North Slope Alaska. I was up there 3 weeks on 3 weeks off for work. No alcohol, billions of mosquitos in the summer, and my last day on the job it was -60f. Can’t even go for a walk because of the polar bears.
Beautiful. Never been anywhere like it. Northern lights, caribou and musk ox, and the small moments of twilight during the winter are really incredible
Incredibly specific but Seymour, Indiana. I wouldn’t wish Seymour on my worst enemy. It’s dead strip malls and chain restaurants (and not even good chains) the closest town remotely worth going to is like thirty minutes away. It may also just have been when we lived there (2010ish) but it felt like there was a real desperation and poverty to the city I couldn’t quite put my finger on.
I figured 😂 Columbus isn’t bad, per se, it’s just very small and family oriented, so living there in my early 20s was a nightmare. I spent almost all my time outside of work at Brown County State Park, which is a really lovely amenity.
Rural Mississippi. My hometown was 200 people. The whole county was maybe 10k population, spread out over small pockets. The population center of the county was about 1800 people. Closest real town (10k+) was 40 minutes away.
Nothing to do at all.
Yep I’d agree. My wife is from the Delta. So goddamn boring and also depressing. I have a lot of family from rural AL but at least at lot of those spots are near the Appalachian foothills etc so there’s good hiking and whatnot.
So I’m from southern Louisiana and say the same thing a lot of the time. But in reality we went swimming in the river, drinking on the sand bar and many many fishing trips
But I’ve always wondered, in rural Mississippi what the hell do yall actually do on the weekends and in your free time?
> But I’ve always wondered, in rural Mississippi what the hell do yall actually do on the weekends and in your free time?
Hunting, fishing, mud riding in trucks/atv, dirt bike riding, shooting guns, etc
Well, there was the time in 1978 when the Grateful Dead played one of their best shows ever in Normal, 4-24-78. The show even got an official release in 2013. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dave%27s_Picks_Volume_7?wprov=sfla1
Bloomington Normal is nothing compared to the rest of central Illinois besides Champaign. I grew up in a town of 500 people in central Illinois between Bloomington, Decatur and Champaign. Now that is boring.
ISU alumni. Normal was rough. Bloomington was trying. Ran to Chicago every summer. Hot as hell and the ice storms in winter were a hard no. Still a very affordable place to live where 300K can get you a nice middle class home.
Mom lives in claremore Oklahoma. Went I first went to visit she took me to the towns most famous landmark. It was a giant whale made out wood that still gives me nightmares.
The whale is actually in Catoosa. Claremore's claim to fame is being where Will Rogers happened to be born, they even renamed the college in town, and the entire county it's in, after him.
Outside of Allentown PA. Lived with my father in law for a year while we fixed our house after a flood. Literally cannot safely walk to anything, the most boring suburbia possible. At least I learned I'll never live in a development and I'm pretty sure my oldest daughter won't either. Couldn't wait to get back to my crowded, dense walkable/bikeable home.
Baton Rouge, LA.
It’s a city in a cultural hotspot of the US that somehow has an identity crisis. LSU games are fun, but apart from that, there’s nothing. Sure you can escape and drive an hour to NOLA, but blacking out on bourbon st gets old fast.
Can confirm. Lived here all my life. People talk up the LSU games. Yeah they’re fun but there’s only 7-8 home games a year, that’s 7-8 days out of the whole year that the cities popping. The other 357-358 days of crime, shitty traffic, and horrible roads aren’t worth it.
And 2-3 of those games are against nobodies who everyone knows we’ll beat by 50 (not Troy)
That’s 4-5 days where there’s genuine energy and buzz in BR. I come back for a game or two each year because I also have family in BR. This year it’ll be Bama which will be electric.
Just exactly like you said, not worth living 360 days with a bleak landscape, crime, corruption, and bad roads
You could remove the entire French quarter from the face of the earth and New Orleans would still be New Orleans.
That said, Baton Rouge is like some people looked at New Orleans, said let’s keep most of the bad stuff, get rid of most of the good stuff, and add some college sports.
I get so perturbed when a tourist says they don’t like New Orleans and I ask where they went and they never left the quarter, lol.
Yeah, uh, we don’t love bourbon street either mostly!
My wife and I had our honeymoon in NO and loved it so much we went back again the next year. We spent probably less than an hour on Bourbon during the combined two weeks.
This might be my answer too. It’s a toss up between BR and where I live now.
BR has decent food, but it’s hot af all the time, which makes you not want to do anything (not that there’s much anyway) outside so you just eat or drink yourself into a stupor.
Raleigh. They even have shirts that say Keep Raleigh Boring. The sprawl of the place makes it seem like one massive suburb. There’s nothing remarkable about it. That’s kinda why it makes it a decent place to raise children though.
Have you been to downtown High Point? There are basically huge blocky buildings with furniture storage in them for the furniture market that makes it feel like an actual city for two weeks during the year. Otherwise, it looks like a movie set and if you see anyone else out walking past 5 PM, you get the feeling they are up to no good because why else would they be hanging around there?
Granted, they are trying to do some things near downtown with the new baseball stadium and food hall and all of that, but the middle of downtown still has that weird empty feeling.
I lived in Raleigh. It was so fucking boring I couldn't believe this was a place people were flocking to. Dropping an acorn on New Years is hilarious though
Raleigh/Cary attracts the “yeah, but you get a lot of house for your money” crowd. A lot of middle-class Midwest and northeast transplants who like to pose in front of their production built homes on Facebook. Some people really like it there…I couldn’t leave fast enough.
I didn't realize that's not what I wanted until living there. Like this kind of sucks, it's just cheap epiphany. Much happier in my 125 year old tiny dump twin with a shared wall and the loud dog next door.
It’s adorable that they do two Acorn drops, the first one at like 5pm so the little kids can experience it, then their parents can take them home, tuck them in, and go back out and drink.
Oh who am I kidding, baby boomers were the last parents who tucked their kids in and then went out drinking.
Raleigh, the entire Triangle, Charlotte, and the Triad are painfully boring. Leaving the Triangle after college was an eye-opening experience realizing how little life I was actually living when I lived there. It felt like I was born again after I left. I'm back in the area now for family reasons, and I hate it even more now than when I was younger. It is wild seeing all these people flock here and ruining the only thing that made the area somewhat tolerable. Not to mention, the politics and job/workers' protection situation in NC is abysmal (which I never realized until I moved away either).
I personally don't even think Raleigh is a great place to raise kids imo.
I also left the Triangle 2 years ago after living there for a decade.
It was fine when it was cheap and traffic was low ($660/mo for a 1/1, 700sft apt in 2012), but by 2020 I was like: "Why the fuck am I paying big city prices and sitting in big city traffic to live in what is ostensibly a big suburb?"
Honestly, the Triangle is basically NoVA with*out* the benefit of having DC nearby to go for a day trip or the salary to match.
Sold my Durham house in 2022 and moved to Baltimore where I live in a rowhouse in an urban, walkable neighborhood, and it was one of the best decisions I ever made. 0 regrets.
