Cities You Been to That Felt "Weird"

[KingOFKings]

Los Angeles. It feels like an alternate version of California. Weird. Love it out there, but it has this, like. I can't put my finger on it.

Like...if California was a movie, LA would be the big budget box office smash version w/ all the best actors, effects etc. won Oscars and all that. And out here, it's the Independent film w/ the cult following that gets lowkey referenced or imitated over hella mediums, that won a bunch of indie awards, and got a limited showing in some areas. No offense And yea. The bolded. I'm biased

I felt like LA was so fake that it was the realest city I've been to, if that makes any sense.

 

[BigMan]

Philadelphia

dope city but nikkas was grimy and almost got robbed a couple times

 

[KingOFKings]

Atlanta. Could tell that place is used as an experiment by the government and on top of that, that place felt haunted. Yall can have that.

Atlanta definitely gave me a weird vibe, like there was a lot of underlying pain and underlying hate from the past just emitting throughout the city. Almost like all of the racist hate from the past was still in the air, even though the city is beautiful.

Other than that it was fine, I just couldn't help but get that feeling, especially on their sky train.

It was either that..or it felt like all of the hate was emitting from the surrounding suburbs and just zero'ing in on Atlanta.

Strange strange vibes.

 

[BigMan]

All of Vermont, Maine and New Hampshire are still over 90% Caucasian so if your not white, I’d expect you to feel ‘ weird’ up this way.

But if you want a real mind trip next time you happen to be in Maine, you need to go to Lewiston/Auburn.

Maine started a very friendly immigration program for Africans from Somalia, Congo, Angola and others and now like between Lewiston/Auburn and Portland there’s like 10k+ Africans in white ass Maine. It’s trippy as fukk. Imagine a Norman Rockwell painting with African stores.

Portland, Maine, turns ‘crisis’ to ‘opportunity’ for African migrants


History of the Somalis in Maine - Wikipedia

Bangor Maine. Went there in 2003 I believe. Military. WEIRD ass town with the Stephen King vibe. I see where he gets it from. We went to a club, that place was packed with white broads loving niccas man. Some of them chicks was fine man. Then some homegrown niccas popped up, claiming they was bloods

lowkey it’s some brehs in maine

 

[LunaticVillage415]

DC nikkas are weird. As much as I like DC the city, the culture doesn’t make sense to me. I’m from Philly. All the East Coast cities/states have a similar vibe. New York. Jersey. Delaware. Philadelphia. Even Baltimore is familiar. But DC got their own culture and swag down there. They don’t even listen to rap like that. They dress different. They talk different. GoGo is their preferred music. And for it being the Chocolate City, it feels more diverse as in a large percentage of the blacks are from Africa, the Caribbean and South America whereas in Philly, it’s pure ADOS blacks. It was jarring and took getting used to because I just assumed it would be a smaller version of NY and Philadelphia culturally but it’s not.

DC is weird for numerous reasons. The city don't even got a skyline. DC is easily the cleanest East Coast city. Literally, every establishment is pristine and even the public bathrooms in most places are pristine which is rare for big cities. Everything in DC is spotlessly clean for a big city, yet it seems like everyone is white collar with some kind of office job related to the federal government. Latinos, mostly Salvadorans, do all the hard manual labor in the DC area.

DC is also weird because all of the cacs and non-black transplants are corny as fukk and be on that wave heavy. DC area cacs are insufferable. DC area cacs aren't like Philly, NYC or Baltimore cacs who might admire black urban culture and swag. No, cac gentrifiers and non-black transplants from allover are moving into DC and they want DC nikkas to turn that Go Go shyt off.

Black culture in DC is insular and not always welcoming to outsiders. But being that DC is statistically the most aggressively gentrifying city in America, can you blame DC nikkas for not welcoming outta towners with open arms? DC is like the Bay because DC doesn't want to be in the shadow of NYC like the Bay doesn't want to be in the shadow of L.A. But both the Bay and DC have distinct local cultures that are completely different from anywhere on the East or West coasts. What other big city where nikkas wearing Helly Hansen jackets everywhere like its 1996? And DC swag and culture occassionally gets stolen by the mainstream just like how Bay game gets stolen by the mainstream without properly referencing who made the movement hot to begin with. Wale brought DC swag to the masses at the beginning of the decade when he had everyone rocking Foams nationwide. The New Balance 990 trend that has taken over the whole midatlantic started in DC.

