Moving to Tralee from Dublin

Quackster

Joniamhsean wrote: »

Thank u for that. Didnt realise it had a Gaelscoil. Met a colleague at the wknd and she told me she had lived there and loved it. It seems to be a lovely town.

I'd also recommend Listowel. Good amenities, including an excellent cinema. Due to be bypassed in the next few years too which will alleviate its traffic issues. Having access to natural gas is a major advantage that shouldn't be sniffed at.

JonathonS

Quackster wrote: »

....natural gas is a major advantage that shouldn't be sniffed at.

For health reasons?

Joniamhsean

I would agree. Gas should never be sniffed at!!

RabbleRouser2k

Unfortunately Tralee and Listowel have suffered quite a bit lately-both in terms of the jobs market, and facilities.

Broadband has been a major issue for a long, long time-God, must be going on ten years or longer. It can often just cut out, no warning.
Many who are working are commuting to work in neighouring counties like Cork, Limerick, or Tipperary. If you can't drive, it can be brutal. There are good taxi services tho, and there is a pretty good social scene too. But like I said, it can be isolated. (Can't rely too much on the buses).

The Listowel Cinema is a small, more independent cinema. There's the Tralee Omniplex too, which has more screens and shows films in 3D (something the Listowel one cannot).

Unfortunately, like anywhere, there is a drug problem in both towns. There was a stabbing in Listowel a few weeks back, and unfortunately it was substance related.

Overall though, the town(s) are friendly and do have a lot of amenities. Best of luck.

Quackster

On the issue of broadband, there is excellent 1Gb/s fibre broadband available in Tralee from both Siro and Eir but obviously you have to check before you buy if either are available at a specific premises. There is also decent VDSL broadband on Eir copper available in both Listowel and Tralee (and the other towns and larger villages) but again you have to check the exact availability at any specific premises as VDSL speeds can be variable.

Go outside the urban areas and broadband quality drops dramatically, as is only to be expected.

Joniamhsean

Thanks for the broadband info. Definately something we need to consider, particularly for mu husbands job.

Sounds like the social life and entertainment scene is great in either town. Although I really like Listowel I do think the lack of public transport brings our search back to Tralee. You cant beat the train for convenience really.

Still no word from the Estate Agent who has our lastest bid on a house. I do wonder if he has even told the family. Very hard to understand the carry on.

At this stage I think we will rent for a while but that seems to be another issue. Very little for rent around Tralee.

Joniamhsean

As for drug problem..... its so sad that it is in every town and village in Ireland. Heartbreaking for families involved. I work in innercity Dublin and every news broadcast mentions the area due to drug related crime.unfortunately there is no getting away from it.

Benildus

I'd echo some of the comments here, don't move to Tralee. It's simply not a nice place to live.

Quackster

Benildus wrote: »

I'd echo some of the comments here, don't move to Tralee. It's simply not a nice place to live.

:rolleyes:

uck51js9zml2yt

Tralee isn't that had a place to live. Like everywhere there are areas to avoid but you could say the same about Dublin.

Personally moving from one estate in Dublin to another in Kerry wouldn't be something I'd consider.

Ideally get a place easily accessible from the now numerous bypasses around the town.

Quackster

Elliot Disgusting Rabble-rouser wrote: »

Ideally get a place easily accessible from the now numerous bypasses around the town.

I get the attraction of that but adding to the urban sprawl into the countryside where you and your family are utterly dependant on cars is totally unsustainable going forward.

I personally wouldn't live anywhere where the road passing my front door didn't have a footpath and street lights.

I frequently travel to/from Dublin, mostly by train, and am fortunate to live within walking distance at both ends. I wouldn't trade any amount of countryside scenery for that convenience!

Ciarrai76

Benildus wrote: »

I'd echo some of the comments here, don't move to Tralee. It's simply not a nice place to live.

In your opinion, it doesn't mean others feel the same!
Have you lived in Tralee?

uck51js9zml2yt

Quackster wrote: »

I get the attraction of that but adding to the urban sprawl into the countryside where you and your family are utterly dependant on cars is totally unsustainable going forward.

