Htrae, the Bizarro planet where good is evil, black is white, and the planet itself talks.
But the opening of the show is actually Mendocino, CA. A fine place to live!
Actually, Mendocino is Hollywoods go-to place when they want a place to look like Maine.
Nuh uhn to ANY of the above!
Stepford!
~VOW
The world in War of the Worlds seems like a pretty dangerous place to be a child. You have Tom Cruise running around - unrecognized :eek:
The City of Lost Children?
Airstrip One.
Twin Peaks, WA seems like a fine place to raise a family; as long as you move out before the kids hit high school.
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Babylon 5, or seemingly any of Earth’s colonies during the course of the show.
On B5 alone, we have all the various attendant risks associated with living on a space station (docking accidents, airlocks, etc.) along with things brought along by living around a quarter of a million other people (most implied to be passing through at any given moment), with entire areas of the station all but lost to a sci-fi version of urban decay and gang violence.
Speaking of the crime problem, the security chief on the station is rumored to be an alcoholic who only took the job here because literally every reputable colony and station would not hire him based on his background. Aside from that, large-scale violence is apt to break out based on political or racial boundaries even if you don’t run afoul of one of the station’s criminal elements.
Oh, and then there is the risk of attack from space pirates or alien military forces. Or Earth’s military forces, on at least one occasion. Then there are other minor things like the station being rumored to be a haven for rogue, unlicensed telepaths. Can you believe they would harbor people who refuse to obey the laws that Earth’s government has towards telepaths?
And then of course, there are your more mundane monster-of-the-week problems, like that one alien squid thing that sucked people’s memories out of their heads, or the invisible thing that could go through walls and feed on peoples’ internal organs. Not clear on why you’d want to bring kids here at all.
Mordor.
Plus the town in Delicatessen.
Kansas City is real, but the one in The Day After.
But Stepford was a fine place to be a child, it was a sucky place to be a wife.
Turkana IV, Tasha Yar’s anarchic homeworld in Star Trek: The Next Generation. There are rape gangs. 'Nuff said.
LV-426.
Although that might violate the rule that the work of fiction not be in the horror genre. Are we still using that rule?
My two choices - Derry, Maine, or Mordor. Hey, I just realized - huge, homicidal spiders in BOTH places!
Forks, Washington.
But is it known if they wear clown masks?
The Citadel, from Mass Effect. Assuming they are not members of the upper classes, it is entirely likely that they are one of the many many people living in the Wards, which are not typically presented as being terribly nice places throughout the games. Stories abound of kids exploring the many tunnels and vents of the massive ancient space station and suffering various mishaps or disappearing entirely.
If they are members of the upper classes, and live on or near the Presidium, then life is generally much better, depending on their timing:
The Citadel is not only an ancient space station, but it is also a massive Mass Relay, and is in fact the Mass Relay used by the Reapers whenever they launch their once-every-50,000-years harvest of all spacefaring life in the galaxy. Through the course of the games, the station is the target of major attacks on three separate occasions, before it is captured by the Reapers and later destroyed. Needless to say, the games take place around the 50,000 year mark.
Another vote for Mordor. Not all the land was fortresses and volcanoes. There was plenty of it used for farming to support the armies of Sauron. Given the culture seen within the strongholds of the ruling power, I don’t hold a lot of hope for the conditions of the general public there.