The Crapness of your Hometown

gavinwavin

Cannot fathom how Gort hasn't been mentioned yet. Maybe it's been forgotten since they finished the bypass

Conor_M1990

Navan isn't too bad Ryans do a nice pint !!

Always had a unknown hatred of Mullingar for some reason

Greentopia

Kamjana wrote: »

Not my town but Carlow is a shithole, followed closely by Tramore.

I was born and raised in Tramore-nowhere near as bad as many other places mentioned here and quite lovely in the summer. Beautiful beach, few good pubs, great surfing, people are friendly, not overrun by scummers like some other towns, only 7 miles into Waterford city, beautiful surrounding countryside.

I now live in Arklow. Now there's a sh1thole.

toexpress

Kintarō Hattori wrote: »

I grew up here. It was a great place to live, out in the country but not too far from Dublin city.

After many years in the city I bought a house here. It's a great place to live, out in the country but not too far from the city.

I have no real complaints about either.

Yeah Kill was great a lovely village with the exception of Fat Ass Walk ...

toexpress

JupiterKid wrote: »

Naas would be 100 times worse if it hadn't been bypassed 30 years ago. It was the worst traffic bottleneck in Ireland before the M7 motorway opened.

And I know Naas quite well and IMO it is not a kip. The problem with Naas was bad planning on the part of the Town Council allowed too many shops to relocate to the edge of town leaving the town centre to go downhill. Doesn't Naas have a property bubble era shopping centre that's lying half built?

There are a load of towns worse than Naas. Athy would IMO be the worst town in County Kildare.

Certainly bad planning was a huge issue with Naas and you are correct there is a half built shopping centre that I would assume will never be finished at this stage and it has caused ruin to the centre of the town. The loss of Superquinn was a major blow to it as well.

I wouldn't say it was the worst bottleneck in the country but to be honest I am 31 so I don't really remember a time when we didn't have the motorway. I do remember when there was no bypass of Kildare and Monasterevin which I used to pass through every week going to and coming from college ... that was nasty!!

Part of my issue with Naas is that it just is not what it was when I was growing up it was such a nice, warm friendly town, my family had a business there and there were very few people that I didn't know in the town back in those days.

To say Athy is the worst town in Kildare is a bit unfair. It's not great I admit but I will say this the people are friendly and oddly proud of their little town which I admire. If you look at the likes of Monasterevin, Castledermot, Rathangan they are all towns that are just hideous.

Now all of that said, I live not quite in Monasterevin but it is my nearest "town" such as it is and much as I bitch about it at times I do like the fact that I can go to the supermarket/chemist/post office/hairdressers/veg shop/library and everyone knows my name and are always very friendly. Monasterevin people are very cliqueish but they seem to have adopted me as one of their own and in some ways that is nice.

But to go back to the point ... Naas ... dump ... so sad to see the town I loved broken and possibly beyond repair but there we go

Kintarō Hattori

toexpress wrote: »

Yeah Kill was great a lovely village with the exception of Fat Ass Walk ...

Oh I'm lost..... what?

Gee Bag

JupiterKid wrote: »

Athlone was shabby and rough 25 years ago. If you had a boat on the river Shannon back in the 80s you would never moor overnight at the quays in the town.

But it is a hugely changed town and changed for the better. Athlone now actually makes use of the Shannon with new jetties and terraces overlooking the river, the west side of the town centre has become a gem for eateries and holds a farmers market, the castle is restored and has a tourist centre and there is a spanking new shopping centre and Sheraton hotel in the town.

Athlone shows how an Irish town with a bad rep and image can improve. And it all started with being bypassed 20 years ago.

Athlone is a lovely town,
it has a wide variety of heroin dealers and the ideal accessory for the front garden is a scrawny piebald horse tied to a rusty fridge

Feisar

I don't understand the reasoning behind calling whatever small town/village a kip/hole/dump.

It's not like small places are going to be bursting with amenities and services. They don't have the population to support them.

PhlegmyMoses

Not from there but recently had the displeasure of being in Arklow for the day. A place where souls go to die.

cookie80

Portarlington would get top prize for being the most kip of a place.

Chickabic

1. Longford Town
2. Bundoran
3. Gort
4. Portarlington.
5. Mullingar.

pecker1992

I grew up and still live in Tipperary Town

whos in agreement that its the worst?

PseudoFamous

PhlegmyMoses wrote: »

Not from there but recently had the displeasure of being in Arklow for the day. A place where souls go to die.

klose

Lol anytime a thread about towns/areas of Ireland tipp town gets such bad reviews, and rightly so. Dread having to drive through there, so depressing.

Coeurdepirate

Galway is quite nice.

toexpress

Kintarō Hattori wrote: »

Oh I'm lost..... what?

The road up by Kill International ... all the fat birds walk there so it became known as fat ass walk ...

Johnny Bitte

Johnny Bitte wrote: »

Love returning to my little village in the middle of nowhere after a week in the Dublin.

Ya can hear the grass grow I tells ya!!

Ok, this jinxed the **** out of me.

Some local scumbag smashed up my front windows, tried kicking in my front door and smashed every window in my tenents 2 vans. :mad:

Cee-Jay-Cee

I'm from letterkenny and think its a brilliant town.

