Sure-Fire Signs That an area is Rough

Richard Hillman

A community center
Speed Bumps Everywhere
Oversized curbs
A boxing club
A local pub that changes its name every couple of years.
A security guard at a small Spar/Centra
Horses
People Before Profit/AAA Posters

sashafierce

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Caillte

Members of the community wearing grey tracksuit trousers and matching hoodies all the time.

Shinbin223

The pyjamas brigade.

Special Circumstances

Hands down pants.
Gangs of lads walking down the street like the opening credits of the Monkees tv show, only with their hands down their pants.

ThisRegard

No idea why a community centre is a sign of a rough area?!

CloudCumulus

People bringing their shopping home in the trolley from the supermarket.

Allinall

Alsatians roaming the streets, but only in pairs.

Walter H Price

if you see Horses tied up in a housing estate , leave sharpish.

ChikiChiki

The local boozer has mesh covering the windows.
Walls have broken glass and razor wire resting on top of them.
There's a token neglected kid no older than 3 with muck on his hands and face and a big mother ****in gooey snot that runs from his nose into his mouth hanging around outside the shops while the mother is in buying 20 John Player blue in her pj's and the auld lad is across in the local bookies on a Thursday morning.

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Allinall wrote: »

Alsatians roaming the streets, but only in pairs.

Here, not even pairs of Alsations are safe from frisky goats in limerick.
http://www.broadsheet.ie/2016/06/28/alsation-once-again-2/

TheWarChicken

Beer bottles around places they really shouldn't be.

degsie

The name: Bally(anything)

razorblunt

A small, wide Jack Russell cross terrier, standing on a footpath staring at you, just daring you to say something to him.

Bus stops without glass.

Special Circumstances

Outside voice for indoors arguments, although indoors arguments are to be avoided if possible.
A roaring & screeching match up and down the estate is the ideal way to blow off a little steam.
At least one party must be wearing sleepwear for full marks.

No knobs or hipsters wandering around.

Realt Dearg Sec

A pub with English premier league team flags outside.

Boom_Bap

People trotting past on thier high horses.

The flying mouse

degsie wrote: »

The name: Bally(anything)

Ballydehob, stay well clear.

https://www.google.es/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=2&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0ahUKEwiuzLmfs4rQAhVIthoKHY6wBCQQFggrMAE&url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FBallydehob&usg=AFQjCNFm1O9br1Lb8Q-yamrkqmCpof0qPw

degsie

Boom_Bap wrote: »

People trotting past on thier high horses.

Ah here.

Pac1Man

If the place name rhymes with mealsbrown.

D0NNELLY

No rush hour traffic.

TheWarChicken

People smoking on the street wearing a onesie past 3 pm
Especially if it's a man

Duff

Shell-suit tracksuits and lads with 'Love' and 'Hat' tattooed on their fingers. They've lost one, obviously.

Jimbob1977

Rubbish and broken glass strewn around the roads and footpaths.

Boarded up and bricked up houses

Lots of off-licences and bookmakers shops

Boy racers and joyriders

A general sense of malaise

snickerpuss

Tricolour on every lamppost.

foggy_lad

Richard Hillman wrote: »

A community center
Speed Bumps Everywhere
Oversized curbs
A boxing club
A local pub that changes its name every couple of years.
A security guard at a small Spar/Centra
Horses
People Before Profit/AAA Posters

The local shop(not garage) with a hatch service only after 6pm.
A Health centre that doesn't keep any supplies of baby milk as it gets robbed.
Buggies left at the bus stops.
Runners tied together and thrown over electricity wires

tnegun

During fine weather the sitting room furniture is moved to the front yard/garden/footpath for some reason.

liam7831

Women wearing I Love PB trackies

Turnipman

A Sinn Féin Advice Centre.

TheWarChicken

If there's an abandoned factory that catches fire on a regular basis and is filled with asbestos that has not and probably will never be dealt with.

Special Circumstances

Standard size pens/pencils do not exist - just bookie/argos sized ones

The King of Moo

Neglected children outside without clothing to protect against the weather.

Signs of serious drug addiction passed on from parents to children through example.

Unemployable people who grew up in a situation where they aren't afforded the possibility of advancing in education, and adapting to middle-class conventions of behaviour.

LOL at the poor!! #tensignsyouresociallydeprivedandknobsonlinelaughatyoutomakethemfeelbetteraboutthemselvesfromajoeiehackwhostoletheideafromacommentonthejournal.ie

liam7831

Lots of middle aged seemingly healthy men using walking sticks for some reason ...

liam7831

Lots of middle aged seemingly healthy men using walking sticks for some reason ...

Boom_Bap

degsie wrote: »

Ah here.

It's aaghhh hheeeeeooooooorrrrrrrrr

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bFDciiG7b4Q

:pac:

BetsyEllen

Weird stuff in the weed riddled front garden, like a sofa and an old boiler

Turnipman

The King of Moo wrote: »

LOL at the poor!!

That could be very dangerous. If I were you, I'd laugh silently. Far safer.

whiskeyman

when even the baskets have security tags in the local supermarket.

bodhrandude

Richard Hillman wrote: »

A local pub that has corrugated iron sheets on its windows.

FYP

uch

This

Richard Hillman

ThisRegard wrote: »

No idea why a community centre is a sign of a rough area?!

Because councils dont spend money on community centers unless there is high incidents of Anti-Social Behaviour.

Malari

"No Water Meters" signs in the windows and on lampposts.

artanevilla

If you throw a petrol bomb into the local pub and it's drunk before it can explode.

Owryan

The local centra/spar has a bigger off licence than fresh fruit/veg section

fortwilliam

Broken gates/walls of front gardens full of weeds & kitchen appliances/bin-bags/mattresses.

General apathy to the appearance of a home.

Dyr

lack of men with wanker names like Richard

Jrop

Kids standing outside the local shop throwing chips at the security guard

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Jrop wrote: »

Kids standing outside the local shop throwing chips at the security guard

Round here it's adults throwing cooked chickens!

endacl

Allinall wrote: »

Alsatians roaming the streets, but only in pairs.

People from Alsace?

Jrop

Special Circumstances wrote: »

Round here it's adults throwing cooked chickens!

Why would you waste a perfectly good chicken ? The mind boggles