then the area was known for having a lot of down-and-out people. I haven't been back since. The opioid crisis is new within the last 15 years or so my guess is that's when it got really bad.

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Moynaq, Uzbekistan

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I went to Chernobyl for a day trip. That was pretty creepy.