Where's the biggest kip you have lived?

jimpump

Ballymun would be my choice, its like living in an irish version of 'The Wire'

aint too bad now tho since the regeneration but a few years back it was like west baltimore!

OneArt

Drogheda/Bettystown. So unbelievably boring I moved to Ballymun. Great place, close to the city/amenities, cheap rent and a fantastic apartment. Now I live in Germany so that's nothing compared to here!

jimpump

i know drogheda is a bit of a dive but isnt bettystown in the sticks?

cant imagine too much trouble around that way

Sea Sharp

Ocean Beach apartments in Santa Ponsa

jimpump

Sea Sharp wrote: »

Ocean Beach apartments in Santa Posa

not Santa Ponsa?

Cill Dara Abu

Ireland

kieran26

Cill Dara Abu wrote: »

Ireland

Good lad sayin what we were all thinkin! thank god originality isn't dead on this island! just when i was worried about the future of this country this post pops up:rolleyes:

lived in a place in galway that was slightly damp other than that i've had it pretty good.

Jesus Wept

Mountjoy.

Cill Dara Abu

kieran26 wrote: »

Good lad sayin what we were all thinkin! thank god originality isn't dead on this island! just when i was worried about the future of this country this post pops up:rolleyes:

lived in a place in galway that was slightly damp other than that i've had it pretty good.

:pac:

Cill Dara Abu

The-Rigger wrote: »

Mountjoy.

Free rent, free electricity, free food... what more do you want?:P

jimpump

The-Rigger wrote: »

Mountjoy.

Na, Cloverhill is a lot worse

Cill Dara Abu

jimpump wrote: »

Na, Cloverhill is a lot worse

How so?

jimpump

Cill Dara Abu wrote: »

Free rent, free electricity, free food... what more do you want?:P

Good point......sounds like heaven

Jesus Wept

Cill Dara Abu wrote: »

Free rent, free electricity, free food... what more do you want?:P

A toilet.

jimpump

Cill Dara Abu wrote: »

How so?

cos cloverhill is in clondalkin(s*hithole) and mountjoy is in a lovely area...close to town and all

its all about location!

rockmongrel

Lived in Kilnamanagh when I was younger. Our playschool teacher actually had to get a German Sheppard to look after us when we were playing in the yard because older kids kept coming in a ****ing things up and stealing toys.
Kip kip kip.

jimpump

rockmongrel wrote: »

Lived in Kilnamanagh when I was younger. Our playschool teacher actually had to get a German Sheppard to look after us when we were playing in the yard because older kids kept coming in a ****ing things up and stealing toys.
Kip kip kip.

Sounds like a terrible place, and i thought brooklyn, new york was rough...

aint got nothing on kilnamanagh!

iguy

A place in Portarlington, Co Laois, it was an old house, converted into four one bed flats,
within the flats themselves there was no bath or shower, there was a communal showerroom(three showerheads on either side of the wall!) and a two bath, yes you read right two baths in another room, there was a toilet and handbasin in the flat itself,
Also in the kitchen sink there was no hot water to wash up, me and the oh had to boil the kettle!
There was 2 communal washer/dryers also.
We didn't have the facilities to store wheelie bins either, so we had to keep the rubbish indoors in our bin and put 2/3 aes sacks out every TWO WEEKS, just imagine the smell of leftover food and whatnot.
The only 3 good things about about the flat was that the landlord always kept the oil tank full, all year round heating, sky(free to air)was in each flat and the rent was only 37.50 per week.
Oh and to be fair the electricity was good value also, because it was the old coin style way, and €5 a week did us.
We only lasted 5 months there!
Sincerely,
iguy

orourkeda

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0sq8VDXlWQk

ootbitb

rockmongrel wrote: »

Lived in Kilnamanagh when I was younger. Our playschool teacher actually had to get a German Sheppard to look after us when we were playing in the yard because older kids kept coming in a ****ing things up and stealing toys.
Kip kip kip.

and the mothers were happy letting their kids play alongside a German Shepherd?:eek:

charlemont

Where I live now, Crazy place.


