What's it like where you live?

Olishi4

I'm living where I am now for about 3 years, well almost exactly 3 years. I live in a small town where there is a real sense of community with a small few cracks in the surface that you see after a while.

You can't go to the shop without meeting someone and having a chat but I like that and my local pub is almost like The Woolpack from Emmerdale, in a good way and not as much drama.

Prior to that I lived in an apartment for a few years after leaving home where I don't think I ever saw my neighbours. I definitely didn't know their names.

I do like my privacy and miss the availability and frequency of public transport but I love where I live now too.

The_Valeyard

It's nice.

Olishi4

Good

byte

It's grand.

Fluffy Cat 88

(Looks out window)

It's dark here op.

One_Of_Shanks

We moved from Dun Laoghaire to a tiny wee village in county Laois about a year and a half ago.

Most my friends think I'm nuts but it has been an easy transition for me.

I have a lovely 4 bed house with a big garden and a greenhouse and I've got over 100 plants/trees/herbs growing at any given moment.
All of which cost way less than we sold our pokey wee apartment in D-Laoire for.

The dog is running around chasing birds and actually has a life for herself instead of staring out the window which never seemed right to me so I'm chuffed for her too.

But it's not for everyone. Sometimes I think my fiancee would prefer to be back in DL or closer to shops/cafes etc.

You make trade-offs for one thing over another and for me the apple trees and the dog were more important than the missus.
(lol, just joking)
We actually mainly moved for more space coz we had twins.

There's a lot to be said for country living though. I mean it's not as though we have a mansion or anything but a fairly big house and a fairly big garden and people are nicer (or act nicer) and it all just seems more "natural" to me.

I would never go back to living in an apartment with no space and no garden etc....

One_Of_Shanks

Fluffy Cat 88 wrote: »

(Looks out window)

It's dark here op.

Ha, dont be like that, he/she just wanted a chat about where people are at.

Ney harm in that.

Grayditch

I'm in prison on a phone my cousin snook in, up his arse. It's cold and I wish I had never gone to bingo that night.

Fluffy Cat 88

One_Of_Shanks wrote: »

Ha, dont be like that, he/she just wanted a chat about where people are at.

Ney harm in that.

Ah fair enough.

Its about 9 degrees outside.

Still dark too

One_Of_Shanks

Fluffy Cat 88 wrote: »

Ah fair enough.

Its about 9 degrees outside.

Still dark too

Lol, That's more like it!!!

Ah but seriously, the poor fella/girl was only looking for a chat, now we've got a jail-bird posting and stuff

Slydice

Dublin.

It's getting expensive to buy a place here.
It's getting expensive to rent a place here.
Homelessness is at an all time high.
There's a homeless soup kitchen type setup outside the GPO every evening.

It's all getting me a bit worried to be honest

Olishi4

One_Of_Shanks wrote: »

Lol, That's more like it!!!

Ah but seriously, the poor fella/girl was only looking for a chat, now we've got a jail-bird posting and stuff

Haha! No One Of Shanks, I get that, it's only a bit of craic Especially from Fluffycat who is known for their Award Winning threads

I just feel bad for Grayditch now

One_Of_Shanks

Olishi4 wrote: »

Haha! No One Of Shanks, I get that, it's only a bit of craic Especially from Fluffycat who is known for their Award Winning threads

I just feel bad for Grayditch now

He'll be fine. So long as he's not sniffing the phone

RobertKK

It is scenic, peaceful, rural, less than 15 minutes drive to Kilkenny city.
Good neighbours, it is a lovely place to live.

nkav86

Dublin

Barely speak to my neighbours, kids feckin everywhere, areas starting to go full hipster. It's stressful!

cailin8

Nice enough, but the neighbours moo occasionally though.

One_Of_Shanks

cailin8 wrote: »

Nice enough, but the neighbours moo occasionally though.

Been there. Used to live next door to the mother in law.

FanadMan

Beautiful but dead. Peaceful but noisy (when the boyracers are about).

OldMrBrennan83

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Charlie19

Grayditch wrote: »

I'm in prison on a phone my cousin snook in, up his arse. It's cold and I wish I had never gone to bingo that night.

Don't believe that for a minute.

"Its cold"

Everybody knows that prison is practically 5 star these days.

Grayditch

Charlie19 wrote: »

Don't believe that for a minute.

"Its cold"

Everybody knows that prison is practically 5 star these days.

I was using it in the showers. Lads who get caught using their phones on their Comfotron 3000 sleeping units only get one Ferrero Rocher for breakfast.

No but seriously, its grim in here and the phone would probabay have better reception if it was still in my cousin, but Vodafone don't wanna know about it.

mansize

Used live in the countryside, bought a house in town 4 years ago.

Both have advantages/disadvantages but I love my house and there is some really friendly neighbours

Stigura

Jaysus. I couldn't 'Thank / Like' the posts from people reporting from Dublin. Perhaps if we had a " My sincerest sympathy " button ...?


Myself? I live in a place that is only told of in rumour and hushed words. To reach it, you must pass the boundary of twilight. Far beyond the fields you may know.

