Waterford City Irelands best place to live

buzzinfly83

Recently voted. I agree but I am from there. Other opinions??

EmmetSpiceland

Don’t think I could ever live there. Having to listen to that accent and, constantly, hear about how great “blaas” are would drive me nuts.

Hyperbollix

Not for me. Very west Brit. Never found the natives the friendliest, a bit up themselves and insular, a sort of Cork-lite thing.

Wanderer78

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118057255#Comment_118057255

well boi/girl!

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118059050#Comment_118059050

at least we know we re above you all!

id love to know the criteria that was used in the survey, like everywhere else, property prices and rents are off the walls!

bassy

not a hope in hell would i live there.

best place in ireland to live is westport co.mayo and im not from there either.

vriesmays

It's a hole full of in-bred factory workers. Full of unions, secret societies and biker gangs. It's like Rathfarnham and Crumlin joined to make a new town. No planes in the airport, no railway to the port in Rosslare, no North Quays, no Michael St shopping centre, no musical festival anymore. They have a parade called Spraoi for people who did pass subjects in the leaving cert. No decent rock bands. It's a sanctuary for asylum seekers - that's all you need to know about that town. Any kid with a brain leaves after school. Full of middle-aged men giving out because they're short. Joe Duffy took the piss and rejected an invite from some knob on the local paper. Their gaelic foot team is the lowest ranked in the country.

EmmetSpiceland

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118059080#Comment_118059080

‘It’s like a bap but it’s more floury, great with luncheon, no not lunch, the meat…you don’t know what luncheon is?!?!’

Wanderer78

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118062027#Comment_118062027

hahaha, as always, you re fcuking funny, in a fcuked up way!

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118062059#Comment_118062059

luncheon is fcuking rotten!

Greyfox

Waterford City is probably the most boring place in Ireland, crap pubs and crap restaurants.

sudocremegg

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118062027#Comment_118062027

You sound absolutely insufferable.

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118062059#Comment_118062059

I don't speak posh so have no idea what luncheon is.

Blaas are lovely with red lead though.

Pawwed Rig

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118059086#Comment_118059086

Too much traffic in the town for me. They should pedestrianise the whole centre and the qualify of life there would be vastly improved.

Also they need better chippers. Got a fish and chips over the summer (which they called a 'fish supper' for some reason) and it was awful. Also the pub food was poor.

Otherwise nice though with plenty to keep one occupied.

Wanderer78

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118062941#Comment_118062941

ah your major mistake, leave the city for the real joys....

I'm sure there are worse places but I'm looking forward to getting away from it in the near future and it might be the west Brit in me but "the mainland" looks more appealing in terms of work and happiness levels at the minute. I think Ireland in general is just not somewhere I want to be anymore, it's lost it's soul and is a very depressing place to live.

Moghead

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118063511#Comment_118063511

If you think Ireland is soulless wait until you live in the UK for a while.

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118063536#Comment_118063536

It wouldn't be a first, I've lived outside Ireland before. Not really much to stay for and more reasons to start new somewhere else. There's little between the two but I don't love Ireland anymore.

EmmetSpiceland

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118063536#Comment_118063536

Was watching one of those “home renovation” shows recently, Angela Scanlon presents it.

Anyway, the couple couldn’t do the “build” because of Brexit. No could give them a proper quote, provide any confirmation on materials or a start time, was bizarre.

I would have thought the episode would just have been dumped but they aired it and, in the end, the couple just moved house.

tdf7187

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118062027#Comment_118062027

"Middle aged men giving out because they're short". Classic. You should write material for Dylan Moran.

AckwelFoley

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118062958#Comment_118062958

So do you.

This can go around in circles. Stop moaning. Move on

sudocremegg

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118063597#Comment_118063597

How do i sound insufferable and moaney, I didn't even say anything? Unlike your man who decides to whinge about everything from "da unions" to "da pass LC students". Like christ on a bike everyone knows that was nothing short of a little miserable cry.

Pubs & cheap food! If that's all that draws you to a city, town or county you're better off where ye are!

Pawwed Rig

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118064202#Comment_118064202

Mod note

Give it a rest. No one else cares

vriesmays

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118063584#Comment_118063584

He can use this:

Waterford will soon have a technical university for people who get 290 points in the leaving cert. It will be the worst uni in the country with zero benefits to the town. Only Carlow will do well.

