Sure-Fire Signs That an area is Rough

Lt Dan

Caravans, council houses/community centers that have most windows boarded up, halting site nearby

degsie

Scroats all over the shop.

ThisRegard

Richard Hillman wrote: »

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

Well thats nonsense.

Nermal

Grown man riding BMX bike

darkpagandeath

phill106 wrote: »

The meat has security tags in tesco/dunnes

Eh most places have those paper micro tags on stuff.

Surreptitious

Groups of hostile men drinking taking drugs and smoking in the shadows. Couches burnt out with some bloke passed out near one. Ones with dodgy hairdos screaming about 'de Paul' ringing them. Police constantly around. Boarded up houses and music pumping.
I speak from experience so am not judging.

Ferrari3600

Nermal wrote: »

Grown man riding BMX bike

Would have thought that's something you'd be more likely to see in the likes of Ranelagh (Ronurlah). Hipster s.hite in other words.

In fact in the hilarious and under-rated satire on hipsters 'Nathan Barley' I'm pretty sure there is a scene where a grown man is seen cycling an absurdly tiny BMX.

John_Rambo

Special Circumstances wrote: »

Aw man, how could I forget, bull terriers in bondage gear. Dressing your dogs up all studs and leather. There's something bubbling under the surface there alright!!

LOL! :pac:

riclad

teen girls going to the shop wearing pyjama,s .
down the lane ,theres old tv,s ,sofa,s ,chairs dumped .
x per cent of houses are boarded up.,
Some shop units may be empty.Teens sitting on a wall .
lots of litter all over the place .
gardens full of junk,old bikes, walls with tags, graffiti, decko was here .

Ayuntamiento

Those white 'Lady on the rock' statues in every council flat window

A Battered Mars Bar

Oh my days. This is hilarious. Do these places actually exist?? One simply can't imagine it

darkpagandeath

Ayuntamiento wrote: »

Those white 'Lady on the rock' statues in every council flat window

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ThisRegard

Nermal wrote: »

Grown man riding BMX bike

Hey, I'm waiting for my son to get big enough so I can go buy us one each and do the cool tricks and take it off some sweet jumps like I did in the 80s. I won't be getting the mag wheels though.

B.A._Baracus

Burned out cars and graffiti that says "fu*k the guards" is usually a subtle sign for me :pac:

dresden8

Hey, I'm from Finglas and according to CSO stats as a public servant I'm earning more than all you stuck up, nice area. private sector b@stards.

Suck it up b1tches!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Richard Hillman

B.A._Baracus wrote: »

Burned out cars and graffiti that says "fu*k the guards" is usually a subtle sign for me :pac:

And "<insert name> is a rat"

Stoner

Car batteries out in the street
An old fridge or TV on the side of the road
White dog sh1t
Maybe an abandoned couch
Dogs walking alone on missions
Boarded up houses
Christmas decorations up all year
Shoes hanging from power lines
Pubs open all day with young lads in grey tracksuit bottoms keeping watch outside them
Houses with the front room turned into a shop
A shop called "the hut" or " the van" that's is actually a hut or a van
A chipper beside a Chinese, beside a bookies beside the other chipper beside a pub
Some sh1tty single issue politician's constituency office
Various back to work offices and partnerships seeming doing the same thing but all close by
A spar/Centra with an off licence, deli and post office
Also possibly a large looking building that may have been a theatre or cinema but is now a bingo hall but built from the same plans as about 20 others
Matching white statues of some sort of human in every window
Decorative gutters

Ferrari3600

The neighborhood that I live in
I've always seen as home
At certain times of the evening
It's like a no-go zone

Got cash in my pocket to last the weekend (ba ba ba ba)
And I've got features I quite like and don't mind keeping

But still I walk the side streets home
Even when I'm on my own
If I let myself believe all the bad press and horror stories
I wouldn't set a foot outside

You say I live in a bubble
I find a bubble's best
At a faint whiff of trouble
Just turn and head due west

Quite light on my feet if I ever need be (ba ba ba ba)
As I zip down the street no-one ever sees me

That's why I walk the side streets home
Even when I'm on my own
If I let myself believe all the bad press and horror stories
I wouldn't set a foot outside

I'm tempting fate (I know, tell me about it)
So nonchalant (I know, and I don't doubt it)
I'll probably get it tomorrow

Til then I walk the side streets home
Even when I'm on my own
If I let myself believe

Mits

I grew up in a working class area,
Knew all my neighbours
Everyone looked after each other and would help when ever needed
Always felt safe.
Great sense of community
We had the community centre but it was built by the locals after years of fund raising.


As an adult I moved to a middle class area
Barely know the people on either side and only talk to a couple of people

I know which I prefer.

bilbot79

Mits wrote: »

I grew up in a working class area,
Knew all my neighbours
Everyone looked after each other and would help when ever needed
Always felt safe.
Great sense of community
We had the community centre but it was built by the locals after years of fund raising.


As an adult I moved to a middle class area
Barely know the people on either side and only talk to a couple of people

I know which I prefer.

Why not move back then?

somefeen

People struggling to make sense of their financial situation and make ends meet while repeating the perpetual cycle that their parents spun before them.
Parents trying to make a better life for their children but failing to do so because they lack the life skills necessary because their own parents didn't possess these skills either.
A perpetuating culture of underachievement brought about by a fear of failure and a distrust of the markers of the social change ( education, career advancement etc) that would end the generational cycle of poverty and welfare dependency.
Short fat men with Jack Russels trying to look hard

dhaughton99

A deep angry hate for Joan Burton.

Armchair Andy

Two tradesmen vans pulling in for a small job. Both parked nose heavy for the estate exit. At 6 o clock in the morning.


Crowsh1t all over the roofs.

Merseyside and Old Trafford nameplates on the front door.

A blue hue from the 155' TV lighting up the path outside the house.

At least one dog lying down who doesn't run around the estate, he's usually dead a few days.

Walter Alright

People bringing their couch out to their front garden when the sun is shining during the summer to "have a few cans in the sun"

Why go to a Beer Garden when you can drink beer in your own Garden? :eek:

Larbre34

Armchair Andy wrote: »

Two tradesmen vans pulling in for a small job. Both parked nose heavy for the estate exit. At 6 o clock in the morning.


Crowsh1t all over the roofs.

Merseyside and Old Trafford nameplates on the front door.

A blue hue from the 155' TV lighting up the path outside the house.

Did you mean to say the telly is 155 feet on the diagonal? Youre still probably right...

Larbre34

That story about the lad in Limerick committing an assault with a cooked chicken......did anyone read to the point of the article where it gives his address, and the house name is 'Chardonnay'...? Add that to the list...

BTW, the chicken, assault and battery?!

mzungu

Lads playing chess.
Hearing stick-up men whistle "A Hunting We Will Go".

learn_more

A couple of women having a fag and a chin wag on the doorstep, both with long fake blonde hair and ponytailed, looking like 65 years of age but actually 50yo.

nullzero

bilbot79 wrote: »

Why not move back then?

You have to trade in your rose tinted glasses when you move out of your middle class dwelling.

dd972

I'd say Tanning Salons / Tattoo Parlours are a feature of down-at-heel urban Ireland, in the U.K it's a preponderance of pound shops, takeaways, betting shops and big dogs on leads and in cities with big ethnic populations loads of these hybrid internet cafe/money transfer places full of beardy asians.