Cities You Been to That Felt "Weird"

[Ake1725]

As far as DC is concerned..... you probaly just don't fit in.

Possibly you are a little regular and maybe "down home folks" and "country cousin"(nothing wrong with that) and.... you don't fit in here.

Cheers!

Called this dude a bama

 

[LezJepzin]

Spent much of my childhood in Columbus, what did you think was off with the city?

It felt like one half of the City was trying to get away from the other. The more West you went, the bleaker it looked . I stayed Downtown, where it felt like a ghost town after 5pm.

So many people I saw had a look of defeat in their eyes. A good black population but most were on some Large East African population though Mixed reactions there. Dont get me started on the roads

Maybe it's a Midwest vibe because I felt similar outside of Chicago when I visited there three years ago.

 

[ViShawn]

Pittsburgh.

Had those dusty rust-belt vibes. Like some shyt I seen out of an old school textbook...

Was thrown off by how completely different the vibes are from Philly (or the tri-state area in general), bein that PGH sits in PA. It's a completely Midwestern vibe. Like how I'd picture a Cleveland or Cincy to be...

Downtown was . With the way PGH is always portrayed IMO, (Steelers - "The Steel Curtain", Pirates, Penguins, etc.)...the sports lore...I expected a bigger city feel.

Segregation levels were on tilt too...

Those..."The n*gg*** hang up on the hill over there..." vibes.

PGH got no culture outside of steel-mill cacs...so the hoods were just dusty. Food a disappointment. Back to the future vibes...2019 elsewhere...2016 still in PGH... so easy to eat female wise...no disrespect....

Just an all-around disappointment tho...

What was weird to me in Pittsburgh was I was at this Black food festival in line and this family walked through the line, I step forward and this super short black dude with a white ham beast pushed me back saying I was getting too close to him

nikka...anyway he was acting funny but most blacks there didn't have the same vibe you'd get from Southern blacks ie Alabama or Georgia.

Not only that but the black food was overall trash I got. How you gonna fukk up fried catfish

I was there for a family reunion since I have distant relatives there and one of my cousin agreed that Pittsburgh has a more Midwestern vibe than it does East coast like Philly.


I'll add Staunton Virginia which is a time warp of a town. It's stuck in the 50s in terms of technology.

 

[SPACE IS FAKE]

yeah I barely saw any white people outside of Downtown Hartford, and I actually thought Hartford was pretty cool

that’s how I know brehs lying talking about mad white people...where at. End of the day Hartford’s black population is bigger than the white population and The cities these brehs from can’t say that y’all from cacced out cities foh

 

[patscorpio]

Hartford....white ppl? I'm from CT...that doesn't even sound right lol

 

[ViShawn]

The fact you in mobile I expect you to not be so uncomfortable in NO

I don’t know nobody that does “ voodoo” down there and i got family there. Sounds like some shyt you saw on tv.

they bury the dead above ground so that way it won’t come floating back up if it floods... whats creepy about it? They’re dead, no creepier than any other cemetery. They bury the dead above ground in Baton Rouge and sometimes other places as well

Who tf is playing with snakes? What part of NO you be going to? Sounds like some tourist shyt

I know people have been saying NO has weird vibes but I been there several times as a kid and Mobile and NO have similarities to one another w/ the French culture. Not sure why folks associate NO with Voodoo. There's a mix of French (Creole, Hatian in particular) and Spanish culture in the city also with a strong Catholic influence so yeah what people mention here of New Orleans sounds very touristy.

 

[murksiderock]

Yup. Driving trucks for 3 years. No area felt more weird to me than upstate new York. Not even them small cac towns in the south.

Only places that come close is maybe them small towns in the great plains area.

I don't know, small town Georgia and South Carolina can be a little off, too. And the entire state of Mississippi is a different breed of place...

 

[ViShawn]

topeka, kansas
zip code 666**

I was actually went there recently Honestly folks were nice there. It just felt like a Midwestern town but it felt like how the Midwest would feel to me though.

 

[ViShawn]

Columbia, SC. fukk that place.

 

[murksiderock]

What's crazy is that Hollywood L.A. has often imitated that cult independent movie that is the Bay Area culture so many times. And they can get away with it because that independent Bay Area movie was only shown in select locations. A lot of modern L.A. Rap sounds like Bay shyt from ten years ago. I originally thought DJ Mustard was from Oakland when he first started blowing up like five years ago. The Bay sound with that deep ass bass been the same since the 80's, yet young nikkas online be saying the Bay stole Detroit sound, like what Detroit rapper came out before Too $hort in 83'? I swore them Shoreline Mafia boys were from Vallejo or something come to find out they was from L.A. and saw their recent VladTv interviews and was like . And whenever L.A. does something the Bay been doing since the 80's, everybody nationwide gives them all the accolades. I read someone online say L.A. invented sideshows, not Oakland.

LA doesn't bite Bay shyt. This is more Bay inferiority complex on display...

