It is architectually the most artificial looking place I’ve been in, there is hardly anything natural. I felt like I was in some town constructed specifically for propaganda purposes in North Korea or the Soviet Union.
Vallilan teollisuusalue
Merihaka, Helsinki
kouvola
Kontula, Helsinki and Tikkurila, Vantaa
Helsinki.
Kerava. Any part of it.
Malmi railway station
Karhuvuori just outside of Kotka. Shit hole isn’t strong enough to describe it.
Approaching the Oulu region from any direction is a kind of ever worsening experience. In the north you have the Tornio river valley, which is superbly beautiful. Eastward there are rolling hills and pine forests, and in the south (if you go far enough) old cultural landscapes that have been developing for centuries, which shows. And then there’s Hailuoto, the western part of which us possibly the most beautiful place in Finland.
The Oulu region is a boring flatscape of dying agriculture and shitty “urban” development. The terrain is without any significant features, mostly consisting of former sea floor, unsuitable for the kinds of forest you get in the east. The people are mostly mouthbreathing xenophobes who keep electing the same Jesus freaks and populists into office every year, so there is very little hope of progress or cause of optimism. The civil servants of the city planning dpts seem utterly hamstrung by budget cuts and incapable of enacting any Big Picture policies. There is no transparency of power, but nobody seems to have a mandate to do anything so maybe it does not matter in the end.
The absolute nadir of all this, the center point of Ugly, is the Zeppelin shopping centre in Kempele. Old and ugly, based on a dated concept overreliant on car traffic. The Espoo of the North.
Without Kouvola it would still be the Kouvola because trees in there would probably be gray.
But for real I was born in Kemi. It sure is most depressing place I’ve seen in my life.
Katuma, Hämeenlinna. It’s even in the name. You will regret(katua) going there
Kemi
Helsinki 🤮
Honestly, still Kouvola
Raisio center. The biggest crossroad of Finland
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Kouvola being bad is just a meme. Most of the more urban Finland looks quite awful without sun, flat light, at winter time, in slush.
Hervanta?
Central Tikkurila, Vantaa. It’s a what we would call “betonihelvetti” or concrete hell.
No wooden structure in sight and rest of the ugly concrete buildings were built in 1960-1980’s.
Kontula and Kivistö
Forssa
Sadly, Lahti.
Riihimäki
I believe that these have been said already, but reasons have been varying. For example kouvola i gray and it has the soviet design all over. It brings the old soviet grayness to mind. I think kouvola otherwise would not be that bad, but it just gives vibes that soviet union did not fall after all.
Then there is oulu. A place where stinks of lye, and it is little like seoul korea gray dull and homogenous. Advertised as great biking city, but if you don’t want to bike entire day to visit shops far away, you drive there. And then there is oktomurska, they used some insane byproduct to make their roads, that grind into dust and break your engine, and (lungs?)
Any place that has a concentration of 60s-70s buildings, or cheap modern buildings e.g. with fake brick.
Merihaka
Hands down tammisaari
Varissuo in Turku, hands down. The city centre there is ugly as hell, and the buildings are brown, ugly blocks that are not well maintaned.
Loimaa
Kontula
The ugliest place I’ve been in Finland is probably Espoo if I’m being honest, all the buildings look like they were designed in the sims 4 by someone who’s never built in the sims 4 before
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Kontula in Helsinki
Vantaa is the most depressing place I’ve been.
Vantaa or Hervanta.
The kitchen in my previous apartment
Kivistö, Vantaa
It is architectually the most artificial looking place I’ve been in, there is hardly anything natural. I felt like I was in some town constructed specifically for propaganda purposes in North Korea or the Soviet Union.
Vallilan teollisuusalue
Merihaka, Helsinki
kouvola
Kontula, Helsinki and Tikkurila, Vantaa
Helsinki.
Kerava. Any part of it.
Malmi railway station
Karhuvuori just outside of Kotka. Shit hole isn’t strong enough to describe it.
Approaching the Oulu region from any direction is a kind of ever worsening experience. In the north you have the Tornio river valley, which is superbly beautiful. Eastward there are rolling hills and pine forests, and in the south (if you go far enough) old cultural landscapes that have been developing for centuries, which shows. And then there’s Hailuoto, the western part of which us possibly the most beautiful place in Finland.
The Oulu region is a boring flatscape of dying agriculture and shitty “urban” development. The terrain is without any significant features, mostly consisting of former sea floor, unsuitable for the kinds of forest you get in the east. The people are mostly mouthbreathing xenophobes who keep electing the same Jesus freaks and populists into office every year, so there is very little hope of progress or cause of optimism. The civil servants of the city planning dpts seem utterly hamstrung by budget cuts and incapable of enacting any Big Picture policies. There is no transparency of power, but nobody seems to have a mandate to do anything so maybe it does not matter in the end.
The absolute nadir of all this, the center point of Ugly, is the Zeppelin shopping centre in Kempele. Old and ugly, based on a dated concept overreliant on car traffic. The Espoo of the North.
Without Kouvola it would still be the Kouvola because trees in there would probably be gray.
But for real I was born in Kemi. It sure is most depressing place I’ve seen in my life.
Katuma, Hämeenlinna. It’s even in the name. You will regret(katua) going there
Kemi
Helsinki 🤮
Honestly, still Kouvola
Raisio center. The biggest crossroad of Finland
[deleted]
Kouvola being bad is just a meme. Most of the more urban Finland looks quite awful without sun, flat light, at winter time, in slush.
Hervanta?
Central Tikkurila, Vantaa. It’s a what we would call “betonihelvetti” or concrete hell.
No wooden structure in sight and rest of the ugly concrete buildings were built in 1960-1980’s.
Kontula and Kivistö
Forssa
Sadly, Lahti.
Riihimäki
I believe that these have been said already, but reasons have been varying. For example kouvola i gray and it has the soviet design all over. It brings the old soviet grayness to mind. I think kouvola otherwise would not be that bad, but it just gives vibes that soviet union did not fall after all.
Then there is oulu. A place where stinks of lye, and it is little like seoul korea gray dull and homogenous. Advertised as great biking city, but if you don’t want to bike entire day to visit shops far away, you drive there. And then there is oktomurska, they used some insane byproduct to make their roads, that grind into dust and break your engine, and (lungs?)
Any place that has a concentration of 60s-70s buildings, or cheap modern buildings e.g. with fake brick.
Merihaka
Hands down tammisaari
Varissuo in Turku, hands down. The city centre there is ugly as hell, and the buildings are brown, ugly blocks that are not well maintaned.
Loimaa
Kontula
The ugliest place I’ve been in Finland is probably Espoo if I’m being honest, all the buildings look like they were designed in the sims 4 by someone who’s never built in the sims 4 before
Still Kouvola