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Cities you'd never return to

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    #62
    purplecow1977
    Registered Users Posts: 2,877 ✭✭✭purplecow1977


    lufties wrote: »
    lucky I didn't book a trip there so.
    Because of one persons view?
    Anyone i spoke to speaks highly of Prague.
    I was only there for one day so looking forward to returning during the summer.
    Interestingly i am also going to budapest although I've been there before also! Didn't notice the miserable people mentioned above!


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    #63
    krudler
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    dan1895 wrote: »
    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.

    It's a pity too, you see pics of the falls themselves and think its this natural beauty, which it is, but then right beside it is this godawful cheap carnie looking town with run down amusements and just has tacky plastered all over it.


    LA is a dump, sprawled out, filthy, homeless everywhere, the famous streets are grand but once you step off any of them its junkie central.

    Paris is the same, most romantic city in the world my ass the Eiffel Tower is overrun with pickpockets and the city is filthy, Parisians are the biggest assholes in the world as well.


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    #64
    lufties
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    drunkmonkey wrote: »
    Who doesn't?

    Well a boards.ie poster for one.


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    #65
    EB_2013
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    Brussels

    The biggest dive I've ever seen. Felt like I was in North Africa most of the time, nearly mugged on the underground, impossible to find a supermarket and all the train stations were full of drunks/junkies.


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    #66
    Mrs Garth Brooks
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    Hesh's Umpire wrote: »
    Both Liverpool and Manchester.

    I saw Liverpool on the tv, and that was enough.


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    #67
    lufties
    Registered Users Posts: 3,507 ✭✭✭lufties


    mosstin wrote: »
    Varanasi??? What a stunning city. It's in India so what did you expect? A metro?? Jesus wept.

    Read my F@#king post, I said it is interesting. Getting around is a nightmare in a taxi. on footor a bloody rickshaw, 2 nights was more than enough.


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    homemadecider
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    Goma, Democratic Republic of Congo. Saw a tank casually rolling down the main street, with a heavily armed man sticking out the top of it.

    Next day at a checkpoint I saw two men choking someone with an AK-47.

    The city was hit by a volcanic eruption some years ago so the whole place is grey and black, stony and dusty.

    Do not recommend.


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    #69
    mosstin
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    hfallada wrote: »
    I'm surprised no one has posted my favourite phrase on boards yet. Which is "thinly veiled I have been abroad". Like its not in the slightest bit funny.

    But I wouldn't go back to anywhere in china. Particularly the smaller cities where you kept on seeing the same people for a day. Because the police follow you(plain clothed). Even in McDonald's there is plain clothed officers to stop you getting robbed

    Looking through this thread just now, people on a wind up, right? You wouldn't go back to anywhere in China because you keep on seeing the same people for a day? I'm undecided as to whether that's hilarious or pathetic.


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    #70
    [Deleted User]
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    I didn't like Brussels at all. It's the only place I've ever been that I would have no desire to ever return to.

    Although I went there last year on my way to somewhere else and met two very nice homeless drunks in the train station and had great chats with them :D


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    #71
    lufties
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    purplecow1977 wrote: »
    Because of one persons view?
    Anyone i spoke to speaks highly of Prague.
    I was only there for one day so looking forward to returning during the summer.
    Interestingly i am also going to budapest although I've been there before also! Didn't notice the miserable people mentioned above!

    Well maybe hungarians don't like the look of me. I met an Irish lad randomly last night and he also said they're miserable, rude, uneducated bunch of cnuts, it was nice to hear someone elses perspective.


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    #72
    mosstin
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    lufties wrote: »
    Read my F@#king post, I said it is interesting. Getting around is a nightmare in a taxi. on footor a bloody rickshaw, 2 nights was more than enough.

    Read my reply - I took issue with your response to getting around. As I said, it's India, it isn't an easy place to travel. But using that as a basis never to go back there given its absolute beauty is just stupid.


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    #73
    Krusader
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    cymbaline wrote: »
    Barcelona - I can't quite put my finger on why I disliked the place but I did.

