Silly Friday Question: Which Fictional Cities Would You Live In & Which Would You Avoid?

Posted by Ill-Flounder5986@reddit | GenX | View on Reddit | 26 comments

Here are mine:

Would Live In

Shermer, IL (16 Candles, The Breakfast Club, Weird Science, Ferris Bueller's Day Off) - Safe, walkable, and easy access to Chicago and Lake Michigan
Bayside, CA (Saved by the Bell) - High school should be a breeze because the students never seem to attend class

Runners Up

Sweet Valley, CA (Sweet Valley High)
Hill Valley, CA (Back to the Future)

Would Avoid

Springfield, ?? (The Simpsons) It's dangerously close to a nuclear power plant, and the safety officer of that nuclear power plant is the town idiot
Sunnydale, CA (Buffy the Vampire Slayer) - Built on a Hellmouth
Gotham City (Batman) - The city is filthy, crime is rampant, the police are useless, and the number of residents with severe mental illness is disturbingly high

Runners Up

Twin Peaks, WA (Twin Peaks)
Amity Island, NY (Jaws)
South Park, CO (South Park)
Crystal Lake, NJ (Friday the 13th)
Haddonfield, IL (Halloween)
Springwood, OH (Nightmare on Elm Street)
Woodsboro, CA (Scream)
Castle Rock, ME (various works of Stephen King)

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daydreamersunion@reddit

Both are the same city. Atlantis.

Id enjoy the heck out of it until I felt the ground shake. Then gotta go.

sideways92@reddit

The Shire, in the northwestern corner of Middle Earth.

Thirty_Helens_Agree@reddit

Risa in Star Trek seems nice.

I’d avoid Dagobah, Mustafar. Probably the post-apocalyptic Vegas in Blade Runner 2049 too.

Anyplace with superheroes would be a hard no. Imagine you're going to work one minute and the next Graviton is throwing your car at the Hulk. And it's not even the first time this kind of thing has happened.

gmhelwig@reddit

"What's your excuse this time?" your boss asks, the 50th time you're late.

Ill-Flounder5986@reddit (OP)

Or Batman and Killer Croc start throwing punches and end up destroying your entire building.

KrofftSurvivor@reddit

Ok...but - Star City.

CountHonorius@reddit

Hill Valley, of course. Save the Clock Tower!

le4t@reddit

How is Derry, ME not near the top of the Avoid list??

Twin Peaks on my Would list.

I thought about including Derry, but I thought Castle Rock was better known.

If we're adding Derry we should also add Salem's Lot.

Adventurous_Bad_4011@reddit

Somewhere between London and the Savage Reservation in “A Brave New World” ,

zealot_ratio@reddit

Yeah, my first thought before reading anything but the title was "not Sunnydale".

MaximumJones@reddit

I want to be a spoiled rich kid who lives in Beverly Hills 90210.

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I want to hang out at the Peach Pit.

auntieup@reddit

Would live in: Cabot Cove (Murder, She Wrote), The Emerald City (The Wizard of Oz), Amity Island, Twin Peaks

Would visit: Gotham City, Mos Eisley (a wretched hive of scum and villainy can be great for a bachelorette party)

Would avoid: Pleasantville, Wisteria Lane

Would burn to the ground: Stepford

itwillmakesenselater@reddit

Eureka, either Washington (pilot) or Oregon (series). What a crazy, tech-centric city should be, with plenty of the Pacific northwest to play around in.

I'd forgotten about Eureka. I'd love to live there!

The café alone...