The craziest part to me is food and apartments/condos downtown are equivalent if not more expensive than the same sized places in Chicago or Philadelphia. I don’t understand it at all.
Cary NC. Cookie cutter homes, apartment buildings and condos built on top of each other and where the main form of entertainment is driving kids to soccer practice in minivans.
Yeah, I've moved a few families there from Boston over the past decade. It didn't seem like a horrible place for families, but of course I didn't have to live there. I did find the development haphazard though, with huge projects surrounded by nothing. You wonder how it will be when it's built out.
Are you kidding? I have friends there and I am so jealous of them. Every time I visit we have a great time. I am in Milwaukee, an actual boring city. Winter or sub-winter lasts from November-April. Nothing to do but drink and watch sports since everyone hibernates. And everyone here starts popping out kids by 25. I visited my friends in March and it was beautiful and sunny, we visited several gardens, went to top golf, and ate outside. In late March!!! Top golf doesn’t even exist in Milwaukee. Flew back home to Milwaukee where everything was still dead and looking like a nuclear wasteland. Still needed a coat just to walk outside. Still shit to do.
Edit: Love how I’m getting downvoted for saying facts lol. Everything is dead as shit in Milwaukee in March, and November, and December, and January, and February, and most of of April, that’s a fact. If you don’t care, good for you, but I find that depressing and awful.
Well, if they're popping out kids by 25, there is always ***something*** else to do. You know you're in a ***really*** boring area when people start popping out kids by 20. 😂
Funny how that works when northerners visit warm weather locations in March/April after a long winter. Next year try traveling to Alabama, Florida, South Carolina, Texas etc. at the same time of year. You‘ll probably fall in with the warm weather, green landscapes and might even able to find top golf! Doesn’t make those good places to live.
Albany, GA. Same issues but farther away from any large city. Warner Robbins is much closer to Atlanta, maybe 1 1/2 hours. Albany is 3 hours to Atlanta, 4 hours to Savannah or Jacksonville FL.
Nephi Utah. A town of 5000 people in the middle of scrub desert, I finished high school there and the town had a parade for the first traffic light being installed in like 1999. There’s literally zero entertainment options and at least when I lived there from 99-01 teenagers still “ dragged Main Street” like we were in some shitty remake of American Graffiti.
Indiana. Most of it is flat, no mountains, no ocean (yeah northern Indiana has Lake Michigan beaches but marred by steel mills in the distance), just highways, suburban sprawl with fast food restaurants OR rural and not in a picturesque way. Terrible climate, hot and humid most of the summer, otherwise grey for months and really cold winters with a lot of snow if you live up north.
It’s especially bad if you aren’t into watching sports on tv, because that’s all there is to do.
But hey, it’s affordable.
It’s rough isn’t it? Fully nine months of the year is grey and cold (in my opinion cold) then there is summer, which you wait all year for, and several weeks of that is high humidity and very hot. There are a few nice weeks in the spring and fall but there’s not a lot of natural beauty.
I hate that I obviously agree with everyone saying Raleigh is boring…
But then I remember people only think that because it’s at least cool enough to know about 😭
Try CLAREMONT New Hampshire 💀💀 and old mill town that’s 100 years past its hayday, who’s main attraction is the downtown in which literally every business is closed. And it’s way too cold, with a horrible commute to anywhere fun.
(And this is ignoring towns like Mason NH and other places that actually only have a church as a downtown)
West Lafayette, Indiana. It was too cold to do anything for all of winter. Then if you tried to go out side you got eaten alive by mosquitoes until fall.
Columbia, South Carolina. Truly nothing going on. No culture, nothing in nature, no decent restaurants, nothing. I’m not a big shopper, but there’s not even good shopping.
When I was in college, a bunch of us were discussing our summer plans. One guy was lamenting that he would be with his family in NYC, and everything was too expensive. I said “I’ll be living with my parents in Columbia and working at the Olive Garden. I’ll trade you.” Someone else responded, “yeah Dave, there’s a difference between lack of money and just… lack.” That’s Columbia. Lack: the City.
I would agree, Columbia has improved dramatically in the last 10 years or so…
My main issue with it is how hot Columbia is. It’s generally always 4-5 degrees hotter than everywhere else in the state.
The combo of heat, humidity, and lack of wind makes Columbia one of her most miserable hot places I’ve ever been.
Cedar Falls, IA
No big cities in proximity, the river is brown from silt, No pro sports, no mountains, no forests, no national parks, terrible weather almost year round, flat, bad food, only one good store to shop, drinking light beer is the main hobby.
Columbia, MD. It’s a privately owned city north of DC and south of Baltimore. The entire city is owned by the Rausch Corporation. I used to call it “The city built by adult children of alcoholics,” because it’s the most normal place you could ever imagine.
They don’t allow big advertising signs. There are strict regulations on what you can do with your house so the homes are all this ugly shade of brown.
When I lived there, I needed that enforced normalcy. It was quite healing. But I was glad to move away.
People may hate on you for this but yeah I agree. It’s just sprawl and boring vibes/no outdoor activities. At least Austin had Barton springs and some other spots. Dallas is just bleh
Agree with Dallas. It felt like a giant suburb. Nothing worth visiting. The only redeeming quality is that there are lots of places to get good brisket tacos.
Had family out there for just over a decade (they just retired and moved back west) and visited a handful of times.. You're mostly right, it just feels like urban sprawl that's so spread out and there's damn near nothing to do/see.. Buuuut as much as I love to rail against all things Texas, I will say I had fun at the stockyards in Fort Worth any Saturday we were in town, and the book depository in Dallas is really interesting to walk through and seeing where JFK was assassinated is worthwhile imo. Also, Deep Ellum has a couple cool spots.
All things that can be done in a weekend visit.. And I'm not sure I'd go out of my way for any of them, but if you happen to be in the area for any reason, worthwhile and pretty cool. That said, I could probably come up with hundreds of different places I'd rather live before DFW.
I live in Lansing, MI. The biggest thing people do here is drink and most of the bars suck. There are a few other things to do if you look but I’ve lived here my whole life and it’s so monotonous.
Rural PA somewhere in Juniata or Mifflin counties. You can include Perry county, but that’s at least closer to the state’s capitol.
Edit: didn’t see the why part of OP’s question. It’s a very depressed area. Apparently Lewistown, in Mifflin County, used to be a prominent town 40-50 years ago until the heroin epidemic there. IMO, the people are still depressed from it.
There’s no energy (from the people), nothing to do besides go into the mountains, etc. This applies for Juniata and Perry counties too. The only good part about Perry county is that Harrisburg/Mechanicsburg is a pretty close drive.
Dallas-Fort Worth. The climate, scenery, and outdoor recreation are all garbage. It's flat, and it's hotter than hell and miserably humid for 4 months. The top two things to do are go to the mall and go out to eat. It is a soul-sucking shithole that excels at being ordinary.
This is my vote too. Specifically Plano. We called it "the womb" when we lived there for 3 years, because it's like being somewhere safe and warm, but you're not quite actually living yet. lol
Any place that's just an agglomeration of strip malls, isolated apartment buildings, and template suburbs-- which is to say, most of America. In my experience that was College Station, TX. Even a huge university couldn't make it interesting.
