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Cities you'd never return to

  • 19-04-2014 9:54am
    #1
    lufties
    Registered Users Posts: 3,507 ✭✭✭


    Having been in a good few places around the world, I would have to say Budapest is a beautiful one with regard to history and architecture, but it is definately to most unfriendly place I've been, the people I encountered were rude and unhelpful consistantly, hence I will not be returning. Other than that I'd say stuttgart in germany(yawn), or varanassi in India, an interesting place but a nightmare to get around.


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  • #2
    Daveysil15
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,301 ✭✭✭Daveysil15


    Atlanta. Nice city overall but there are an awful lot of homeless people there trying to get money off ya.


  • #3
    lufties
    Registered Users Posts: 3,507 ✭✭✭lufties


    Daveysil15 wrote: »
    Atlanta. Nice city overall but there are an awful lot of homeless people there trying to get money off ya.

    San Fran is like that too.


  • #4
    godtabh
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 23,204 Mod ✭✭✭✭godtabh


    lufties wrote: »
    Having been in a good few places around the world, I would have to say Budapest is a beautiful one with regard to history and architecture, but it is definately to most unfriendly place I've been, the people I encountered were rude and unhelpful consistantly, hence I will not be going back

    I'd go back there (hopefully in August). Had a great time there last year. I had company so didn't have to depend on strangers to make my trip


  • #5
    Slunk
    Registered Users Posts: 2,556 ✭✭✭Slunk


    I found Budapest great, but was told by the person running the hostel that anyone over 30 I should expect them to be rude to me. Not to take it personally. He said times are slowly changing and te younger people are more aware of international visitors. The younger people we met where more than helpful to us

    Bratislava, although similar attitudes I wouldn't return to. Its a lovely city, just very dull. Not an awful lot happening.

    Vienna I also found quite boring. Great if your in your late 30s/40s and looking for museums etc but not really for me.


  • #6
    jameshayes
    Registered Users Posts: 3,772 ✭✭✭jameshayes


    marseille. Kip.


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  • #7
    Big Nasty
    Registered Users Posts: 22,080 ✭✭✭✭Big Nasty


    Paris.

    Dirty kip.


  • #8
    lufties
    Registered Users Posts: 3,507 ✭✭✭lufties


    godtabh wrote: »
    I'd go back there (hopefully in August). Had a great time there last year. I had company so didn't have to depend on strangers to make my trip

    Jesus what a smug post, yes I also had company and didn't depend on anyone, just making an observation thst the people are miserabld generally.


  • #9
    MonstaMash
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,443 ✭✭✭MonstaMash


    Freetown, Sierra Leone...still have nightmares, dangerous kip.


  • #10
    Thundering_Sky
    Registered Users Posts: 87 ✭✭Thundering_Sky


    Probably Prague, I just didn't like it at all seemed so dark and dingy. The freezing weather and snow didn't help either; for me it's a place I've seen once and that's enough.


  • #11
    Mrs Garth Brooks
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,865 ✭✭✭Mrs Garth Brooks


    Sydney. Too big and busy.


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  • #12
    lufties
    Registered Users Posts: 3,507 ✭✭✭lufties


    Thundering_Sky wrote: »
    Probably Prague, I just didn't like it at all seemed so dark and dingy. The freezing weather and snow didn't help either; for me it's a place I've seen once and that's enough.

    lucky I didn't book a trip there so.


  • #13
    Borderfox
    Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 10,257 Mod ✭✭✭✭Borderfox


    Prague, beautiful city but the people in it are wan**r's!!


  • #14
    jane82
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,590 ✭✭✭jane82


    I went to thermopylae once. 300 hundred locals turned up at a narrow passageway coming into the town and all huddled together and wouldnt let us through.
    We had to camp there took us months to get in.


  • #15
    lufties
    Registered Users Posts: 3,507 ✭✭✭lufties


    HardLuckWoman wrote: »
    Sydney. Too big and busy.

    have you been to london or new york?


  • #16
    CptMackey
    Registered Users Posts: 1,783 ✭✭✭CptMackey


    I'd say Malaga. People weren't the nicest. Found Stuttgart a lovely place op. Maybe because I was there for the beer fest. Also didn't think much of Sydney


  • #17
    Daveysil15
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,301 ✭✭✭Daveysil15


    lufties wrote: »
    San Fran is like that too.

    Yeah its a shame because it was great otherwise. But its gets a bit tiresome when they're outside your hotel waiting for you to come out, constantly hounding you. Although TBH I wouldn't go back to America full stop. I got sick of been interrogated in customs.


  • #18
    Stavro Mueller
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,673 ✭✭✭Stavro Mueller


    Barcelona - I can't quite put my finger on why I disliked the place but I did.


  • #19
    anncoates
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,925 ✭✭✭✭anncoates


    Drunshambo.


  • #20
    BarryLyndon
    Closed Accounts Posts: 43 ✭BarryLyndon


    Amsterdam. It doesn't really have anything you wouldn't see in most other northern Euro capitals.

    See also; Copenhagen


  • #21
    Daveysil15
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,301 ✭✭✭Daveysil15


    CptMackey wrote: »
    I'd say Malaga. People weren't the nicest. Found Stuttgart a lovely place op. Maybe because I was there for the beer fest. Also didn't think much of Sydney

    I'm going there next week.


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  • #22
    Henry Ford III
    Moderators, Business & Finance Moderators Posts: 17,617 Mod ✭✭✭✭Henry Ford III


    Paris. I wasn't at all impressed. Granted it was a rugby trip and we saw no sights and drank a lot.


  • #23
    coffee_cake
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Politics Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 81,310 CMod ✭✭✭✭coffee_cake


    LA & Boston
    Hated them
    Well I mean I have a couple of friends in LA so I'd go back to see them of course but otherwise no


  • #24
    dan1895
    Registered Users Posts: 4,597 ✭✭✭dan1895


    The falls are amazing but other than that Niagra in Canada. The only way of the describing it is as the illegitimate love child of Las Vegas and Bray.


  • #25
    joeperry
    Closed Accounts Posts: 527 ✭✭✭joeperry


    Cork


  • #26
    wazky
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,516 ✭✭✭wazky


    Kilkenny


  • #27
    lufties
    Registered Users Posts: 3,507 ✭✭✭lufties


    Daveysil15 wrote: »
    Yeah its a shame because it was great otherwise. But its gets a bit tiresome when they're outside your hotel waiting for you to come out, constantly hounding you. Although TBH I wouldn't go back to America full stop. I got sick of been interrogated in customs.

    I have no interest in America either for some reason but I probably will return at some point.


  • #28
    lufties
    Registered Users Posts: 3,507 ✭✭✭lufties


    wazky wrote: »
    Kilkenny

    what an overrated city that is.


  • #29
    dan1895
    Registered Users Posts: 4,597 ✭✭✭dan1895


    lufties wrote: »
    what an overrated city that is.

    City?


  • #30
    Daveysil15
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,301 ✭✭✭Daveysil15


    Borderfox wrote: »
    Prague, beautiful city but the people in it are wan**r's!!

    I've been there twice. I found the people were either incredibly polite or incredibly rude. There's no middle ground. I enjoyed it more the second time though.


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  • #31
    sullivlo
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 9,994 Mod ✭✭✭✭sullivlo


    Casablanca. Only time I've ever felt unsafe.


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