I personally wouldn't live anywhere where the road passing my front door didn't have a footpath and street lights.

I frequently travel to/from Dublin, mostly by train, and am fortunate to live within walking distance at both ends. I wouldn't trade any amount of countryside scenery for that convenience!

Horses for courses!!!

Some people want to get away from the "urban sprawl"

Benildus

Ciarrai76 wrote: »

In your opinion, it doesn't mean others feel the same!
Have you lived in Tralee?

And like everyone else here I'm entitled to voice my opinion, just like you are entitled to defend Tralee to the hilt as you every time anyone criticises the place.

Yes I have lived in Tralee unfortunately, for a miserable 8 months - never again!

Benildus

Quackster wrote: »

:rolleyes:

Thanks for the feedback - great work there Mr/Mrs Mod

conor05

Move to Ballyheigue, two great beaches on your doorstep in Ballyheigue beach and banna beach.
Nice friendly people in the village and all the amenities you need in a seaside village.
Moved here 8 years ago and I swear it has rejuvenated my mind and soul from the crazy daily traffic in Dublin.
Just my two cents though

Joniamhsean

conor05 wrote: »

Move to Ballyheigue, two great beaches on your doorstep in Ballyheigue beach and banna beach.
Nice friendly people in the village and all the amenities you need in a seaside village.
Moved here 8 years ago and I swear it has rejuvenated my mind and soul from the crazy daily traffic in Dublin.
Just my two cents though

Sounds great. Thank you for that.

Joniamhsean

Benildus wrote: »

And like everyone else here I'm entitled to voice my opinion, just like you are entitled to defend Tralee to the hilt as you every time anyone criticises the place.

Yes I have lived in Tralee unfortunately, for a miserable 8 months - never again!

Do you kind me asking why it was miserable?

Benildus

Joniamhsean wrote: »

Do you kind me asking why it was miserable?

The main thing I found with Tralee town was there weren't enough appropriate areas (parks, woods etc) nearby to be able to go for a decent walk in the fresh air, if you want that you have to drive a decent distance to be able to find it.

The restaurants and pubs in Tralee aren't great either and there is a bigger than usual anti-social element in Tralee in comparison to other places I've lived in.

Joniamhsean

I get that. Thanks for ur reply.

I usually drive to Camp and walk there. Ballyseedy is nice too. And the canal walk to Blennerville.

Maybe the antisocial behaviour depends on where u live in Tralee or anywhere else. My inlaws live in a very nice area so I havent seen much of that side of things. But as I work in Dublin inner city maybe I have become immune over the years!

Ciarrai76

Benildus wrote: »

And like everyone else here I'm entitled to voice my opinion, just like you are entitled to defend Tralee to the hilt as you every time anyone criticises the place.

Yes I have lived in Tralee unfortunately, for a miserable 8 months - never again!

And I will defend my hometown whenever I see fit. You lived their for 8 months, hardly a long time. You had a bad experience, not everyone does.

Benildus

Ciarrai76 wrote: »

And I will defend my hometown whenever I see fit. You lived their for 8 months, hardly a long time. You had a bad experience, not everyone does.

It was long enough to get a sufficient experience to be able to share with the OP.

You can defend it all you want but it's clear to see that you are blind to the obvious faults and downsides to living in Tralee.

Quackster

Benildus wrote: »

Thanks for the feedback - great work there Mr/Mrs Mod

You're perfectly entitled to hate Tralee if you like but your comments are completely useless to the OP if you don't provide your reasoning.

Ciarrai76

Benildus wrote: »

It was long enough to get a sufficient experience to be able to share with the OP.

You can defend it all you want but it's clear to see that you are blind to the obvious faults and downsides to living in Tralee.

Nope, not blind. I know there are faults, I’m not stupid. I work in a business where I see it daily! But the positives of the town outweigh the bad. I’m from here and don’t believe in bashing my town, especially when I have a business which relies on people coming here. You don’t like it, you make that very obvious, fair enough, no one is forcing you to like it nor do you have to live here again!

