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Ireland …. It just doesn’t feel like home!! 🙁

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  • #152
    Facthunt
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 586 ✭✭✭Facthunt


    Drumcondra back in the day used be good …..


    Also removing Happy Hour didn’t help pubs!



  • #153
    jmayo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,227 ✭✭✭✭jmayo


    Much like this site Ireland has gone to the dogs.

    And it has an awful lot to do with those in charge.

    Muppets.

    ~don't worry beasty I am going.

    I am not allowed discuss …



  • #154
    Facthunt
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 586 ✭✭✭Facthunt


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121412939#Comment_121412939

    Ah go way will ya!!!!!



  • #155
    Annasopra
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 41,232 ✭✭✭✭Annasopra


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121372322#Comment_121372322

    Rent equilibrium?

    Sounds like it will still be pricing most people way out of the market

    It was so much easier to blame it on Them. It was bleakly depressing to think that They were Us. If it was Them, then nothing was anyone's fault. If it was us, what did that make Me? After all, I'm one of Us. I must be. I've certainly never thought of myself as one of Them. No one ever thinks of themselves as one of Them. We're always one of Us. It's Them that do the bad things.

    Terry Pratchet



  • #156
    Wanderer78
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 31,633 ✭✭✭✭Wanderer78


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121419407#Comment_121419407

    ...no such thing as market equilibrium, never has been, never will be, its not how our reality works at all....

    ....with our serious supply problems, and no real solutions in sight, both rent and property values are set to be maintained....



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  • #157
    Annasopra
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 41,232 ✭✭✭✭Annasopra


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121419424#Comment_121419424

    Oh I don't disagree.

    I was questioning the tone of the post more or less suggesting a rose tinted view that rental costs will all be sorted soon and it's all grand.

    It was so much easier to blame it on Them. It was bleakly depressing to think that They were Us. If it was Them, then nothing was anyone's fault. If it was us, what did that make Me? After all, I'm one of Us. I must be. I've certainly never thought of myself as one of Them. No one ever thinks of themselves as one of Them. We're always one of Us. It's Them that do the bad things.

    Terry Pratchet



  • #158
    Wanderer78
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 31,633 ✭✭✭✭Wanderer78


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121419427#Comment_121419427

    ah shur we all know, our property markets are wrecked for a very long time, possibly indefinitely.....



  • #159
    Annasopra
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 41,232 ✭✭✭✭Annasopra


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121410382#Comment_121410382

    Ah OK. So you are now proving the people who said you had an agenda correct.

    It was so much easier to blame it on Them. It was bleakly depressing to think that They were Us. If it was Them, then nothing was anyone's fault. If it was us, what did that make Me? After all, I'm one of Us. I must be. I've certainly never thought of myself as one of Them. No one ever thinks of themselves as one of Them. We're always one of Us. It's Them that do the bad things.

    Terry Pratchet



  • #160
    maninasia
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,636 ✭✭✭maninasia


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121422670#Comment_121422670

    How?


    He looks like his correct doesn't mean he has an agenda.


    Your 'agenda' is what, to point out he is right lol?


    North inner city stretching out to Broadstone , East Wall, Five Lamps , Phibsoboro and Dorset street is a fraction of what it COULD be. The development of Broadstone demonstrates the potential is there but a long way to go (if you actually walk around Broadstone you see quickly it's no Rathmines although prices have already rocketed up).

    The situation is not helped with LARGE parts of o Connell street (even the Holiday Inn is refugee housing now!) Talbot st, Mater hospital area, Dorset street and Phibsoboro and Whitworth road and North circular and of course East Wall being occupied or bought up for emergency accommodation, ISP housing and homeless type shelters (when they already had a lot of council/housing) . It feels like an undeclared policy to move all this to North of the Liffey as much as possible ! Just shove them in wherever they can over there .

