Dublin is an unadulterated kip

Penny Tration

Penny Tration wrote: »

I feel so bad for the people who hate Dublin but are stuck there with a gun to their head, unable to move, unable to look for other jobs, unable to avoid visiting the place for a dat trip, unable to learn to drive so as to avoid the bus eireann buses running from Dublin.

Must be awful having no choice but to be in Dublin

The sad truth is that there are some people who are unable to look for other jobs outside of Dublin.

Right now, if you're involved in digital media and want a stable job, the only real place you can find those is in Dublin, unless you move abroad. The chances of finding those elsewhere are slim.

Baggy Trousers

L'Enfer du Nord wrote: »

The visible drug problem on the streets of Dublin city centre has a lot to do with lack of policing. Funnily enough I was outside the dail there the other day and there were about 40 Gardai protecting the dail from a protest of...about 150 nurses and mid wives. That's priorities for you.

Funding and Gardai numbers along with most other public services have been cut over the past 7 plus years due to an economic crisis caused mostly by culchies called Sean: Sean Fitzpatrick, Sean Dunne, Sean Quinn. Really it's culchies that got Dublin into this mess.

Hold on a second, we have all seen the Gardai completely ignore the dealers and scumbags in and around O'Connell St.
Enforcement is the issue. Or perhaps prison capacity.

StonyIron

[Deleted User] wrote: »

The sad truth is that there are some people who are unable to look for other jobs outside of Dublin.

Right now, if you're involved in digital media and want a stable job, the only real place you can find those is in Dublin, unless you move abroad. The chances of finding those elsewhere are slim.

There are a few digital media companies around Cork in particular ... Not entirely Dublin IT stuff at the moment.

Also Belfast and if you don't want to move very far abroad Manchester is actually becoming very digital media vibrant. It's only a hop skip and a jump away really.

keithclancy

StonyIron wrote: »

There are a few digital media companies around Cork in particular ... Not entirely Dublin IT stuff at the moment.

Also Belfast and if you don't want to move very far abroad Manchester is actually becoming very digital media vibrant. It's only a hop skip and a jump away really.

Amsterdam is also an option.

Multiple daily direct flights to Cork with Aer Lingus and also Dublin with Aer Lingus/Ryanair.

Foreign Knowledge workers get a 30% Tax Break in the Netherlands as well (basically works out as an extra weeks wages.

I'd also choose Amsterdam over Manchester any day of the week.

ClovenHoof

Very Bored wrote: »

When was Prague the capital of an empire?

The Holy Roman Empire.

All you rosary bead mauling boggers should know that.

jimgoose

Deleted User wrote: »

...Right now, if you're involved in digital media and want a stable job, the only real place you can find those is in Dublin, unless you move abroad...

This is a clever ruse by certain unknown members of the I.T. Illuminati (a.k.a. the Clue Clux Clan) to confine all the idjit Nathan Barley types within the Capital.

ClovenHoof wrote: »

...All you rosary bead mauling boggers should know that.

Do you mind? We're trying to sit on the mud while slurping our steaming gruel and blinking uncomprehendingly up at the Silver Bird. Ooooh!!

StonyIron

StonyIron wrote: »

There are a few digital media companies around Cork in particular ... Not entirely Dublin IT stuff at the moment.

Also Belfast and if you don't want to move very far abroad Manchester is actually becoming very digital media vibrant. It's only a hop skip and a jump away really.

Who the hell would want to live in Cork? :pac:

It's just unfortunate that the majority of ones are currently in Dublin. I've heard that about Manchester - many people are saying it could experience the same explosion that London saw. My main focus is London at the moment, because that's where the biggest variety is for digital media-focused industries.

Dyr

MilesMorales1 wrote: »

Well I asked my Spanish friend, and my Italian friend, and these eastern european lads I met in the street, and they love Dublin, so I think that proves the point :pac:

They're all dealers

Tarzana2

[Deleted User] wrote: »

The sad truth is that there are some people who are unable to look for other jobs outside of Dublin.

Right now, if you're involved in digital media and want a stable job, the only real place you can find those is in Dublin, unless you move abroad. The chances of finding those elsewhere are slim.