Quackster

Joniamhsean wrote: »

. Maybe the antisocial behaviour depends on where u live in Tralee or anywhere else. My inlaws live in a very nice area so I havent seen much of that side of things. But as I work in Dublin inner city maybe I have become immune over the years!

That's it in a nutshell. There are one or two areas in Tralee you couldn't pay me any amount of money to live in. But I know that's not particular to Tralee.

Quackster

Benildus wrote: »

The main thing I found with Tralee town was there weren't enough appropriate areas (parks, woods etc) nearby to be able to go for a decent walk in the fresh air, if you want that you have to drive a decent distance to be able to find it.

The town is on both the Dingle Way and the North Kerry Way so that's patently untrue.

The restaurants and pubs in Tralee aren't great either and there is a bigger than usual anti-social element in Tralee in comparison to other places I've lived in.

Quality of restaurants and pubs is undoubtedly variable but there really is plenty of choice. As for the size of the anti-social element, I've no reason to believe it's at variance with other similarly-sized large towns in this country.

Benildus

Quackster wrote: »

You're perfectly entitled to hate Tralee if you like but your comments are completely useless to the OP if you don't provide your reasoning.

I did provide my valid reasons, do keep up

Ciarrai76

Benildus wrote: »

I did provide my valid reasons, do keep up

So you not being able to find a place for a walk or not being able to find a restaurant you liked made you miserable here?! Ok! :rolleyes:

Could you not find the large town park? Or the many areas for walks, such as the canal walk, Ballyard, Wetlands?
Most wooded areas aren’t in the middle of towns or cities, you have to drive to get to them!

manoverboards

Tralee is grand as long as you can put up with the self-abasement of it's inhabitants.

Quackster

Benildus wrote: »

I did provide my valid reasons, do keep up

Yes you did eventually and that is to be welcomed.

Benildus

Ciarrai76 wrote: »

So you not being able to find a place for a walk or not being able to find a restaurant you likedmade you miserable here?! Ok! :rolleyes:

I was asked and I answered in an informative way unlike the condescending way you have on more than one occasion.

Ciarrai76 wrote: »

Could you not find the large town park? Or the many areas for walks, such as the canal walk, Ballyard, Wetlands?
Most wooded areas aren’t in the middle of towns or cities, you have to drive to get to them!

I never claimed they had to be in the middle of the towns, this is what I said:

"there weren't enough appropriate areas (parks, woods etc) nearby to be able to go for a decent walk in the fresh air, if you want that you have to drive a decent distance to be able to find it."

Both Killarney and Kenmare, for example, have appropriate areas that do not need to be driven to if one lives in the town/suburbs of these Kerry towns.

I really feel the utter overreaction of two mods on the Kerry forum to any sort of criticism of Tralee reflects badly on Boards - Op asked for advice, was given advice (both bad and good), yet here I am having to defend my opinion from these 2 Tralee biased mods.

@OP, live wherever you want to live in Kerry. I hope you and your family settle in well. I would say anywhere in Kerry is better than living in Dublin but then some Dublin based mod would probably jump down my throat.

(I will be unfollowing this tread and won't be posting in here again)

Joniamhsean

Thank you for your comments. I am glad to hear all sides of the argument.

Ciarrai76

Benildus wrote: »

I was asked and I answered in an informative way unlike the condescending way you have on more than one occasion.



I never claimed they had to be in the middle of the towns, this is what I said:

Both Killarney and Kenmare, for example, have appropriate areas that do not need to be driven to if one lives in the town/suburbs of these Kerry towns.

I really feel the utter overreaction of two mods on the Kerry forum to any sort of criticism of Tralee reflects badly on Boards - Op asked for advice, was given advice (both bad and good), yet here I am having to defend my opinion from these 2 Tralee biased mods.

@OP, live wherever you want to live in Kerry. I hope you and your family settle in well. I would say anywhere in Kerry is better than living in Dublin but then some Dublin based mod would probably jump down my throat.

(I will be unfollowing this tread and won't be posting in here again)

No bother. Not sure how we over-reacted, you seemed to be the only one getting in a huff about it all!
I don’t know where Quakster is from, I can only speak for myself, and if I’m biased about Tralee, then its because I am from there and will defend it when I don’t think it’s being fairly portrayed. Just as I’m sure you would about a place you love!

