Do you like Dublin?

zetalambda

I do. It's one of my favorite city's to fly over.

I am pie

I like your face.

Vito Corleone

Yeah I love Dublin, much prefer it to the countryside.

orangesoda

I like the strong accent but not too fussed on the place, feels wild european

fussyonion

I like cake.

The Backwards Man

Which Dublin?

BNMC

Nope. Overpriced, stinks of piss and the traffic would drive you insane.

Full of beggars, skangers and junkies.

The accent is painful to listen to.

Awful shithole, I'd rather live in Leitrim.

Princess Consuela Bananahammock

orangesoda wrote: »

I like the strong accent but not too fussed on the place, feels wild european

I'll ask: 'wild European'?

Kermit.de.frog

I dunno anymore. Dublin has got a real air of menace about the city center now after the failure to do anything about the drug treatment clinics on the northside near Talbot Street. There is a cluster of them there making the city center a hive of activity for junkies and dealer scumbags.

I don't feel safe on the nortside of Dublin city center anymore and I really feel for the tourists. It is embarrassing as a Dub and Irish person to see the state of the place.

But no one gives a sh!t. Not the guards, politicians, judges...so nothing will be done and it will only get worse if that is even possible.

I am pie

fussyonion wrote: »

I like cake.

I like cake-face.

AnonoBoy

The Backwards Man wrote: »

Which Dublin?

Dublin, Texas I'd say.

Super place.

Hotale.com

It's no Cork.

Kermit.de.frog

BNMC wrote: »

Nope. Overpriced, stinks of piss and the traffic would drive you insane.

Overpriced? Check.

Junkies? Check.

Traffic? Check.

Stinks of piss?

Hotale.com

BNMC wrote: »

I'd rather live in Leitrim.

You think it's that bad!?:eek:

orangesoda

Princess Consuela Bananahammock wrote: »

I'll ask: 'wild European'?

very European i mean

Boombastic

the fasted growing city in Europe, what's not to like ?

SEPT 23 1989

I think it's totally super

orangesoda

BNMC wrote: »

Awful shithole, I'd rather live in Leitrim.

Did you know that Leitrim has a large number of escorts, something i found out over the weekend

I am pie

orangesoda wrote: »

Did you know that Leitrim has a large number of escorts, something i found out over the weekend

good for the rallyin. Nothing else to do up there.

porsche959

orangesoda wrote: »

Did you know that Leitrim has a large number of escorts, something i found out over the weekend

?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ford_Escort_%28Europe%29

Hotale.com

Boombastic wrote: »

the fasted growing city in Europe, what's not to like ?

It's the worst planned city in Europe.

It's twice the size as San Francisco and has half the population...

Rasheed

I like Dublin. Wouldn't live in it for the lotto though.

orangesoda

sex escorts i mean, there's a lot in Cavan as well, even auld Donegal

KERSPLAT!

Kermit.de.frog wrote: »

Overpriced? Check.

Junkies? Check.

Traffic? Check.

Stinks of piss?

Temple Bar and around Liberty hall always stink of piss. I wouldn't be around much of the rest of the city but those areas are really bad

As for the place in general. It's mostly fine, junkies and high costs being two of the crap things about it

Stavros Murphy

KERSPLAT! wrote: »

Temple Bar and around Liberty hall always stink of piss. I wouldn't be around much of the rest of the city but those areas are really bad

Never noticed. Have you showered recently? Could just be you?

zetalambda

Boombastic wrote: »

the fasted growing city in Europe, what's not to like ?

If you type that into Google, you'll see various other cities such as Istanbul, Galway, Oslo, Stockholm and Montpellier claiming to be the fastest growing city in Europe. In reality, London is.

Barely There

Rasheed wrote: »

I like Dublin. Wouldn't live in it for the lotto though.

No, shur there'd be no point - You can do the lotto down the country too.

Wompa1

I use to really hate it. I've been seeing a lot more of the outlying areas in the last few years, so I don't hate it any more. Not sure I'd live there though. If I was to live in Ireland again, I think I'd prefer to live somewhere pretty rural, like Clare or Donegal

johnnyvegas22

i loved it when i was a kid, now a days doh i think its one of the most underdeveloped cities in Europe, its full of scumbags and junkies, the night-life is pretty bad and it seems like a lot of the people are getting nastier and nastier

Kermit.de.frog

zetalambda wrote: »

If you type that into Google, you'll see various other cities such as Istanbul, Galway, Oslo, Stockholm and Montpellier claiming to be the fastest growing city in Europe. In reality, London is.

