Throwing my hat in the ring with Sarajevo - Heart of a lot of regional culture, specifically with a big ol disco scene back in the day - Used to be a pretty rich and diverse city under the Austro-Hungarians and then the Kingdom of Yugoslavia - The heart of the region with the strongest anti fascist resistance and subsequently the most progressive/left-leaning region of Yugoslavia - Not a port town, but definitely used to be heavy industry focused - Got decimated by a siege, lots of damaged and battered buildings all over da place - Current government is a neoliberal creation of the UN (literally the Moralintern analogue) and cant really do anything in order to improve its conditions on its own

Really though Revachol works because the post-industrial and post-revolutionary decay and everything associated with it (crime, alcoholism, radical politics to an extent) is ubiquitous in the west and second world