"Creepiest" Suburbs?

[CapeCodder]

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.

[Rothman]

Wut.

[Flint1979]

Just about any city that butts up to Detroit.

[kphoger]

Define 'creepy' in this context.

[CapeCodder]

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.

[Max Rockatansky]

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.

[Rothman]

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.

[SkyPesos]

St Louis North County

[Road Hog]

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.

[CapeCodder]

St Louis North County

Which part? I'd nominate Wellston because of how much has vanished.

[kevinb1994]

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.

[SectorZ]

Salem Massachusetts.

[Max Rockatansky]

Salem Massachusetts.

Just watch Hocus Pocus, that will fix that creepy factor for you. 

[NWI_Irish96]

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.

[JayhawkCO]

Scottsdale.

[SectorZ]

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.

[hotdogPi]

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.

[Brandon]

 

[TheHighwayMan3561]

I'll go another way: ultra rich, small suburbs where they know by social appearance who's not from there.

[amroad17]

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.

[Bruce]

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.

[skluth]

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.

[US 89]

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.

[GCrites]

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.

[golden eagle]

Madison, MS. Stepford Wives-ish.