London has it's fair share of absolute sh!tholes in it far worse than any housing estate or flat complex in Dublin though it has to be said.

Manchester is Tallaght times 20 with worse views given all the high rise flats.

Birmingham is pretty much an enlarged version of Ballymun.

Frank Lee Midere

zetalambda wrote: »

If you type that into Google, you'll see various other cities such as Istanbul, Galway, Oslo, Stockholm and Montpellier claiming to be the fastest growing city in Europe. In reality, London is.

Yeah Dublin definitely isn't.

theteal

Let's see, I moved from there to Romford. Make of that what you will!

Dr. Zaius Dr. Zaius!

I like it, when you come from rural Ireland it can be great because there's a hell of a lot more to do and see.
As someone mentioned already though, the junkie problem is...well...a problem!
It's not nice feeling like I have to constantly watch my back all the time, like I can't fully relax when out in public.
If I was a tourist walking around Dublin, O'Connell Street especially, I wouldn't feel safe.

Jamie2k9

Love Dublin but not sure I would bring a family up in it.....

More needs to be done in the City Centre by DCC and Gardi.

I have being here for 14 years and am starting to get board. Possibly leaving lather thsi year!

roro1990

As a dub who has lived here for 23 years, I like the place, but i'm kinda bored of it.

Edit: Now that I think about it, i'm bored of the people more than the place.

Boombastic

zetalambda wrote: »

If you type that into Google, you'll see various other cities such as Istanbul, Galway, Oslo, Stockholm and Montpellier claiming to be the fastest growing city in Europe. In reality, London is.

no Dublin is...the population is always dublin

innit

the groutch

BNMC wrote: »

Awful shithole, I'd rather live in Leitrim.

Leitrim? Really? I thought that place was just a myth.

orangesoda

There are actually 2 Leitrims, there is a townland in county Derry called Leitrim

Mahogany

Pros

The accent - Light Dub, not d4 or scanger.

The Humour - IMO Dublin humour is by far the best in the world

Cons

Junkies

Rough people (I know you get this everywhere, but everyone in Dublin seems to want to puck the face off ye)

Public Transport is woeful

dissed doc

johnnyvegas22 wrote: »

i loved it when i was a kid, now a days doh i think its one of the most underdeveloped cities in Europe, its full of scumbags and junkies, the night-life is pretty bad and it seems like a lot of the people are getting nastier and nastier

It's always been like that, same as other UK-type cities. Dublin is a working-class port city, with more in common with Liverpool and is by accident of the previous "governors" the capital.

Dublin was always rough, run-down and full of scumbags. It was like that in the 80s, and half of the 90s, briefly got less awful, but now is going back to default scummer mode.

There are three groups of people, the only one of which is particularly productive is the "up from the country" sort. Apart from them, who leave at the weekend to go back to Carlow, Galway, Cork, Kerry, etc., Dublin is like The Time Machine with pissed up people in overpriced clothes existing in a complete bubble to the pissed up people in scummer tracksuits who also exist in a social welfare bubble.

nc19

BNMC wrote: »

Nope. Overpriced, stinks of piss and the traffic would drive you insane.

Full of beggars, skangers and junkies.

The accent is painful to listen to.

Awful shithole, I'd rather live in Leitrim.

Clarify please

which accent?

you've got the D4, the scumbag junkie, the normal southside (firhouse, ballinteer, sandyford, rathfarham etc), the normal northside(malahide, howth, sutton, raheny etc), the general howaya(parts of D24, 10, 12, 8, 18, 2, 1, 3, 5, 7, 9, 11, 13, 17) and prob 1 or 2 more im forgetting.

The King of Moo

People can't be serious about not feeling safe in Dublin city centre, surely!

A drug addict might ask you for change, that's the worst that could happen!

Dr Turk Turkelton

dissed doc wrote: »

It's always been like that, same as other UK-type cities. Dublin is a working-class port city, with more in common with Liverpool and is by accident of the previous "governors" the capital.

Dublin was always rough, run-down and full of scumbags. It was like that in the 80s, and half of the 90s, briefly got less awful, but now is going back to default scummer mode.

