Worst area/place you ever lived?

McIrish_

I guess I'd have to say Baltimore MD. I was stuck for a place to stay a few years ago and was let down by another landlord who promised me a house in another destination but then changed his mind....bit of a long story actually.

So (over the phone) a different landlord told me that he had a place in a safe area. So I believed him and met him the next morning only to be clearly mistaken....I had found myself in the middle of a ghetto. (Funny lookin back on it now actually)

So I spent about a week and a half there (being one of the few white people) until I had gotten my first pay check. My roommates were a hazard...they kept me up every night playing loud music and there were always guys in her room. Then they were constantly picking arguments over small stuff.

I remember hearing gun shots the odd night and I remember feeling uncomfortable and edgy walking around the streets. The houses on the other side of the road were mostly burnt down and abandoned. The shop across the road from me had bulled proof glass separating me from the cashier

Thankfully nothing bad actually happened to me but I'm almost certain if I would have stayed there I would have been targeted. For 75 dollars a week I guess I should have known better lol :-)

fasttalkerchat

Dublin.

Sir Osis of Liver.

Paris,
rude people,expensive,stink of piss everywhere.

Sir Osis of Liver.

Sir Osis of Liver. wrote: »

Paris,
rude people,expensive,stink of piss everywhere.

I went into this thread to type pretty much what you just said. Paris is a kip

Hootanany

Black rock full of wannabes

Sir Osis of Liver.

Sir Osis of Liver. wrote: »

Paris,
rude people,expensive,stink of piss everywhere.

That's a pity, I love Paris. Really really love it. I'd like to live there some day, when I'm older.

The Aussie

fasttalkerchat wrote: »

Dublin.

Beat me to it, full of pretentious wannabes, before when they had money and now when they pretend to have money, I dred having to go within the M50

DUMP

Lapin

St Priest, Lyon for me. Shíthole full of Algerian **** who would cut you in half for a cigarette.

Sir Osis of Liver. wrote: »

Paris,
rude people,expensive,stink of piss everywhere.

Snotaul Goodman wrote: »

I went into this thread to type pretty much what you just said. Paris is a kip

What Part of Paris?

I lived in the 5th and loved the place.

Red_Dwarf

Longford

byhookorbycrook

Portarlington in the late 80s.

Aint Eazy Being Cheezy

Brussels. Longest 6 weeks of my life. Couldn't wait to get home.

Savoir.Faire

I spent three extremely long months in Amsterdam as a younger man. I was working on a paper with some fellow researchers at the UvA. It was a wretched place, and I literally punched the air with joy when my tenure was up and I could return to the joys of London.

The food was almost routinely awful, the Dutch are loud, abrasive and crass; the streets smelt faintly of urine and the place was crawling with the worst type of stoner-zombie tourists if visiting the city centre.

Miss Lockhart

UCD is where I hated the most (residences - not the college in general).

Absolutely loved living in Paris.

theblaqueguy

The ghetto

I've worked my way out of there
Hopefully I'll never have to live there ever again

Sunnyisland

Mount joy, couldn't wait to get out :-)

Lapin

Lapin wrote: »

St Priest, Lyon for me. Shíthole full of Algerian **** who would cut you in half for a cigarette.





What Part of Paris?

I lived in the 5th and loved the place.

Choisy le roi. The tallaght of Paris. Didn't care for the city centre either. I'll probably never set foot there again

Kettleson

Forest Gate, East London...mind you there are plenty worse places. Seeing very young mothers walking around before noon, pushing babies in prams and slurping from cans of Carlsberg Special Brew was quite a sobering sight...

For Forks Sake

byhookorbycrook wrote: »

Portarlington in the late 80s. any decade.

Fixed that. A truly depressing excuse for a town.

ElvisChrist6

O'Devaney Gardens, in Dublin for 16 years. Still keep my eyes on all sides of me from living there. It's like if Finglas and Ballyer were merged and concentrated into a few blocks of flats.

For Forks Sake

Kettleson wrote: »

Forest Gate, East London...mind you there are plenty worse places. Seeing very young mothers walking around before noon, pushing babies in prams and slurping from cans of Carlsberg Special Brew was quite a sobering sight...

Not for them, obviously

Dr Turk Turkelton

realies wrote: »

Mount joy, couldn't wait to get out :-)

What and give up your menus at feeding time and playstaion in your cell?

jjbrien

Waterford City could not wait to leave it

Big Nasty

Never lived in France but I found Paris extremely disappointing and a dirty, uncomfortable place to visit, bar the usual tourist attractions. Brussles can be a bit like that too but I really liked living in Belgium, although I was outside Brussels to be fair. The problem with both (IMO) is the shifty Algerians / Moroccans that come out of the woodwork at night and make everyone feel uncomfortable. I guess that's what you get for colonising a country.

xXxkorixXx

arklow. full of anti dublin inbreds

byhookorbycrook

For Forks Sake wrote: »

Fixed that. A truly depressing excuse for a town.

Didn't have a car and the feckers stole my bike! Stayed in a flat where you had to walk around the edge of the room ,since the middle of the floor was sagging and likely to fall in at any time.

pauliebdub

jjbrien wrote: »

Waterford City could not wait to leave it

Agreed, lived there whilst in college, a complete and utter ****hole.

