Cities You Been to That Felt "Weird"

[patscorpio]

Rochester and Syracuse NY. All those cities between buffalo and Albany on the Thruway are just

indiana is trash too

the only good about upstate NY is the fact there are roy rogers restaurants all over the highway rest areas

 

[poppastoppa]

Baltimore. Edmondson Ave

 

[SPACE IS FAKE]

Maybe... I just know she told me to fly to Hartford and looking at the screenshot i sent her of my flight status it was. I went to this spot where they had lots of nice resturants and dope seafood spots too. I really enjoyed the shyt , tho.

I'll text her and ask

it’s confuses a lot of OTers cuz the airport isn’t in the city of Hartford but when you land you see and hear welcome to Hartford it doesn’t make sense. Glad u enjoyed CT tho

 

[T.H.E. Goat]

Byers, Colorado probably one of the weirdest(and heavyvibes)places I've ever been

 

[phcitywarrior]

DC fam, where did I go wrong?

DC is getting gentrified to the 10th degree and a lot of the old culture is getting wiped out. Also, you were at the W which is in downtown so a you'll come across a lot of lobbyists, diplomats and government officials. They tend to be very "buttoned" up due to the sensitive nature of their work. Had you been in DuPont or Adam's Morgan you'd have gotten a different vibe.

Being that this is the seat of the Federal Government the city is actually quite "conservative". No one wants to be caught saying the wrong thing in the wrong place, especially seeing as DC isn't that big of a city when compared to say NYC.

Things are changing though. The population is getting varied.

 

[Dallas' 4 Eva]

You went nowhere wrong about Dallas. Great place to live and bomb food. Ain’t shyt to do but go shopping malls. No culture here.

I never have trouble finding something to do here. It's always something going on.

 

[Tetsuo]

Dallas.

 

[dish lowry]

hollywood, florida...jews & trailer parks everywhere.

 

[ISO]

Y’all nikkas scary af

 

[dabestkeptsecret]

Seattle.

I live here now. The most passive aggressive cacs that try to be weird for the sake of it clashing with tech geeks. And then the black people are just sprinkled in for fun with seemingly no idea of self or pride. The trippy part is that the actually city itself is beautiful. But the vibe is weird

cosign. Was there last year for a conference, and just had a vibe the whole time
- the people out there def had a way different vibe than any of the other cities ive been in on the east coast or the south.

 

[Alvin]

What cities you been to that felt weird, odd, or strange to you. Not for any direct reason, but just the atmosphere of the city or it's people.

If you see your city feel free to comment!


Washington DC
Went with my wifey for a short stay while on a road trip to a friend's baby shower in Charlotte, NC. I'm drivin up to a perfect view of Capitol Hill at night thinkin, good ole Chocolate City! This is gonna be the bomb!

Saw all the tourist sites during the day. Loved it. But the night before the wifey and I lit up a thick one and went out to check out what was nearby.

To begin with, people in DC--or at least this area, we stayed at the W hotel--seem..."reserved." I felt like I was surrounded by robots. Like people just walk or sit about keep completely to themselves, ignoring their surrounding. Also it was around midnight or so, in a hotel/bar district, and the streets were dark and almost empty. Strange.

We hear some Hip Hop playing outside this one spot and decide to go check it out. The music is all old school Hip Hop and club-R&B...not bad...but they all sound like cheesy knock offs. Maybe it was really obscure old school stuff. It could have been royalty free Soundcloud tracks for all I know. but we didn't hear anything we knew. Just some random late 90s/early 2000s sounding Hip Hop.

Everyone was wearing suits and ties. Maybe it was an after work spot. So we felt kinda weird walking up in there with shirts, jeans and kicks thinking we found black folks spot. Mostly young white, Indians and Asians.

But the most bizarre shyt was their dancing. Instead of some two steppin, rockin, bumpin and grinding going on the motherfukkers are bouncing around like ball room dancers to what sounds like a bad Ginuwine knock off. This is strange even by white college bar standards. Again, like we were surrounded by robots.

Overall, even by day, going to restaurants or shopping around and stuff, DC people just seem really "off" and reserved.

We got the hell on with our road trip the next night. Arrived in Charolette, enjoyed the day life and went to this packed strip joint/party wit all black folks and a DJ/MC. The jams was on deck from Nas to Future. Felt right at home


Dallas, Texas
This one actually had kind of a bad back story. One of my more simp moments of the past. Skipped class to drive from NYC all the way to this city (20 fukking hours) for this older lady I was fukkin at the time. She claimed she desperately needed to see her family for a personal reason but had no car, couldnt afford a flight, none of her broke friends had a car, and I was the only one who could come to the rescue before it was too late. p*ssy was good tho.

To start, I did not see big downtown Dallas while I was there. It felt weird being in a city where people don't....you know....go outside. Everyone drives from place to place, and if you're walking you look like a psycho. Just weird to me, as a East Coast dude. No corner stores, no bodegas, No noise. Drive-in everything. Every place you need to get to is in a mall or plaza. Just a weird city to me. I can see myself retiring away here, but man, not for me at this point in my life.

With that said, as a foodie, the restaurant game in Dallas was glorious! Maaaan, the food, atmosphere, service, vibe. Dallas knows how to eat. I'd go back just for food (and see downtown) alone.


DC and Dallas fam, where did I go wrong?

Minneapolis/St.Paul

 

[Burned Verses]

Petersburg, VA. Got them abandoned Soviet town vibes.

 

[Rocket Scientist]

Something about West Virginia was creepy

 

[Alvin]

Warsaw, Poland

Parts of the city makes you feel like you're in some old 1930s movie. You can walk around the city for weeks without seeing a single black person. The fact that there is light outside at 230-3AM doesn't help either

It's Eastern Europe not Detroit, why would you think there would be a large group of blacks anywhere.

 

[ZoeGod]

Bridgeport, CT.