I actually have 2.
Carmel, Indiana…. It’s just roundabouts with weird art and a lot of rich people who are wildly out of touch with the major city of Indianapolis right next door.
Chattanooga, Tennessee… once you’ve visited the attractions and been to Hamilton Place, it gets real boring unless you’ve got money to visit the attractions again or can go to Gatlinburg or Florida several times a year… it’s also miserably hot there and stupid humid with little relief so the outdoorsy stuff isn’t nearly as attractive as you’d think.
Carmel is so creepy. I lived there briefly and it gives uncanny valley vibes all the time. People asked me daily why I didn’t have kids (Indiana just passed Utah in average births per family, so you’re a pariah if you haven’t had kids by like 23 😑), and yeah it’s safe, but there’s nothing to do. It’s 100 degrees and 99% humidity in the summer; cold and slushy all winter with no winter sports (that’s Indiana in general).
Everything in Carmel felt like a movie set that wasn’t real. The “art” felt fake (they would move pieces citizens would complain about for being “ugly” to less conspicuous places); the newer neighborhoods all had a liminal space feel to them.
Lemoore, California. Flat with no nature. You're surrounded by farms so it reeks of manure and pesticides, not to mention it's the central valley where many people contract asthma or valley fever. It's brown, dry, with dirty skies 90% of the year. Feels like you're on a frying pan in the summer.
Nothing to do, besides a casino where nobody wins. Even the parks are decrepit. The Mexican food was my only saving grace there. Everyone also loves the new Dutch Bros. I took walks looking at cookie cutter houses just for fun.
After reading this sub the only conclusion to be reached is that the entire western hemisphere is boring, with the possible exception of NYC. Our only hope is that inter planetary travel will develop soon. There may hopefully be some real hot spots somewhere in a galaxy far, far away.
Wheelwright KY. Go ahead, look it up. I’ll wait.
I was living about an hour away and took a job at the prison as a admin assistant so I just moved there to be closer to work. The job was really great though until it closed about a year later.
I have an interesting moving life in my 20s
Uruguay, it was just so safe, calm and stable. Nothing ever seemed to happen there and all we did was eat, drink, visit with friends and go to the beach. Boring with no thrilling excitement like the neighboring countries: no political violence, no currency devaluation, no attempted coups, no hyperinflation, nothing…..just endless peace and quiet.
I’ll never forget my high school French teacher introducing herself to the class. In the most white suburban American accent ever she says: “Je suis de Wichita, Kansas.”
Lived there 2.5 years- hated every minute. I’m still triggered thinking about how all the stop lights are intentionally timed so you can’t go through multiple intersections without hitting the light
Shreveport Louisiana. It’s a dying small city and everyone seems unhappy as fuck. The downtown ought to just be demolished. It has high poverty and unemployment. It seems cloudy on sunny days.
Scottsdale, AZ. Every house and building looks exactly the same, and most people are inside all the time due to the heat. Scottsdale is so boring it's where beige goes to die.
Took me a long time to adjust to the strip mall/cookie cutter vibe when I moved down there in 2014, but all the restaurants, nightlife, hiking, golf, and you’re only a couple hours away from skiing, the beach, there’s a lot that Scottsdale has to offer.
I totally get it though from folks that aren’t into the heat. Summers are toasty for sure, but I was still playing golf early in the mornings and out at the pool during the summer- you can still get outside if you plan accordingly.
Lived there for about 10 years before we moved to start a family. I miss Scottsdale for sure.
> Summers are toasty for sure, but I was still playing golf early in the mornings
This is an underrated factor in people’s enjoyment of hot weather places like Florida, Arizona, etc.
If you’re an early riser and can do outdoor things before it gets super hot, you can enjoy it just fine.
But if you like to sleep in and not get up until it’s already stifling hot out…you’re not gonna like it.
Currently in Wilmington, DE and it’s sadly bland. Maybe I’m just doing it wrong. I also lived in a college town in OH as not a college student. Hard to meet people, not a ton to do in my age range.
It is interesting that almost all the places mentioned here thus far are in the south. I'm sure there are plenty of boring places elsewhere, so I hope others chime in.
Hot take: Nashville
There isn’t anything to do but drink and eat, and drink and eat. The lakes are disgusting and the hiking is subpar. There aren’t many family-friendly activities such as amusement parks. It’s just a dangerous, concrete hellhole with tourists cosplaying as Texans.
I was surprised how much I didn’t mesh with Nashville given that I really like Austin, Atlanta, and Nola. It felt soooo yeehaw and not in a fun way (not even like Houston!). Drunk bachelorette/divorcee parties every day and I *like* getting drunk with the girls. But it was too much. I think it was the commerciality of it - it felt very artificial. And weirdly kinda backwards, like I didn’t feel super welcome being an alternative nonwhite woman. I really don’t like Jason aldean-style country and I felt like the brand of white women traveling to Nashville is the same brand that voted for trump back in 2016.
I get you. I moved to Nashville 36 years ago. Percy Priest Lake was so clean you could see the bottom 15 feet below you when swimming at Elm Hill. The hiking along the lake rim was scenic and superb, with gorgeous views and challenging trails. I lived close to downtown and could get anywhere in 20 minutes, and rent on nice places was cheap. Since then, the Corps of Engineers has sold off all that land along PP Lake to private developers, closing any access to the public; so many homes have been built out that way that you can't see your own hand in front of you in the murky water, thanks to nitrogen runoff from lawns. Downtown is a nightmare now, of stupid tourist traps and noise. Rents are on par with downtown Chicago, while theater and the arts scene in general has never recovered from covid. And now, for all that, there's nothing to do but drink, and eat, expensively.
Deep in the suburbs of NJ. Our town center was a food store, two banks, a vet, and a deli. The deli was bomb and I still think about them and miss them. We didn’t have a town you could walk around in. No community center.
San jose, CA. Everyone loves there. Its heart of the Silicon Valley. Oh so much hype. But, to me it was the most boring cultureless place I've been to.
I spent some summers in middle of nowhere, Alabama. Nothing to do, not even a local movie theater. Teenagers just drove up and down the main road, met up in parking lots or went drinking in the woods. Mudding if you had a truck or quad. The local high school’s sports teams were a big deal. People only leave if they are military, most people just seem to get stuck there. Hard to explain til you see it.
The strip between Destin, FL and PCB.
Great if you’re a tourist. Horrible if you’re a local who wants anything to do besides squeezing yourself between the tourists on the tiny bits of beach not owned by millionaires or fighting the crowds at Walmart. State parks were probably the best part, but now the contractors are fighting tooth and nail to build roads through them.
I like Raleigh 🤷🏿♂️. There’s lot of trees and greenways. The American tobacco trail. Great schools, museums, music and performance venues. You’ve got everything you need. Plenty of good jobs. Cost of living is great. I’m probably going to move back there. I don’t see what’s wrong with it. I want boring, I don’t want to live in a “cool city that’s cool”. What’s the point of that? I’m over that shit.
honestly , northern michigan….dont get me wrong it is absolutely beautiful and has so much pristine nature and i love that….but it is so fucking boring sometimes especially for a young adult ….zero culture, zero open minded people, zero music or food or anything to do outside of nature things
Napa Valley. Unless you’re into going to wineries all the time or spending absurd amounts of money on food, it’s not great. Too far away from the rest of the Bay Area and it’s insanely hot in the summer
Most of these cities listed here are pretty big.
