Ones that come to mind for me are Vegas, Toronto, Paris
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Budapest
Bellevue, WA. Very eerie and felt like a simulation.
New Orleans felt just sketchy throughout.
And then there are fun ones (mostly in Ohio)
- Random suburban road through the mixed woods / fields that suddenly slows down to 25MPH, with very neat lawns, clean buildings, but barely any people (usually there is a cop waiting for speeders).
- Some side road between an interstate and suburban development goes down into a valley to some creepy Lovecraftian old town
- In a middle of farm fields, a network of roads, clearly prepared for a residential development, but never finished, but they lead to a large patch of woods (yes, in middle of a farm field), and inside of it is a branch of a local university.
When I pass thomepugh surrey, bc, Canada, I feel their “stroads and burbs” parts are super ooky. I haven’t been them rough to experience their mixed-use towers yet to see if that vibes well there too.
Also the only place in BC without cannabis stores. Strange…
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 aloud to hang out in as a kid
Some are still like it, like Clarkkk, NJ.
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.
Ipswich.
- Newport, Wales.
- Wisbech, England.
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.
Spartanburg, SC in the States, Purmerend in the Netherlands.
That’s a diverse set of cities.
Cleveland, Ohio
What specifically about Cleveland? Can’t think of anything unusual compared to other midwest cities
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
Naples in Italy
Got robbed at gunpoint by two dudes on a vespa there.
Never again. Naples is a dump.
** bucket list updated **
Salt Lake City, Utah. Utterly gorgeous, but strongly reconsider moving there if you aren’t a Mormon. The whole valley/arguably state has a constant fog of oppressively bad juju looming over it, despite being truly breathtaking.
They have a program that marches the homeless around the city on rotation to keep them out of sight.
There’s a disturbing degree of popular support and blissful ignorance
Yes! I’ve been there several times, and I hate to be the type of person that describes it as having bad vibes, but it always feels weird
Relevant but I’m currently going down this Bricks & Minifigs vs Ben rabbit hole and wow these mormons are creepy as fuck.
Their entire history is insanely, deeply fucked in ways most people don’t realize. Dating back to the very beginning.
Do you have any recommended reading?
So, so much. My very long comment got wiped before I could finish–I was trying to find an old 1800s newspaper account from the Library of Congress, so consider yourself lucky I’m relegated to a phone keyboard. I’m working on a book myself, so I’ve got huuuuuundreds of sources, but many of them are historic and hard to share conveniently. For a quick variety:
Fifteen Years Among the Mormons by Mary Ettie V. Smith (1860) is one of the most breathtaking page-turners I’ve ever read. Like many works that touch on history Mormons don’t like, they’ve been very successful at whitewashing this to a mere “unfair anti-Mormon polemic,” but…eh. Very complicated, but it really has the ring of truth to me compared to other similar sources. That’s the source of the screenshot re: SLC.
Exposé of Polygamy in Utah: A Lady’s Life among the Mormons by Fanny Stenhouse (1872) is a favorite. She had a sharp wit.
No Man Knows My History by Fawn Brodie (1945) was a nuclear bomb of a book.
In Sacred Loneliness: The Plural Wives of Joseph Smith (1997) goes into the MINIMUM 33 girls and women Smith “celestially wed,” including minors, mother-daughter pairs, etc…
For a much more accessible option, look up Mormon Stories on YouTube. The church recently sued them, so you know they’re good. And lest you sneeze at that, the Mormons successfully forced fucking WIKILEAKS to take down one of the church’s internal instruction manuals (it’s copyrighted material of the literal legal corporation that is the Mormon church). They’ve got crazy money, crazy connections. You’ve no idea.
Look up what was the first Sherlock Holmes book (Part 2) and ask yourself why captive Mormon women became such a theme then. In the UK!? Yup. And so much more.
Did you know that the Mormon church owns 2% of the landmass of Florida? Like right now?
I’m just trying to say: it’s a deeeeep fucking rabbit hole.
Extremely interesting, thank you for the recommendations!
I just discovered this yesterday and went all the way down that rabbit hole. Holy moly they are really trying to beat down on the guy trying to do the right thing. That police department is NASTY.
It looks like he has some good lawyers coming his way though. Looking forward to the second part of the civil rights lawyer’s video (and part three of his own).
Seems like it’s a really deep rabbit hole!
I lived in Provo for 2 years. I’d still be there if not for the Mormons.
I’ve heard that, in terms of geography and natural scenery, Salt Lake City is the city people want when they think they want Denver.
What do you get instead with actual Denver?
High plains just before the mountains. SLC is more in the mountains
Worst city on earth.
Look, I’m just going to say it: I cried the first time I visited, okay? It was that beautiful. Then I immediately moved there. Whoops. Worth it(???) I’m still not sure. Those 5-6 years definitely took a piece of me.
Amerika
Hagen, NRW.
In front of the train station, 3 casinos. Not shiny ones but rancid slot machine cellars.
Smashed door of the job centre.
