This Online Community Shares The 41 Most Boring Cities They’ve Traveled To

"Not much to do as a tourist. Soul-sucking traffic anywhere. The food was bland and boring. Every mainstream type restaurant had the same menu."

"I went to Taiwan and Keelung is by far the most boring city I visited, in Taiwan, there are a lot of beautiful landscapes everywhere, and very cool monuments in Taipei, Taichung is cool too, but Keelung is very boring compared to the rest of the country."

Shinrya replied: "...Given that, pretty much every city in Japan on the surface physically looks the same you need to dig deeper to find what's interesting and going on. I've lived in both Tokyo and Osaka and unquestionably there's just so much to do, but visiting Nagoya and Hiroshima left me wandering around saying "Is that it?" after experiencing the one thing each respective place is famous for."

User №1 said:

"The city that fun forgot."

 

porkynbasswithgeorge replied:

"In my freshman year of high school (New Hampshire) we had a choir trip to Montreal. One day they bussed us over to Ottawa for a little more cultural exposure. We went on a Sunday. Apparently, Ottawa is closed on Sunday."

"Don’t get me wrong it's not a bad city. There are some pretty buildings, and Gamla Stan (the historical district) is a nice area to walk around, with some cozy streets and little cafes. Everything was very clean and orderly, and the people were pleasant (yet shy), but the city never really felt alive to me."

Sectalam said: 

"Toronto is also quite dull."

 

User №2 replied:

"That's an unpopular opinion, but I agree. Toronto's diversity means that there is some great food, but it's just so new and booming that it lacks much in the way of charm in the built environment. Toronto would probably be a great place to actually live, but it's never appealed to me much as a visitor."

elijha replied:
"I found it kinda bizarre and yeah, very boring there. Lots of the city center felt virtually abandoned (like you could walk in the middle of a major road at night and not see a single car or person) and in general it's a pretty generic central european city without any of the hooks that makes a place like Krakow attractive to tourists. I had a nice enough time, but not somewhere I'd ever need to return to or would recommend anyone else to visit."

"It's a new city built in the 70s on the world's largest artificial island. The city is basically one big boring suburb without a good city center, the only positive thing about it is that it is easy to get out of there since it's well connected in the middle of the country."

"It generally gets a bad rap for being not worth more than a day or two, but I think it's absolutely great. It reminds me of a South American version of Chicago. It's even oriented the same way on a map, with a mountain in place of the lake, and it has the same north = rich, south and west = poor (very basic) demographics."

"Unbelievably boring. Just a bunch of sterile streets with banks."

PeachyPesco replied:
"I found it incredibly boring while I was there. Pretty architecture, some cool history... but it seems like people there are mostly obsessed with shopping. The insane amount of pigeons and men throwing seeds on people was disgusting. Please let me know what you like about it, there has to be something I was missing!"

"Even the Palace and the Art Museum are gruesomely dull from an architecture standpoint."

"For a capital city, there just is not a ton there. The castle looks like a Costco and the old town is small and unimpressive."

"It’s a common spot to do a visa run for expats in South East Asia since it’s cheap and has pretty lenient embassies. But it is well known for being a total and complete snooze-fest. There’s effectively nothing to do, aside from waiting in line for the embassy, observing the brown river, and drinking beer at bad bars. Other parts of Laos are amazing though."

"I went to the College Baseball World Series the last season at Rosenblatt and it was one of the best sporting events I have ever attended. Old Market downtown is fun with some good restaurants, they've got a riverfront park and the people are all very friendly."

"To most people, it's just pillars of concrete for miles, and where you typically grab a connection to Rio, which is much flashier. But being the biggest city in the Southern Hemisphere has its perks, and Sao Paulo has fantastic food, art, public transportation (something Rio sorely lacks), and just general urban things but with a Brazilian vibe."

"People seem to stay max 2 days or just pass through when traveling to Siem Reap but I really like it. It has a weird "wild west" feel that I really enjoy."

TallDude888  said:

"I’m not really sure about on Earth, but Birmingham is pretty bad."

 

0-o-o_o-o-0 replied: 

"Birmingham (UK) gets a bad rep, but there are a lot of good things there, it's just that the layout and infrastructure is terrible. There are great museums, and great bars around the canals (away from Broad Street) and there are a lot of events and concerts around the city. It's just an ugly sprawling mass though, so the good things are spread randomly over a large area that's hard to navigate if you don't know it well."

"It was the most boring city I have ever been to. Was there for three months, 10 years ago. Most clubs close at 12 and the ones with extra long opening hours closed at 01:00."

"Didn't hate it, but underwhelming for sure. Seeing Guernica was cool though."