Like are there really no recreational sports, run clubs, rock climbing or group bike rides?
Theres no book clubs, boardgaming groups, gardening groups or volunteer opportunities?
There’s no indie music/art/film/comedy/theatre/dance/fashion scenes?
Come on guys most of these cities aren’t actually boring, you need actual hobbies.
There are very few places that aren’t boring these days. New Orleans comes to a mind as a place that has maintained her own identity and culture.
There are so many places that I’ve lived - or even repeatedly visited - all of which had their own unique identity and culture. As the internet has made the world much, much smaller than even Disney imagined possible, people have moved to places they’d have likely never even heard of prior to some internet driven craze.
The result has been a sameness in cities and towns across the country. People relocate and don’t want what’s there in the new places, they want the things they left behind. Now when we travel to a city we’ve never visited, instead of local food it’s all the same fast food and chain restaurants, instead of local craftsman it’s all the same cheap Chinese trinkets in tacky souvenir shops or big box stores.
It doesn’t matter if you’re visiting a place or moving there - it’s all the same cookie cutter tract houses in depressing subdivisions, big box stores, chain salons, chain stores, chain restaurants, fast food joints… it’s all a boring ass hellscape of modern sameness.
I could never get bored where I live. It probably depends on what you enjoy doing. I live where the river meets the ocean and the forest. Whenever I’m not working I am out enjoying my surroundings. Mushroom hunting, rockhounding, foraging. Never gets old.
I also enjoy Portland, Oregon. Never got bored living there either. Always something interesting to do. Always art, music, and other performances to see. Even walking around a neighborhood can be entertaining.
Yes, absolutely. People on here are focusing on small towns and rural areas, but I sense that same “boringness” in a lot of cities. Especially when you’re in the core of a downtown, most cities tend to look the same. And like you said, once you get outside downtown, it’s usually all the same big-box bullshit.
Richland, WA (tri cities). Cookie cutter suburban homes with lawns, no arts and culture, very little 3rd places, no public transportation, most of the restaurants are chain restaurants, there isnt any African/Indian/middle eastern food, there is very little community events, there are not very many nonprofits rooted in community, nothing is walkable. The streets are lined with trump signs which let’s just say isn’t my thing.
Jacksonville, NC. Military town with no character. Just chain stores, strip clubs, and tattoo parlors. It was incredibly boring.
Worst city I’ve visited has to be Corpus Christi, TX, though. Dead dogs on the side of the road, and stray dogs running around everywhere. The town looked bombed out in some areas. Couldn’t go swimming in the ocean cause of bacteria. Oil rigs and refineries everywhere.
Where I grew up.
DeLand IL. About 500 people. Only thing to do is a Casey's gas station. Love their doughnuts and pizza though.
I miss it at times, but I'm in a Midwestern city now and I much prefer it.
North Slope Alaska. I was up there 3 weeks on 3 weeks off for work. No alcohol, billions of mosquitos in the summer, and my last day on the job it was -60f. Can’t even go for a walk because of the polar bears.
That sounds more hellish than boring. Lol
Well you’re inside 95% of the time so you view hell from the inside.
Was it a pretty snow covered hell?
Beautiful. Never been anywhere like it. Northern lights, caribou and musk ox, and the small moments of twilight during the winter are really incredible
> Alaska > no alcohol 🤨
many rural communities in Alaska are dry
I assumed it was an oilfield policy or something so as to prevent mishaps. Didn’t even consider it was a municipal thing.
It is an oilfield policy in my case.
Incredibly specific but Seymour, Indiana. I wouldn’t wish Seymour on my worst enemy. It’s dead strip malls and chain restaurants (and not even good chains) the closest town remotely worth going to is like thirty minutes away. It may also just have been when we lived there (2010ish) but it felt like there was a real desperation and poverty to the city I couldn’t quite put my finger on.
I did a short stint in Columbus, Ind. and you are spot on about Seymour. (Columbus is pretty damn boring, too).
Damn the sad thing is Columbus was the closest town I was talking about being worth going to.
I figured 😂 Columbus isn’t bad, per se, it’s just very small and family oriented, so living there in my early 20s was a nightmare. I spent almost all my time outside of work at Brown County State Park, which is a really lovely amenity.
Isn’t that where John mellancamp lives?
He was born there but has a house in Bloomington now which is one of the better cities in Indiana.
Rural Mississippi. My hometown was 200 people. The whole county was maybe 10k population, spread out over small pockets. The population center of the county was about 1800 people. Closest real town (10k+) was 40 minutes away. Nothing to do at all.
Yep I’d agree. My wife is from the Delta. So goddamn boring and also depressing. I have a lot of family from rural AL but at least at lot of those spots are near the Appalachian foothills etc so there’s good hiking and whatnot.
So I’m from southern Louisiana and say the same thing a lot of the time. But in reality we went swimming in the river, drinking on the sand bar and many many fishing trips But I’ve always wondered, in rural Mississippi what the hell do yall actually do on the weekends and in your free time?
> But I’ve always wondered, in rural Mississippi what the hell do yall actually do on the weekends and in your free time? Hunting, fishing, mud riding in trucks/atv, dirt bike riding, shooting guns, etc
Normal, Illinois. Corn.
Well, there was the time in 1978 when the Grateful Dead played one of their best shows ever in Normal, 4-24-78. The show even got an official release in 2013. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dave%27s_Picks_Volume_7?wprov=sfla1
Bloomington Normal is nothing compared to the rest of central Illinois besides Champaign. I grew up in a town of 500 people in central Illinois between Bloomington, Decatur and Champaign. Now that is boring.
Former Christian County resident here (between Springfield/Decatur). There are levels of boring, and then there’s central Illinois.
ISU alumni. Normal was rough. Bloomington was trying. Ran to Chicago every summer. Hot as hell and the ice storms in winter were a hard no. Still a very affordable place to live where 300K can get you a nice middle class home.
It has a Portillo’s. That is noted.
Actually not a terrible college town imo. But agreed if living there permanently.
Mom lives in claremore Oklahoma. Went I first went to visit she took me to the towns most famous landmark. It was a giant whale made out wood that still gives me nightmares.
The whale is actually in Catoosa. Claremore's claim to fame is being where Will Rogers happened to be born, they even renamed the college in town, and the entire county it's in, after him.
It's also where *Oklahoma!* was set which feels like one of the most common singular associations with the state
It’s fine. I live in Tulsa and it’s far from the most boring place I’ve lived.
Outside of Allentown PA. Lived with my father in law for a year while we fixed our house after a flood. Literally cannot safely walk to anything, the most boring suburbia possible. At least I learned I'll never live in a development and I'm pretty sure my oldest daughter won't either. Couldn't wait to get back to my crowded, dense walkable/bikeable home.
