Rip off home prices in crime ridden areas

Hack

anyone think it's interesting that the shooting of Paul Sherlock occurred in stones throw of brand new (expensive) apartment development by Crosbie Holdings where the units are mad expensive? i mean this is an area where robbed cars are dumped on a regular basis. would you like to leave your gaffe and even hear a gun shot after paying over the hilt for the place? I mean look at the new property on sale in the Finglas area. cheaper than in Terenure for sure, but still over the margin for people on an average income in an area where gang crime is rampant. maybe if the prices came down more due to crime developers would add pressure to their Government buddies for more gardai and resources to get rid of scum. - just a thought!

Trampas

define what crime is?

I am sure people in upper class Dublin areas have been involved in crime of some sort.

WTF are you talking about?..........."Crime ridden"??????

Will ya snap out of it. With any luck, everyone else will see through the absolute bollox you're talking and this thread will die.

Robbo

Are these apartments in this lively Dublin suburb of "Gangland" I've been hearing so much about?

An Citeog

Someone's been watching a little too much Police Academy!

Senna

i bought a house for €750k and one week after i moved in, a kid stole the milk carton from my doorstep. We'll i sold the house straight away, i didn't know it was fecking Baghdad i was moving into.

seamus

Nowhere in Dublin can claim to be "safe" anymore. Ever since the scum got money, they just bought houses in the nice areas, and now they get shot there.

Orange69

Hack wrote:

anyone think it's interesting that the shooting of Paul Sherlock occurred in stones throw of brand new (expensive) apartment development by Crosbie Holdings where the units are mad expensive? i mean this is an area where robbed cars are dumped on a regular basis. would you like to leave your gaffe and even hear a gun shot after paying over the hilt for the place? I mean look at the new property on sale in the Finglas area. cheaper than in Terenure for sure, but still over the margin for people on an average income in an area where gang crime is rampant. maybe if the prices came down more due to crime developers would add pressure to their Government buddies for more gardai and resources to get rid of scum. - just a thought!

The real issue imo is that people are dumb enough to buy outrageously priced homes, especially now that the housing bubble is deflating....

justsomebloke

seamus wrote:

Nowhere in Dublin can claim to be "safe" anymore. Ever since the scum got money, they just bought houses in the nice areas, and now they get shot there.

actually I blame the Luas it made it easier for them to get from A to B without having to rely on a dublin bus

Dord

There are criminals on both sides of the tracks... some just hide it better than others....

TwoShedsJackson

Deleted User wrote:

WTF are you talking about?..........."Crime ridden"??????

Will ya snap out of it. With any luck, everyone else will see through the absolute bollox you're talking and this thread will die.

Finglas native detected.

Slow Motion

TwoShedsJackson wrote:

Finglas native detected.

Your point ?

Zulu

Hack wrote:

anyone think it's interesting that the shooting of Paul Sherlock occurred in stones throw of brand new (expensive) apartment development by Crosbie Holdings where the units are mad expensive? i mean this is an area where robbed cars are dumped on a regular basis. would you like to leave your gaffe and even hear a gun shot after paying over the hilt for the place? ...

Ah right so Ted. This is the same development that is a 5 min walk from the IFSC in the city centre? And by "mad expensive" you mean 100K cheaper than by the equivalent in the IFSC and 150-200K cheaper than Ringend/Irishtown?

Have you been to the area? Seriously - have you actually been? I'll wager you haven't, as you clearly don't have a clue what you are talking about.

The Hill Billy

Does the OP's name not tell you anything? That, & the fact that they have only 4 posts to date.

Most likely this thread was started by some journo to get a few quotes for an article without having to bother to get off their barstool. Don't encourage them.

thefinalstage

I think its very interesting indeed....Yes very. Quote that mister reporter man. Angry with 1 n.

hopalong85

Deleted User wrote:

WTF are you talking about?..........."Crime ridden"??????

Will ya snap out of it. With any luck, everyone else will see through the absolute bollox you're talking and this thread will die.

I think what the op means is that areas like Finglas have much more crime than areas such as Terenure. This is in all fairness a sad but true fact, however i don't really see the point of the post, houses in this country are overpriced across the board, not just in certain areas.

fletch

These "crime ridden" areas can often be safer places to live as the scum don't tend to sh1t on their own doorsteps

Slow Motion

fletch wrote:

These "crime ridden" areas can often be safer places to live as the scum don't tend to sh1t on their own doorsteps

Oh yes they do ! They're scum after all !

digitally-yours

fletch wrote:

These "crime ridden" areas can often be safer places to live as the scum don't tend to sh1t on their own doorsteps

Excuse me. Are you serious.