Kansas City, MO and Kansas City, Kansas/Overland Park, Kansas weird vibes and I been down south in them small NC towns and nope KC weird af BBQ fire tho

KC and Kansas are TRASH TRASH TRASH places...

The only places in America that feel weird to me is rural places.

also I’ve always viewed the South West as a weird place.

Nevada, Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado lol.

Breaking Bad atmosphere lol.

Lol I'm noticing most of the places that feel off to me are rural, maybe it's a rural thing with me too...

Charleston, West Virginia where TD Jakes is from is a weird place.

seems like the entire black population men and women are bedwenches lol

West Virginia is damn near scary riding those 2-4 lane highways on the side of a mountain. Stop to get gas anywhere and there's no one black to be found, I've gotten plenty of hard looks going thru WV...

Charleston is country as fukk and Morgantown is a cute little college town but you can drive the whole city in 10 minutes...

 

[Sonic Boom of the South]

Surprised no one has mentioned Austin, Tx yet. The city’s slogan is literally, “Keep Austin Weird.”

Cacs everywhere with shirts on like this

Austin ain't even weird
It is the fakest try hard pretend to be eccentric but more right winged and racist than the other major Texas cities

Austin is just corny

 

[ViShawn]

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.

I'm bias. I love Atlanta. It's the Black mecca of the South.

Only thing you have to get used to if you're not from there is the large gay Black population, especially if you go to Midtown and the lesbian population in Decatur (we call it "dikk Hater").

GOAT Southern food, beautiful scenery, Blacks can live great, contrary to everyone shytting on the South acting like racism only exists there. Music scene alone helps the city stand out. I have ran into Andre 3000 a couple of times, Jermaine Dupri and DJ Drama once as well. Really diverse as a city. My dad's college friend is actually flipping houses in the neighborhood where MLK lived. A lot of rich history for black folks.

But I guess I understand where you're coming from. Stone Mountain was once the headquarters for the KKK at one point, but now it's nothing but Black people there.

 

[ViShawn]

Austin ain't even weird
It is the fakest try hard pretend to be eccentric but more right winged and racist than the other major Texas cities

Austin is just corny

Austin is in conflict with itself. You have these people from California coming here for the tech companies like Indeed, Oracle, Facebook, Google, etc. and you have natives here which breed a bit of a weird culture.

Also in regards to the racism I do akin it to "liberal racism" so to speak. A lot of whites from other parts of the US, especially from the Midwest, come here and this is their first taste or experience of a "big city" and instead of them sharing the liberal values that Austin tries to push they actually just bring their bigotry and right wing attitudes here. Californians have been voting in leaders that allow homeless folks to camp out on the middle of the street and not to mention they push Blacks and Hispanics out to the suburbs due to pricing people out.

So yea you have the old and new mixed and clash here. Also I truly think most folks are in fact liberal here, but liberal in that they want to wear a full sleeve tattoo at work and legalize weed but they are mute on most social issues outside of the hot ones like immigration and LGBTQ stuff but not so much on issues that affect Blacks. I think those fake woke types only feign social awareness to score points in their social circles, which are more than likely incredibly white.

 

[Sonic Boom of the South]

Austin is in conflict with itself. You have these people from California coming here for the tech companies like Indeed, Oracle, Facebook, Google, etc. and you have natives here which breed a bit of a weird culture.

Also in regards to the racism I do akin it to "liberal racism" so to speak. A lot of whites from other parts of the US, especially from the Midwest, come here and this is their first taste or experience of a "big city" and instead of them sharing the liberal values that Austin tries to push they actually just bring their bigotry and right wing attitudes here. Californians have been voting in leaders that allow homeless folks to camp out on the middle of the street and not to mention they push Blacks and Hispanics out to the suburbs due to pricing people out.

So yea you have the old and new mixed and clash here. Also I truly think most folks are in fact liberal here, but liberal in that they want to wear a full sleeve tattoo at work and legalize weed but they are mute on most social issues outside of the hot ones like immigration and LGBTQ stuff but not so much on issues that affect Blacks. I think those fake woke types only feign social awareness to score points in their social circles, which are more than likely incredibly white.

To me Austin is just racist white people who like to do drugs and be sexually fluid openly that listen to Bob Marley

That want to pump fake being cheerful

 

[ViShawn]

To me Austin is just racist white people who like to do drugs and be sexually fluid openly that listen to Bob Marley

That want to pump fake being cheerful

Ha! I work here and know a few Austin brehs on the board. I'm from Atlanta and I sort of struggle with the idea of staying here because of the folks here. Like you alluded to, the folks here who say "Keep Austin Weird" or claim to be liberal are very selective in what they consider liberal. Even those hipster white folks are pretty insular to others that aren't like them. I'm just a regular brotha but I feel that you have to be some fake woke type black dude or be some alternative black like Kid Cudi to fit into those circles. I came here for my career though and it treats me well otherwise. Plus if you live up North for example you will get a more Dallas vibe there compared to the rest of Austin.