My choices: Metro-west Boston. Seems like Stepford but on a much, much larger scale. Although not a suburb, but Cape Cod's been getting creepy in spots. As for the ultimate choice: The west county area of St. Louis.
Wut.
Just about any city that butts up to Detroit.
Define 'creepy' in this context.
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Define 'creepy' in this context.
To me it's the artificiality of everything contained within the boundaries. I avoid most low-hanging fruit, such as the inner ring suburbs. Take for example those middle to outer 'burbs that contain a large housing stock that tries hard to maintain a theme.
Colma, California given the semi-spooky cemeteries can have a certain creep factor for some. How many cities much less suburbs are founded as a Necropolis? If I recall correctly the population of the dead is about 1,500,000 to about 1,500 living.
Quote from: Max Rockatansky on July 02, 2022, 12:15:01 AM
Colma, California given the semi-spooky cemeteries can have a certain creep factor for some. How many cities much less suburbs are founded as a Necropolis? If I recall correctly the population of the dead is about 1,500,000 to about 1,500 living.
"Glad to be alive in Colma"
Thought the living pop was a little higher than that.
St Louis North County
I saw the Stepford Wives (OG 1975 version) as a kid and didn't get it much when I saw it, but suburbia was much the same in the 1970s as it is today.
Quote from: SkyPesos on July 02, 2022, 12:51:32 AM
St Louis North County
Which part? I'd nominate Wellston because of how much has vanished.
Anywhere south/west of the inner-ring neighborhoods of Jacksonville (via I-10 and Roosevelt and Blanding Boulevards). Has to be within Duval and maybe Baker County. Don't know if anywhere in Columbia County qualifies, OTOH.
Salem Massachusetts.
Quote from: SectorZ on July 02, 2022, 06:59:31 PM
Salem Massachusetts.
Just watch Hocus Pocus, that will fix that creepy factor for you.
Any suburb that's stuck in the 1950's with an entirely old, white school board that's afraid of kids being taught the truth about racism is creepy to me.
Scottsdale.
Quote from: NWI_Irish96 on July 02, 2022, 08:32:37 PM
Any suburb that's stuck in the 1950's with an entirely old, white school board that's afraid of kids being taught the truth about racism is creepy to me.
Stop.
Quote from: SectorZ on July 03, 2022, 08:05:06 AM
Quote from: NWI_Irish96 on July 02, 2022, 08:32:37 PM
Any suburb that's stuck in the 1950's with an entirely old, white school board that's afraid of kids being taught the truth about racism is creepy to me.
Stop.
No, this is a serious thing. It might not be as much the case here because Massachusetts has the #1 schools in the nation, but it's definitely the case in other parts of the country. Including claims that the Civil War wasn't about slavery. Even I, in Massachusetts, was taught in my earlier classes (before AP US History, when they told us the truth) that the relationships with Europeans and Native Americans during first contact and expansion of the colonies/US were better than they actually were.
:popcorn:
I'll go another way: ultra rich, small suburbs where they know by social appearance who's not from there.
Avon Lake, OH.
Nearly 20 years ago I had a delivery to the Ford plant in Avon Lake. I had my wife and kids with me on this run, however, I was not sure that I could have them accompany me onto the plant grounds. So, I dropped them off at a nice shopping center in Avon Lake. I completed the delivery and drove back to them. When my wife got into the truck, she said that she was creeped out by the area. She said that there was plenty of activity going on, then at 8 pm (it was summertime) it was like everything stopped. She and the kids were practically alone. She said that the cars stopped driving by and things got real quiet--there weren't any birds chirping either. It really unnerved her and the kids, not to the point where they were fearing for their life, but it was just something they did not expect.
Medina, WA is pretty open about their surveillance camera network and general hostility to outsiders. No wonder they're home to several of the world's richest people.
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St Louis North County
Which part? I'd nominate Wellston because of how much has vanished.
I left STL four years ago so my opinion is dated. St Louis definitely has its share of creepy suburbs. IMO, Pine Lawn to the north is creepier than Wellston (though not by much) and the creepiest on the Missouri side is Kinloch. I'd say the creepiest St Louis burb is Fairmont City across the river. Brooklyn is also pretty creepy.
Whatever is right off I-70 about halfway between downtown STL and the airport definitely gave me the creeps when I exited there for gas several years ago.
Powell, Ohio. Tries to be kitschy but fails due to trying too hard and lacking the substance that its neighboring competitors Dublin, Worthington and Westerville all have in their cores.
Madison, MS. Stepford Wives-ish.
I think Kinloch, Missouri might be the winner, look at that place.
Quote from: GCrites80s on July 10, 2022, 10:03:36 PM
Powell, Ohio. Tries to be kitschy but fails due to trying too hard and lacking the substance that its neighboring competitors Dublin, Worthington and Westerville all have in their cores.
I thought you'd go with the heart of the "uncool crescent," Obetz.
Hmmm not really, "depressing" isn't all that that creepy to me.
Quote from: Hot Rod Hootenanny on July 13, 2022, 10:55:53 AM
Quote from: GCrites80s on July 10, 2022, 10:03:36 PM
Powell, Ohio. Tries to be kitschy but fails due to trying too hard and lacking the substance that its neighboring competitors Dublin, Worthington and Westerville all have in their cores.
I thought you'd go with the heart of the "uncool crescent," Obetz.
Well, if we're going with Columbus suburbs, I'd say Gahanna. That is where I had my first encounter with a bad cop who was apparently upset I gave someone a ride home late at night. He asked what I was doing, I told him. He asked the same question again, and I repeated the answer. He then said, "Get out of the car! You're mine!" and I was thrown in the back of his cop car. After multiple cop cars showed up, a complete search (for which I never gave consent), and questioning of my friends, he finally released me and said he wouldn't have done anything if I hadn't shown an "attitude" to him. Perhaps it was the repeated questions that gave me the "attitude", but this guy really thought he was going to get a big bust or something.
Now, if we want a truly creepy suburb in Ohio, it's East Cleveland. Many buildings are boarded up or dilapidated, it has very little tax base, and the city cannot provide its basic services and has even tried to get Cleveland proper to annex them.
Royal Oak Township. It's so bad none of the adjacent cities want to annex it.
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Quote from: Hot Rod Hootenanny on July 13, 2022, 10:55:53 AM
Quote from: GCrites80s on July 10, 2022, 10:03:36 PM
Powell, Ohio. Tries to be kitschy but fails due to trying too hard and lacking the substance that its neighboring competitors Dublin, Worthington and Westerville all have in their cores.
I thought you'd go with the heart of the "uncool crescent," Obetz.
Well, if we're going with Columbus suburbs, I'd say Gahanna. That is where I had my first encounter with a bad cop who was apparently upset I gave someone a ride home late at night. He asked what I was doing, I told him. He asked the same question again, and I repeated the answer. He then said, "Get out of the car! You're mine!" and I was thrown in the back of his cop car. After multiple cop cars showed up, a complete search (for which I never gave consent), and questioning of my friends, he finally released me and said he wouldn't have done anything if I hadn't shown an "attitude" to him. Perhaps it was the repeated questions that gave me the "attitude", but this guy really thought he was going to get a big bust or something.
Some people really think the answer is going to change if they ask the same question a bunch of times. It's a manipulation technique and it actually works sometimes. I don't know what they think the answer is going to change to. If the male abuser got to have sex a time or to because they used this technique they will repeat it constantly in other situations.