They celebrated annually the youngest solider in ww1 to get killed till they found out he wasn't as young as they thought (not the census for that year of birth).

All the middle-classes live out the Dunmore Road. Most of their parents grew up in Waterford city centre and are about as middle-class as a family of plumbers from Ballyfermot.

Their glass factory trained people in East Europe who then took their jobs when production moved abroad.

The only town in Ireland where teenagers want to work in a factory when they finish school.

The only town where they want to build a big statue of a viking to make themselves feel important.

One of the highest rates for single mothers, asylum seekers, unemployed (some areas are 30%), and on disability payments.

The created a tourist areas called the viking triangle where most people living there aren't descended from vikings as it's full of non-nationals.

Their soccer team has had more managers in the last 30 years than than the local McDonalds.

The whole town knew about Bill Kenneally tying kids to trees but kept quiet for decades as he had political connection.

Jump_In_Jack

A friend that moved to Waterford recently was delighted with his choice.

Said the house was bigger for the same money in Cork with more land around it and closer to the seaside and there was plenty of work in his particular occupation in supporting manufacturing.

I guess it’s not the city though, more rural.

However, he did tell something interesting that I had no clue about, that Waterford in it’s history was a very powerful area in terms of importing and exporting, there was more to it but I can’t remember the specifics. It seems a pity that the region has gone downhill in terms of industry over the past century.

nomoedoe

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118065706#Comment_118065706

Wow id really hate to be as miserable as you it must be very tiring!

For anyone that doesn’t know this guy has multiple accounts on boards and all of them just to knock Waterford ,he let his cards down once though and posted the reason he hates the place so much is his wife and kids left him and for some strange reason blames Waterford for it!

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118065706#Comment_118065706

It is a pity because geographically it is a beautiful place to live. I just thought corruption was the norm in Ireland and not specific to Waterford but Jesus, there really are no words.

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118057255#Comment_118057255

Lol. The accent is fairly mild. Bland even. Are you confusing it with cork, Kerry, Dublin, or all the north?

I’m a dub and I like Waterford. To visit at least. The coastal areas surrounding the town are amongst the best in Ireland but not as busy as the south west. The comeragh drives are great. I’ve taken foreigners to Waterford (city and county) and they loved it.

cant talk about living there. I’ve noticed people from Waterford themselves are often down on the place, so who knows.

sudocremegg

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118065706#Comment_118065706

Where do you live? whats your job?

I'd love to know why you think you're better than literally everybody else. The snobbery and classism here is astounding.

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118065810#Comment_118065810

Do you really think any of that rant makes sense. It is the product of a monomaniacal mind. The only corruption was the last bit and it’s not like other parts of Ireland haven’t covered up abuse.

otherwise it’s a Viking statue, a middle class who aren’t middle class, a soccer team with a lot of managers, a factory that moved to Poland ( you know like dell) and a lot of classist abuse about people who like to work in factories or are on the dole. And the anti asylum seeker stuff.

that guy knows far too much about Waterford.

Hamachi

Not from there, but my wife is from Waterford city. In my view, the city center is a dump. It’s depressing walking through parts of the city, filled with both locals and let’s says ‘internationals’, clearly not living very productive lives. Having said that, some of the suburbs, particularly out on the Dunmore road, are pretty nice.

Where Waterford really excels is the county. Dunmore East, Tramore, Dungarvan, and Lismore are all lovely towns. The coastline, the beaches, the comeragh mountains, and the drive through the ‘vee’ in the knockmaledown mountains are simply stunning. Really beautiful and thankfully not overrun by visitors.

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118066012#Comment_118066012

A good false narrative usually has sprinkles of truth thrown in for validity purposes. I wouldn't be whitewashing over those parts. It's true for example that Waterford will soon have a TU, it probably will be better for Carlow but not in the way the poster has suggested. As for Corruption, WIT were a bit slow to move on that one, be better to ask why. It has a very profitable Software spin off department at TSSG which has all sorts of fingers in it, I'm sure it will be great to have some oversight in the greater scheme of things.

Yes, it is true that most people from the Dunmore Road are from Waterford City, but that's because where else would they come from? The oldest suburbs in Waterford are not more than 60 or 70 years old and the Dunmore Road became the largest of these since expansion development began in the 90's.