Would you like your child to grow up in that area ?
I hope you don't expect me to answer this.

TwoShedsJackson

TwoShedsJackson wrote:

Finglas native detected.

Incorrect. I'm actually from Summerhill. I now live in Santry. In what way, if any, does the area from which i come detract from the fact that the OP is spouting unsubstantiated, inaccurate "facts" about somewhere that, as has been pointed out, he/she has most likely never even visited.

I know people from that area (Gaelic st., Ossory Rd., East Wall etc.) and they are genuine, honest, hard-working individuals. As with any other area though, there are a few bad apples. Broad, sweeping statements like "robbed cars are dumped regularly" and "gang crime is rampant" say a lot more about the OP than they do about The Strand, Finglas etc.

Ill-informed, unwarranted verbal diarrhoea (sp?).

As I said earlier, I hoped this thread will die. I felt it necessary to come back her now to respond to your comment, as it's neither helpful nor funny.

hopalong85

Deleted User wrote:

I know people from that area (Gaelic st., Ossory Rd., East Wall etc.) and they are genuine, honest, hard-working individuals. As with any other area though, there are a few bad apples.

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There are more "bad apples" in certain areas. Of course there are decent hard working people in the areas you've mentioned, but that doesn't change the fact that these areas also contain alot of scum. It's sad but unfortunately true.

Dyr

i saw an episode of the shield where one of the police chiefs was reducing police patrols in bad areas so the house prices went down and then buying all the houses so he could send in his task force to clean the area up and make a killing on the houses when the value increased.

Thats the only logical explanation

Dave!

thelastangryman wrote:

I think its very interesting indeed....Yes very. Quote that mister reporter man. Angry with 1 n.

That made me laugh

John Mason

hopalong85 wrote:

I think what the op means is that areas like Finglas have much more crime than areas such as Terenure. This is in all fairness a sad but true fact, however i don't really see the point of the post, houses in this country are overpriced across the board, not just in certain areas.

#


i bought a house in Finglas 3 years and i havent seen any crime to speak off - i am tired of the Finglas Bashing. At the moment you cant turn on the radio with hearing that someone was shot, stabbed, robbed in Swords - does anyone actually turn around and say that Swords is crime riddin? well do they ?

cance

irishbird wrote:

does anyone actually turn around and say that Swords is crime riddin? well do they ?

they wont if they know whats good for em! if ya get me drift.

hopalong85

irishbird wrote:

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i bought a house in Finglas 3 years and i havent seen any crime to speak off - i am tired of the Finglas Bashing. At the moment you cant turn on the radio with hearing that someone was shot, stabbed, robbed in Swords - does anyone actually turn around and say that Swords is crime riddin? well do they ?

Who is bashing Finglas? You can turn on the radio without hearing that someone has been shot, stabbed etc., in Swords. All i'm saying is that crime figures in Finglas are higher than crime figures in areas such as Terenure. That isn't Finglas "bashing". That is just the way it is.

Slow Motion

hopalong85 wrote:

Who is bashing Finglas? You can turn on the radio without hearing that someone has been shot, stabbed etc., in Swords. All i'm saying is that crime figures in Finglas are higher than crime figures in areas such as Terenure. That isn't Finglas "bashing". That is just the way it is.

If you're going to say that then provide the statistics otherwise your post is meaningless at worst anecdotal at best.

Zulu

hopalong85 wrote:

There are more "bad apples" in certain areas. Of course there are decent hard working people in the areas you've mentioned, but that doesn't change the fact that these areas also contain alot of scum. It's sad but unfortunately true.

I live on Ossory Road, and there is no "scum" living there. Care to prove you're comment that it's true?

Crime stats for Grafton Street are very high - is anyone living there scum?

Your argument holds as much weight as a wet paper bag.

HJ Simpson

Sister-in-law is from Ossary Road and neither her or any of her family are scum/involved in drugs/crime. (That I know of!)

John Mason

Slow Motion wrote:

If you're going to say that then provide the statistics otherwise your post is meaningless at worst anecdotal at best.

i have to agree totally with Slow Mo, where is your evidence to back this up?

SheroN

I can't believe there are people looking for evidence that the crime rate is higher in Finglas as opposed to Ternure.

Can someone provide me figures show that Iraq is any less safe than Ireland?