For Forks Sake

jjbrien wrote: »

Waterford City could not wait to leave it

Not the worst place in the world, but the natives would drive you daft. Complaining is the primary pastime down there. Everything is someone elses fault.

JJJJNR

Belgravia.

keeponhurling

For Forks Sake wrote: »

Not the worst place in the world, but the natives would drive you daft. Complaining is the primary pastime down there. Everything is someone elses fault.

Microcosm for the whole country so?

LorMal

Savoir.Faire wrote: »

I spent three extremely long months in Amsterdam as a younger man. I was working on a paper with some fellow researchers at the UvA. It was a wretched place, and I literally punched the air with joy when my tenure was up and I could return to the joys of London.

The food was almost routinely awful, the Dutch are loud, abrasive and crass; the streets smelt faintly of urine and the place was crawling with the worst type of stoner-zombie tourists if visiting the city centre.

Hooray to you. Totally agree. Lived with those f--kers for 5 years. Loud, abrasive, crass...tight fisted, boorish, selfish, aggressive and arrogant.

denlaw

I lived in longsight in Manchester till I was 15 which is as tough a place as any council estate in Ireland, parents moved back here back in 1983 to a smallish town in Kildare which was like stepping back to the 1950's, people were still wearing platforms and flares while I was fred perry/fila tacchni tops skinny drain pipe jeans and Adidas trainers and a Flicky wedge haircut, it was only after being out of it for a few yrs you realise how ****ty the place was and I'd never go back ( only to see some mates who still live there ) ..and utd !

denlaw

denlaw wrote: »

I lived in longsight in Manchester till I was 15 which is as tough a place as any council estate in Ireland, parents moved back here back in 1983 to a smallish town in Kildare which was like stepping back to the 1950's, people were still wearing platforms and flares while I was fred perry/fila tacchni tops skinny drain pipe jeans and Adidas trainers and a Flicky wedge haircut, it was only after being out of it for a few yrs you realise how ****ty the place was and I'd never go back ( only to see some mates who still live there ) ..and utd !

haha the 1950s ..get me
I ment the early 1970's

anncoates

You just know this thread will be full of students boasting about their 1-3 years on tame ghetto holiday.

HansHolzel

18, Parson's Street, Maynooth

The Big Smoke

Dungannon, Co.Tyrone. Awful kip, lived in a mice infested bedsit for about a year at 17. Good times.

Mena

I lived in Hillbrow (Joburg) for 18 months in the late 80's. I still struggle to sleep due to the lack of constant gunfire in the background at night. It's got a lot worse since apparently.

For Forks Sake

keeponhurling wrote: »

Microcosm for the whole country so?

Think thejournal.ie comments section multiplied to infinity

HansHolzel

HansHolzel wrote: »

18, Parson's Street, Maynooth

last man out tried to torch it but his lighter wouldn't light the damp blankets

PhlegmyMoses

ElvisChrist6 wrote: »

O'Devaney Gardens, in Dublin for 16 years. Still keep my eyes on all sides of me from living there. It's like if Finglas and Ballyer were merged and concentrated into a few blocks of flats.

Lived near here, just off Infirmary Road, for a while when I was in college. Grim place all round and the house I was living in was grim as well. Used to play football with a gang of lads from there, though, and they were grand lads.

Seaneh

"Worst" as in sketchiest, Portoviejo, Ecuador or La Paz, Bolivia, if I had to pick between the two I think Portoviejo despite being a fraction the size of La Paz was probably a more dangerous place, that said, I loved the place and the people and the food was unfeckingreal. The best, freshest, fish and fruit I've ever had and just fantastic cuisine.

I think Dublin's a bit of a ****ing ****hole though, it's not unsafe but it's as rough as a bears arse and the amount of ****ing junkies and general scobes in the city centre is ridiculous.

For Forks Sake

HansHolzel wrote: »

last man out tried to torch it but his lighter wouldn't light the damp blankets

Looks like someone finished the job http://goo.gl/maps/QMtLc

LETHAL LADY

Henrietta Street in Waterford.

HansHolzel

For Forks Sake wrote: »

Looks like someone finished the job http://goo.gl/maps/QMtLc

looks like the haunting has spread to next door

Starscream25

Templars hall Waterford when I was there in 2004/05, it's cleaned up a bit lately tho.

Sir Osis of Liver.

Lapin wrote: »

St Priest, Lyon for me. Shíthole full of Algerian **** who would cut you in half for a cigarette.





What Part of Paris?

I lived in the 5th and loved the place.

Meaux and Noisy le Grand,both suburbs of Paris.
Used to head into the city centre on weekends drinking but found the place to be full of knife wielding scummy sand naggers.

bohsboy

North circular road for 3 months. Truly depressing.

arybvtcw0eolkf

Beirut in 1988 was pretty rough... But we'd a bit of a civil war on our hands at the time

Endless Nameless

bohsboy wrote: »

North circular road for 3 months. Truly depressing.

I lived on the North Circular and I thought it was great

What Bohs fan hates the north circular road?

Talib Fiasco

The streets/rough.

Sir Osis of Liver.

Talib Fiasco wrote: »

The streets/rough.

What streets?

Endless Nameless

Oh, and the worst place I ever lived was a small town in rural Kildare

still hate that place