Squalid. You live in a leaky stable, a mud-floored hut just outside town, or a vermin-infested boarding house in the worst part of town. You have shelter from the elements, but you live in a desperate and violent Environment, in places rife with disease.
they are magically transported to the characters current location, far away from where they were born. Any family or friends are left far behind, they are now a foreigner in the land.