What is a place you will never visit again?

[rareboy]

Interesting selections...

I have not been to either Napa or Hawaii...but I have turned down trips to Vegas, Key West, and Riyadh for business and pleasure over the years...and can't disagree about Mykonos...although I would go back if my friends still had a place there.

 

[nycguydowntown]

Cancun & Playa del Carmen - love lots of Mexico but not there. Weird stuff happens and you feel trapped as to where you can & cannot go. But like PV a lot.

 

[Araucaria]

The question implies naming places where you were so upset, underwhelmed, mistreated, disgusted, traumatized, or whatever, that you don't want to ever go there again. I cannot think of any locations that I feel that badly about.

On the other hand, I can think of some places that I've been to that, though I wouldn't reject an opportunity to visit them again, I have no particular desire to go back there. These are places like Key West, New Orleans, and Las Vegas. My feeling about these places is that I've either seen and experienced them thoroughly, or that the attraction these places have for people has no particular appeal to me.

And then there is Gainesville, Florida, where I attended college. The youth culture of the place appealed to me for years after I graduated. But right now I have the sense that I don't really don't know what makes this generation of young people tick, and the place would probably feel alien to me at this point in my life.

 

[rareboy]

^ It wasn't intended to be only as a result of negative experiences.

As many have noted, it sometimes is a result that the place literally no longer exists or exists in a state that is so foreign to your experience that you just won't return...as you have noted.

 

[mydrew1]

Coburg, a northern suburb of Melbourne. I once had to go there for a job interview. It was depressing walking around in it. I'm relieved I didn't get the job. I think it was retail. Anyone that's moved out from there I've met is glad they got out

 

[LoveMyPeppermill]

Coburg, a northern suburb of Melbourne. I once had to go there for a job interview. It was depressing walking around in it. I'm relieved I didn't get the job. I think it was retail. Anyone that's moved out from there I've met is glad they got out

What's so bad about Coburg in particular, as opposed to Northcote or Moonee Ponds or Essendon or any other northern suburb of Melbourne?

 

[bendted]

Paris. Had fam there. Last time there was '11. It has devolved into a big tourist site. So much different than when visiting in the 70s. Oh, and the scams. I was an intended victim, but didn't fall for the "lost ring" scam and on the same day a dope tried to, or offered, to wrap some kind of twine on my fingers with the hopes I'd pay to untangle the mess. WTF.

These scams!: (Cut and paste job)

1. Gold ring scam​

This is one of the most irritating yet common scams in Paris. Usually it will happen when you’re walking along the Seine or near the Eiffel Tower.

Someone will approach you with a gold ring that they “found” and ask you if you dropped it. They will expect you to say no, and then they will pretend to examine the ring and exclaim how valuable it is.

Then, they’ll then attempt to sell you the ring for a good price (of course, the ring is total junk.)

How to deal with it: Ignore them and keep walking. Or firmly say “No” and keep walking.

2. Friendship bracelets at Sacré-Cœur​

The friendship bracelet scam is one of THE most annoying to me. Basically, there are a lot of guys hanging out around Sacré-Cœur in Montmartre. It’s almost impossible to avoid them as you’re walking up the hill to the church.

What they will do is come up to you, act really friendly, and start tying some strings around your wrist. They’ll quickly braid a “friendship bracelet” onto your wrist and then demand that you pay for it. (So much for being friendly.)

An added bonus for this one is that they may have a second person who comes up behind you while you’re distracted by the bracelet scam and pickpockets you.