Ghost estates

Irelandcool

Just wondering have any of ye wandered around a ghost estate. I know this may sound strange but I hope they all stay that way, they give off this lonely post apocalyptic creepy vibe. Going to some of them at night is pretty fun even if you don't believe in ghosts as it feels like something is watching you. (Yes I know they are called ghost estates not because they're haunted but because there virtually empty).

Walking through one of them feels like going through are regular town hundreds of years after a nuclear bomb was dropped.

kjl

So currently there are some amazing property locations in the middle of the city center which are designated council properties.

Why don't they move these degenerates without jobs into the ghost estates and knock down these old decrepit buildings and let people live in them who would actually get use out of being centrally located.

Currently house prices are stupidly high because of laws of supply and demand. This seems like an easy solution.

Boom_Bap

I wouldn't go near a ghost estate unless I was in the Mystery Machine with Mystery Inc.

Niemoj

There's one in Carlow in particular that isn't guarded at all and the entrance seems wide open!

I've an interest in UrBex so I'd love to check it out but unfortunately the likelihood of getting done for trespassing from all the neighbours nearby puts me off.

jimgoose

kjl wrote: »

So currently there are some amazing property locations in the middle of the city center which are designated council properties.

Why don't they move these degenerates without jobs into the ghost estates and knock down these old decrepit buildings and let people live in them who would actually get use out of being centrally located.

Currently house prices are stupidly high because of laws of supply and demand. This seems like an easy solution.

I suggest that the "degenerates without jobs" would be the sort of people who would fare even worse if they were suddenly shunted into the back-end of Ballymagash. I've seen plenty of this done, and it doesn't tend to work very well to put it mildly. I personally would have no great interest in being centrally located as described, but I could see it being of tremendous benefit to people not as fortunate as I am. City-centres aren't as much fun as they used to be anyway, what with fast-food joints, mobile-phone shops and pedestrianised streets full of cyclists and local ho-biys batin' seventeen shades out of each other. :pac:

kneemos

Don't believe in them.

wp_rathead

kneemos wrote: »

Don't believe in them.

Ya I don't buy into it either

callaway92

There's one in Cashel that sticks out for me. Great view of it from some of the holes on the Par 3 course.

Was originally going to be an estate for "young families" on the outskirts of a busy town. Some mess but it's still funny to see it.

mad muffin

Loads of them in Laois. It's where I like to dispose of my victims. Leg here, arm there.

No one will find out… oh… wait.

dpofloinn

kneemos wrote: »

Don't believe in them.

anncoates

kjl wrote: »

Why don't they move these degenerates without jobs into the ghost estates

Yeah, what could possibly go wrong with lumping deprived people en masse into peripheral estates with no facilities.

deco nate

anncoates wrote: »

Yeah, what could possibly go wrong with lumping deprived people en masse into peripheral estates with no facilities.

It would be like a home away from home.

darkpagandeath

Did they not get all demolished to be rebuilt ? :pac:

FISMA.

Irelandcool wrote: »

they give off this lonely post apocalyptic creepy vibe.

Irelandcool wrote: »

Walking through one of them feels like going through are regular town hundreds of years after a nuclear bomb was dropped.

You've just described 99.99% of Ireland.

anto9

Any not well guarded ,will have been stripped bare by now .I can see most having to be demolisded.

walkingshadow

There was this one ghost estate in Wicklow that me, my friends and my dog investigated- turns out it was Mr. McGreggor, the estate owner dressing up as a ghost trying to scare off potential buyers so he could buy more land in the area for a lower cost. And he would have gotten away with it too, if it wasn't for us.

bonzodog2

walkingshadow wrote: »

There was this one ghost estate in Wicklow that me, my friends and my dog investigated- turns out it was Mr. McGreggor, the estate owner dressing up as a ghost trying to scare off potential buyers so he could buy more land in the area for a lower cost. And he would have gotten away with it too, if it wasn't for us.

You pesky kids !

topper75

anncoates wrote: »

Yeah, what could possibly go wrong with lumping deprived people en masse into peripheral estates with no facilities.

Well the man might have a light envelope so count it while he is there just to be sure.

lanos

walkingshadow wrote: »

There was this one ghost estate in Wicklow that me, my friends and my dog investigated- turns out it was Mr. McGreggor, the estate owner dressing up as a ghost trying to scare off potential buyers so he could buy more land in the area for a lower cost. And he would have gotten away with it too, if it wasn't for us.

Yikes !!!!

suicide_circus

anncoates wrote: »

Yeah, what could possibly go wrong with lumping deprived people en masse into peripheral estates with no facilities.

Well I mean obviously we'd move the methadone clinics and boyle sports outlets out there too

matchthis

Even a ghost can get a mortgage....another kick in the ribs for me