# 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:** 4
**Author:** ![foolsguinea](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foolsguinea/32/14751_2.png) [@foolsguinea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/foolsguinea)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2011, 1:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fictional-places-you-want-to-stay-the-f-away-from/577310/61 "2011-04-06T01:21:07Z")
> [@Tom\_Scud](#): > > Any universe inhabited by comic book super heroes. Well put. ---
**Author:** ![Suil\_Dubh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/85f322/32.png) [@Suil\_Dubh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Suil_Dubh)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2011, 2:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fictional-places-you-want-to-stay-the-f-away-from/577310/62 "2011-04-06T02:00:41Z")
Another vote for Silent Hill. Let’s add Raccoon City while we’re at it. Don’t think I’d want to go camping in the Blair Witch woods either. And there are a couple of European Hostels I’d also like to avoid. All of these are lousy places for a vacation. ---
**Author:** ![Isamu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/7c8e57/32.png) [@Isamu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Isamu)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2011, 2:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fictional-places-you-want-to-stay-the-f-away-from/577310/63 "2011-04-06T02:07:54Z")
The Hell constructs in Surface Detail. ---
**Author:** ![a35362](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3da27b/32.png) [@a35362](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/a35362)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2011, 2:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fictional-places-you-want-to-stay-the-f-away-from/577310/64 "2011-04-06T02:21:17Z")
The world of _Idiocracy_. The world of Bertie Wooster. ---
**Author:** ![a35362](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3da27b/32.png) [@a35362](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/a35362)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2011, 2:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fictional-places-you-want-to-stay-the-f-away-from/577310/65 "2011-04-06T02:24:42Z")
Forgot – also the world of _Soylent Green_. That place is a nightmare even without the big reveal. ---
**Author:** ![Polycarp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/82dd89/32.png) [@Polycarp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Polycarp)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2011, 2:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fictional-places-you-want-to-stay-the-f-away-from/577310/66 "2011-04-06T02:43:58Z")
> [@Darth\_Nader](#): > > The U.S. during its theocratic interregnum. That’s what we’re escaping _from_! What, you thought Heinlein wrote fiction?? ---
**Author:** ![a35362](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3da27b/32.png) [@a35362](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/a35362)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2011, 2:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fictional-places-you-want-to-stay-the-f-away-from/577310/67 "2011-04-06T02:51:43Z")
Oh, and the world of _The Road_. Nightmare Fuel! Just shoot me now, thanks. ---
**Author:** ![salinqmind](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3ec8ea/32.png) [@salinqmind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/salinqmind)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2011, 3:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fictional-places-you-want-to-stay-the-f-away-from/577310/68 "2011-04-06T03:41:18Z")
> [@a35362](#): > > Oh, and the world of _The Road_. Nightmare Fuel! Just shoot me now, thanks. You win! ---
**Author:** ![Electric\_Warrior](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ee7513/32.png) [@Electric\_Warrior](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Electric_Warrior)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2011, 3:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fictional-places-you-want-to-stay-the-f-away-from/577310/69 "2011-04-06T03:57:23Z")
68 replies and no one’s mentioned Mos Eisley? Talk about a wretched hive of scum and villainy. Really anywhere on Tatooine seems avoidable at best. ---
**Author:** ![Darth\_Nader](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ad7895/32.png) [@Darth\_Nader](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darth_Nader)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2011, 4:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fictional-places-you-want-to-stay-the-f-away-from/577310/70 "2011-04-06T04:29:33Z")
I think I’d feel safer in any Mos Eisley bar than one in what’s left of downtown Detroit or East St. Louis or Bartertown. ---
**Author:** ![Sevastopol](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/cdc98d/32.png) [@Sevastopol](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sevastopol)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2011, 8:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fictional-places-you-want-to-stay-the-f-away-from/577310/71 "2011-04-06T08:43:02Z")
Any of the planets in the Vogosphere, I deal with enough bureaucracy as it is. Or is the Vogosphere one planet, I forget? Douglas Adams fans will know. ---