If you have an issue with Mods, then you take it up in the appropriate channels.

namenotavailablE

My 2c- lived here for almost 24 years. Originally from a border town which had a decidedly rough reputation and also spent 6 years studying/ working in Dublin.

Re Tralee: yes, there are troublesome areas and troublesome individuals but there are also very many nice areas to live and plenty of good folk. Housing costs are much, much lower in Tralee than in other areas such as Killarney. It has made significant strides in the past 5 or so years and while the sense of civic pride is probably stronger in smaller towns such as Killarney, there is some evidence of improvement here. Personally, I've never had any trouble whatsoever here although I wouldn't tend to be out and about all that much at night.
There are plenty of good secondary schools and amenities-wise, it's pretty reasonably served- Siamsa, The Wetlands, Ballyseedy Wood, Blennerville canal walk, an Omniplex, the Aquadome , the Sports Complex and within 15 minutes driving of some great beaches- but I would also agree that the nightlife scene is reputed to be poor (as noted, I'm not in that scene so it doesn't personally impact me).
The café scene has hugely improved over the past decade with Wild, Roast House and Yummy to name a few. I'd agree that there are a number of vacant units in the town centre although a couple of units have been re-occupied in the past year or so. Still way too many betting houses in my opinion, though.

Overall, I'm a satisfied blow-in to Tralee

Fr Tod Umptious

Went to the ammusments (part of the rose festival) in Tralee yesterday

Four in the afternoon and as soon as I was in the gate the first thing I saw was two women, mothers, boxing the heads of each other, small kids crying, bigger kids trying to separate them.

I don't have much reason to go to Tralee these days as I don't work there anymore.
But on the occasion I do and I see the likes of that it just affirms what I have always thought about Tralee.

You're better off somewhere other than Tralee in Kerry OP.

Quackster

Fr Tod Umptious wrote: »

I don't have much reason to go to Tralee these days as I don't work there anymore.
But on the occasion I do and I see the likes of that it just affirms what I have always thought about Tralee.

You're better off somewhere other than Tralee in Kerry OP.

Of course, you'd only ever see the likes of that in Tralee, vile heathens that we are who live here, and never in the glorious crime-free utopia that is the rest of the county of Kerry!

Fr Tod Umptious

Quackster wrote: »

Of course, you'd only ever see the likes of that in Tralee, vile heathens that we are who live here, and never in the glorious crime-free utopia that is the rest of the county of Kerry!

I've spent the last decade or more living in Kerry.

I spent 7 years working in Tralee.

In the time I formed the opinion that the town was a bit of a dump.

As I said I don't get into Tralee much anymore, but the first thing I see when I am in there yesterday is two women boxing the heads off each other at a fun fair in the middle of the afternoon.

That to me just confirms to me its a dump.

Quackster

Fr Tod Umptious wrote: »

I've spent the last decade or more living in Kerry.

I spent 7 years working in Tralee.

In the time I formed the opinion that the town was a bit of a dump.

As I said I don't get into Tralee much anymore, but the first thing I see when I am in there yesterday is two women boxing the heads off each other at a fun fair in the middle of the afternoon.

That to me just confirms to me its a dump.

I'd love to know where you live that, in your mind, Tralee is a dump in comparison with.

You see two random women, who may or may not be from Tralee, having a fight and that confirms your opinion?! Hmmm...

What it does confirm in my mind is that there is a certain troublesome element attracted to the amusements. The same element you'd have come across at the amusements when they were in Killarney earlier in the summer, and then in Killorglin at Puck and they'll be in Listowel during the Harvest Festival too.

uck51js9zml2yt

I've been up and down to Tralee for the last 30 years (currently heading down) and have seen it 24 hours a day at times due to a friend having a hackney company for a few years and going out at night.
Its like everywhere else in the country. It has bad elements which makes it a normal town.

I've seen more trouble in castleisland than Tralee over the years.

RabbleRouser2k

Strange hearing the bashing of Tralee- I've seen some far worse dumps in other counties. (There are clubs and pubs in some places that you avoid like the plague-especially the ladies toilets. Lots of cocaine.)

