# Fictional places you want to stay the F\*#$ away from. **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 5, 2011, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fictional-places-you-want-to-stay-the-f-away-from/577310 "2011-04-05T19:50:45Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skald_the_Rhymer)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2011, 8:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fictional-places-you-want-to-stay-the-f-away-from/577310/21 "2011-04-05T20:46:32Z")
> [@Sampiro](#): > > Camelot. Tis a silly place. > > Ditto Narnia. Evil ice queens, satyrs, talking beavers and Santa Claus- I’d just as soon stay in Palin’s America. It can’t be that long before she falls out of Air Force One while shooting at a bald eagle and Santorum was comitted for rubbing excrement in his hair at his inauguration. It’s canon that Narnia is mostly peaceful; it only seems like a land of adventures to the Pevensies, Jill, & Eustance because they only get summoned when there’s some quest afoot. That said, it’s pointless to try to avoid Narnia – or, for that matter, to go there on purpose. If Aslan doesn’t want you there, whatever tech or magic you’re using is not going to work. If Aslan DOES want you there, then you’re going to end up there no matter what you do. Remember, when the Edmund, Lucy, & Eustace ended up there in _Dawn Treader_, they weren’t doing anything other than looking at a painting, and Aslan just magicked 'em in with not so much as a by-your-leave. And if you’re in Narnia, you’re not leaving until Aslan feels you have matured. Incidentally, it is impossible for Santorum to do as you describe. No anus. I thought everybody knew. ---
**Author:** ![Zsofia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/7bcc69/32.png) [@Zsofia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zsofia)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2011, 8:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fictional-places-you-want-to-stay-the-f-away-from/577310/22 "2011-04-05T20:48:12Z")
Pretty much every fictional place sucks balls to actually live in, because otherwise it wouldn’t make a very interesting story. Please do not send me to Westeros. ---
**Author:** ![Lobohan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobohan/32/79_2.png) [@Lobohan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobohan)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2011, 8:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fictional-places-you-want-to-stay-the-f-away-from/577310/23 "2011-04-05T20:52:21Z")
Personally, I could do without visiting [Holy Terra](http://warhammer40k.wikia.com/wiki/Terra) of the 40k universe. Primarily because I’m sure I’d be guilty of some sort of heresy. ---
**Author:** ![KinkiNipponTourist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e9bcb4/32.png) [@KinkiNipponTourist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KinkiNipponTourist)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2011, 9:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fictional-places-you-want-to-stay-the-f-away-from/577310/24 "2011-04-05T21:03:23Z")
[Lake Wobegon]([Lake Wobegon - Wikipedia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Wobegon)"Lake Wobegon/). ---
**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2011, 9:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fictional-places-you-want-to-stay-the-f-away-from/577310/25 "2011-04-05T21:15:58Z")
> [@Lobohan](#): > > Personally, I could do without visiting [Holy Terra](http://warhammer40k.wikia.com/wiki/Terra) of the 40k universe. Primarily because I’m sure I’d be guilty of some sort of heresy. Are there any \*good \*places to visit in the Warhammer universe? ---
**Author:** ![Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tapioca_Dextrin)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2011, 9:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fictional-places-you-want-to-stay-the-f-away-from/577310/26 "2011-04-05T21:30:00Z")
Most people think that English villages are nice safe places to live, full of church fetes and nice old ladies etc. The villages of [Midsomer](http://midsomermurders.org/bodycount.htm#Episode%2067), however, have seen quite the body count recently. ---
**Author:** ![billfish678](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7bcc69/32.png) [@billfish678](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/billfish678)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2011, 9:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fictional-places-you-want-to-stay-the-f-away-from/577310/27 "2011-04-05T21:36:06Z")
The Smurfverse. My balls are blue enough without having acess to only one tiny smurfet that doesn’t appear to put out thank you very much. ---
**Author:** ![CT\_Damsel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/dfb087/32.png) [@CT\_Damsel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CT_Damsel)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2011, 9:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fictional-places-you-want-to-stay-the-f-away-from/577310/28 "2011-04-05T21:42:38Z")
The [Mason-Dixie Pawnshop](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0110912/) is the first place that came to mind. ---
**Author:** ![AlsoNamedBort](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alsonamedbort/32/3213_2.png) [@AlsoNamedBort](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AlsoNamedBort)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2011, 9:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fictional-places-you-want-to-stay-the-f-away-from/577310/29 "2011-04-05T21:55:17Z")
> [@Tapioca\_Dextrin](#): > > Most people think that English villages are nice safe places to live, full of church fetes and nice old ladies etc. The villages of [Midsomer](http://midsomermurders.org/bodycount.htm#Episode%2067), however, have seen quite the body count recently. [Cabot Cove](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cabot_Cove) doesn’t seem too safe either. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_Q](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/898d66/32.png) [@Johnny\_Q](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_Q)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2011, 9:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fictional-places-you-want-to-stay-the-f-away-from/577310/30 "2011-04-05T21:56:33Z")