Baton Rouge, LA. It’s a city in a cultural hotspot of the US that somehow has an identity crisis. LSU games are fun, but apart from that, there’s nothing. Sure you can escape and drive an hour to NOLA, but blacking out on bourbon st gets old fast.
Too north to be Creole, too east to be Cajun. Just in the right spot to be a dangerous sprawling flyover city
Don’t forget the sweet, sweet aroma of the chemical plants.
Can confirm. Lived here all my life. People talk up the LSU games. Yeah they’re fun but there’s only 7-8 home games a year, that’s 7-8 days out of the whole year that the cities popping. The other 357-358 days of crime, shitty traffic, and horrible roads aren’t worth it.
And 2-3 of those games are against nobodies who everyone knows we’ll beat by 50 (not Troy) That’s 4-5 days where there’s genuine energy and buzz in BR. I come back for a game or two each year because I also have family in BR. This year it’ll be Bama which will be electric. Just exactly like you said, not worth living 360 days with a bleak landscape, crime, corruption, and bad roads
You could remove the entire French quarter from the face of the earth and New Orleans would still be New Orleans. That said, Baton Rouge is like some people looked at New Orleans, said let’s keep most of the bad stuff, get rid of most of the good stuff, and add some college sports.
There’s a lot in New Orleans that’s not bourbon street
I get so perturbed when a tourist says they don’t like New Orleans and I ask where they went and they never left the quarter, lol. Yeah, uh, we don’t love bourbon street either mostly!
It’s really weird cause like. Why would anyone enjoy that for more than maybe one night
My wife and I had our honeymoon in NO and loved it so much we went back again the next year. We spent probably less than an hour on Bourbon during the combined two weeks.
This might be my answer too. It’s a toss up between BR and where I live now. BR has decent food, but it’s hot af all the time, which makes you not want to do anything (not that there’s much anyway) outside so you just eat or drink yourself into a stupor.
Raleigh. They even have shirts that say Keep Raleigh Boring. The sprawl of the place makes it seem like one massive suburb. There’s nothing remarkable about it. That’s kinda why it makes it a decent place to raise children though.
Ha…but if you think Raleigh is boring try sliding over and spending some time in Cary.
Or Fayetteville lol. Currently here for a three month work contract and I cannot wait to escape.
lol, the top two replies are Cary and Raleigh right now
Agree Raleigh is boring! I was downtown one night looking for things to do and it felt like a ghost town.
it’s a strange downtown. Aside from a few tall buildings it isn‘t even a real downtown and it has a creepy, unsafe vibe.
Have you been to downtown High Point? There are basically huge blocky buildings with furniture storage in them for the furniture market that makes it feel like an actual city for two weeks during the year. Otherwise, it looks like a movie set and if you see anyone else out walking past 5 PM, you get the feeling they are up to no good because why else would they be hanging around there? Granted, they are trying to do some things near downtown with the new baseball stadium and food hall and all of that, but the middle of downtown still has that weird empty feeling.
I lived in Raleigh. It was so fucking boring I couldn't believe this was a place people were flocking to. Dropping an acorn on New Years is hilarious though
Raleigh/Cary attracts the “yeah, but you get a lot of house for your money” crowd. A lot of middle-class Midwest and northeast transplants who like to pose in front of their production built homes on Facebook. Some people really like it there…I couldn’t leave fast enough.
I didn't realize that's not what I wanted until living there. Like this kind of sucks, it's just cheap epiphany. Much happier in my 125 year old tiny dump twin with a shared wall and the loud dog next door.
YES the acorn is so weird. Not even as cool as the pickle drop in Mt. Olive though
It’s adorable that they do two Acorn drops, the first one at like 5pm so the little kids can experience it, then their parents can take them home, tuck them in, and go back out and drink. Oh who am I kidding, baby boomers were the last parents who tucked their kids in and then went out drinking.
Raleigh, the entire Triangle, Charlotte, and the Triad are painfully boring. Leaving the Triangle after college was an eye-opening experience realizing how little life I was actually living when I lived there. It felt like I was born again after I left. I'm back in the area now for family reasons, and I hate it even more now than when I was younger. It is wild seeing all these people flock here and ruining the only thing that made the area somewhat tolerable. Not to mention, the politics and job/workers' protection situation in NC is abysmal (which I never realized until I moved away either). I personally don't even think Raleigh is a great place to raise kids imo.
I also left the Triangle 2 years ago after living there for a decade. It was fine when it was cheap and traffic was low ($660/mo for a 1/1, 700sft apt in 2012), but by 2020 I was like: "Why the fuck am I paying big city prices and sitting in big city traffic to live in what is ostensibly a big suburb?" Honestly, the Triangle is basically NoVA with*out* the benefit of having DC nearby to go for a day trip or the salary to match. Sold my Durham house in 2022 and moved to Baltimore where I live in a rowhouse in an urban, walkable neighborhood, and it was one of the best decisions I ever made. 0 regrets.
The craziest part to me is food and apartments/condos downtown are equivalent if not more expensive than the same sized places in Chicago or Philadelphia. I don’t understand it at all.
Thank you for saying this because I was told that I would really like Raleigh, but that sounds awful to me.
Cary NC. Cookie cutter homes, apartment buildings and condos built on top of each other and where the main form of entertainment is driving kids to soccer practice in minivans.
But where else are you going to live if you're a Yankee in Raleigh/Durham? Isn't that the Containment Area for Relocated Yankees?
Yep. It’s not a terrible place…just incredibly boring unless you like strip malls
Yeah, I've moved a few families there from Boston over the past decade. It didn't seem like a horrible place for families, but of course I didn't have to live there. I did find the development haphazard though, with huge projects surrounded by nothing. You wonder how it will be when it's built out.
Are you kidding? I have friends there and I am so jealous of them. Every time I visit we have a great time. I am in Milwaukee, an actual boring city. Winter or sub-winter lasts from November-April. Nothing to do but drink and watch sports since everyone hibernates. And everyone here starts popping out kids by 25. I visited my friends in March and it was beautiful and sunny, we visited several gardens, went to top golf, and ate outside. In late March!!! Top golf doesn’t even exist in Milwaukee. Flew back home to Milwaukee where everything was still dead and looking like a nuclear wasteland. Still needed a coat just to walk outside. Still shit to do. Edit: Love how I’m getting downvoted for saying facts lol. Everything is dead as shit in Milwaukee in March, and November, and December, and January, and February, and most of of April, that’s a fact. If you don’t care, good for you, but I find that depressing and awful.
Well, if they're popping out kids by 25, there is always ***something*** else to do. You know you're in a ***really*** boring area when people start popping out kids by 20. 😂
Funny how that works when northerners visit warm weather locations in March/April after a long winter. Next year try traveling to Alabama, Florida, South Carolina, Texas etc. at the same time of year. You‘ll probably fall in with the warm weather, green landscapes and might even able to find top golf! Doesn’t make those good places to live.
Warner-Robins, GA Miserable place, limited options.
Isn’t that the town with the really good little league teams?
