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Sure-Fire Signs That an area is Rough

Richard Hillman

A community center
Speed Bumps Everywhere
Oversized curbs
A boxing club
A local pub that changes its name every couple of years.
A security guard at a small Spar/Centra
Horses
People Before Profit/AAA Posters

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milehip

A channel4 documentary crew making the latest poverty porn blockbuster maybe repelete with a b-list celebrity looking to up their street cred with the common folk by experiencing how they live( and ****ing off to the nearest travel lodge as soon as it gets dark in the manner of an urban Bear Gryles)

The King of Moo

nullzero wrote: »

Plenty of taxpayers money usually has been spent on parks and playgrounds etc which have all been meticulously destroyed by local feral youth who's parents complain about a lack of amenities in the area.

Any nearby areas populated by decent people have huge rates of daytime burglaries.

Swathes of teenage trainee gangsters wandering the streets in Grey trackie bottoms with blue North face jackets, navy Nike baseball caps and white socks (one stuffed with 20's and the other stuffed with narcotics) finished off with a fetching pair of blue trainers.

Grown men wearing tracksuits cycling around in the middle of the day on "borrowed" mountain bikes that would cost several months social welfare to buy.

An active and well organized neighborhood watch scheme that reacts immediately anytime emergency services enter the estate by having swarms of kids attack any emergency vehicles that dare enter.

A high percentage of young men named Lee Dean and Jordan.

And deprived areas don't have decent people?

Do you think these feral savages live there because of who they naturally are, or are they created by their environment and the decent people who look down their noses at them?

F*cking nonsense.

TheDriver

Sulkeys kept on the green without a need to lock them
Everyone over 12 has some kind of tash
Estates names average expected politicians or canon something. Usually ends in terrace.
Vincent de Paul needs a van to deliver things there
Local tec has massive enrolment and overworked attendance officer
Social welfare office is bigger than the supermarket
New 4x4 in every unemployed households driveway.

Ferrari3600

A police car and a screaming siren
A pneumatic drill and ripped up concrete
A baby wailing and stray dog howling
The screech of brakes and lamp light blinking

A smash of glass and a rumble of boots
An electric train and a ripped up 'phone booth
Paint splattered walls and the cry of a tomcat
Lights going out and a kick in the balls

Days of speed and slow time Mondays
Pissing down with rain on a boring Wednesday
Watching the news and not eating your tea
A freezing cold flat and damp on the walls

Waking up at 6 a.m. on a cool warm morning
Opening the windows and breathing in petrol
An amateur band rehearsing in a nearby yard
Watching the telly and thinking about your holidays

Waking up from bad dreams and smoking cigarettes
Cuddling a warm girl and smelling stale perfume
A hot summer's day and sticky black tarmac
Feeding ducks in the park and wishing you were far away

Two lovers kissing amongst the scream of midnight
Two lovers missing the tranquility of solitude
Getting a cab and travelling on buses
Reading the graffiti about slashed seat affairs

dhaughton99

The 'Loan man' comes on a Friday.

Dr Crayfish

Are all the young ones in these areas going around in gym gear these days but not actually going to the gym? Seems to be the case

Stigura

No. That's entertainment.

(Town Called 'Malice' is far better suited)

Crea

Rocks all over the road after them being thrown at the bus/gardai/ambulance/fire service.

Dr Jakub

Feral children on the streets off a weekday
Young men unironically wearing tracksuits, white runners and Celtic jerseys
Satellite dishes everywhere
Streets paved with discarded cans of Dutch Gold, Tesco Lager and bottles of Buckfast. It's not a college town.
Graffiti classics such as 'Anto is a ledge' 'Damo is a fukin fagit'

Bambi wrote: »

Foreign lads, especially de blacks.

Am I doing this right?

No, Poles and Romanians.

JustTheOne

About 400 chippers and Chinese takeaways in the local shop that looks like something from the 1960s.

Richard Hillman

Constant dog barking
Kids that are barely old enough to walk with Nike/Adidas runners

BoJack Horseman

Richard Hillman wrote: »

Constant dog barking
Kids that are barely old enough to walk with Nike/Adidas runners

Dogs barking incessently, driven mad from lack of attention and exercise.... Yet, literally every sq-m of footpath has dog-sh*t on it.

punisher5112

Cars on bricks was always a real warning.

