Bah! I would put Charleroi, Belgium up against any city on the planet as the most depressing place in the world! OK, it was never the capital of the Gulag, but the huge disused steelworks in the middle of town and the numerous slag-heaps in suburbs give it an atmosphere all of its own.
Dunno why we keep going to Oberhof, really. Weather is always terrible, there’s never any snow, and crowds are never that great by modern standards.