Areas to avoid?

ziedth wrote: »

Stay away from geoffs

seriously, from my experience:

ballybeg
larchville
cherrymount
templers hall (students)
any apartments in and around the quay.

Good luck.

What's wrong with the apartments around by the Quay?

Shams wrote: »

actually id like to know why "stay away from geoffs" i have been in there many a time and had a good laugh with friends. I dont go in there now cos im living in the USA but just wondering....
thx

thats just his personal bias against geoffs tis a grand spot

seanybiker wrote: »

All them places are grand apart from geoffs. Anywhere you go is grand. Where are you thinking of?

In fairness, they're not Seanie, not if you don't konw the places like, althought I was surprised to see Cherrymount in there.

Jeremiah 16:1 wrote: »

I'd avoid Ballybeg and Lismore Park, myself-there are much nicer areas to live in.

Lismore Park? Is that some kind of joke or something? You could get unlucky with students but that's pretty rare now with a lot less student houses than there used to be.

@OP: Why don't you tell us a few of the areas you were thinking about and we'll tell you the good and bad points. Because we could all spend loads of time listing places to avoid but you might not even have been conisdering them.

Live in or near the city centre and you'll have services within walking distance and something to do...

imo you should probably avoid anywhere near the john st/parnell st/manor st area or you will never get any sleep before 4 o clock. this is the centre of all the clubs.



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Meatwad wrote: »

As a fair few have said already, go Dunmore rd. area, not that its any way better than some of the places mentioned but most parts are quieter and cheaper than the rest of the town. You could end up paying 600 on a one bed appartment in the town but you'd get a house for that on the dunmore road in certain parts.
Wouldn't bother too much with daft.ie, from personal experience you're better avoiding estste agents and looking in the local papers for places to rent. While there are a few private lettings on the site the majority are done through letting agencies that will rip you off compared to dealing with the landlord.
If you have a car then you have loads of options for letting around waterford, even places like tramore , passage or the other side of the bridge. Depends on what your situation is as well, if your young and single the town would probably be a better option compared to further out in the 'burbs.

600 on a one bed apartment? Daft gives 400-500. You can get a nice place sharing for 300-350. Daft has always been very reliable for me.

If you're wedded to the car, have a decent job, not-single/want to settle down, then the Dunmore rd. is the place where people tend to end up.

Personally, I think the quality of life is far better in the city centre if you want to do anything other than sit in and watch TV all night. Depends on where you're coming from. I like to have plenty within walking distance, but that's me.

A mate of mine lives in O'Connell court off O'Connell st., and those apartments seems fine. You will be living with other people in close proximity though, which seems to come as a surprise and a shock to a lot of Waterford people. Otherwise, go and have a look at places. Make the effort. The best places can be one-offs and not part of apartment blocks.

If you are going to live in the city centre, avoid anywhere near the junction of John's st. and the Manor/Cork rd. That's where the drunken hordes of the south east issue from en masse late at night. Most other parts are fine. There are no really 'bad' areas in the city centre, since most of the bad elements live out in the western suburbs. There are however plenty of 'lonely' areas.

You'll hear a lot of people run down the O'Connell st. area, which is where a lot of apartments have sprung up and a lot of immigrants, students and various other groups live. I wouldn't write it off though, because the increased levels of footfall that this has brought has made the area less lonely than previously and more and more shops, etc. are opening up in the area. Take each apartment there on its merits, some are a lot better than others. Don't listen to talk about anti-social behaviour and ghettoes, etc., I live nearby and I've never seen any trouble in the area.

dayshah wrote: »

A good city centre place would be around Thomas Hill and the stony steps and Barker St.

Barker St. is just behind the Garda barracks (not much trouble so), near to Ballybricken and pubs (but not a major artery to the pubs, so you can sleep ok), and the general benefits of the city centre. They only bad thing is you have to walk up a hill from a supermarket (Dunnes in city square). There are some smaller shops around Ballybricken for milk etc.

Not sure how I'd like it if I had a car though.

Mostly, car parking is not as much of an issue in the centre as you might think, since the main traffic is during the day when people are at work. Usually after working hours there is plenty of parking and it is usually possible to get parking in close proximity, if not outside, your house. Obviously, you'd have to go and check out any particular area to check.

The area you mention sounds grand all right. You have ALDI down the road as well. Very hilly though as you say.

There's apartments on Mary st. I think that have private parking.

You'd get a small house with a small backyard in Morgan St alright, I lived there a few years back and it was "mostly" grand, except for when my car (onstreet parking only round there) was badly vandalised, reckon it was some drunken fools tooling about after a night at the Forum (a venue just around the corner from Morgan St).

There are some two-up two-downs there, and some "cottage" style one story houses, mostly 2-3 bed, but expect to have smallish sittingrooms/kitchens in comparison to say, a newish semi-d type house in the burbs, as the houses in town are older and that's just the way they were built. So think apartment sized living area but you are in your own house with a garden, no sharing entrance halls and poor sound insulation etc.
You might get lucky and find a house that's been extended at the back in a central enough location, but you will sacrifice garden space as naturally the bigger kitchen etc will have been extended out into it.

Don't totally write off getting a house with a garden near the areas you're thinking of though - if you look around that end of town there's a lot of smaller houses with gardens for rent at comparable prices to apartments, if you push out of the town a little towards the direction of gracedieu/up towards morrison's road and surrounds etc if you're not sold on the idea of an apartment (and my personal preference is that I hate apartments/flats, having lived in them for a few years).

For e.g. from Morgan St up is mostly terraced houses rather than apartment blocks. You're still within very easy walking distance of everything in the centre from there, and the hypermarket (supervalu market) is slap bang on your doorstep too. Or as others have mentioned, barker st/the glen etc have terraced houses for rent.

op, dont go rushing in to renting in the city center. I know some posters say there is more to do in the city center, but there is actually more to do out the dunmore road area.
plenty of pubs, tesco, next homebase, loads of restaurants, loads of stuff going on. much more to do and see than the city center, cheaper rental and you get a lot more for your rental money.
the area is also very quiet with hardly any anti social behaviour. pubs have a more relaxed and friendly atmosphere.
plenty of buses going anywhere you want and regularly too. wins hands down imo...