The Village from The Prisoner ---
**Author:** ![Don\_Draper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b2d939/32.png) [@Don\_Draper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Don_Draper)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2011, 10:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fictional-places-you-want-to-stay-the-f-away-from/577310/31 "2011-04-05T22:10:02Z")
The Twilight Zone. ---
**Author:** ![Kamino\_Neko](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kamino_neko/32/34_2.png) [@Kamino\_Neko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamino_Neko)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2011, 10:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fictional-places-you-want-to-stay-the-f-away-from/577310/32 "2011-04-05T22:15:51Z")
> [@Tom\_Scud](#): > > Any universe inhabited by comic book super heroes. Not really. Stick to the main universes of the big two, and it’s actually pretty safe, on average. Sure, every couple months, there’s a world-shattering alien invasion, and every so often, a whole city (or very occasionally, a whole country) gets wiped off the map. But, stick to places that exist in our world, and you’ll be (mostly) safe from being in one of the ones wiped off the map, and, since the world isn’t severely depopulated by all of the world-shattering invasions and complete destruction of cities, the heroes (and occasionally villains) do a good job at minimizing civilian casualties. And it takes, at most, a couple weeks, in universe, to clean-up a non-completely destroyed city, so life would get back to normal relatively quickly. ---
**Author:** ![Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skald_the_Rhymer)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2011, 10:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fictional-places-you-want-to-stay-the-f-away-from/577310/33 "2011-04-05T22:17:26Z")
> [@billfish678](#): > > The Smurfverse. > > My balls are blue enough without having acess to only one tiny smurfet that doesn’t appear to put out thank you very much. First, there are two female Smurfs. Second, if if they did put out – or even if there were a thousand thousand of them – what good what that do you? They’re THREE APPLES HIGH, for Athena’s sake. Third, aren’t there human girls in that world? There was a fourth thing but I forgot what it was. Something about foolish Tooks. ---
**Author:** ![Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skald_the_Rhymer)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2011, 10:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fictional-places-you-want-to-stay-the-f-away-from/577310/34 "2011-04-05T22:18:56Z")
> [@Tengu](#): > > Not really. Stick to the main universes of the big two, and it’s actually pretty safe, on average. > > Sure, every couple months, there’s a world-shattering alien invasion, and every so often, a whole city (or very occasionally, a whole country) gets wiped off the map. But, stick to places that exist in our world, and you’ll be (mostly) safe from being in one of the ones wiped off the map, and, since the world isn’t severely depopulated by all of the world-shattering invasions and complete destruction of cities, the heroes (and occasionally villains) do a good job at minimizing civilian casualties. And it takes, at most, a couple weeks, in universe, to clean-up a non-completely destroyed city, so life would get back to normal relatively quickly. I’d still stay out of New York, either way. ---
**Author:** ![thirdname](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/d07c76/32.png) [@thirdname](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thirdname)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2011, 10:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fictional-places-you-want-to-stay-the-f-away-from/577310/35 "2011-04-05T22:20:40Z")
Silent Hill. ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2011, 10:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fictional-places-you-want-to-stay-the-f-away-from/577310/36 "2011-04-05T22:24:48Z")
The [Republic of Gilead](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republic_of_Gilead)sounds hellish, but I can’t see how you’d know where it ends and Palin-Santorumville begins except one has more pregnant women (many of them married to Santorum under the 34th Amendment). ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2011, 10:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fictional-places-you-want-to-stay-the-f-away-from/577310/37 "2011-04-05T22:27:18Z")
> [@](#): > > I’d still stay out of New York, either way. Well, that’s good adice in our world, too. Myself, though, I’m going to say Omelas. ---
**Author:** ![Superdude](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/superdude/32/13450_2.png) [@Superdude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superdude)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2011, 10:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fictional-places-you-want-to-stay-the-f-away-from/577310/38 "2011-04-05T22:33:26Z")
Mordor. ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2011, 10:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fictional-places-you-want-to-stay-the-f-away-from/577310/39 "2011-04-05T22:35:24Z")
Anyplace with undead is not on my itinerary. ---
**Author:** ![Malacandra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Malacandra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malacandra)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2011, 10:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fictional-places-you-want-to-stay-the-f-away-from/577310/40 "2011-04-05T22:37:05Z")
Alternate Earth in the _Draka_ continuity seems like a great place to avoid. Even Gor looks safe by comparison, and that’s saying a mouthful. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fictional-places-you-want-to-stay-the-f-away-from/577310.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fictional-places-you-want-to-stay-the-f-away-from/577310.md?page=3)