Fictional cities no sane person would want to live in

Princess Alice · 2014-03-30 00:36:06

Gotham City
The City of Townsville
Liberty City
Springfield

Tachyon · 2014-03-30 00:38:29

The Under
Markarth

Sredni Vashtar · 2014-03-30 00:41:34

Anywhere written by China Miéville or George R.R. Martin. Visit? Sure! Live? Ha.

Also, Angmar. Seriously.

Tachyon · 2014-03-30 00:42:58

technically you can live in anywhere written by George R.R. Martin, but not for very long

Morven · 2014-03-30 00:43:53

Life in Ankh-Morpork doesn't seem all that stable, even if rarely boring.

ProfessorGator · 2014-03-30 00:45:17

Some of the more self-referential seasons of Power Rangers remarked that no sane people would want to live in cities that suffer weekly alien/demon/mutant animal attacks.

Morven · 2014-03-30 00:49:58

It strikes me that the fictional versions of a bunch of real-life cities are places you wouldn't want to live in. The Tokyo of monster movies, for instance.

Tachyon · 2014-03-30 00:50:57

fictional London wouldn't be so bad

just go on holiday every Christmas

Salix Babylonika · 2014-03-30 00:51:01

unless you were an insurance salesman

Section42L · 2014-03-30 00:51:26

Without a doubt, The City of Honnouji would qualify.

Tachyon · 2014-03-30 00:51:51

of course, i meant fictional present day London, not the maze of narrow alleyways riddled with serial killers and smog that's fictional historical London

One-Winged Eagle · 2014-03-30 01:16:22

New York.

Not Spider-Man's New York City.

Not the New York of Law and Order.

Our New York City.

Tachyon · 2014-03-30 01:18:39

Queen City

due to the repeated undermining of law enforcement officials by the reigning monarch

Imipolex G · 2014-03-30 01:24:07

Detroit (any version)

Sredni Vashtar · 2014-03-30 01:31:24

Section42L said:
Without a doubt, The City of Honnouji would qualify.

Yup.

Imipolex G said:
Detroit (any version)

Particularly the "Golden City" from Ligotti's "I Have A Special Plan For This World". Just... yeah. But that's not saying that anywhere in Ligotti's work is appealing in anything but a very bleak aesthetic sense.

Haven · 2014-03-30 01:31:25

kingCrackers said:
New York.

Not Spider-Man's New York City.

Not the New York of Law and Order.

Our New York City.

Statistically NYC is pretty safe, it just has a bad reputation thanks to the 80s.

Obā-san · 2014-03-30 01:32:55

yeah RL NYC is fine

depending on where you are of course

Tachyon · 2014-03-30 01:34:01

Lungfishopolis

Princess Alice · 2014-03-30 01:34:38

Tachyon said:
Queen City

due to the repeated undermining of law enforcement officials by the reigning monarch

Kinda surprised she's never faced a vote of no confidence

She seems totally unhinged at times...did you see her running around in a beat-up old taxicab with some British bloke in the back?

Imipolex G · 2014-03-30 01:36:10

Funeralopolis.

Tre · 2014-03-30 02:00:30

Greyson City.

There are seagulls bigger than people and the place has had at least two zombie outbreaks, not to mention the rampant supernatural happenings and the suspicions of a Ktulu-like eldritch abomination living in the Sound.

I'll be damned if it isn't somewhere in heaven though.

Klinotaxis · 2014-03-30 04:05:14

If you choose to believe me, good. Now I will tell how Octavia, the spider-web city, is made. There is a precipice between two steep mountains: the city is over the void, bound to the two crests with ropes and chains and catwalks. You walk on the little wooden ties, careful not to set your foot in the open spaces, or you cling to the hempen strands. Below there is nothing for hundreds and hundreds of feet: a few clouds glide past; farther down you can glimpse the chasm's bed.

This is the foundation of the city: a net which serve as passage and as support. All the rest, instead of rising up, is hung below: rope ladders, hammocks, houses made like sacks, clothes hangers, terraces like gondolas, skins of water, gas jets, spits, baskets on strings, dumb-waiters, showers, trapezes and rings for children's games, cable cars, chandeliers, pots with trailing plants.

Suspended over the abyss, the life of Octavia's inhabitants is less uncertain than in other cities. They know the net will last only so long.

glennmagusharvey · 2014-03-30 04:16:09

any of the GTA settings

Aliroz · 2014-03-30 10:26:02

Trantor.

Tre · 2014-03-30 12:47:14

Steelport and Stilwater.

And Paradise City.

Imipolex G · 2014-03-30 12:49:04

Klinotaxis said:
If you choose to believe me, good. Now I will tell how Octavia, the spider-web city, is made. There is a precipice between two steep mountains: the city is over the void, bound to the two crests with ropes and chains and catwalks. You walk on the little wooden ties, careful not to set your foot in the open spaces, or you cling to the hempen strands. Below there is nothing for hundreds and hundreds of feet: a few clouds glide past; farther down you can glimpse the chasm's bed.

This is the foundation of the city: a net which serve as passage and as support. All the rest, instead of risingu p, is hung below: rope ladders, hammocks, houses made like sacks, clothes hangers, terraces like gondolas, skins of water, gas jets, spits, baskets on strings, dumb-waiters, showers, trapezes and rings for children's games, cable cars, chandeliers, pots with trailing plants.

Suspended over the abyss, the life of Octavia's inhabitants is less uncertain than in other cities. They know the net will last only so long.

excellent

glennmagusharvey · 2014-03-30 14:33:57

What would living in New Pork City be like?

Haven · 2014-03-30 14:44:41

Invisible Cities, nice.

I'm gonna go with Malakir, city of vampires and Centie's nightmares. Using a tollbooth costs "you die" and going to court to contest a speeding ticket costs "you always die".