    I was away for many many years so have a good comparison point to refer to for the North Inner city, in general it hasn't really improved. Parts are definitely better, and parts are worse. Mostly it's static e.g. Phibsoboro area even with a few interesting places opening up mostly it looks like shite. It's disappointing because the money is supposed to be there after TREMENDOUS GDP and TAXATION GROWTH to do better but it's neglected by the city and national government. The feeling you get when walking around many districts is just a bit grotty. That's a fact.


    Actually it's not only the public purse, you don't see any major new shopping developments either across almost the entire city even though the population has skyrocketed! In a normal capital Phibsboro 'shopping centre' would have been razed to the ground years ago. There should be multistory shopping centre there with gyms and other amenities..but...nothing.



  • #161
    Annasopra
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 41,232 ✭✭✭✭Annasopra


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121422680#Comment_121422680

    It's obvious there is an agenda

    It was so much easier to blame it on Them. It was bleakly depressing to think that They were Us. If it was Them, then nothing was anyone's fault. If it was us, what did that make Me? After all, I'm one of Us. I must be. I've certainly never thought of myself as one of Them. No one ever thinks of themselves as one of Them. We're always one of Us. It's Them that do the bad things.

    Terry Pratchet



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  • #162
    maninasia
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,636 ✭✭✭maninasia


    Nah it isn't it's you who has the agenda. If you haven't got anything decent to say except to attack another poster why bother commenting ?


    You are adding zero value here.



  • #163
    Annasopra
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 41,232 ✭✭✭✭Annasopra


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121422739#Comment_121422739

    Thanks yeah I can comment if I want and will take direction from moderators if necessary

    It was so much easier to blame it on Them. It was bleakly depressing to think that They were Us. If it was Them, then nothing was anyone's fault. If it was us, what did that make Me? After all, I'm one of Us. I must be. I've certainly never thought of myself as one of Them. No one ever thinks of themselves as one of Them. We're always one of Us. It's Them that do the bad things.

    Terry Pratchet



  • #164
    maninasia
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,636 ✭✭✭maninasia


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121410705#Comment_121410705

    That's the problem with Dublin in a nutshell.


    Anyway money is mightier than everything if you have enough can even buy your house, forget about pens and lawyers 😉.


    Many of us could BUY our way to a nicer postcode but real Dubs should want a better city for us all. As soon as you step outside the enclaves or get on public transport we will all face the same issues.



  • #165
    silverharp
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,853 ✭✭✭✭silverharp


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121422747#Comment_121422747

    the pen reference is that Jury's is just sitting there ( i think) and "could" be used for asylum seekers but they wouldnt dare, there was a previous attempt to locate one beside the Merrion centre but the locals were having none of it.

    A belief in gender identity involves a level of faith as there is nothing tangible to prove its existence which, as something divorced from the physical body, is similar to the idea of a soul. - Colette Colfer



  • #166
    tinytobe
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,507 ✭✭✭tinytobe


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/2058321205/ireland-it-just-doesn-t-feel-like-home

    Dublin North is not exactly Ireland as a whole.

    But in general Ireland as a country sure has changed.

    Some things for the better, housing and the high cost of living in general are the main problems, I'd say.

    Thus everyone has more personal pressures in the daily life.



  • #167
    lmao10
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,404 ✭✭✭lmao10


    I lived in Drumcondra a few years ago. The house was robbed once by some local scrotes who got caught, and after I moved out I later learned that the local shopkeeper in the big Centra beside the train station died after a scumbag robbed something and he gave chase and had a heart attack. Some parts of Drumcondra are grand but some are a bit rough and no-go. All due to our own indigenous scum by the way, for those far right posters out there.



  • #168
    tinytobe
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,507 ✭✭✭tinytobe


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122072789#Comment_122072789

    I think those foreigner who move to Dublin move for a job and that's usually something decent in salary to either pay the high rents, or afford a room in a shared housing arrangement for up to 1500 Euros per month.

    The indigenous scum is most likely made up by those who feel disenfranchised, and have bleak perspectives, no chance on the Irish housing or rental market, low paid jobs and not only in Ireland, but also overseas.