I laughed at the Viking sculpture. Yes, someone wants to build one, but I think it is just that one person. No one else does though. Have no idea why the council or local media is backing it, it's clearly an in-house thing. (and the estimated cost, nopes, nobody wants that)

The glass factory employees ironically were trained by eastern Europeans. The art of glass making had been lost in Waterford in the early 1900's and it was a Czechoslovakian (famously great glass producing nation) man who brought it to Waterford and brought a number of skilled workers with him to train the natives. Yeah, it did end up going back to eastern Europe a century later.

Maybe people want to work in factories probably because it is one of the few employment opportunities which provides job security and good pay, things which are scarce in general. Not sure what we should all be aiming for, a lifelong stint as a public servant?

I have no idea of the stats for Social welfare recipients but I expect it is no more or less than other parts of Ireland. Waterford does have a history of terrible representation politically though and services tend to be very poor or limited or in the case of mental health, I wouldn't be surprised if that has an effect on numbers unable to work due to disability given the lack of medical supports available.

No one cares about football, especially not the local football team. No one except the men with hard-ons for soccer could name a single player. The Bill Keneally types. I'd estimate they'd make up a tiny percentage of the actual population but seems we can't get away from them and they are everywhere at the same time. How that possible?

nj27

The greenway is great, I was surprised how well set up the whole thing is and you get some great views along the way. Definitely recommend a cycle there.

Rothko

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118057255#Comment_118057255

"#Bekind"

pappyodaniel

Yous are all a bunch of snobby basturds so ye are, I loves me cjounty!

Potential-Monke

The best thing I learned in my years in Waterford was that they are so easy to rise on anything hurling or blaa related, especially if one mocks either. I especially used to love pointing out that a blaa is, indeed, an extra floury bap. They won't have it. Gets right upset they do.

Met some excellent friends in Waterford, albeit more distance friends now. But they made my time there bearable. I found it very close knit and sometimes unwelcoming to strangers, but once you're accepted you're grand then. But not much to do in the city if you're not into Vikings or glass. And traffic is still terrible. Not many places hosted FiddyCent though... :pac:

AckwelFoley

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118069586#Comment_118069586

Yea. I've found the same with Kilkenny people. They don't "get" hurling related jokes or sarcasm. Being from Westmeath, I would need to Google hurling to remind myself what it looks like, but don't ever tell a person from Kilkenny hurling is just a sport.

vriesmays

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118065772#Comment_118065772

That's because when Waterford was powerful for importing / exporting it was full of Quakers and Huguenots. Now it's full of inbred, low-iq, poorly educated former factory workers whose parents should have been sterilised in the '80s.

They had one of the best religious colleges in the country. now it's a housing shelter for non-nationals. Imagine the jealousy from other towns.

They paint silly pictures on empty buildings to gloss over the reality that the town's dying and vacant.

They carved a sword out of a tree to make themselves feel important as no-one outside that town cares.

Their industrial development authority moved to Cork.

As for official stats:

The next worst area was Waterford city, where 31.5 per cent of the workforce in nine electoral districts told census officials that they were unemployed.

https://www.irishtimes.com/business/economy/census-data-identifies-state-s-economic-black-spots-1.3121155

Hotblack Desiato

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118063569#Comment_118063569

What in the name of fúck has that got to do with either the thead topic or the post you are "replying" to?

EmmetSpiceland

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118070685#Comment_118070685

Wouldn’t consider it a good time to move to the UK, H. Just sayin’, is all.

Galwayguy35

Been down there twice for short holiday breaks, can't comment on the city because I wasn't there long enough to have an opinion on if its a sh1thole or not but the beaches and scenery was nice, good weather as well.

Nigel Fairservice

I'm probably a bit indifferent to Waterford city. They do have a fantastic book shop there, The Book Centre. It's my favourite one in the country. Some nice towns in County Waterford.

Autosport

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118069648#Comment_118069648

Is that so 🤔🤔🤔

😄😄😄😄

ErnestBorgnine

Spent quite a lot of time in Waterford & i have to say i really like the place and the people. Although the last time i was in the city, there seemed to be a lot less things to do than when i lived there. Probably like a lot of places.

I'd agree with the poster that said they are easily risen about hurling and/or blaas, they also seemed to share a general sense of being hard done by(being overlooked for jobs by the government, only having an IT not a University, Kilkenny lads coming over the bridge taking our jobs..) that used to make me laugh.