The women throwing punches-they shame themselves more than anyone else.

Ciarrai76

Wow, shock horror, a fight in the middle of the day. Bet Tralee is the only place that happens in! Love to know where all you Tralee haters live, cos it must be so perfect!

As I mentioned before, I work in a business where I see a bad element, but I see more of the good than the bad. I work in the town centre, and rarely see fights! Call me biased, but think about the amount of attacks & murders that have happened in Kerry in the past few years, how many have been in Tralee? Much smaller towns have had murders (Killarney, Killorglin, Cahersiveen) and a brutal assault in Castleisland. There are many things that annoy me about Tralee, I'm not looking at it through rose coloured glasses. I could go on about all those things, but what's the point?

RabbleRouser2k

Ciarrai76 wrote: »

Wow, shock horror, a fight in the middle of the day. Bet Tralee is the only place that happens in! Love to know where all you Tralee haters live, cos it must be so perfect!

As I mentioned before, I work in a business where I see a bad element, but I see more of the good than the bad. I work in the town centre, and rarely see fights! Call me biased, but think about the amount of attacks & murders that have happened in Kerry in the past few years, how many have been in Tralee? Much smaller towns have had murders (Killarney, Killorglin, Cahersiveen) and a brutal assault in Castleisland. There are many things that annoy me about Tralee, I'm not looking at it through rose coloured glasses. I could go on about all those things, but what's the point?

I know someone who got sucker punched on a night out in Tralee. He was a blow-in from Cork, the guy who punched him was another blow-in from Dublin.
(There'd been some aggravation over something else-the Dublin guy was a sports jock, they supported different soccer teams. Cork guy was straight but into fashion and so on).

Some people look for an excuse, as in being outside their home town, in order to be a jerk.

uck51js9zml2yt

Well we had a nice family day out in our visit to the kingdom.
Met a friend this morning on her market stall at the Brandon.had lunch in the roast house. kids played in the playground in the park. Saw friends around town during the day and never saw one fight in the 12 hours we were out. I am quiet shocked and disappointed having expected a fight from reading this thread:)

Ciarrai76

Elliot Disgusting Rabble-rouser wrote: »

Well we had a nice family day out in our visit to the kingdom.
Met a friend this morning on her market stall at the Brandon.had lunch in the roast house. kids played in the playground in the park. Saw friends around town during the day and never saw one fight in the 12 hours we were out. I am quiet shocked and disappointed having expected a fight from reading this thread:)

Glad to hear you had a lovely day in Tralee. Sorry that you didn’t get to experience the hell hole it’s made out to be!

uck51js9zml2yt

Ciarrai76 wrote: »

Glad to hear you had a lovely day in Tralee. Sorry that you didn’t get to experience the hell hole it’s made out to be!

Going home today and gutted I didn't get to see a fight.!!

namenotavailablE

^^ Perhaps if we could arrange a face-off in The Square between Ciarrai76 and one of the naysayers you'd get to see one?

liam7831

Elliot Disgusting Rabble-rouser wrote:

Going home today and gutted I didn't get to see a fight.!!

Best chance is after 6pm as they would not be up and about before then

Joniamhsean

News update! We moved to Tralee this wknd. We have rented a house and will buy at some stsge. I am starting a new job tomorrow and the children start school on wed. All a bit scary and a whirlwind of emotions! Thank u all so much for ur input.

Ciarrai76

Joniamhsean wrote: »

News update! We moved to Tralee this wknd. We have rented a house and will buy at some stsge. I am starting a new job tomorrow and the children start school on wed. All a bit scary and a whirlwind of emotions! Thank u all so much for ur input.

That’s great, congratulations on your move. I hope all works out well for you! Let us know how you get on. Hope the kids enjoy their new school too!

uck51js9zml2yt

Joniamhsean wrote: »

News update! We moved to Tralee this wknd. We have rented a house and will buy at some stsge. I am starting a new job tomorrow and the children start school on wed. All a bit scary and a whirlwind of emotions! Thank u all so much for ur input.

Are you in town or did you get a place in the country?