# 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:** 6\ **Page:** 7
**Author:** ![Death\_of\_Rats](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a6a055/32.png) [@Death\_of\_Rats](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Death_of_Rats)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2011, 7:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fictional-places-you-want-to-stay-the-f-away-from/577310/121 "2011-04-09T19:11:22Z")
> [@a35362](#): > > The world of _Idiocracy_. \ Too late. ---
**Author:** ![Xan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/ac8455/32.png) [@Xan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Xan)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2011, 7:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fictional-places-you-want-to-stay-the-f-away-from/577310/122 "2011-04-09T19:41:39Z")
> [@elfkin477](#): > > So…I’m the only one who thinks “Man, it’s too bad Maine isn’t really like that!” then? Of course, I always see myself as one of the folks to live through it all… > > I would refuse to go to the worlds depitcted in **Oryx and Crake** , and **Edenborn**. Post-apocalypticc worlds are fun to read about, but I don’t think they’d be any fun to live in. I’d argue the real Maine is worse. It’s dreadfully boring in most of the state. ---
**Author:** ![Boulter\_s\_Canary](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e79b87/32.png) [@Boulter\_s\_Canary](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boulter_s_Canary)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2011, 7:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fictional-places-you-want-to-stay-the-f-away-from/577310/123 "2011-04-09T19:57:35Z")
[New Croubozon](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Crobuzon) In fact, anywhere on [Bas Lag](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bas-Lag) ---
**Author:** ![Freudian\_Slit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5daacb/32.png) [@Freudian\_Slit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freudian_Slit)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2011, 9:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fictional-places-you-want-to-stay-the-f-away-from/577310/124 "2011-04-09T21:53:58Z")
> [@elfkin477](#): > > I would refuse to go to the worlds depitcted in **Oryx and Crake** , and **Edenborn**. Post-apocalypticc worlds are fun to read about, but I don’t think they’d be any fun to live in. The world before it was post apocalyptic didn’t sound so bad, though. I want a rakunk! And butterflies with trippy wings and to wreak havoc with nature. ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Excellent](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f19dbf/32.png) [@Mr.Excellent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Excellent)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2011, 9:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fictional-places-you-want-to-stay-the-f-away-from/577310/125 "2011-04-10T21:43:47Z")
> [@Xan](#): > > Sunnydale. Demons and vampires everywhere. Not to mention incompetent police and evil politicians. Oh and it sits right on a Hellmouth. You know - not for nothing, but I’d vote for the Mayor in any term prior to the one in which he planned to Ascend. He’s got a bad record on supernatural crime, I’ll grant you, but I don’t see anything in the series to suggest he’s anything less than competent with regard to conventional law enforcement. Moreover, his commitment to education seems unimpeachable - Sunnydale High looks like an extremely well-designed and maintained high school, with top-notch facilities. Obviously, we can’t see its test scores, but I don’t recall any point in the series where it was suggested that Sunnydale High was a struggling institutions. (Other than the unusually high mortality rate). My only real gripe with the Mayor is my suspicion that he’s misappropriated municipal funds to finance the Ascension. And I could be convinced that this is nonsense - corruption of this sort does seem rather beneath the man. ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Excellent](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f19dbf/32.png) [@Mr.Excellent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Excellent)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2011, 9:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fictional-places-you-want-to-stay-the-f-away-from/577310/126 "2011-04-10T21:47:36Z")
> [@Xan](#): > > Sunnydale. Demons and vampires everywhere. Not to mention incompetent police and evil politicians. Oh and it sits right on a Hellmouth. You know - not for nothing, but I’d vote for the Mayor in any term prior to the one in which he planned to Ascend. He’s got a bad record on supernatural crime, I’ll grant you, but I don’t see anything in the series to suggest he’s anything less than competent with regard to conventional law enforcement. Moreover, his commitment to education seems unimpeachable - Sunnydale High looks like an extremely well-designed and maintained high school, with top-notch facilities. Obviously, we can’t see its test scores, but I don’t recall any point in the series where it was suggested that Sunnydale High was a struggling institutions. (Other than the unusually high mortality rate). My only real gripe with the Mayor is my suspicion that he’s misappropriated municipal funds to finance the Ascension. And I could be convinced that this is nonsense - corruption of this sort does seem rather beneath the man. > [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](#): > > Craven smurf. Don’t you don’t want to go on a round of assassinations? I mean, can you think of anyplace else that needs suicide bombers MORE? Hold on a second - this is a dystopia that explicitly _relies_ upon random violence and death to maintain itself, and you suggest that a series of terrorist acts would improve matters? Good lord, man, I can’t think of anything better-calculated to serve the Party’s interests. It could use me as an excuse for further crackdowns, I’d eventually be caught, tortured, tried and killed, and no good would come of it at all. Push come to shove, I can imagine trading my life for a dear enough price. But I won’t throw it away in some damned romantic gesture. > [@Chronos](#): > > Well, that’s good adice in our world, too. > > Myself, though, I’m going to say Omelas. Eh - unless you’re that one kid, you’re okay. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fictional-places-you-want-to-stay-the-f-away-from/577310.md?page=6)