    You were probably pickpocketed and you don't even know it


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    #74
    3rdDegree
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    lufties wrote: »
    [Kilkenny] what an overrated city that is.

    Being from Kilkenny, my first reaction to this was enraged indignation! But then I thought for a second and really, you're right.

    The castle is pretty impressive though!


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    #75
    [Deleted User]
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    lufties wrote: »
    Read my F@#king post, I said it is interesting. Getting around is a nightmare in a taxi. on footor a bloody rickshaw, 2 nights was more than enough.

    mod

    Post nice, or don't post at all.


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    #76
    lufties
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    3rdDegree wrote: »
    Being from Kilkenny, my first reaction to this was enraged indignation! But then I thought for a second and really, you're right.

    The castle is pretty impressive though!

    Don't even bother with the local women if you don't play hurling :pac:


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    #77
    EB_2013
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    HardLuckWoman wrote: »
    I saw Liverpool on the tv, and that was enough.

    Liverpool's not too bad. Has bad areas like Toxteth but the areas around Albert Dock and city centre are nice. Lots of money has been pumped in lately. The people are also very friendly and easy going.


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    Cantremember
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    Glasgow. An air of madness just under the surface. Never felt safe there. Drove through it on the way to the Highlands and took a detour through Edinburgh on the way back! Have to agree that Paris is a close second: vastly overrated city.


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    anto9
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    Rangoon ,Myanmar .Interesting to see once ,but its a bit of an over crowded dirty kip .
    Hong Kong ,is the same but clean .


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    Oops69
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    Only 75 posts in and I'm curled up in a corner afraid to go to my local spar for a litre of milk in case I get pickpocketed , raped , choked or die of fumes and the shop assistant and other customers will be really rude assholes


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    road_high
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    Derry...was there on a wet day which didn't help I guess but seems very poor and rundown. Cash converter type shops seemed to be everywhere. Could hardly figure out where the main st is supposed to be.


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    #82
    Reiketsu
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    Paris. Smelly, dirty and the people are so rude. You're tormented by people for money at all the tourist attractions, you also need to be aware of these "tricks" they do so they can pickpocket you. The only thing I liked was Pere Lachaise and going home. I was not overly impressed with Warsaw either. Another dirty kip. I was there for a concert and a friend I was with speaks Polish and they were openly talking about us calling us dirty foreigners and that we need to go home, this was THEIR concert. I paid my money, thanks.


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    #83
    Ardent
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    Another vote for Glasgow. Never really understood what attracted tourists to Dublin until I came back from a weekend in Glasgow.


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    #84
    brooke 2
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    Brisbane - ugly and soulless. Could not get out of it fast enough!
    The bridge is an eyesore!!


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    #85
    MonstaMash
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    Behind the Fence wrote: »
    Belize City... Only place I feared for my safety.
    Belmopan is worse, but curiously the Yimm Saan hotel & restuarant is probably the best Chinese restaurant in the world IMHO


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    #86
    Baseline Analysis
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    sydney!


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    #87
    Royale with Cheese
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    Johannesburg - wouldn't go back to anywhere that 90% of the city is a no go area.

    Hong Kong - very little to actually do here as a tourist.

    Nairobi - nobody else has said this yet and I wanted everyone to know I've been here.


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    #88
    Bassfish
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    Dubai, completely soleless and nothing but ostentatious wealth to look at and religious fundamentalsm bubbling under the surface.


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    #89
    kalych
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    I would have to say Minsk. Stay away. No, really!
    Cannot get around the city by car, the signs seem to take you anywhere, but where they are supposed to. Local teenagers idea of fun is to hang outside places and look to pick a fight with you as you try to come in.


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    #90
    dan1895
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    Royale with Cheese wrote: »
    Johannesburg - wouldn't go back to anywhere that 90% of the city is a no go area.

    Hong Kong - very little to actually do here.

    Nairobi - nobody else has said this yet and I wanted everyone to know I've been here.

    Agree with Nairobi. Constant intimidation and harassment and can't walk down the street once the sun goes down.


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    #91
    cloud493
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    Bristol
    Nottingham
    New York
    Boston
    Florida


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