Bridgeport, CT
Camden, NJ

Ocean View in Norfolk - it has a sad, weird, and somehow abandoned feel to it even though there are actually plenty of people around. I was uncomfortable the whole time I was there.

Western PA. The mountains are pretty but the rest of the place creeps me out.

Anonymous wrote:The entire state of New Jersey

Anonymous wrote:Youngstown, OH

Really depressing

Gary, IN is super scary too.

Gary is so spooky. Literally 3 miles separates it from Chicago (14th biggest economy on the planet) but it just feels dead. At least what I saw.

Anonymous wrote:Youngstown, OH

Really depressing

Gary, IN is super scary too.

I drove through Gary, In. It’s the saddest place I’ve been. Such immense poverty.

The entire state of New Jersey

Richmond Hill on Montserrat, a load of houses and villas that were just left and abandoned after the volcano erupted. Some still have groceries in the cupboard and books on shelves.

We stayed at a damp, dark theadbare hotel in Venice, Italy. The owner was creepy, the furnishings were chintzy and there was a spooky dark unsettling feeling. I hightailed it out the next day! We were trying to save money so the hotel was not in central Venice. It was rainy, cold, dreary.

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I'm not talking about poverty, crime, or abandonment so much as a sense of gloom and despair.

Weird sentence. These 5 things are very interconnecting.

Anyway, the Delta in AR is the saddest feeling place, outside of urban areas, that I've ever seen in the US.

Its a subtle difference.

Please elaborate. If you're OP, why is Utica creepy, bleak, and featuring a sense of gloom and despair, but not poverty, crime, and abandonment?

Not looking to pick a fight. It's a vibe, a haunted-ness. S Central LA, ie, may be crime-riddled and impoverished -- yet still pulse with spirit and life.

I'm not either. Sorry to come across that way. I think it's interesting to think about. And sad, of course.

Syracuse feels this way to me. So do many blocks in downtown Rochester, NY. Detroit.

Wheeling, WV

Youngstown, OH

Really depressing

Gary, IN is super scary too.

Anonymous wrote:I grew up in a town in New England that had an abandoned mental institution in it. It was about the size of college campus, dozens of large brick abandoned buildings. Very creepy.

Danvers?

I grew up in a town in New England that had an abandoned mental institution in it. It was about the size of college campus, dozens of large brick abandoned buildings. Very creepy.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

I'm not talking about poverty, crime, or abandonment so much as a sense of gloom and despair.

Weird sentence. These 5 things are very interconnecting.

Anyway, the Delta in AR is the saddest feeling place, outside of urban areas, that I've ever seen in the US.

Its a subtle difference.

Please elaborate. If you're OP, why is Utica creepy, bleak, and featuring a sense of gloom and despair, but not poverty, crime, and abandonment?

Not looking to pick a fight. It's a vibe, a haunted-ness. S Central LA, ie, may be crime-riddled and impoverished -- yet still pulse with spirit and life.