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Dublin Vs The Country

  • 29-09-2005 04:17PM
    #1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 143 ✭✭


    Ok folks, decision time for me - whether to move back to Dublin or not.

    So to help decide, and if ye wouldn't mind, please post the pro's and con's of Dublin Vs. The Country:

    Example:

    Pro: Better Night Life

    Con: Cost of property/rent

    PS. It's only a bit of fun really, I probably am going to make the move!!


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,256 ✭✭✭✭Lemlin


    Stay down the country. I recently moved to Sligo from Dublin. The prices in accomodation, drink etc. are just unreal up there.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 81,219 ✭✭✭✭biko


    Hmm, where are you now?
    A hole in the ground outside Ballygobackwards = move to Dublin
    A nice country town or county capital = do not move


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 143 ✭✭pdunno


    small town, it's nice enough but work is very boring and life itself is kinda boring. Besides, most of my mates are in Dublin


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,216 ✭✭✭✭monkeyfudge


    Lemlin wrote:
    Stay down the country. I recently moved to Sligo from Dublin. The prices in accomodation, drink etc. are just unreal up there.
    I don't understand how someone from Sligo could describe Dublin as 'up there' by any definition of the words....

    EDIT:... oh wait.. never mind... I think I understand now... the unreal prices are the cheap prices in Sligo... yes?


  • Posts: 0 [Deleted User]


    I lived in Cork City for a year. Not putting Cork down, I made some wonderful friends down there that I still see, but being born and raised a Dub, I had to move back up.
    So from my perspective:
    Pro's:
    Nightlife is far better than anywhere in Cork City
    My friends/family are up here
    There is a far better list of things to do, eg Galleries, Theatres, Pubs, Clubs
    There's more women in Dublin
    IMO I find Dublin friendlier
    There's always someting going on in Dublin

    Cons:
    Dublin is more expensive (fact)
    Cork is quieter, so if you're the retiring type, Cork might be better
    The traffic is atrocious
    You'll spend all your money having a good time in Dublin :D


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 143 ✭✭pdunno


    Lived in Dublin for 3 years:

    More Pro's:
    Faster paced lifestyle
    More women

    More Con's:
    Faster paced lifestlye
    More skangers


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,216 ✭✭✭✭monkeyfudge


    Dublin Pros:
    Those pedestrian traffic lights at O'Connell Bridge that go from green to orange and back to green again. I love those guys.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 7,129 ✭✭✭Nightwish


    Dublin
    Noise
    Traffic
    The Dublin skanger
    The pace of life
    Lack of quiet green space (not Phoenix Pk either-its creepy)
    Dublin Bus
    Dublin drivers on a mission to drive through anything that crosses their path
    Gigs
    Shopping

    Country
    Boring
    Small town nosiness
    Quiet
    Less heavy traffic
    Safe to be a pedestrian/Cyclist
    Green space

    Country wins hands down


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,531 ✭✭✭jonny68


    Tried moving down the country many years ago,got bored outta me t*ts after a few weeks,looked to be a lot of inbred types and every c*nt knew everybodys business, was like living in a goldfish bowl,Dublin might have it's faults but for me it beats living down the country hands down unless your at retirement age :rolleyes: :D


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 31,967 ✭✭✭✭Sarky


    I'll take my 3.10 pint of Guinness over another dozen crappy nightclubs, thanks.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,397 ✭✭✭✭azezil


    Single, Dublins great, clubs and so many people, but when I'm ready to settle down I'll be moving at the very least to a comuter town.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,531 ✭✭✭jonny68


    Sarky wrote:
    I'll take my 3.10 pint of Guinness over another dozen crappy nightclubs, thanks.

    Same price for Guinness in my local in Dublin :p:D


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 27,856 ✭✭✭✭Dave!


    pdunno wrote:
    small town, it's nice enough but work is very boring and life itself is kinda boring. Besides, most of my mates are in Dublin

    Well judging by that post, I'd say you should move to Dublin. You only live once, no point in staying somewhere you don't enjoy being.

    EDIT:

    I initially said, "you only live twice".... Maybe I'm more hung-over than I think :p


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 10,921 ✭✭✭✭Pigman II


    Dublin
    The pace of life
    Shopping
    Jobs
    Every major event in the country
    Football
    Foriegners have actually heard of the place
    Culture
    Ability to lose yourself if you want to

    Country
    Farmers
    Farms
    Cows
    Sheep
    Septic Tanks
    Cow****
    Towns with 1 pub
    No chance of anonymity
    Fenians
    Fenian songs
    GAA fanatics
    The biggest night out on offer is a funeral

    Dublin wins hands down


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,739 ✭✭✭Naos


    Where is that Jonny?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 7,129 ✭✭✭Nightwish


    Pigman II wrote:
    Dublin

    Jobs
    there's jobs outside of the Pale


    Pigman II wrote:
    Country

    Fenians
    Fenian songs
    ever been to Finglas?
    Pigman II wrote:
    GAA fanatics
    ever seen Hill 16 when Dublin are playing?

    what is meant by the "country" is the area that lies outside of the Pale. I live in "the country" but I never encounter cows, sheep etc. There is more than 1 pub where I live, in fact this is where the Dubs go every weekend, so it can't be that bad.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 57 ✭✭Illegal Alien


    The country has one MASSIVE advantage over Dublin:
    It dosen't have those fat, scumbag, bitches going around town with a fag length piece of ash hanging out of their mouth, pushing a pram of another illigitimate future criminal like it was a battering ram, and pulling another one by the arm shouting at him, giving him the type of up-bringing that you can't expect anything other than a menace and sponge on society, on her way to the dole office to pick up my tax money, and coming from Moore st. where she spent the last hour shouting at people to see if they want to buy any cigarettes her brother stole from the local shell office.

