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What cities have you visited that felt sinister, grim or just all wrong? Philly made me feel that way. New Orleans β but I love its seedy, spooky, danger, sleaze. This is completely subjective and in no way a sweeping statement about the area in toto, but when my foot touched the platform at Union Station in Los Angeles I felt a shock and it was like the words HELL CITY overtook my concious mind for a moment. Later in the day I had a first class panic attack, like the kind you get when you've taken acid and you start to get paranoid and it just escalates.
The thing is I wasn't on any drugs or anything at all. Very strange. Union Station is beautiful, I must say. Most cities in the Midwest. Depressing and desperate, like you could get knifed for a Dollar Store gift card.
Creepy and overly planned. There's none of the spontaneity and strange nooks and crannies of a proper city. Filled with navy blue and khaki wearing, type A sociopaths with reptilian eyes and no souls.