Mountjoy is a hole, Thankfully I dont know about Cloverhill.

Duiske

The-Rigger wrote: »

Mountjoy.

lol.. that place was a doddle. Were you one of the newbs who bent over in the shower to pick up his soap ?

The Highwayman

Trim, 1992-93
Gugh :eek:

dpe

Salford would be one (you could buy a house for the price of a Ford Sierra), Bransholme would be another (its in Hull - biggest council estate in Europe and an absolute toilet).

almighty1

dpe wrote: »

Bransholme would be another (its in Hull - biggest council estate in Europe and an absolute toilet).

Thought that record belonged to Beacontree in Dagenham.

Marty McFly

jimpump wrote: »

cos cloverhill is in clondalkin(s*hithole) and mountjoy is in a lovely area...close to town and all

its all about location!

Oi leave Clondalkin out of it, its a lovely place, full of heroin, needles, drugs robbed cars, guns, kicking gaf partys with enough pills and dutch gold to keep any man happy :pac:

Saint_Mel

Northstrand.
The house itself was a bit of a kip. It had been damaged by flooding in the 60's or something but never fixed up properly so all the floors were sloaping. It was like walking uphill going through the house. Peas would roll off the dinner plate.

It was also beside the Dart line so the whole house would rattle every time a train passed.

On the upside, no need for an alarm clock as the morning dart into Clontarf station woke me in time for work. It was walking distance to work and near enough town, and I shared the house with a mate from home and a few other sound lads so it was a bit of craic.

But the house itself was a cave.

Biggins

Drogheda.

Fratton Fred

High Wycombe.

summerskin

lived in High Wycombe myself for 4 months, was a dump.

Biggest kip was Glodwick in Oldham, scene of the Oldham race riots a few years ago. Lived there for about 20 years. Nice area at first, but unfortunately turned into a dump by a certain section of society.

BlueBaron

Dublin......f*cking sh1thole!!!

biko

I've slept on benches and under bushes, on building sites and in train stations all over the world during my rambling days,
But the worst by far was sleeping in a dirty and smelly rubbish collection room under an apartment block in Tel Aviv for a week and a bit. Next to the generator for the air conditioning.

BlueBaron

du want a medal or something?

MonkeyTennis

Hull

Its grim up north

Eve_Dublin

Wolverhampton.

Voted 5th worst city in the world by Lonely Planet (which is just a joke anyway).

dpe

almighty1 wrote: »

Thought that record belonged to Beacontree in Dagenham.

Meh, seems you're right:

wikipedia wrote:

Bransholme is widely, but mistakenly, believed to be largest council estate in Europe, a title more likely to be held by Becontree in Dagenham.
The confusion has been partly caused by the name of Bransholme being attached to a greater area than it actually should by non-residents, taking in neighbouring estates, most notably Longhill, Sutton Park and Orchard Park, and partly due to the reality that although homes on Bransholme are still largely owned by the local council, Hull City Council, there has been a substantial selling off of these to private buyers meaning that large areas are now solely privately owned.
There is often debate over whether the largest council estate outside of London is Leigh Park (in Hampshire), Wythenshawe (in Manchester) or Bransholme. Bransholme is the largest council estate in Yorkshire, with Seacroft in East Leeds coming close.

Its what I was told at the time

fryup

Shannon town in the 1980s, OMG what a dark dismal kip it was.

sbsquarepants

Kilmartin in Tallaght - Fúck me what a $hit hole, it's basically like calcutta but not as clean, packed to the rafters with a$$holes - it's as close to the poor white trash cliché as you'll ever find.

Frank Black

A bedsit in St. Kilda in Melbourne – prostitutes and drug-dealers in the street outside. Noticed a few cockroaches around the place so bought some bug spray not long after moving in. Was spraying it around the room and sprayed some under the fridge – about 200 cockroaches all ran out at once and started convulsing and dying around the room.
Still makes my skin crawl.
At least it was cheap.

this is arse

Dublin