The Soul-Sucking Canada Thread

[MolsonExport]

Ugly doesn't quite capture the essence of soul-sucking. Soul sucking is often (but not necessarily) ugly, but more often it is dismal banality or cookie-cutter sameness (e.g., big box barf, cubicles, fast-food/gas station urban fabric, worthless strip malls), that sucks the soul out of you. It can be also refer to egregious examples of mediocrity. But whatever its character, the effect is the same: places you would rather avoid, on account of the sheer dread these places inspire (not to be confused with dangerous places, which may instill dread but for different reasons).

Show us your your dirty underwear; your soul-sucking places and districts.

To get the ball rolling: Here are some from beautiful London Ontario (you have to start with SEARS)


SSP

Needs no introduction:


joycebyrnerealto



Fiveprime

worthless industrial strip malls:
https://www.google.ca/maps/@42.97711...7i13312!8i6656

[saffronleaf]

Mississauga. All of it.

[O-tacular]

Would the Drumheller mall qualify?



The gateway to Drumheller:

https://www.google.ca/maps/@51.45822...2!8i6656?dcr=0

[DrNest]

Originally Posted by O-tacular

Would the Drumheller mall qualify?



The gateway to Drumheller:

https://www.google.ca/maps/@51.45822...2!8i6656?dcr=0

I was in Drumheller last week, and didn't even realise there was a mall there. It doesn't look like I missed much.

[O-tacular]

Originally Posted by DrNest

I was in Drumheller last week, and didn't even realise there was a mall there. It doesn't look like I missed much.

It’s quite small and unremarkable from the outside. Unless you were going to the cemetery or the Walmart you wouldn’t have seen it.

What brought you there during the winter? Most tourists go in the summer. I guess the Tyrell is open year round.

[O-tacular]

Can we nominate hockey teams for this thread? The Flames have sucked my soul out as a fan. Nothing like finishing in 9th or 10th place in the Conference! I can’t think of another team that is guaranteed to lose if they have a 3 goal lead.

[O-tacular]

How's this for a shitty casino? Calgary's Blackfoot casino:





Home to the 2$ brunch and a card dealer who looks exactly like the puppet of Kim Jong Il from Team America World Police.

[DrNest]

Originally Posted by O-tacular

It’s quite small and unremarkable from the outside. Unless you were going to the cemetery or the Walmart you wouldn’t have seen it.

What brought you there during the winter? Most tourists go in the summer. I guess the Tyrell is open year round.

We were there during Ontario's March Break. It was very quiet due to Alberta's kids still being at school. I have a special needs son who gets overwhelmed easily in large crowds, so having a quiet hotel with the pool and waterslide to ourselves helped make the trip comfortable for him.

We came to visit the Tyrell last year and loved it and the Raddison hotel where we stayed, so as we were spending a week in Alberta, took the opportunity to visit again and have some quiet days inbetween staying in Edmonton and Calgary.

[MolsonExport]

Originally Posted by O-tacular

Would the Drumheller mall qualify?



The gateway to Drumheller:

https://www.google.ca/maps/@51.45822...2!8i6656?dcr=0

I think this gateway has reached the end of the line: https://www.drumhellermail.com/news/...ain-co-op-says

[O-tacular]

Originally Posted by MolsonExport

I think this gateway has reached the end of the line: https://www.drumhellermail.com/news/...ain-co-op-says

That’s going back a little ways. Did I post that here or in the dead malls thread? WalFart killed the Drumheller mall. It’s a nice time capsule. Situated right next to the cemetery too!

[GeneralLeeTPHLS]

Originally Posted by saffronleaf

Mississauga. All of it.

I agree with you (except for some parts of the fugly "downtown", Port Credit and Streetsville)

Here's some new homes in an area that should've been built out years before (These homes must be less than twenty, even though nearby, you'll find 35 or so year old homes)
https://www.google.ca/maps/@43.60946...=en&authuser=0

Here are some very VERY run of the mill homes....these 80's subdivisions are EVERYWHERE in Mississauga, they're probably more common than the 60's or 70's subdivisions:
https://www.google.ca/maps/@43.61450...=en&authuser=0

[megadude]

Originally Posted by GeneralLeeTPHLS

I agree with you (except for some parts of the fugly "downtown", Port Credit and Streetsville)

Here's some new homes in an area that should've been built out years before (These homes must be less than twenty, even though nearby, you'll find 35 or so year old homes)
https://www.google.ca/maps/@43.60946...=en&authuser=0

Here are some very VERY run of the mill homes....these 80's subdivisions are EVERYWHERE in Mississauga, they're probably more common than the 60's or 70's subdivisions:
https://www.google.ca/maps/@43.61450...=en&authuser=0

This is true. Yes much of Sauga is like any suburb. Lots of cookie cutter going on. And also has some ghetto like in Malton or commie block across from Sqaure One to the SE. Or Hurontario and Dundas. Sauga also has a trailer park on Dundas east of Dixie. And used to have another at Dundas just west of Hurontario.

But there are quite a few nice places. In addition to those places you mentioned, I'll include much/all of Meadowvale Village, Lakeview, Clarkson, Lorne Park, Mineola, Erindale, anywhere close to UTM, and basically anywhere along the Credit.

Still though. Way too many cars on the road now in Sauga and Brampton. Just so damn congested. Two places I wouldn't want to move back to unless someone bequeathed to me a nice home in one of the nice neighbourhoods.

[O-tacular]

No soul sucking thread would be complete without this old lady mausoleum:

[SignalHillHiker]

Suburban St. John's proper, not even as far out as the suburban municipalities, is as soul-sucking a place as I've ever been.

[O-tacular]

Originally Posted by SignalHillHiker

Suburban St. John's proper, not even as far out as the suburban municipalities, is as soul-sucking a place as I've ever been.

What makes it that much worse is the complete lack of trees combined with ugly lawns. That last one is so bad I could almost see it making a cameo appearance in a Wes Anderson movie. The cheery colours combined with harsh soul crushing architecture.

[Vixx]

https://www.google.ca/maps/@53.55870...7i13312!8i6656

https://www.google.ca/maps/@53.55870...7i13312!8i6656

Most of 111 Avenue is incredibly soul sucking. I could've thrown this into the ugly Canada thread as well, but honestly just looking at images like that is just more depressing rather then laughable at how ugly it all is.

[FrankieFlowerpot]

[ssiguy]

Those suburban St'John's pictures are horrid. Not only is the street incredibly ugly but it's also filled with the plague of human housing..........vinyl siding. Vancouver is full of vinyl siding and it looks horrible. At least the suburbs of Ontario still use brick which has a warmth about it and ages very well while vinyl siding looks like crap after only a few years.

Curious, where is that huge suburban shot taken?

[FrankieFlowerpot]

Originally Posted by ssiguy

Curious, where is that huge suburban shot taken?

Vaughan

[p_xavier]

At least there's some kind of grid pattern and density in that suburb.