Ferrari3600

Stood by the bus stop with a felt pen
In this suburban hell
And in the distance a police car
To break the suburban spell
Let's take a ride, and run with the dogs tonight
In suburbia
You can hide, run with the dogs tonight
In suburbia
Break a window by the town hall
Listen, the siren screams
There in the distance, like a roll call
Of all the suburban dreams
Let's take a ride, and run with the dogs tonight
In Suburbia
You can't hide, run with the dogs tonight
In Suburbia
I only wanted something else to do but hang around

MyPeopleDrankTheSoup

Malari wrote: »

"No Water Meters" signs in the windows and on lampposts.

yep. if water charges were free for people with medical cards like most of these things are, there would have been no protests

pavb2

Sure fire signs that an area is rough is when you visit someone's house and have to wipe your feet on the way out.

dhaughton99

The trampoline is a valid form of exercise and MMA is classed as a sport.

PARlance

You've probably missed the surest of sure signs.... the mysterious white lady statues in the windows.

r93kaey5p2izun

Raffling cars and motorbikes on facebook for €50 per ticket.

punisher5112

Cheyenne Prickly Landlord wrote: »

Raffling cars and motorbikes on facebook for €50 per ticket.

There a 99 civic up for just like that the guy even took photo with car and him also near 24k spent so says.

andekwarhola

Students posting nervously to boards from a passing bus with a dark stain on the crotch area of their skinny jeans.

r93kaey5p2izun

punisher5112 wrote: »

There a 99 civic up for just like that the guy even took photo with car and him also near 24k spent so says.

It's run of the mill round these parts. At least one a month.

newacc2015

When every window in 'da flats or da gaff' has plaster moulds of a women half leaning. Every council house/flat in Dublin 1/7 has one in every window

That everyone having a debs has to have a stretch limo, especially if they are paying for it with a loan from the CU

Every dodgy area tends to have at least one bouncy castle in the one of the front gardens at anytime

Makood

Bambi wrote: »

Foreign lads, especially de blacks.

Am I doing this right?

You can't say black, it's rainbow now. Apart from that you're good.

Bongalongherb

When you order a skip and dispose of your old toilet and bath tub. Then a middle aged man and his wife walk over telling you that that's a lovely toilet you're throwing out and can they have it.

5 to 6 heads wearing balaclavas dressed in black traksuits just standing there looking around doing nothing except smoking and scraping their knives off their balaclava heads. Obviously nothing to do, yet.

whatdoicare

In Limerick it seems to be anywhere where the top of the range facilities are, like health centres and schools.

It was even where the only public swimming pools were....before the private gyms opened and seeing as middle class people weren't going there anymore and scumbags never went there, they closed down.

The expensive private estates have nothing and have always had to go to the rough areas to access facilities.

I have to go there because it's the only access to a phn for the young one - the place has top of the range everything. Free dentist, free dietician, free special needs help, even a free cookery class for toddler food that gives free blenders and freezer boxes for the food, free baby massage class, free toddler group....guess who went to these things? Noone from the area, everyone from the working, mortgage paying areas. Hilarious isn't it??

I remember when St Enda's school was open, it had facilities that my ****ty primary could only dream of, I remember going there to do my inter cert and marvelling at what they had!! They were right next to a swimming pool and sports center!! I thought it was a private expensive school! We barely had chairs and tables! They closed it down and opened a new school with a health centre and yet again, facilities that cost millions!

Private estates can't even get their roads fixed or lighting finished >:(

suicide_circus

Children pushing babies around in prams

[Deleted User]

You've seen it on Secret Millionaire.

dhaughton99

Visiting people in prison.

Lt Dan

gw80 wrote: »

Actual happy children playing outside making real friends and learning how to socialise with people and not inside playing the latest game console sheltered until it's time to go to college and become a delicate snowflake and be overwhelmed and triggered by every thing in the real world

No, they are just learning bad habits off each other, learning to steal and ekkkkk. .. learning the drugs trade

Non Wurking class children do make friends; in school, at the rugby club, yacht club, music club, GAA Club ; in fact they are already lining up their business partners and trust funds. Ha ha ha