**Author:** ![Argent\_Towers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e8c25b/32.png) [@Argent\_Towers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Argent_Towers)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2011, 8:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fictional-places-you-want-to-stay-the-f-away-from/577310/72 "2011-04-06T08:47:11Z")
A pain amplifier. ---
**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2011, 8:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fictional-places-you-want-to-stay-the-f-away-from/577310/73 "2011-04-06T08:54:53Z")
> [@aruvqan](#): > > [Jackson’s Whole](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jackson%27s_Whole) I don’t think I’d be interested in Beta Colony, either: they’d probably be trying to fix my brain within hours of arrival. ---
**Author:** ![surrounded\_by\_literalists](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8baadc/32.png) [@surrounded\_by\_literalists](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/surrounded_by_literalists)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2011, 9:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fictional-places-you-want-to-stay-the-f-away-from/577310/74 "2011-04-06T09:24:18Z")
> [@Freudian\_Slit](#): > > The Everfree Forest (My Little Pony: FiM). For one thing, that chicken/snake creature lives there! And I don’t want to turn into a stone creature and have a snail go over my eyeball! The whole ponyville universe would suck. Unless I could have a black glittery skull tattooed on my ass. > [@Xan](#): > > Sunnydale. Demons and vampires everywhere. Not to mention incompetent police and evil politicians. Oh and it sits right on a Hellmouth. More Spike for me. I definitely want to keep that bad boy busy. > [@a35362](#): > > The world of _Idiocracy_. I would like to try being the smartest person for a while. But only as a vacation destination away from being the most moronic. That horrible slavic country from Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. 40 Years later and I am still messed up from that movie. ---
**Author:** ![Stanislaus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stanislaus/32/3391_2.png) [@Stanislaus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stanislaus)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2011, 9:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fictional-places-you-want-to-stay-the-f-away-from/577310/75 "2011-04-06T09:34:15Z")
Omelas. Mainly because I’d probably crack and accept the deal. ---
**Author:** ![Der\_Trihs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/der_trihs/32/233_2.png) [@Der\_Trihs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Der_Trihs)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2011, 9:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fictional-places-you-want-to-stay-the-f-away-from/577310/76 "2011-04-06T09:41:07Z")
> [@surrounded\_by\_literalists](#): > > The whole ponyville universe would suck. Unless I could have a black glittery skull tattooed on my ass. Sort of like [this](http://www.aorange.com/?p=1137)? It’s not black, but it seems close… ---
**Author:** ![toofs](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/4491bb/32.png) [@toofs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/toofs)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2011, 9:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fictional-places-you-want-to-stay-the-f-away-from/577310/77 "2011-04-06T09:42:48Z")
Lv-426 ---
**Author:** ![surrounded\_by\_literalists](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8baadc/32.png) [@surrounded\_by\_literalists](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/surrounded_by_literalists)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2011, 9:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fictional-places-you-want-to-stay-the-f-away-from/577310/78 "2011-04-06T09:49:06Z")
> [@Der\_Trihs](#): > > Sort of like [this](http://www.aorange.com/?p=1137)? It’s not black, but it seems close… Close, very close…Now can you make me a Vampire Pony? I still want Spike from Sunnydale really bad. ---
**Author:** ![Horatio\_Hellpop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Horatio\_Hellpop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatio_Hellpop)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2011, 11:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fictional-places-you-want-to-stay-the-f-away-from/577310/79 "2011-04-06T11:37:43Z")
Evergreen Terrace in Springfield. ---
**Author:** ![Alka\_Seltzer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c89c15/32.png) [@Alka\_Seltzer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alka_Seltzer)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2011, 12:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fictional-places-you-want-to-stay-the-f-away-from/577310/80 "2011-04-06T12:26:03Z")
Really, there are so many places to avoid. It’s far harder to think of a fictional universe I’d actually want to live in (the Culture universe maybe?). Places in particular to avoid, that haven’t been mentioned: - The Cube. - Animal Farm. - Castle Dracula. - The unnamed (I think) island The Lord of the Flies is set on. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fictional-places-you-want-to-stay-the-f-away-from/577310.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fictional-places-you-want-to-stay-the-f-away-from/577310.md?page=5)