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Ti Juana is the worst place I have ever been. You can tell you are there by the smell. When you come into TJ from the south, its a beautiful drive on the scenic toll highway, but the minute you round the corner going down the hill to the El Centro its a whole different world. Crazy drivers, sewer and garbage stink, street vendors and pimps come up to your car when you have to stop or slow down wanting to sell you tourist crap and guys bumming money or cigarettes or proposition you for a good time. I have to go through there about once a month and I feel like I could use a good shower afterwards.

The second worst place is a lake in Utah where they have golden trout. It is also mosquito heaven. We went there once to go fishing and had to throw our poles down and slap mosquitos. Didnt even stay the whole day. Caught one carp.
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New Ross is south Ireland is quite the dump....
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Middlesbrough, sorry but it's really bad.
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StephenKingman wrote:New Ross is south Ireland is quite the dump....
The Yellow Bellies will get you for that :mrgreen:
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Fran wrote:
StephenKingman wrote:New Ross is south Ireland is quite the dump....
The Yellow Bellies will get you for that :mrgreen:
I should correct that post Fran by saying that Loftus Hall, about an hour from New Ross on the Hook Head, is easily the most horrible place I have ever visited. Im not a man who beieves in a lot of the supernatural funnily enough and I think a lot of ghosts, haunted houses etc is just rubbish made up by the brain but when I was in the Tapestry Room in that mansion, I felt a chill like never before, it knocked the wind right out of me and it took all of my willpower to stay all of the 5 minutes there before I left the room, not looking back even once. A priest in the 1800s performed an exorcism in the house for days but could only manage to rid all the rooms bar the Tapestry Room where demons still reside. That even sounds mad to type but my God, I would never set foot in there again and I challenge anyone here to spend a while in that room without freaking out completely..


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@Mike
It really did freak you out didn't it? Nothing would get me near the place after your report.
Serves you right after all the horror you've read ... now you better start on something more elevated perhaps Pride & Prejudice or maybe a re-read of 84 Charing Cross Rd would settle the nerves :lol: :lol: :lol:
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Fran wrote:@Mike
It really did freak you out didn't it? Nothing would get me near the place after your report.
Serves you right after all the horror you've read ... now you better start on something more elevated perhaps Pride & Prejudice or maybe a re-read of 84 Charing Cross Rd would settle the nerves :lol: :lol: :lol:
Fran, bring back Helene, all is forgiven ha ha. Yeah I would rather read that book 10 times over than go into Loftus Hall again. For all my horror books and films, I dont believe in a lot of that stuff so for a skeptic like me to have been shaken by a room says a lot about the place. Plus I was there in broad daylight so you could imagine being there in the dark.. :shock:
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I always wanted to go to a place like Loftus Hall and experience ghosts, but in the end I would probably be running the other way crapping my pants. I was at a place like that in Utah, an old weird abandoned building in the hills that my son-in-law and I were looking over. Creepy place, we didnt really see anything but we felt like something evil and nasty was there so we didnt stick around to see what it was.
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Worst place was probably Dhaka in Bangladesh, so crowded and polluted.
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PALMA DE MAJORCA, SPAIN, before it was really developed...........i was too young for such a sedate place...

at the time there were only two planes out per week, so i was stuck in a place as boring as watching paint dry..........
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The worst place I visited was Key West. It was really freaky there. The people just look at you like their going to kill you. It's really weird and not very pretty. The ocean and the water is pretty but not the places. It's really rundown and scary. When I went, I was terrified. I was younger though too. I remember that I kept holding on to my dad, I was afraid that if I let go I'd be lost forever and ever. :(
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Statesville, N.C..............the armpit of the south.......also Old Fort, Marion, n.c..... :P
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Phoenix Arizona. All the charm of Los Angeles with its urban sprawl, and the pleasant climate of death valley.
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Key West, a dilapidated town in need of a paint job (at the time I was there )
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