 

[LezJepzin]

Columbus, OH last month

Rocklin, CA


Any of them "Gold Country" towns in CA (Where Sons of Anarchy was themed after )


Salinas, CA

 

[Clayton Endicott]

Tuxedo Park, New York

I’m sure I was the only black person around when I visited. Get Out had not come out then but it was exactly how I felt. Everything and everyone was perfect in that town that it felt like something nefarious was lurking under the surface. I’d never seen anything like it. Doesn’t help that in order to get into the town you need security clearance.

 

[Fade Runner 2049]

Biddeford, Maine..shyt felt like Get Out esp when i went into the Walmart there

Maine is creepy. No wonder why Stephen King ass live there. I been thru a few cities there.

 

[KingOFKings]

Newark. Felt like I had to have my guard up at all times once I left the Business District.

I remember they had a fully armed guard at a walgreens there when I made a a stop

 

[WHolla09]

Portland Oregon - way too hippyish. Most of the people Adressed like they were bums like being homeless is the style there.

Also Portland Maine - Went with a group to a seafood resturant. People were staring like they never seen black people in person before. Saw a mother pimp out her daughter in the parking lot of a gas station in broad daylight. People shooting up drugs outside bars. A guy I worked with got his drink laced with bath salt.....I'll just say that was a scary sight

 

[Reece]

DC is weird for numerous reasons. The city don't even got a skyline. DC is easily the cleanest East Coast city. Literally, every establishment is pristine and even the public bathrooms in most places are pristine which is rare for big cities. Everything in DC is spotlessly clean for a big city, yet it seems like everyone is white collar with some kind of office job related to the federal government. Latinos, mostly Salvadorans, do all the hard manual labor in the DC area.

DC is also weird because all of the cacs and non-black transplants are corny as fukk and be on that wave heavy. DC area cacs are insufferable. DC area cacs aren't like Philly, NYC or Baltimore cacs who might admire black urban culture and swag. No, cac gentrifiers and non-black transplants from allover are moving into DC and they want DC nikkas to turn that Go Go shyt off.

Black culture in DC is insular and not always welcoming to outsiders. But being that DC is statistically the most aggressively gentrifying city in America, can you blame DC nikkas for not welcoming outta towners with open arms? DC is like the Bay because DC doesn't want to be in the shadow of NYC like the Bay doesn't want to be in the shadow of L.A. But both the Bay and DC have distinct local cultures that are completely different from anywhere on the East or West coasts. What other big city where nikkas wearing Helly Hansen jackets everywhere like its 1996? And DC swag and culture occassionally gets stolen by the mainstream just like how Bay game gets stolen by the mainstream without properly referencing who made the movement hot to begin with. Wale brought DC swag to the masses at the beginning of the decade when he had everyone rocking Foams nationwide. The New Balance 990 trend that has taken over the whole midatlantic started in DC.

That’s a pretty good breakdown. DC is like the East Coast’s version of San Francisco. That’s part of the reason why I like it. It feels European in its architecture and the way the city is designed. New York City is overbearing and claustrophobic whereas DC is just the right amount of urbanity. But yea...the cacs have moved in. In just the five years I was in school, I saw multiple areas of DC go from places white people didn’t want to be caught dead at to having multiple luxury condo and apartment buildings there.

 

[MMA]

San Francisco and I will be there for a month in a week

Seattle another

Allentown NJ

 

[Primetime21]

most US cities are trash as fukk is what I got from this thread

 

[Dallas' 4 Eva]

Maine is creepy. No wonder why Stephen King ass live there. I been thru a few cities there.

Maine will have you reaching for the strap in case some Hills Have Eyes shyt pop off. It's full of trees, but it feels like it's empty, completely empty. Only Kansas, Wyoming, and West Texas have made me feel like that also.

 

[Fade Runner 2049]

Maine will have you reaching for the strap in case some Hills Have Eyes shyt pop off. It's full of trees, but it feels like it's empty, completely empty. Only Kansas, Wyoming, and West Texas have made me feel like that also.

Me and my shorty stayed at an Airbnb up there , we didn’t notice until night time that there were no blinds to the windows and the double doors of the back yard

the back of the house was all Forrest. You can just see right in like wtf