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Sure-Fire Signs That an area is Rough

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    #572
    antodeco
    Registered Users, Subscribers Posts: 13,449 ✭✭✭✭antodeco


    When the chippers and Londis have security guards.

    When the telephone box is missing most of it's glass.


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    #573
    david75
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 7,611 ✭✭✭david75


    antodeco wrote: »
    When the chippers and Londis have security guards.

    When the telephone box is missing most of it's glass.


    Telephone box?

    Thread says area. Not decade :)


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    #574
    jaysisjames
    Registered Users Posts: 56 ✭✭jaysisjames


    Cheap lead lattice windows
    Old women getting out of taxis laden down with shopping
    a pair of runners tied together , hanging from electrical lines
    overweight middle aged women dressed in pyjamas and dressing gown in local centra/spar/costcutter


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    #575
    previous user
    Registered Users Posts: 1,024 ✭✭✭previous user


    Feral kids throwing stones at strangers


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    #576
    Stephen15
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,907 ✭✭✭Stephen15


    You have ring a buzzer to get into the chemist shop.
    The local shop has everthing behind the counter.
    No bus shelters
    Iceland shops


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    #577
    Jeff2
    Registered Users Posts: 7,020 ✭✭✭Jeff2


    Where I used to live if I heard some one screaming I would grab my phone ( ready to ring 999) and go out to check.
    Here if a child of adult is screaming outside I just turn up the TV.

    It's like crying wolf ,if some one really had a problem who then no point shouting for help.


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    #578
    antodeco
    Registered Users, Subscribers Posts: 13,449 ✭✭✭✭antodeco


    david75 wrote: »
    Telephone box?

    Thread says area. Not decade :)

    Still loads of telephone boxes out on the main road by me!


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    #579
    99problems
    Registered Users Posts: 197 ✭✭99problems


    It's called dolphins barn


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    #580
    Vita nova
    Registered Users Posts: 736 ✭✭✭Vita nova


    david75 wrote: »
    Originally Posted by Arcade_Tryer View Post
    Country estates aren't typically rough to be fair. Unless you mean the wildlife.
    Or unless they're in cork

    A country estate to me means a big country house with lots of land and woods... hence the wildlife.


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    #581
    david75
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 7,611 ✭✭✭david75


    Vita nova wrote: »
    A country estate to me means a big country house with lots of land and woods... hence the wildlife.

    Thanks for that. Generally we don't have many estates left. It's more an English thing. Those in Irish hands are sold and rotting. Only danger in such a place is a roof slate falling through a hole and hitting you in the head.


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    #582
    Victor
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    The houses don't have street numbers.

    The houses have erratic street numbers (22, 23, 24, 5, 12, 27, 28) to deliberately confuse people, e.g. gardaí.

    The houses have erratic street numbers so the new resident doesn't get their house burnt down in a case of mistaken identity.
    neris wrote: »
    bonfires with the remains of unburnable stuff

    https://xkcd.com/1821/

    Walter H Price wrote: »
    its exactly what thees areas need an influx of money and people who improve the property's , and the overall look and feel of the area , see it all over areas like Phibsborogh , Cabra , Glasnevin , Stoneybatter, Whitehall parts of Finglas ... there start to look like respectable areas in time house prices will force the gentrification of most of the suburbs close to the city center and that can only be a good thing.

    The less working class and unemployed in an area the better and more desirable it becomes and the social problems and so on reduce. These concentrated areas with poverty and social problems that came out of government housing schemes from the 30's -70's need to be broken. No need to evict people , the market is simply pricing them out.
    One has to be very careful, as gentrification can lead to the displacement of poor people to even worse locations, but now they have no social structures (family, school, community connections, etc.) to support them.

    Every area should have some form of mixed tenure, mixed-sized, mixed-design housing. Otherwise you just end up with ghettos, where the only 'community leaders' are drug dealers.


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    #583
    whiskeyman
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    Tricolours everywhere when there's no major sporting event on...


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    #584
    neverever1
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    I've been in areas that have obviously stolen cars or they were acquired by nefarious means anyway. The locals look at you funny, like you don't belong there. They're usually wearing suits. Have over sized houses, got by robbing the rest of us. Suit wearing scumbags, I try to avoid those areas.


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    #585
    Stephen15
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    Houses with loads of outside christmas lights


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    #586
    BalcombeSt4
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    Richard Hillman wrote: »
    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

    Yeah Bray checks all those boxes.

    Lots of burnt out cars & fire ruins in fields that used to be used for kids football matches also.


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    #587
    Glenster
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    BalcombeSt4 wrote: »
    Yeah Bray checks all those boxes.

    Horses in Bray?


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    #588
    Hanwellian
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    Where there are whole estates without water meters installed.


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    #589
    average_runner
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    Richard Hillman wrote: »
    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


    The speed bumps I would laugh at. Most expensive estates have speed bumps for the safety of kids at play.

    All Spars have security guards.


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    #590
    Parchment
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,203 ✭✭✭Parchment


    average_runner wrote: »

    All Spars have security guards.

    No they dont!


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    #591
    Parchment
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    Stephen15 wrote: »
    Iceland shops

    Yes! This was a sure sign of a sh!thole area/town in Scotland!


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    #592
    Jack the Stripper
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    Social housing.


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    #593
    Hanwellian
    Registered Users Posts: 77 ✭✭Hanwellian


    Where T.D's have offices on the Main Street of a town.


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    #594
    Glenster
    Registered Users Posts: 2,626 ✭✭✭Glenster


    Hanwellian wrote: »
    Where T.D's have offices on the Main Street of a town.

    Greystones?


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    #595
    Hanwellian
    Registered Users Posts: 77 ✭✭Hanwellian


    Glenster wrote: »
    Greystones?

    Hey, if the cap fits!


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    #596
    silverharp
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    wire mesh on the traffic lights

    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



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    #597
    circadian
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    Glenster wrote: »
    Horses in Bray?

    Horses bray.


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    #598
    LirW
    Registered Users Posts: 4,825 ✭✭✭LirW


    After reading all of that in this thread, I identified so many things that were normal for me as a kid - I grew up in real pissholes (although not in Ireland). Now I know that I was probably one of these feral kids.

    To add to the topic: There is usually one guy in his late 30s - 40s with a little dog still living with mammy, being super chill to all kids around but physically abuses his mom behind shut doors.


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    #599
    Hanwellian
    Registered Users Posts: 77 ✭✭Hanwellian


    Community Centres full stop.

    And, Community Centres running 'Back to Education' courses.


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    #600
    Jack the Stripper
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,203 ✭✭✭Jack the Stripper


    Planning permission for further development for social housing.


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    #601
    Walter H Price
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    Hanwellian wrote: »
    Community Centres full stop.

    And, Community Centres running 'Back to Education' courses.

    Yeh anywhere where people refer to "me community" or "the community" tend to indicate the place is a kip e.g. i was the first in "me Community" to go to collage (and not just go on drugs or the dole).

    Don't even need to ask where, you know its a kip.


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