Why is that the sad truth then? Doesn't that tell that that's where things are happening in those industries? Wouldn't you want to be there? Why not just embrace it before than deciding you don't like the place?

Tarzana2

[Deleted User] wrote: »

Who the hell would want to live in Cork? :pac:.

Cork is also a great city to live in, along with Dublin. Where exactly DO you want to live in Ireland? Can't be sure but my spidey senses tell me you're a Galway disciple.

whisky_galore

Deleted User wrote: »

Who the hell would want to live in Cork? :pac:

Who the hell would want to live in a bog?

osarusan

Jaysus, some seriously sensitive Dubs in here!

realdanbreen

Deleted User wrote: »

The sad truth is that there are some people who are unable to look for other jobs outside of Dublin.

Right now, if you're involved in digital media and want a stable job, the only real place you can find those is in Dublin, unless you move abroad. The chances of finding those elsewhere are slim.

Who the fuk wants to work in digital media for some foreigner in tangerine trousers and big glasses, oiled hair(swept back), drinks from small bottles by the neck and is called Jeff? Give me the wide open spaces and being my own boss everyday of the week.

Sgt Hartman

Dublin 1 reminds me of Springfield's Crackton district in The Simpsons, especially Talbot street, Marlborough Street and Abbey Street I think the area should be renamed "Smackton" due to all the junkies around that area.

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moved reluctantly up to Dublin from the West following a job. love it,could see myself never moving back (something I never thought I'd say)

rent's a b1tch, having everything within easy distance is great though. sports, entertainment and eating/drinking options are brilliant. career/education options are far beyond what's available in most of the rest of the country.

yeah, there are skangers- as easy avoidable as your local skangers in every town. yeah, there are areas to avoid, that's as easily done as anywhere else.

I'm a convert. if the property market was sorted out id settle here, no question.

realdanbreen

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moved reluctantly up to Dublin from the West following a job. love it,could see myself never moving back (something I never thought I'd say)

rent's a b1tch, having everything within easy distance is great though. sports, entertainment and eating/drinking options are brilliant. career/education options are far beyond what's available in most of the rest of the country.

yeah, there are skangers- as easy avoidable as your local skangers in every town. yeah, there are areas to avoid, that's as easily done as anywhere else.

I'm a convert. if the property market was sorted out id settle here, no question.

Moving from the west of Ireland to Dublin is one thing but have you ever lived in a real city like NYC, Delhi, Paris, etc. I can see how you might be impressed with Dublin if you've moved from Maam Cross but maybe you need to spread your wings a bit first.

realdanbreen

realdanbreen wrote: »

Moving from the west of Ireland to Dublin is one thing but have you ever lived in a real city like NYC, Delhi, Paris, etc. I can see how you might be impressed with Dublin if you've moved from Maam Cross but maybe you need to spread your wings a bit first.

begorrah and i'faith sir I'm touched by your concern indeed.

I'm a simple man but thanks be to God I can still discern after two years in a city whether or not I'd consider it a kip.

topper75

L'Enfer du Nord wrote: »

.... The 'casinos' of Salthill remind me of some kind of a Ken Loach film, that won't stop from going for a walk on the Prom.

Cas?

fr336

realdanbreen wrote: »

Moving from the west of Ireland to Dublin is one thing but have you ever lived in a real city like NYC, Delhi, Paris, etc. I can see how you might be impressed with Dublin if you've moved from Maam Cross but maybe you need to spread your wings a bit first.

Becoming known as a kip in many parts...

testaccount123

Gas, people decry Dublin as a kip because the are a few dozen wobbly tracksuited scobes around D1, recommend people move to Paris

LOL

Billy86

John_Rambo wrote: »

Where did you see this list? In doctor Billy86 Bullsheets mind? Because. unlike other capital cities, most of Dublin's galleries, museums, libraries, colleges etc are free to visit. You can just walk in!

Just shows you the lengths some Irish people will go to run down their own country. Billy86, you've obviously never been to a Dublin museum or gallery, yet you're willing to bitch about nothing being free in Dublin!

Lots of little spoofs, lies, tall stories and barstool talk on this thread.

