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Fictional cities no sane person would want to live in

Princess AlicePrincess Alice
edited 2014-03-30 00:36:06 in General Media
  • Gotham City
  • The City of Townsville
  • Liberty City
  • Springfield

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  • TachyonTachyon
    imagei will watch the heck outta this pumpkin patch
    • The Under
    • Markarth
  • Sredni VashtarSredni Vashtar
    “I'm surprised. Those clothes… but, aren't you…?”
    Anywhere written by China Miéville or George R.R. Martin. Visit? Sure! Live? Ha.

    Also, Angmar. Seriously.
  • TachyonTachyon
    imagei will watch the heck outta this pumpkin patch
    technically you can live in anywhere written by George R.R. Martin, but not for very long
  • MorvenMorven
    Life in Ankh-Morpork doesn't seem all that stable, even if rarely boring.
  • ProfessorGatorProfessorGator
    Remember back in the 50s when they'd record like Elvis singing YOU AIN'T NOTHIN BUT A HOUND DOG and then they'd turn the record over and reverse it and it was all NYERP NYERP NYERP NYERP NYERP and people were all like, "That is actually the voice of Satan coming from that song."
    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.
  • MorvenMorven
    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.
  • TachyonTachyon
    imagei will watch the heck outta this pumpkin patch
    fictional London wouldn't be so bad

    just go on holiday every Christmas
  • Salix BabylonikaSalix Babylonika
    https://i.imgur.com/7Iil2JW.png
    unless you were an insurance salesman
  • Section42LSection42L
    edited 2014-03-30 00:51:45
    We can do anything if we do it together.
    Without a doubt, The City of Honnouji would qualify.
  • TachyonTachyon
    edited 2014-03-30 00:52:04
    imagei will watch the heck outta this pumpkin patch
    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 EagleOne-Winged Eagle
    Man is a most complex simple creature: see what he weaves, and how base his reasons for doing so.
    New York.

    Not Spider-Man's New York City.

    Not the New York of Law and Order.

    Our New York City.
  • TachyonTachyon
    imagei will watch the heck outta this pumpkin patch
    Queen City

    due to the repeated undermining of law enforcement officials by the reigning monarch
  • Imipolex GImipolex G
    Touch the cow. Do it now.
    Detroit (any version)
  • Sredni VashtarSredni Vashtar
    edited 2014-03-30 01:32:03
    “I'm surprised. Those clothes… but, aren't you…?”
    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.
  • HavenHaven
    Let me tell you. About Fallen London.
    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-sanObā-san

    yeah RL NYC is fine

    depending on where you are of course
  • TachyonTachyon
    imagei will watch the heck outta this pumpkin patch
    Lungfishopolis


  • Princess AlicePrincess Alice
    You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
    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 GImipolex G
    Touch the cow. Do it now.
    Funeralopolis.


  • TreTre
    edited 2014-03-30 02:08:03
    image
    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.
  • KlinotaxisKlinotaxis
    edited 2014-03-30 13:00:17
    kill living beings
    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.
  • glennmagusharveyglennmagusharvey
    edited 2014-03-30 04:16:20
    any of the GTA settings
  • AlirozAliroz
    ...And even when your hope is gone
    move along, move along, just to make it through
    (2015 self)

    Trantor.
  • TreTre
    image
    Steelport and Stilwater.

    And Paradise City.
  • Imipolex GImipolex G
    Touch the cow. Do it now.
    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
  • glennmagusharveyglennmagusharvey
    What would living in New Pork City be like?
  • HavenHaven
    edited 2014-03-30 15:26:45
    Let me tell you. About Fallen London.
    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".
  • nohaynicklibrenohaynicklibre
    Smee, Maiman, Doktar, Pavelier, Button-Lee, Juan Ovyu
    South Park
  • TanyaTanya
    Pizza Dog
    Silent Hill.


  • FossilmaidenFossilmaiden
    image Wee yea erra chs hymmnos mea.
    Chicago (Shadowrun version).
  • Princess AlicePrincess Alice
    You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
    nohaynicklibre said:

    South Park

    I'm surprised I missed that one; it seems really obvious.
  • glennmagusharveyglennmagusharvey
    Would you live in Law & Order!New York City?
  • MetaFourMetaFour
    For once, or maybe twice, I was in my prime.
    Provided I get to be one of the people who stumbles onto the dead body in the opening scene, sure.
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