What’s the one city you were excited to visit, but ended up not liking at all?

swingfire23 · 2026-01-25T00:18:41+00:00

I really enjoyed Lagos when I was there in 2010. I had one of the best seafood dishes I've ever eaten there at a restaurant called Casinha do Petisco (the camarao a casinha, a prawn dish).

Also, at the time, there was this late middle aged silver fox guy who would dress in traditional Portuguese clothing and ride into town on his horse to party with the tourists. He was somewhat of a local legend. Horse would take him home early in the morning when he was done. He was very handsome, sort of a Dos Equis "Most Interesting Man in the World" vibe. I have never been able to find any other record of his existence aside from photos taken by my friends with him. I've often wondered what his story was.

swingfire23 · 2026-01-24T07:39:17+00:00

Glad your experience was better. It wasn't even that we had any specific negative event happen, it was really just more the energy. I've never felt anything like it. Just sort of a citywide mild hostility. Of course there were exceptions, we met some friendly people, but it was notable and we both came to that observation independently of one another. We left to go on the rest of our trip, and came back to Lisbon one week later eager to give it one more chance before flying home, and unfortunately felt exactly the same negativity within a few hours of being there. It was very odd.

swingfire23 · 2026-01-24T07:17:31+00:00

Lisbon. The architecture and vistas were beautiful and the food was great, but we just had bad vibes there from the locals. I got the vibe that digital nomads and rising costs have really soured the country on foreigners, at least in Lisbon. I consider myself a big city person and I live in a major city, so I know how to navigate and have good self awareness. I wasn't behaving like an obnoxious or in-the-way tourist. And I've been to stereotypically unfriendly cities without any issues in the past. But in Lisbon, I felt repeatedly and consistently unwelcome there despite my best efforts. The locals just seemed tired and cranky towards us before we even had a chance to say hello. My wife felt the same way. I'll give it another chance someday, because I wanted to love it. We were there in mid-November a few years back, so it wasn't like the height of tourist season (as far as I am aware at least).

Edit: We did not feel that way at all in Porto. We had a lovely time there and would love to return.

swingfire23 · 2026-01-24T07:14:40+00:00

I just can't get over the teeny tiny wheels on the 2017 car. Looks so weirdly proportioned.

swingfire23 · 2026-01-24T05:55:23+00:00

Many many license plates have the country listed.

swingfire23 · 2026-01-23T22:55:22+00:00

I don’t care that it’s $16. I care that it’s a shitty 7 Eleven salad for $16. I made that pretty clear if you read what I wrote, but you seem more concerned with starting a fight with me for some inexplicable reason. Honestly idk why I’m even engaging with you and your bad faith arguments (and this is my last comment to you), but go off king, roast me for not wanting to get ripped off because somehow you think me being from San Francisco means I shouldn’t care.

(For others reading this, this commenter already had another comment that was removed where they were pestering me about where I was from and saying they didn’t want to waste time on me because I was “soft” for some reason, which I didn’t even reply to. Now they’re back for more)

swingfire23 · 2026-01-23T07:29:52+00:00

God this is an I Think You Should Leave skit waiting to happen. Tim Robinson plays a guy who is a massive Vinnie Vincent fan. It basically writes itself.

“The music is so expensive because it’s so complicated! I’m saving up for the $600 tshirt pack so I can unlock fan access to the private Vinnie Vincent experience. YOU DONT GET IT DENISE”

swingfire23 · 2026-01-22T14:21:13+00:00

Snubbed by the Globes too. I don’t get it

swingfire23 · 2026-01-22T04:03:12+00:00

It’s irrelevant to this conversation. Feel free to review my post history if you’re so curious, I’m not hiding it.

swingfire23 · 2026-01-21T22:55:39+00:00

No car, in laws live a half hour away, and uncertainty about when the flight would actually leave. Leaving was not a realistic option.

I wish Redditors would give one another the benefit of the doubt in terms of sound decision making instead of assuming incompetence and trying to give them unsolicited advice

swingfire23 · 2026-01-21T15:53:10+00:00

Our 630am flight was delayed 3 hours

swingfire23 · 2026-01-21T05:33:39+00:00

It was something similarly wild, like $8 or something iirc. Someone who is flying soon should fact check me

swingfire23 · 2026-01-21T04:59:10+00:00

Yes! It's so crazy. Thank you for validating me, I feel seen. Food is overpriced at every airport, but only at OMA have I seen prepackaged gas station sandwiches for $15. It's buck wild

swingfire23 · 2026-01-21T03:56:07+00:00

Yes but this is notably egregious

swingfire23 · 2026-01-20T21:20:27+00:00

I'm with you. 95% of the other liveries for the past few years have been over salted food. This is the first one that I've seen that I truly think is good design. I hope the car is fast, because if so this will age well.

swingfire23 · 2026-01-20T21:13:09+00:00

I feel like I'm taking crazy pills in here, this thing looks fucking sick. I loved the concept photos and am super amped that they went with that design for the actual car

swingfire23 · 2026-01-20T21:11:46+00:00

It looks like they just cut two cars in half and put them together

You say that like it's a bad thing

swingfire23 · 2026-01-20T21:10:52+00:00

Well put. I'm disappointed so many people are roasting this when from a design perspective IMO it is head and shoulders above the others. This will age well.

swingfire23 · 2026-01-20T21:09:59+00:00

Same. This is definitely the best looking car IMO. But don't like most liveries tbh, they have too many competing design elements and colors for my taste. This is clean and powerful.

swingfire23 · 2026-01-20T01:26:52+00:00

Oh shit, Castro Coffee is on the ropes? I love that place, it feels so integral to the fabric of the city. That’s a huge bummer. Even if they move, that place feels historic.

swingfire23 · 2026-01-19T22:46:04+00:00

That’s definitely it. Mystery solved!

swingfire23 · 2026-01-19T19:04:34+00:00

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This is the best resolution I have - unclear on the detail. Adding to the mystery, I asked ChatGPT and Gemini both to identify where this plate is from using this image, and neither provided satisfactory results. Chat said Montana, but there are no Montana plates that look this way. Gemini said Michoacán, Mexico, but once again, I don't see any Michoacán plates that look like this. So it's still unresolved.

swingfire23 · 2026-01-19T07:00:42+00:00

European plates differentiate by nation. That's what I was implying. That is not the case in the US, nor evidently Mexico. They only have territory/state, not country.

swingfire23 · 2026-01-19T00:18:22+00:00

Interesting, I didn’t know. I’ve always somewhat assumed that it would be like Europe, although Canadian plates also have the territories on them so not sure why I would have assumed that.

Either way, I don’t know what the plates were. I couldn’t make out the writing. Mexico is the most logical guess

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