There are three groups of people, the only one of which is particularly productive is the "up from the country" sort. Apart from them, who leave at the weekend to go back to Carlow, Galway, Cork, Kerry, etc., Dublin is like The Time Machine with pissed up people in overpriced clothes existing in a complete bubble to the pissed up people in scummer tracksuits who also exist in a social welfare bubble.

Agree Dublin was a great city from about 1998-2008 but has had a rapid decline since then.

Loved being there in those years and would go most weekends. Wouldn't really bother going there now though.

B.A._Baracus

I'm Dublin born and raised and even I will admit Dublin is a bit of a kip. ..... 'bit of a kip' being around the city centre.

Kermit.de.frog

dissed doc wrote: »

It's always been like that, same as other UK-type cities. Dublin is a working-class port city, with more in common with Liverpool

Liverpool was an industrial city, same as Manchester and Brum. Dublin was always commercial - i.e little or no heavy industry. Basically the industrial revolution passed the city by.

In some ways that's a good thing - if you look at the large areas of catastrophic social decline in Manchester and Liverpool for example after the old industries went away in the middle of the last century.

Dublin's problems are not of that scale and are managable if the authorities actually cared. There is so much potential. It's being held back by stupid people.

Mayor vote rejection a case in point. That gang out in Fingal denied me a vote on having a mayor for my own fcuking city. And if any of them read this - don't think we in Fingal have forgotten that - cnuts:mad:

The King of Moo

Like any major city, there are good and bad parts. The area around Trinity and St. Stephen's Green is quite nice.

zetalambda

nc19 wrote: »

Clarify please

which accent?

you've got the D4, the scumbag junkie, the normal southside (firhouse, ballinteer, sandyford, rathfarham etc), the normal northside(malahide, howth, sutton, raheny etc), the general howaya(parts of D24, 10, 12, 8, 18, 2, 1, 3, 5, 7, 9, 11, 13, 17) and prob 1 or 2 more im forgetting.

Don't forget the English Toff accent (Shane Ross, David Norris, etc.) and the West Coast of America accent (OMG, cool.com, etc.) and there's new accents being invented all the time.

The King of Moo wrote: »

Like any major city, there are good and bad parts. The area around Trinity and St. Stephen's Green is quite nice.

Great point except Dublin isn't a major city unless your talking in an Irish context. I mean you'd never see this in a major city:

http://www.breakingnews.ie/media/images/d/DublinDonkeyPictureTwitter_large.jpg

carlmango11

Junkies have become a massive problem lately but besides that I love Dublin. It has so much more energy than anywhere else I've been in Ireland. So much more to do. So many different types of people.

Maybe I'm just a city boy but anywhere I've gone elsewhere in Ireland I'm happy to leave within a day. I find there's often not a lot to do besides drink (and that's saying a lot coming from a Dub). Although I haven't been to Cork yet so maybe I'll be proven wrong.

And don't even get me started on anti-Dublin bias. As soon as they hear your accent you're a Dublin c*nt. There's countless people from the country living in Dublin and I guarantee they don't get even nearly the same treatment we do. I genuinely think it's an inferiority complex. Can't understand why else you'd be so angry towards a city.

Frank Lee Midere

The King of Moo wrote: »

People can't be serious about not feeling safe in Dublin city centre, surely!

A drug addict might ask you for change, that's the worst that could happen!

The bark of Dublin is worse than its bite. For sure.

That said the area around Talbot street has issues.

Mal-Adjusted

I like Dublin, it's a great city to visit. lots of things to do. Like most places, most people are friendly, some aren't. I think the junkie problem is over-exaggerated.

Frank Lee Midere

Kermit.de.frog wrote: »

Liverpool was an industrial city, same as Manchester and Brum. Dublin was always commercial - i.e little or no heavy industry. Basically the industrial revolution passed the city by.

In some ways that's a good thing - if you look at the large areas of catastrophic social decline in Manchester and Liverpool for example after the old industries went away in the middle of the last century.

Dublin's problems are not of that scale and are managable if the authorities actually cared. There is so much potential. It's being held back by stupid people.

Mayor vote rejection a case in point. That gang out in Fingal denied me a vote on having a mayor for my own fcuking city. And if any of them read this - don't think we in Fingal have forgotten that - cnuts:mad:

I agree. Is there a list of who voted for what?