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.
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Dallas is Night City without the cool tech or culture, just the crushing capitalism and roads.
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.
Trenton, NJ
Newark, NJ
actually just the whole New Jersey
wait no Asbury Park is nice.
most of New Jersey
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
Stuart , Florida. Dark vibes everywhere. Even though it looks clean , and nice. It has a very seedy underbelly.
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
Has anyone said this yet? Every U.S. city
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.
lol I live right outside of Bellevue and it gets a lot of flack for “having no soul” because it’s a bigish city built from new money but it’s a perfectly nice place otherwise, I think it’s “too nice” for some people because it’s mostly still very new. I like Bellevue personally
- 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.
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.
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