Where was the most boring place you ever visited?

Bretrick said:
Very early on in my life I went to the Sydney Opera House on a school trip. We saw a piano recital and I fell asleep.
Perth City Centre is extremely boring. Nothing actually to do but walk around and window shop. Perth has been dubbed Dullsville for good reason.
Fremantle? Exactly the same, a run-down place trying to entice people so they can walk around and spend their cash. Fremantle recently held the Sail Grand Prix, made exclusively expensive, general public could get nowhere near the shoreline, even the highest point, the Roundhouse, was fenced off, and patrolled by police to keep the hoi polloi away.
Small country towns, nothing there, open up latish, close early, nothing after dark. Extremely boring
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A couple of years ago I had a really good holiday in Perth - went to the Mint and the Bell tower and a street art tour and a day trip to Swan Valley wineries and went to Fremantle prison, heritage listed from convict times and a day trip to Rottnest Island.

Haven't been to Canberra for many years - but it really isn't a tourist destination. Is mainly just the admin centre ofp government
Less than a tenth the population of Melbourne or Sydney and even Brisbane,Perth, Adelaide are much bigger than Canberra. And no beaches.
 

When I retired in 2017 and had to deal with a Social Security issue because the government missed one of my annual earning periods when I was self employed. The local Santa Clara County Social Security Office without an appointment, was overflowing with immigrants trying to get papers that California politicians were intent to give them. That lowered my monthly SS check some but not enough for me to bother with going back to that office for what is chump change I can at any point receive a lump sum for as their mistake not mine.

Next worse would be my local Santa Clara County Department of Motor Vehicle Office without an appointment in the era one could only walk in first come first serve.
 
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When I was a kid I lived in western Kansas. Many people found that boring. On the flat plains you can see for miles, the light atop a grain elevator might be twenty miles or more away. As an adult my own family visited my sister who made her home in western Kansas. Our two children said this is so boring. In response Sis took them outside in one direction was one of those grain elevators in the distance, a plume of what looked like dust was in fact a combine harvesting wheat, and the rippling effect around a distant sundown sky was the warmth of the soil that made that harvest possible. I wasn't alone or bored out their, and I wasn't scared of what might be in the shadows either.
 
Driving the full length of the east-west highway that takes you across South Dakota. The road is completely straight, surrounded by cornfields on both sides. I actually got dizzy, and if I hadn't had my husband in the car to talk with, I probably would have fallen asleep - or gotten hypotized.
 
I don't understand complaints about medical, Social Security, DMV or other offices being boring. They're not meant to be entertaining, for heaven's sake.

Starting in early childhood, I was taught to bring a book or magazine along when there was likely to be a wait longer than 5-10 minutes. I continue that practice today.
 
Dr.Colosso said:
My sister has a sail boat in Greece with a few other couples. They go there every year. They took their kids with em when they were in their 20s, paid the trip for them. Greece is fabulous. I've been there decades ago. What did they do? They sat inside a hotel room all week, gaming.
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That happened to us the first time we took the kids to Majorca. There we were all ready to go out and explore a totally different culture and geography from our North London base, and what did the kids do? They played on their handheld computer games the whole time. Even when we went to a factory where they make cultured pearls they ignored the whole thing and sat in a corner playing their video games.

Thankfully we were only there for a week, but the kids behaviour was pretty appalling to us, taking no interest in anything outside of their own self-imposed limits, and ignoring the whole new world they were now in.

We never took them again. So now they have very limited views on the world around them, because they've never allowed the outside world into theirs. I despair for the future of the planet if this attitude is common among the latest generations of adults.
 
Tom52 said:
Two that come to mind are the Little Mermaid statue in Copenhagen and Stratford-Upon-Avon in England. There are too many to list here in the USA.
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I've been to Copenhagen... and the little mermaid statue is underwhelming for sure... you maybe surprised to know I've never been to Stratford -Upn-Avon... ( hoe of shakespear for those who don't know ) I keep telling myself I'll go but I never do......maybe I shouldn't bother..lol
 
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This thread really shows that we're all excited by and appreciate different things. There have been some places mentioned here that are some of my favorite places on earth. There were others that I love visiting and make a point to visit.

When my wife and I went to Paris we were underwhelmed but not bored. We found some fascinating places to go and things to do. However we kept asking the same question while being there, "Where's the charm?" We know so many people who love visiting there but it wasn't as fantastic to us as it was for them.

The most boring place I've ever visited is Half Moon Cay. It's a private island in the Caribbean owned by Holland America and it's one of the stops on their Carribbean cruises. We had booked a two week cruise that was actually two back to back one week cruises where we returned to our departure port half way through and unloaded some of the folks who'd been on during our first week and loaded another set of passengers on. Unfortunately this meant that we had to stop at Half Moon Cay twice. The second time we stayed on the ship and played video games rather than visit that boring spot again.
 
Well, I can sure tell you where the most dangerous place to be bored was........my house when I was a kid.

We knew better than to whine "I'm booooored!" when my mother was in earshot. We'd find ourselves cleaning out the garage, doing ironing, washing woodwork. That cured boredom right quickly. ANYTHING there was to do beat the heck out of polishing silverware or folding laundry.
 
Midway Island Pacific. My flight was headed to San Diego and I was on leave for Christmas. Nothing there but a chapel a PX and fuel for Military and commercial air traffic. All those gun emplacements of WW II were all out under water and coral reef had formed on all. One large Naval aircraft was on the side of the runway totally destroyed. I watched our Pilot pull out a commercial credit card and paid for a heck of a lot of fuel. I was home Christmas Eve at the San Diego airport. I heard that the Navy only kept people there on the island for six months due to the terrible conditions. :)
 
Paco Dennis said:
Church when I was young.
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I loved vacation Bible School. Punch and cookies and basket making and chipped tile ceramics. Then one hour of bible class, never ever understood exactly what was being read to us. I listen to a Bible minister a lot on TV at 3am if I am awake, which I often am. He is a true master at explaining just what the scriptures say and everything is in context, he goes all over the books to make one example. The people who were teaching we young people never did that nor do I believe they actually knew.
 
jujube said:
Well, I can sure tell you where the most dangerous place to be bored was........my house when I was a kid.

We knew better than to whine "I'm booooored!" when my mother was in earshot. We'd find ourselves cleaning out the garage, doing ironing, washing woodwork. That cured boredom right quickly. ANYTHING there was to do beat the heck out of polishing silverware or folding laundry.
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...same.. absolutely...
 
Feelslikefar said:
Minot, North Dakota.
I never warmed up or found anything to do there.

Close second, for the same reasons, was Thule, Greenland.

I'm just not a winter person.
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There is nothing to do in Minot, ND. Been there, done that...BUT----it wasn't boring as my DIL was being mustered out.
 
Mat said:
I loved vacation Bible School. Punch and cookies and basket making and chipped tile ceramics. Then one hour of bible class, never ever understood exactly what was being read to us. I listen to a Bible minister a lot on TV at 3am if I am awake, which I often am. He is a true master at explaining just what the scriptures say and everything is in context, he goes all over the books to make one example. The people who were teaching we young people never did that nor do I believe they actually knew.
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Oh, yes, I really looked forward to VBS, for all the reasons you mentioned AND to get to march around the church while the pianist played "Onward Christian Soldiers". I don't know why that was so much fun, but it was, just to see who could stomp the hardest.
 

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