It's lovely, here. I don't even need to take my med's ~ that often

One_Of_Shanks

Stigura wrote: »

Jaysus. I couldn't 'Thank / Like' the posts from people reporting from Dublin. Perhaps if we had a " My sincerest sympathy " button ...?


Myself? I live in a place that is only told of in rumour and hushed words. To reach it, you must pass the boundary of twilight. Far beyond the fields you may know.

It's lovely, here. I don't even need to take my med's ~ that often

Where abouts in Meath?

Stigura

NOooooo! Further from the smoke than that!

Some say that, the closer Dub's get to us? The further our borders withdraw.

RyanDrive

Out in the countryside away from everything. Some people like but for a young person it's miserable and lonely out here. Wish I lived near people instead of animals and could go places (like the pub!) without driving.

pauliebdub

It's dull suburbia filled with middle class families who don't mix or speak much to neighbours, I've never really settled here. Best thing about it is that I'm near the airport.

learn_more

I feel I enhance the place I live in , otherwise it would be pretty dire.

spiralism

Amsterdam. It's really fun, a good young person's city. People are generally very open and liberal but at the same time i'm not the fondest of the locals as they can often be rude, opinionated and arrogant. Easy to find work, yet rather expensive. Crime is very low, to the point that i'd arguably say it's the safest place i've lived in. Being on the continent and being able to travel by bus and train to nearby countries is a nice bonus.

learn_more

spiralism wrote: »

Amsterdam. ..... but at the same time i'm not the fondest of the locals as they can often be rude, opinionated and arrogant. .

I find that in every city I've lived in. I've met the most horrible people ever in cities, London especially.

spiralism

learn_more wrote: »

I find that in every city I've lived in. I've met the most horrible people ever in cities, London especially.

I wouldn't say every city at all, but i would go as far as to say it's a capital city thing. I find the non-amsterdam dutchies to be quite a sound bunch, for the most part, for instance.

maximum12

spiralism wrote: »

I wouldn't say every city at all, but i would go as far as to say it's a capital city thing. I find the non-amsterdam dutchies to be quite a sound bunch, for the most part, for instance.

What's Amsterdam the capital of ?

pickarooney

spiralism wrote: »

I wouldn't say every city at all, but i would go as far as to say it's a capital city thing. I find the non-amsterdam dutchies to be quite a sound bunch, for the most part, for instance.

Nah, they're rude, opinionated and arrogant everywhere else as well.

maximum12

maximum12 wrote: »

What's Amsterdam the capital of ?

The Netherlands.

Atomicjuicer0

One_Of_Shanks wrote: »

We moved from Dun Laoghaire to a tiny wee village in county Laois about a year and a half ago.

Most my friends think I'm nuts but it has been an easy transition for me.

I have a lovely 4 bed house with a big garden and a greenhouse and I've got over 100 plants/trees/herbs growing at any given moment.
All of which cost way less than we sold our pokey wee apartment in D-Laoire for.

The dog is running around chasing birds and actually has a life for herself instead of staring out the window which never seemed right to me so I'm chuffed for her too.

But it's not for everyone. Sometimes I think my fiancee would prefer to be back in DL or closer to shops/cafes etc.

You make trade-offs for one thing over another and for me the apple trees and the dog were more important than the missus.
(lol, just joking)
We actually mainly moved for more space coz we had twins.

There's a lot to be said for country living though. I mean it's not as though we have a mansion or anything but a fairly big house and a fairly big garden and people are nicer (or act nicer) and it all just seems more "natural" to me.

I would never go back to living in an apartment with no space and no garden etc....

Probably a stupid question but is it hard to make a living? As a city dweller I look at these houses in the middle of nowhere and wonder where the income is.

hairyslug

We moved from an estate with a bad drug problem where they were openly dealing in front of our house to a mid-sized estate in a small village. It's very quiet for 8 months of the year, very busy as soon as it gets anyway warm. 10 minutes north is a large town, 10 minutes south and it's countryside.

Wanderer78

Dangerous enough

lawlolawl

It was grand and quiet in the village i bought my house in up until about a year ago. The only thing you had was yung lads booting up and down the main street in their ****ty cars on a Friday and Saturaday night.

Then a family of scummers were moved in a few doors down from me. Currently 2 trailers of rubbish on the footpath in front of their house, a car literally up on blocks on the road in front of the house, someone set fire to their front door trying to burn them out and it's still all burnt up months later, numerous dogs in a frankly tiny back garden barking/howling day and night, the cops are there weekly, the kids who are between 5 and 12ish are left out until around 11 most nights and they are in and out of everyone's gardens.

People complained to the council and were informed they won't be moving them any time soon because they were already moved recently and this is were they moved them to. "Social" housing me hole.

9or10

We live 5.2 miles from the nearest shop. Where we moved from, was 1 mile along a canal, from Waitrose (posh UK supermarket).

We settled here from the getgo. We just love the space and peace and quiet. Our neighbours on 3 sides (fourth is a river) are the nicest you could hope to meet.

Winterlong

I like where I live. Its suburbia, its quiet, good transport links, nice neighbours and lots of local amenities.