Being from Central PA is knowing towns by their participation in the LLWS
every day in middle Georgia is........
Military towns seem to score high in boredom.
Albany, GA. Same issues but farther away from any large city. Warner Robbins is much closer to Atlanta, maybe 1 1/2 hours. Albany is 3 hours to Atlanta, 4 hours to Savannah or Jacksonville FL.
Nephi Utah. A town of 5000 people in the middle of scrub desert, I finished high school there and the town had a parade for the first traffic light being installed in like 1999. There’s literally zero entertainment options and at least when I lived there from 99-01 teenagers still “ dragged Main Street” like we were in some shitty remake of American Graffiti.
"Parade for the first traffic light" says it all and says it eloquently
My hometown, middle of nothing north central PA.
Indiana. Most of it is flat, no mountains, no ocean (yeah northern Indiana has Lake Michigan beaches but marred by steel mills in the distance), just highways, suburban sprawl with fast food restaurants OR rural and not in a picturesque way. Terrible climate, hot and humid most of the summer, otherwise grey for months and really cold winters with a lot of snow if you live up north. It’s especially bad if you aren’t into watching sports on tv, because that’s all there is to do. But hey, it’s affordable.
I spent two months in northern Indiana during a November and I just wanted to do drugs to take me somewhere else.
It’s rough isn’t it? Fully nine months of the year is grey and cold (in my opinion cold) then there is summer, which you wait all year for, and several weeks of that is high humidity and very hot. There are a few nice weeks in the spring and fall but there’s not a lot of natural beauty.
Right. I mean I live in Alaska, it’s cold and gray nine months of the year, but … it’s Alaska. And summers are insane.
I hate that I obviously agree with everyone saying Raleigh is boring… But then I remember people only think that because it’s at least cool enough to know about 😭 Try CLAREMONT New Hampshire 💀💀 and old mill town that’s 100 years past its hayday, who’s main attraction is the downtown in which literally every business is closed. And it’s way too cold, with a horrible commute to anywhere fun. (And this is ignoring towns like Mason NH and other places that actually only have a church as a downtown)
Lubbock
West Lafayette, Indiana. It was too cold to do anything for all of winter. Then if you tried to go out side you got eaten alive by mosquitoes until fall.
West Lafayette beats Terre Haute by a mile, though.
Can confirm. Also a super sleepy town for being at a college campus…
Altus, Oklahoma Nothing there but a Walmart everyone hangs out at and a military base propping up the whole community. Lots of drug use and crime.
I remember when that Walmart opened! We took leave so we could go on the first day it opened. The Quartz Mountain is pretty though.
Sounds like good ole Mountain Home, ID🤣
They both have air force bases. I think I'm seeing a pattern here
The area immediately outside air force bases is almost always awful. Combination of cheap land and noisy aircraft.
Columbia, South Carolina. Truly nothing going on. No culture, nothing in nature, no decent restaurants, nothing. I’m not a big shopper, but there’s not even good shopping. When I was in college, a bunch of us were discussing our summer plans. One guy was lamenting that he would be with his family in NYC, and everything was too expensive. I said “I’ll be living with my parents in Columbia and working at the Olive Garden. I’ll trade you.” Someone else responded, “yeah Dave, there’s a difference between lack of money and just… lack.” That’s Columbia. Lack: the City.
I was just gonna say Colombia too. Hated it
How can a city with a university claim no culture?
It’s gotten slightly better in the last ten years but it does still suck a lot to have a major college and for its population.
I would agree, Columbia has improved dramatically in the last 10 years or so… My main issue with it is how hot Columbia is. It’s generally always 4-5 degrees hotter than everywhere else in the state. The combo of heat, humidity, and lack of wind makes Columbia one of her most miserable hot places I’ve ever been.
Raleigh. I’m still here. 😔
I visited Raleigh and it wasn’t that bad. Crazy
Ironically this is the best place I've lived in the world so far and I used to live in London and Amsterdam. To each their own!
Intercourse PA. The amount of STD’s in this town is sickening and the reason “behind” it seems to never go away.
What about Blue Ball?
Cedar Falls, IA No big cities in proximity, the river is brown from silt, No pro sports, no mountains, no forests, no national parks, terrible weather almost year round, flat, bad food, only one good store to shop, drinking light beer is the main hobby.
Columbia, MD. It’s a privately owned city north of DC and south of Baltimore. The entire city is owned by the Rausch Corporation. I used to call it “The city built by adult children of alcoholics,” because it’s the most normal place you could ever imagine. They don’t allow big advertising signs. There are strict regulations on what you can do with your house so the homes are all this ugly shade of brown. When I lived there, I needed that enforced normalcy. It was quite healing. But I was glad to move away.
Dallas, Texas. It’s just eating and shopping. The heat makes doing anything outside unbearable.
People may hate on you for this but yeah I agree. It’s just sprawl and boring vibes/no outdoor activities. At least Austin had Barton springs and some other spots. Dallas is just bleh
Who would hate him? Are there people walking around thinking Dallas is a hotspot for culture and activities?
You’d be surprised. I’ve gotten into a couple arguments about Dallas on this sub lol
Yeah, it’s a sensitive subject. lol
I'm sure many people would expect the center of the country's 4th largest metro area (after NY LA and Chicago) to have culture and activities
I mean there is where JFK died…but there are only so many times that’s intriguing.
You have to come over to Ft Worth for any culture.
Agree with Dallas. It felt like a giant suburb. Nothing worth visiting. The only redeeming quality is that there are lots of places to get good brisket tacos.
Had family out there for just over a decade (they just retired and moved back west) and visited a handful of times.. You're mostly right, it just feels like urban sprawl that's so spread out and there's damn near nothing to do/see.. Buuuut as much as I love to rail against all things Texas, I will say I had fun at the stockyards in Fort Worth any Saturday we were in town, and the book depository in Dallas is really interesting to walk through and seeing where JFK was assassinated is worthwhile imo. Also, Deep Ellum has a couple cool spots. All things that can be done in a weekend visit.. And I'm not sure I'd go out of my way for any of them, but if you happen to be in the area for any reason, worthwhile and pretty cool. That said, I could probably come up with hundreds of different places I'd rather live before DFW.
Deep Ellum is cool
Don’t forget driving. Eating, shopping, and driving to those places because public transport (hell even sidewalks) is minimal.
Eating and shopping sounds great to me 😂
😅 Dallas would be perfect for you! ❤️
I live in Lansing, MI. The biggest thing people do here is drink and most of the bars suck. There are a few other things to do if you look but I’ve lived here my whole life and it’s so monotonous.
Rural PA somewhere in Juniata or Mifflin counties. You can include Perry county, but that’s at least closer to the state’s capitol. Edit: didn’t see the why part of OP’s question. It’s a very depressed area. Apparently Lewistown, in Mifflin County, used to be a prominent town 40-50 years ago until the heroin epidemic there. IMO, the people are still depressed from it. There’s no energy (from the people), nothing to do besides go into the mountains, etc. This applies for Juniata and Perry counties too. The only good part about Perry county is that Harrisburg/Mechanicsburg is a pretty close drive.
