Phibsborough - The Trendy New Quarter?

JupiterKid

I see Time Out magazine have decreed that Phibsborough - basically the Rathmines of Northside Dublin - is one of its top 50 trendy hot new urban quarters...(it's No 27 out of 50)

Link:
https://www.timeout.com/coolest-neighbourhoods-in-the-world

Anyone else think, ehm, this is just a tad of an exaggeration? The place is chock full of charity shops, looks shabby and has that monstrosity of a shopping centre that needs to be pulled down and rebuilt ASAP. Yes, it now has the LUAS and is close to town and the Royal Canal basin is a gem but really??

Or do you think Phibsboro is indeed the chic new hot hip urban district?

Answers on a post(card)...

Ush1

Rathmines is fairly sh*te as well to be honest.

Ipso

A way to justify high rent.

ZeroThreat

JupiterKid wrote: »

I see Time Out magazine have decreed that Phibsborough - basically the Rathmines of Northside Dublin - is one of its top 50 trendy hot new urban quarters...(it's No 27 out of 50)

Link:
https://www.timeout.com/coolest-neighbourhoods-in-the-world

Anyond else think, ehm, this is just a tad of an exaggeration? The place is chock full of charity shops, looks shabby and has that monstrosity of shopping centre that needs to be pulled down and rebuilt ASAP. Yes, it now has the LUAS and is close to town and the Royal Canal basin is a gem but really??

Or do you think Phibsboro is indeed the chic new hot hip urban district?

Answers on a post(card)...

Yup, pulling down that eyesore would be a great start to improving the aesthetics of the area.

Shanotheslayer

Ush1 wrote: »

Rathmines is fairly sh*te as well to be honest.

What's wrong with Rathmines?

Has pretty much everything, nice and close to town

Phisboro isn't near the level of Rathmines but probably will be in a few years

Gimme A Pound

JupiterKid wrote: »

The place is chock full of charity shops, looks shabby and has that monstrosity of shopping centre

Those are the very reasons it's considered trendy I'd say.

Loves_lorries

Thought stoneybatter is sort of a North side rathmines these days?

I mean isn't it above phibsboro now?

Sonics2k

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mojesius

Phibsborough went downhill after they closed the Silver Skate ice rink. Great craic back in the day trying to skate around to skanger tunes in disease-ridden ice skates.

suicide_circus

It has a gorgeous shopping centre in fairness

wakka12

suicide_circus wrote: »

It has a gorgeous shopping centre in fairness

Planning permission was given recently to redevelop it


I really like Phibs, and sotneybatter, think they have a lot of character, I don't think they're as nice as rathmines yet but I think when DIT campus is fully operational it will be quite a lively area

I don't think rathmines is all that great though it has nice restaurants but its a bit messy looking and very car dominated, its lovely towards the portobello end by the canal though.

mariaalice

There about 20 years too late. The shopping center is the ugliest building in Ireland.

Obvious Desperate Breakfasts

I lived in Phibsborough for 5 years. I liked it. My house was nice and it’s close to town. But trendy it ain’t. And part from the Two Boys Brew coffee shop, I can’t see much difference in the area since I moved away from the area eight years ago. In fact, tacky shopfronts have proliferated since then and pretty much every butcher shop has closed down.

Obvious Desperate Breakfasts

Shanotheslayer wrote: »

What's wrong with Rathmines?

Has pretty much everything, nice and close to town

Phisboro isn't near the level of Rathmines but probably will be in a few years

Phibsboro is just as close to town. That alone will keep rents at a high level. And IMO, the rental stock is of generally higher quality in Phibsboro.

magentis

Shanotheslayer wrote: »

What's wrong with Rathmines?

Has pretty much everything, nice and close to town

Phisboro isn't near the level of Rathmines but probably will be in a few years

pure kip Rathmines.

Obvious Desperate Breakfasts

Sonics2k wrote: »

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mick malones mauser

I grew up in Cabra. If we wanted to pretend we were "posh " we told people we were from Phibsboro.
So silly as is all petty snobbery.

TheValeyard

suicide_circus wrote: »

It has a gorgeous shopping centre in fairness

I found rare loot in there and the Radium rifle from Fallout 4. Ghouls can be difficult to kill though and Mutants are unusually aggressive.

Greyfox

Ah Phibsborough is a very nice area and it has Mcgowans which is probably the best spot in Dublin for a night out.. Drumcondra is a bit nicer though

The model proposal for the new shopping centre already looks a bit dated tbh

Deleted User

Deleted User wrote: »

The model proposal for the new shopping centre already looks a bit dated tbh

It looks suspiciously similar to the Rathmines Square development... we're onto ye Phibsboro

suicide_circus

Murray TheDemonic TalkingSkull wrote: »

I found rare loot in there and the Radium rifle from Fallout 4. Ghouls can be difficult to kill though and Mutants are unusually aggressive.

yeah fair amount of mutants in nearby stoneybatter as well

Ray Palmer

It is pretty accurate to say it is the new Rathmines. Back in the day rathmines was very similar. When the Celtic tiger happened it became too expensive to stay as everything was being done up. The bedsits went due to laws and developers bought up what landlords didn't want to renovate. Lots of former students that lived there decided to stay and bought there too.

With DIT moving in so close by it is going to transform the area. Always relatively nice can't see the football stadium being there in 20 years.

It was a really good investment about 5 years ago with some very large property selling for under €500k but needing a lot of work.

Long term Phibsborough will be like Rathmines and a good investment for a pension so will attract investment. Seriously considered it but the thought of doing up a 4 story victorian property that was neglected and rented out for decades just drove me away. Been there done that

cournioni

Those magazines are full of ****e, same with the Indo. Trendy my arse.

per aspera ad astra

SoDoSoPa.

punisher5112

A prison sorry 2 are right next to it ????? I'm lost.

Loves_lorries

Obvious Desperate Breakfasts wrote: »

I lived in Phibsborough for 5 years. I liked it. My house was nice and it’s close to town. But trendy it ain’t. And part from the Two Boys Brew coffee shop, I can’t see much difference in the area since I moved away from the area eight years ago. In fact, tacky shopfronts have proliferated since then and pretty much every butcher shop has closed down.

My mum flatted in phibsboro in the seventies while working as a nurse in what was st brendans hospital ( long closed).

She says back then phibsboro was viewed as way posher than stoneybatter, I know both well enough but I've been told by several people that while stoneybatter has perhaps gentrified more than anywhere else in the capital?

Phibsboro if anything has seen its" status" wean this past few decades?

Might be bullsh1t example of changing fickle perceptions

The Rape of Lucretia

Prefer Fizzbra.

arybvtcw0eolkf

Obvious Desperate Breakfasts wrote: »

There’s always one chip-on-the-shoulderee.

He's from Cork.. Enough said

Hector Bellend

Vita nova

Trendy or not, to get on that list is quite an accolade - fair dues!