    And then there are those who are honest, law abiding, but barely getting by and working more and more for less and less money. No chance of a nice chat, a nice hello, etc.. Socially Ireland has definitely become a colder society with rising costs everywhere.



  • #169
    Oscar_Madison
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,532 ✭✭✭✭Oscar_Madison
    #MEGA MAKE EUROPE GREAT AGAIN


    I don’t at all fear “foreigners” .
    What I fear is ghettos - no go areas. Not cultural quarters- I love cultural quarters- but I don’t like ghettos - no country has “good” ghettos.

    Mix of incomes and cultures is a sure way to avoid ghettos - I don’t go to Dublin City centre half as much as I use to, but I notice that it’s incredibly diverse now - I think that’s brilliant- but ghettos of any nationality needs to be avoided at all costs



  • #170
    tinytobe
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,507 ✭✭✭tinytobe


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122073962#Comment_122073962

    Those "ghettos" are sadly often more Irish than foreign.

    Look at Jobstown or Huntstown or Hartstown or around Blakestown Way. Or Corduff, another "beauty" in Dublin.



  • #171
    Potatoeman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,778 ✭✭✭Potatoeman


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122072789#Comment_122072789

    The edges of it are connected to Ballybough and D1, by Dorset st. These are not great areas though it’s not the worst part of Dublin. It’s central enough that there is enough footfall that anything that happens is noticed and there are cctv cameras all over the place.



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  • #172
    lmao10
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,404 ✭✭✭lmao10


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122098641#Comment_122098641

    Darndale, Neilstown, Ballyfermot, Finglas, I could go on and on. I've known some nice people from those areas but even those people would tell me never to walk around there after nightfall.



  • #173
    tinytobe
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,507 ✭✭✭tinytobe


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122099958#Comment_122099958

    That's the sad thing.

    Maybe it's lack of policing and CCTV.

    Yes CCTV is controversial, but it ads safety as well.

    I've lived in London for more than 10 years, and honestly don't know any area I would not go to, or not go to at night.

    Some places like Lewisham may be a bit dodgy in parts, but I don't think that they are unsafe or one is warned not to go there, either day or night.

    NYC is probably different, most likely lot's of places one shouldn't go to, or not go to at night. However I have no insight into this.



  • #174
    The Nal
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,346 ✭✭✭✭The Nal


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122102796#Comment_122102796

    NYC is one of the safest places in the world.



  • #175
    tinytobe
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,507 ✭✭✭tinytobe


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122102813#Comment_122102813

    I would guess many US cities of equal size to or even smaller than London in the UK would be much more unsafe in certain areas.



  • #176
    Wanderer78
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 31,633 ✭✭✭✭Wanderer78


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122102796#Comment_122102796

    …surveillance isnt a real solution to complex, long term social problems, many of these issues are generational based, and require long term solutions, which are rarely, if ever, truly implemented…..



  • #177
    zerosquared
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,161 ✭✭✭zerosquared


    Meanwhile they are driving around with Zwastikas and flags of hostile criminal regime

    https://www.reddit.com/r/Dublin/s/V7SmP1Etn0



  • #178
    tinytobe
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,507 ✭✭✭tinytobe


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122102813#Comment_122102813

    Did some research. Brownsville in Brooklyn seems the be one of the worst parts of NYC.

    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122102904#Comment_122102904

    At least it seems to work in London. Apparently it's necessary, - sadly.

    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122102990#Comment_122102990

    If it's true it would bother me as well. Don't see a swastika here but hammer and sickle, also representing oppressions.

    I also found the Palestinian flags in Ireland very bothersome, same of those of Russia. Sadly many Irish would disagree with this, especially the first mentioned.

    It also bothers me that some with strong republican and catholic feelings present the Irish flag besides or associate themselves with Cuba-Communism or Palestinians. The Russian flag besides the Irish is something new though.



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