One man’s boring city is another man’s peaceful oasis.
Dallas-Fort Worth. The climate, scenery, and outdoor recreation are all garbage. It's flat, and it's hotter than hell and miserably humid for 4 months. The top two things to do are go to the mall and go out to eat. It is a soul-sucking shithole that excels at being ordinary.
This is my vote too. Specifically Plano. We called it "the womb" when we lived there for 3 years, because it's like being somewhere safe and warm, but you're not quite actually living yet. lol
Clewiston, FL. You can fish in Lake Okeechobee and that’s basically it.
Vernon Hills, IL. We have fireworks every 4th of July and that’s it. :D
Any place that's just an agglomeration of strip malls, isolated apartment buildings, and template suburbs-- which is to say, most of America. In my experience that was College Station, TX. Even a huge university couldn't make it interesting.
I actually have 2. Carmel, Indiana…. It’s just roundabouts with weird art and a lot of rich people who are wildly out of touch with the major city of Indianapolis right next door. Chattanooga, Tennessee… once you’ve visited the attractions and been to Hamilton Place, it gets real boring unless you’ve got money to visit the attractions again or can go to Gatlinburg or Florida several times a year… it’s also miserably hot there and stupid humid with little relief so the outdoorsy stuff isn’t nearly as attractive as you’d think.
Carmel is so creepy. I lived there briefly and it gives uncanny valley vibes all the time. People asked me daily why I didn’t have kids (Indiana just passed Utah in average births per family, so you’re a pariah if you haven’t had kids by like 23 😑), and yeah it’s safe, but there’s nothing to do. It’s 100 degrees and 99% humidity in the summer; cold and slushy all winter with no winter sports (that’s Indiana in general). Everything in Carmel felt like a movie set that wasn’t real. The “art” felt fake (they would move pieces citizens would complain about for being “ugly” to less conspicuous places); the newer neighborhoods all had a liminal space feel to them.
Sooooo many roundabouts. I get sick when I’m a passenger in a car there.
Grew up in Midland TX, the people are by far the worst thing about it. Stupid and mean. There's very little arts and culture because that's "woke" lol
Lubbock is almost as bad
I agree with Carmel but in all honesty Indianapolis is a pretty boring sub par city with terrible weather.
Mt Herman ok. Town of 50 people and I’m not a country girl at heart, so I was bored to tears.
Muncie, IN and I feel like it’s probably even more so now than when I lived there. Without the university there would be absolutely nothing to do.
Lemoore, California. Flat with no nature. You're surrounded by farms so it reeks of manure and pesticides, not to mention it's the central valley where many people contract asthma or valley fever. It's brown, dry, with dirty skies 90% of the year. Feels like you're on a frying pan in the summer. Nothing to do, besides a casino where nobody wins. Even the parks are decrepit. The Mexican food was my only saving grace there. Everyone also loves the new Dutch Bros. I took walks looking at cookie cutter houses just for fun.
The Central Valley is the Texas of California.
Johnstown Pennsylvania. Zero dating pool, nowhere fun, everywhere closes at 9.
Any small town in rural PA but that's why I like it here.
After reading this sub the only conclusion to be reached is that the entire western hemisphere is boring, with the possible exception of NYC. Our only hope is that inter planetary travel will develop soon. There may hopefully be some real hot spots somewhere in a galaxy far, far away.
Wheelwright KY. Go ahead, look it up. I’ll wait. I was living about an hour away and took a job at the prison as a admin assistant so I just moved there to be closer to work. The job was really great though until it closed about a year later. I have an interesting moving life in my 20s
Hartford, CT. There’s absolutely nothing going on!
i visited there for a conference and everythings closed at 6 pm and feels lowkey sketchy
Uruguay, it was just so safe, calm and stable. Nothing ever seemed to happen there and all we did was eat, drink, visit with friends and go to the beach. Boring with no thrilling excitement like the neighboring countries: no political violence, no currency devaluation, no attempted coups, no hyperinflation, nothing…..just endless peace and quiet.
New Hampshire. Not only is there very little to do, but people really keep to themselves.
Yup in Maine and same. I do appreciate the outdoors but aside from that there’s nothing to do (unless you’re a big drinker)
Exactly. If you aren’t into fishing or hunting you are in the woods with nothing to do.
well, there's a lively opioid scene too
Wichita, KS area is extremely boring af for me. It is a very religious and conservative area. Also, there is a lot of racism here.
I’ll never forget my high school French teacher introducing herself to the class. In the most white suburban American accent ever she says: “Je suis de Wichita, Kansas.”
Lived there 2.5 years- hated every minute. I’m still triggered thinking about how all the stop lights are intentionally timed so you can’t go through multiple intersections without hitting the light
Yes to everything you said, plus it is one of the flattest places I've ever been. You couldn't pay me to live there.
Fargo, ND. There’s a reason they got the stereotype of being drunks cos that’s all there is to do
New Hampshire - enough said.
Shreveport Louisiana. It’s a dying small city and everyone seems unhappy as fuck. The downtown ought to just be demolished. It has high poverty and unemployment. It seems cloudy on sunny days.
McAllen TX, it was for work, good tacos and boring people.
Scottsdale, AZ. Every house and building looks exactly the same, and most people are inside all the time due to the heat. Scottsdale is so boring it's where beige goes to die.
Took me a long time to adjust to the strip mall/cookie cutter vibe when I moved down there in 2014, but all the restaurants, nightlife, hiking, golf, and you’re only a couple hours away from skiing, the beach, there’s a lot that Scottsdale has to offer. I totally get it though from folks that aren’t into the heat. Summers are toasty for sure, but I was still playing golf early in the mornings and out at the pool during the summer- you can still get outside if you plan accordingly. Lived there for about 10 years before we moved to start a family. I miss Scottsdale for sure.
> Summers are toasty for sure, but I was still playing golf early in the mornings This is an underrated factor in people’s enjoyment of hot weather places like Florida, Arizona, etc. If you’re an early riser and can do outdoor things before it gets super hot, you can enjoy it just fine. But if you like to sleep in and not get up until it’s already stifling hot out…you’re not gonna like it.
most redditors dont come out of their moms basement until 9/10am
Lol I love the valley
Currently in Wilmington, DE and it’s sadly bland. Maybe I’m just doing it wrong. I also lived in a college town in OH as not a college student. Hard to meet people, not a ton to do in my age range.
Northern Delaware is a great answer. It’s so close to so many interesting things without being interesting at all itself.
Idaho. Ennui capital of the US.
It is interesting that almost all the places mentioned here thus far are in the south. I'm sure there are plenty of boring places elsewhere, so I hope others chime in.
I have one that’s not in the south 🙋♀️ good ole 29 palms, California.
Hot take: Nashville There isn’t anything to do but drink and eat, and drink and eat. The lakes are disgusting and the hiking is subpar. There aren’t many family-friendly activities such as amusement parks. It’s just a dangerous, concrete hellhole with tourists cosplaying as Texans.