Sligo...now that is one miserbale shíthole that i would hate to have to live in.

degausserxo

Tallaght. Don't even need to elaborate.

Noffles

Gorey... apparent "commuter" town gone bad... dreadful

aaronjumper

Limerick citaaayyyyy kid! Ah the travellers in tracksuits, the sound of sirens. I went to Athlone once, everyone was so polite.

Never again!

Ruralyoke

Normally open minded enough about other places but jesus, Clonmellon in Co Westmeath really sets a new low in terms of bleak & miserable. It's actually depressing. Real tumbleweed & inbred type place.

Not my hometown I should add.

Sorry Mellonians (or whatever you are called)

hooradiation

Sligo - where hope goes to die.

Greentopia

PseudoFamous wrote: »

It's true though. I live there. I know some nice people and there are a few good things about the place-all the supermarkets are here plus the Bridgewater, some good sports amenities and the river walk and duck pond is nice but not much else really.

I've mentioned in previous posts about the litany of problems here-violence, physical and verbal abuse, anti-social behaviour, robbery and general rudeness that my friends and I have been a victim of here. I haven't experienced anything like it before in other places I've lived in in this country.

There's a lot of angry disaffected people here-it becomes particularly evident when I'm away for a while and I come back here. I know a lot of it is because the town was passed over for investment for decades by successive Govts. because the place never had a TD. so you could say it's not all the towns fault entirely but quite frankly I can't wait for the day when I can get the hell away from here.

I'm from Co. Waterford so I'm biased, but the people really are much friendlier and nicer down there IMO. I feel safer and there's a nicer, more optimistic feeling down there. Waterford is much under-rated as a few people have already mentioned here. Nicest small city in the country I think.

Cokeistan

Fermoy in Cork is quite the shít hole, thankfully it's not my hometown!

Ruralyoke

@ Greentopia, This is Arklow then?

Been to both Arklow and Wicklow once about ten years ago - always get them mixed up in memory, but I remember thinking one was nice enough and the other had a bit of a "provincial decay" vibe about it.

Or maybe they're both just sh1te nowadays, I dunno.

Mance Rayder

Greentopia wrote: »

It's true though. I live there. I know some nice people and there are a few good things about the place-all the supermarkets are here plus the Bridgewater, some good sports amenities and the river walk and duck pond is nice but not much else really.

I've mentioned in previous posts about the litany of problems here-violence, physical and verbal abuse, anti-social behaviour, robbery and general rudeness that my friends and I have been a victim of here. I haven't experienced anything like it before in other places I've lived in in this country.

There's a lot of angry disaffected people here-it becomes particularly evident when I'm away for a while and I come back here. I know a lot of it is because the town was passed over for investment for decades by successive Govts. because the place never had a TD. so you could say it's not all the towns fault entirely but quite frankly I can't wait for the day when I can get the hell away from here.

I'm from Co. Waterford so I'm biased, but the people really are much friendlier and nicer down there IMO. I feel safer and there's a nicer, more optimistic feeling down there. Waterford is much under-rated as a few people have already mentioned here. Nicest small city in the country I think.

To be honest I think it would be a waste of time. They pumped money into Ballymun and Darndale and they are still dodgy kips despite the large amount of decent people that live there. It' s education these people need not nicer looking streets to wreck. It's been proven in studies done in places like Glasgow where antisocial behavior and youth violence are the norm, that the problem starts behind the front doors of the criminals, in their family.

I grew up beside Darndale of all places as did alot of my friends and we turned out alright, we're all smart, decent, relatively successful people and have never been involved with crime. but I have neighbours from a few doors down that have become murderers. We come from the same streets, the same schools, the same classrooms yet we are different, even our accents are different. It's all about the quality of the parents or guardians and no regeneration of any estate or area will effect that. Education is the key in my opinion.

Greentopia

Ruralyoke wrote: »

@ Greentopia, This is Arklow then?

Been to both Arklow and Wicklow once about ten years ago - always get them mixed up in memory, but I remember thinking one was nice enough and the other had a bit of a "provincial decay" vibe about it.

Or maybe they're both just sh1te nowadays, I dunno.

Arklow would definitely be the more provincial of the two, yep. Wicklow town is not bad. Horrendous to drive through and parking is awful but some good shopping and it has more life to it than Arklow. I don't think it's suffers the same problems that Arklow does.

saywhatyousee

CJC999 wrote: »

I'm from letterkenny and think its a brilliant town.

Sligo...now that is one miserbale shíthole that i would hate to have to live in.

Someone from Letterkenny calling Sligo a ****hole i heard it all now.Good oul Letterkenny 1 street surrounded by Dilapidated and empty retail parks easily the ugliest and worst planned town in europe

Ruralyoke

Never saw much wrong with Sligo to be honest. I mean nothing spectacular, but seems ok? Spent a few days there about 5 years ago.

Letterkenny was far from the worst too.

Easily the best rural small town type place for me is Carrick-on-Shannon. Really nice place IME.

Is Balbriggan not soul destroyingly awful though? That's the way I remember it anyway.