One_Of_Shanks

Atomicjuicer0 wrote: »

Probably a stupid question but is it hard to make a living? As a city dweller I look at these houses in the middle of nowhere and wonder where the income is.

You'd be surprised mate. Herself couldn't get a job in Dublin and since we moved here she got a job in Carlow (20 mins drive from here).

In Dublin she kept getting told that she lacked experience and there were so many people applying for the same job.
Whereas here there were only 2 other applicants for the job she got apparently.

We're within 25 mins of 3 very large towns so despite it being rural you have easy traffic-free commutes to a few good options....

Having said all that I'm still working in Dublin and it takes over an hour to get to work which is a pain

Side Gate

Our area was grand up until about two years ago. It's a mix of social and affordable housing and unfortunately the council in their wisdom decided to house a family of complete toerags a few houses down from us. 6 kids, man and dad don't work, constantly having house parties every other weekend etc.. We didnt have a dot of graffiti in the area before they moved in now the place is covered in it. Kids do be out and about until all hours and generally acting the b ollox any chance they get. One of the neighbours had enough of them and gave the "man of the house" a good hiding a few months back after he warned him the uncollected bins out front was now causing a problem with rats and he did nothing about it. Solved that problem short term but he's at it again now. We have recently found out the council rehoused them here after they where removed from last house for anti social activities. They'll be gone soon enough i'd imagine but it's just a nightmare having to put up with their ****e.

ThinkProgress

Grew up in the countryside, moved to Dublin to study, then got a job there...

Tbh, although city living can be fun, found myself not wanting to leave sometimes when I'd visit the folks back home!

That's when I knew it was time to buy me self a field... Now that field is home, best decision I made!

The city can feel claustrophobic if you know you can't leave whenever you want... Now I enjoy when I'm in Dublin, partly because I know I get to leave at some point, and the brain gets a break from all the nuttiness! :P

qo2cj1dsne8y4k

I love where I live. Neighbours are nice, and friendly, without being nosey or overbearing. I am not the type of person to knock into my neighbours for a chat, and appreciate when neighbours don't knock into mine without good reason.
There's a lot of kids knocking about, but they're really good. They usually stay on the green areas and on the paths, but they all seem to get on well with each other. I've never noticed anyone being left out or bullied anyway, which is good.

The local shop, I can take or leave to be honest. I'd actually prefer to walk into town and go to a different shop. The town itself is a ballache. Full of people who think they know you better than you know yourself, and when you keep yourself to yourself and get involved with none of them, then you're "stuck up", "unfriendly", and "have notions".

lawlolawl

LexieOnRale wrote: »

The town itself is a ballache. Full of people who think they know you better than you know yourself, and when you keep yourself to yourself and get involved with none of them, then you're "stuck up", "unfriendly", and "have notions".

Sounds like the town i grew up in. It was a bit of a kip even back in the 80's, no employment beyond a handful of small shops, pubs and a supermarket but everyone knew each other so if you weren't the type of person who was constantly stuck in everyone elses business as well as sharing all of yours, you were "stuck up". The place never really grew much more beyond getting a couple of more mega-estates of hundreds of houses. The same shops and supermarket are chugging along.

It also had the usual middle-sized Irish town thing of the 5 or so families that are notorious for one reason or another. They might either own half the place, they might all be legendary alcoholics or be the biggest drug dealers in the place but everyone considered them right lads anyway. I hear stories about the place from time to time and the same surnames still crop up even now

osarusan

Limerick suburb.

Nice home, convenient, about 5 minute drive to city centre. Since a couple of regeneration families moved away, it's even better.

The Young Wan

Lookit, the main thing is it isn't raining. For now.

Shint0

LexieOnRale wrote: »

The local shop, I can take or leave to be honest. I'd actually prefer to walk into town and go to a different shop. The town itself is a ballache. Full of people who think they know you better than you know yourself, and when you keep yourself to yourself and get involved with none of them, then you're "stuck up", "unfriendly", and "have notions".

You can't win with those type of people. Damned if you do and damned if you don't.

I think the whole being a 'blow in' notion is gone now since we became all 'multicultural' :cool: although the only sector it still seems to exist in is if you're applying for planning permission to build a house in a certain area and you have to show strong ties or a connection to the area.

learn_more

spiralism wrote: »

I wouldn't say every city at all, but i would go as far as to say it's a capital city thing. I find the non-amsterdam dutchies to be quite a sound bunch, for the most part, for instance.

Yeah your right. I prolly just overstated how I felt.

JupiterKid

Pleasant enough inner suburb of Dublin. 1930s houses, right beside the Phoenix Park. Close to pretty much all the amenities you could want.

Only big drawback is that the road surfaces are sh*te.

Penny Tration

I live in an area renowned for being an absolute **** hole, but it's grand. Neighbours are pleasant bar one set who are incredibly loud. Big back garden for the dog, shops, cinemas and gyms all in easy walking distance. There's undoubtedly a drug problem and high unemployment in the area, but I've never had any trouble, nor have my friends or family.

All in all, I wouldn't go wandering in some areas alone at night but it's grand.