    Other than that, why would you want to even go to the country..let alone live in it!!? :confused: Sure, it's chepaer...but you pay a much bigger price...A lifestyle that could be described as remotely livable.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,652 ✭✭✭Blackjack




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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,350 ✭✭✭skywalker_208


    From a billboard on Pearse Street:

    ONE bedroom apartments FROM €249000..... didnt catch the address..... nuff said... :)


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 27,644 ✭✭✭✭nesf


    From a billboard on Pearse Street:

    ONE bedroom apartments FROM €249000..... didnt catch the address..... nuff said... :)

    1 bedroom apts in cork are only about 20K cheaper. Admittedly these are in the city centre though.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,681 ✭✭✭BrianD3


    For me Dublin wins hands down. I actually like to see big crowds of people going about their daily business and hearing the various sounds that you hear in a city. When I moved back to the country after living in Dublin for years I suffered from insomnia due to it being too quiet.

    Rural areas are just so boring You see and hear nothing. If you do see a person odds are it's some ould farmer in a flat cap. There are far fewer young people and women about. Country women seem to settle down and get married a lot earlier so opportunities for meeting single women are limited. Then there's little to do in the country execpt get hammered in the pub. And when you go to the pub you see the same eejits week in, week out.

    Have to laugh about Dubs givin out about Dublin Bus and the Dart. Try living down the country where public transport is basically non existent. It is essential to have a car if you live in the country.

    As for skangers and scumbags..IME there's just as many of these outside of Dublin. Not so much in deserted rural areas but country towns are full of 'em and they all come out on a Saturday night, fighting outside the chipper, "startin" on people, vandalising stuff etc.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,350 ✭✭✭skywalker_208


    yea but you can get 3 - 4 bedroom houses in most of the commuter towns around dublin for between €220000 and €250000.....


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,199 ✭✭✭Jimi-Spandex


    I'd go for outside Dublin.

    If you want to live in a decent big city then Dublin is not the answer.

    There's really not all that much to do/see.

    It's expensive yes but the most annoying thing is the poor level of service I found while I was living there. You just don't get value for money. Service staff(in general, Irish and foreign) are fairly poor.

    It's bloody filthy. EVERYWHERE.

    High proportion of scumbags/anti social behaviour.

    People aren't actually all that friendly.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,681 ✭✭✭BrianD3


    One thing I forgot - eveyone says that Dublin is much dearer but this is only true for certain thing (houses obviously, pubs, restaurants and other things) But lets say you want to buy a washing machine or a DVD player or some tools or a biccycle. If you're down the country your probably going to pay a lot more as the shops are smaller and there is less competition. You'll also have less choice or the thing you're looking for may not be available at all or may have to be ordered. Finally, when you walk into a country shop can you browse around in peace while you decide what to do OH NO. The owner of the place will be over to you in a jiffy hanging around like a bad smell putting pressure on you to buy something. If you're in Dublin you may get some sales staff coming over to you but at least they undertstand the expression "just browsing thanks"

    I hate shopping outside Dublin. I would rather drive for a hour to shop in Dublin than shop in some country town on my doorstep.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,917 ✭✭✭✭iguana


    I'd go for outside Dublin.

    If you want to live in a decent big city then Dublin is not the answer.

    There's really not all that much to do/see.

    It's expensive yes but the most annoying thing is the poor level of service I found while I was living there. You just don't get value for money. Service staff(in general, Irish and foreign) are fairly poor.

    So true, I'm from Limerick, lived in Dublin for several years and moved to London this year. While Dublin certainly has more than Limerick does by way of clubs/shops/restaurants it is a world away from big cities in other parts of the world.

    A recent trip back to Dublin had me walking 2/3 miles in order to get a cab on a Saturday night. There was no alternative as I had to go too far to walk and the nightbus service is so bad. That is disgraceful, :mad: it is hard to believe that Ireland is one of the richest countries in the world.

    As bad as some private services may be the public services must be amoung the worst in the first world. I would never have imagined the UK would compare so favourably (it hasn't got the best rep itself). But compared to home the public sevices here are excellent.

    To the op, unless you have responsibilities keeping you in Ireland, I'd advise that you forget about Dublin or the rest of the country and get out and experience the rest of the world while you can. Maybe some of your friends in Dublin are interested in moving and you could go together.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,388 ✭✭✭Kernel


    The country has one MASSIVE advantage over Dublin:
    It dosen't have those fat, scumbag, bitches going around town with a fag length piece of ash hanging out of their mouth, pushing a pram of another illigitimate future criminal like it was a battering ram, and pulling another one by the arm shouting at him, giving him the type of up-bringing that you can't expect anything other than a menace and sponge on society, on her way to the dole office to pick up my tax money, and coming from Moore st. where she spent the last hour shouting at people to see if they want to buy any cigarettes her brother stole from the local shell office.

    You've never been to limerick. ;) No in fairness, there's many a town/city around Ireland like that.


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