Idle minds... :rolleyes:

Here we go, the third most boring capital in Europe - because visiting the same few colleges or museums umpteen times a year, over and over, to see the same stuff, is not most peoples ideas of fun.

http://www.irishexaminer.com/ireland/dublin-voted-friendliest-capital-ndash-but-so-over-rated-and-boring-90955.html

But tourism bosses might not be ready to bask in any glory just yet as Dublin was also named as the third-most boring European capital after Brussels and Zurich, while also coming third in the title for most over-rated capital, and second for worst-dressed.

However, in that same article... would love to know what the people claiming Dublin is such an awful, horrible place make of that.

It is the second year in a row that the Irish capital has been voted Europe’s most welcoming city in a survey by the travel advice website, Tripadvisor.

But in order to keep that reputation, we really could do with less people acting like you are here. Feel free to remove that chip from your shoulder, and actually read through my other posts on this thread like a good boy, you clearly don't seem to even think I am from Dublin.

Magico Gonzalez

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begorrah and i'faith sir I'm touched by your concern indeed.

I'm a simple man but thanks be to God I can still discern after two years in a city whether or not I'd consider it a kip.

I pity the peasants who never have had the pleasure of enjoying some of the world's most serious air and water pollution in New Dehli, yes sir now there is a city.

realdanbreen

testaccount123 wrote: »

Gas, people decry Dublin as a kip because the are a few dozen wobbly tracksuited scobes around D1, recommend people move to Paris

LOL

LOL is sooo 2008!

Boulevardier

Dublin is definitely my home, though I was born elsewhere, and I do not ever wish to walk away from the place.

However, there is no doubt that some key parts of the city are in serious decline, and chief among these is the North city centre. With Clerys and Boyers gone, there is now a clear possibility that the Easter 1916 parade will take place in the middle of a slum.

My own place of employment is close by, but we will soon be transferring to another area.

A serious regeneration plan for the north city centre is needed very urgently.

Tarzana2

fr336 wrote: »

Becoming known as a kip in many parts...

And I can imagine Delhi is far from salubrious in large swathes of the city. NYC is one of the greatest cities on the world. Completely ridiculous to bring that up as a comparison to Dublin. There's not many cities in the world that would come close to NYC. NYC being amazing doesn't mean Dublin isn't a good place to live.

TheLastMohican

Endtimes are a'comin :eek:

Barely There

realdanbreen wrote: »

Moving from the west of Ireland to Dublin is one thing but have you ever lived in a real city like NYC, Delhi, Paris, .

Is this a 'spot the odd one out' competition?




I'm going for Paris, because its the only one with the Eiffel Tower?

Magico Gonzalez

I had a great five years in Dublin, i would always defend it. It does need to be more proactive in creating larger pedestrian spaces and somehow freeing up the quays from traffic, also getting the addicts out of the city centres and into proper treatment would be great, serious investment needed in the north inner city. One thing which should be looked at are the successes of the English Market in Cork and St Georges Market in Belfast, Dublin needs something like that, a good market which becomes a hub for cafes, bars and restaurants, in a pedestrianised zone.

Tarzana2

Magico Gonzalez wrote: »

I had a great five years in Dublin, i would always defend it. It does need to be more proactive in creating larger pedestrian spaces and somehow freeing up the quays from traffic, also getting the addicts out of the city centres and into proper treatment would be great, serious investment needed in the north inner city. One thing which should be looked at are the successes of the English Market in Cork and St Georges Market in Belfast, Dublin needs something like that, a good market which becomes a hub for cafes, bars and restaurants, in a pedestrianised zone.

Plus one. An English Market style set up is badly needed. I really miss the English Market, I used to haunt that place.

Balmed Out

Hate this kind of crap. There isnt a city in the western world thats an unadulterated kip. Chances are anyone who leaves somewhere with that impression is either a bore or was in a mood / sick while there.

Dublin is grand with a lot to offer. No city in Ireland or anywhere else is perfect or will suit all tastes. Some like them big, others just want urban facilities within range of mountains/beaches/lakes/whatever.

I always assume people on forums like this who are all my locality is great elsewhere is a kip to be pale, spotty, teenagers or adults with no social skills.