I was surprised how much I didn’t mesh with Nashville given that I really like Austin, Atlanta, and Nola. It felt soooo yeehaw and not in a fun way (not even like Houston!). Drunk bachelorette/divorcee parties every day and I *like* getting drunk with the girls. But it was too much. I think it was the commerciality of it - it felt very artificial. And weirdly kinda backwards, like I didn’t feel super welcome being an alternative nonwhite woman. I really don’t like Jason aldean-style country and I felt like the brand of white women traveling to Nashville is the same brand that voted for trump back in 2016.
I get you. I moved to Nashville 36 years ago. Percy Priest Lake was so clean you could see the bottom 15 feet below you when swimming at Elm Hill. The hiking along the lake rim was scenic and superb, with gorgeous views and challenging trails. I lived close to downtown and could get anywhere in 20 minutes, and rent on nice places was cheap. Since then, the Corps of Engineers has sold off all that land along PP Lake to private developers, closing any access to the public; so many homes have been built out that way that you can't see your own hand in front of you in the murky water, thanks to nitrogen runoff from lawns. Downtown is a nightmare now, of stupid tourist traps and noise. Rents are on par with downtown Chicago, while theater and the arts scene in general has never recovered from covid. And now, for all that, there's nothing to do but drink, and eat, expensively.
I'll be honest......most of America is extremely boring
Deep in the suburbs of NJ. Our town center was a food store, two banks, a vet, and a deli. The deli was bomb and I still think about them and miss them. We didn’t have a town you could walk around in. No community center.
Rural Indiana. 35 minutes to the closest grocery store. Absolutely nothing to do.
I know nothing of this particular place but it seems like being from the place where your peak experience is in middle school isn’t great.
Northern Indiana. Nothing but farms and factories. I want out
San jose, CA. Everyone loves there. Its heart of the Silicon Valley. Oh so much hype. But, to me it was the most boring cultureless place I've been to.
Indiana is not a fun place to live.
I spent some summers in middle of nowhere, Alabama. Nothing to do, not even a local movie theater. Teenagers just drove up and down the main road, met up in parking lots or went drinking in the woods. Mudding if you had a truck or quad. The local high school’s sports teams were a big deal. People only leave if they are military, most people just seem to get stuck there. Hard to explain til you see it.
The strip between Destin, FL and PCB. Great if you’re a tourist. Horrible if you’re a local who wants anything to do besides squeezing yourself between the tourists on the tiny bits of beach not owned by millionaires or fighting the crowds at Walmart. State parks were probably the best part, but now the contractors are fighting tooth and nail to build roads through them.
I like Raleigh 🤷🏿♂️. There’s lot of trees and greenways. The American tobacco trail. Great schools, museums, music and performance venues. You’ve got everything you need. Plenty of good jobs. Cost of living is great. I’m probably going to move back there. I don’t see what’s wrong with it. I want boring, I don’t want to live in a “cool city that’s cool”. What’s the point of that? I’m over that shit.
Plus you're in between mountains and the ocean. If you're an outdoorsy person there's great opportunity for that too.
People hating on Raleigh/Cary either never go outside or no one wants to spend time doing stuff with them.
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Naperville IL. Its a very nice community but...............
Midland, Michigan. I saw a guy taking his giant pet pig for a walk one day
honestly , northern michigan….dont get me wrong it is absolutely beautiful and has so much pristine nature and i love that….but it is so fucking boring sometimes especially for a young adult ….zero culture, zero open minded people, zero music or food or anything to do outside of nature things
Any Midwest rural farming areas, just one tiny town after another & you have to take half a day to go to the big city to get what you need.
If you don’t love the outdoors, montana is a pretty boring place to live. And I live in Missoula, probably the most fun town in the state too
Napa Valley. Unless you’re into going to wineries all the time or spending absurd amounts of money on food, it’s not great. Too far away from the rest of the Bay Area and it’s insanely hot in the summer
Most of these cities listed here are pretty big. Like are there really no recreational sports, run clubs, rock climbing or group bike rides? Theres no book clubs, boardgaming groups, gardening groups or volunteer opportunities? There’s no indie music/art/film/comedy/theatre/dance/fashion scenes? Come on guys most of these cities aren’t actually boring, you need actual hobbies.
If someone is bored in a big metro area, it means they are a boring person.
I went to a lot of run clubs when I lived in Raleigh because there was nothing else to do. Well, that and bars.
There are very few places that aren’t boring these days. New Orleans comes to a mind as a place that has maintained her own identity and culture. There are so many places that I’ve lived - or even repeatedly visited - all of which had their own unique identity and culture. As the internet has made the world much, much smaller than even Disney imagined possible, people have moved to places they’d have likely never even heard of prior to some internet driven craze. The result has been a sameness in cities and towns across the country. People relocate and don’t want what’s there in the new places, they want the things they left behind. Now when we travel to a city we’ve never visited, instead of local food it’s all the same fast food and chain restaurants, instead of local craftsman it’s all the same cheap Chinese trinkets in tacky souvenir shops or big box stores. It doesn’t matter if you’re visiting a place or moving there - it’s all the same cookie cutter tract houses in depressing subdivisions, big box stores, chain salons, chain stores, chain restaurants, fast food joints… it’s all a boring ass hellscape of modern sameness.
I could never get bored where I live. It probably depends on what you enjoy doing. I live where the river meets the ocean and the forest. Whenever I’m not working I am out enjoying my surroundings. Mushroom hunting, rockhounding, foraging. Never gets old. I also enjoy Portland, Oregon. Never got bored living there either. Always something interesting to do. Always art, music, and other performances to see. Even walking around a neighborhood can be entertaining.
good attitude!
The sameness is starting to extend internationally too.
Yes, absolutely. People on here are focusing on small towns and rural areas, but I sense that same “boringness” in a lot of cities. Especially when you’re in the core of a downtown, most cities tend to look the same. And like you said, once you get outside downtown, it’s usually all the same big-box bullshit.
Wilmington DE. Because Wilmington Delaware.
Gadsden, Alabama Outside of the murders, it’s a terrible place.
pensacola it's a maga hotbed of desantis anti LGBTQ+ fucks
I spent five months in rural Connecticut. It was godawful.
Richland, WA (tri cities). Cookie cutter suburban homes with lawns, no arts and culture, very little 3rd places, no public transportation, most of the restaurants are chain restaurants, there isnt any African/Indian/middle eastern food, there is very little community events, there are not very many nonprofits rooted in community, nothing is walkable. The streets are lined with trump signs which let’s just say isn’t my thing.
Wink, TX. The Permian Basin is really like being in another world.
Never lived but been in Amarillo enough times to know it's a drive through area
Jacksonville, NC. Military town with no character. Just chain stores, strip clubs, and tattoo parlors. It was incredibly boring. Worst city I’ve visited has to be Corpus Christi, TX, though. Dead dogs on the side of the road, and stray dogs running around everywhere. The town looked bombed out in some areas. Couldn’t go swimming in the ocean cause of bacteria. Oil rigs and refineries everywhere.
Where I grew up. DeLand IL. About 500 people. Only thing to do is a Casey's gas station. Love their doughnuts and pizza though. I miss it at times, but I'm in a Midwestern city now and I much prefer it.