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Worst place you've lived/almost lived in?

drillyeye

I've come across a few gems in my time.

One time I was in bandcamp another European city, finding it very difficult to find a place to rent, and not for lack of money.

Saw a local ad, arranged to go see it. I was led into this VERY old mansion-like gaf by a 12/13 year old boy, all the way down to the basement. The interior looked like it hadn't been touched since world war 1.

There, sitting on an ancient, mouldy yellow couch was this geezer who was just as old as the furniture. Already this place is out of the question, but I go through the paces so as not to be rude.

The geezer asks me, in quite terrible broken English, "how long you want?"

I tell him what I'm after, then he starts, out of nowhere, telling me that my English is very bad. Now I speak very clear English, as you tend to pick up when around foreign places. So this question is weird.

I tell him that I'm from Ireland, and that English is my mother tongue. But no, he insists its terrible, while hes speaking barely understandable English. He also insisted that his own English was "perfect". The fooking irony. He kept this up long enough that I wanted to slap the cobwebs off him.

So, feeling fairly peeved already, the boy leads me down another set of stairs (bear in mind we were already in a basement). There, in the weak light of a bare lightbulb, is a manky mattress that filled most of the floor. I forget the exact price of it now, but the clown was looking for at least a grand a month for that shythole. It was a kinda surreal experience!

Plenty more dodgy experiences. But what about the dirty fookers here on after hours? Worst place you've seen/stayed in?

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corner of hells

I'm an electrician and got asked to fit two florescent lights and four double sockets in a room in a storage area in a large restaurant in Talbot Street , the room was the size of an average sized living in three bed house.
While I was there four sets of bunk beds were delivered , turned the restaurant owner was renting out this room to eight people.
There was no door , just an opening and no windows either.

Skedaddle

There's something seriously verywrong with accommodation standards both in Ireland and in the UK in my experience.

Cutie 3.14

deisedav wrote: »

Please explain id like to hear. I Live in Waterford and think its a great place to live.

ToddyDoody wrote: »

I was on to Waterford and they told me to tell you... 'Go f*ck yourself'

Go f*ck myself? A bit harsh!

I just personally found it a very depressing place to live. Didn't enjoy my time there at all.

Wasn't tying to be funny with my original post, I just wrote it quickly and haven't been back on boards since, I half forgot I posted it.

I don't live there anymore , and I'm sure Waterford is a better place without my depressed head walking around it too.

PowerToWait

Mallory Steep Thanksgiving wrote: »

I wouldn’t leave a child with a priest, but a Garda vetted male/female teacher/she worker there’s no issue

This is OT but to see garda vetting as some sort of cure all, preventative measure is ridiculously naive.

Pretty much any of the high profile perpetrators in the past couple years wouldn't have been flagged by vetting.

Ireland's such a small country that there's basically no chance of a person being convicted of some form of child abuse and slipping in to anonymity and another job where they might abuse again.

ETA - a large proportion of abuse is committed by people well known to the victim, often a family member.

FakePie

corner of hells wrote: »

I'm an electrician and got asked to fit two florescent lights and four double sockets in a room in a storage area in a large restaurant in Talbot Street , the room was the size of an average sized living in three bed house.
While I was there four sets of bunk beds were delivered , turned the restaurant owner was renting out this room to eight people.
There was no door , just an opening and no windows either.

I also used to work with an immigrant girl; herself and her partner were in temporary digs similar to what you describe.

Due to an electrical malfunction, the place caught fire, and they were burned alive.

wakka12

duffman13 wrote: »

I'd one when I was in Australia. Rent in Melbourne was astronomical for people on Working Holiday Visas so a lot of what was available was through gumtree. Myself and my missus seen a room share for $380 a week in the city in a new block of apartments. Two bedroom, all mod cons etc.

Rang the guy who said there's two others living there and thought cool sounds good. We got to the apartment and went in. Turns out it was a one bed apartment with the sitting room converted to a bedroom. 3 sets of bunk beds in the sitting room. Brings is into "our" room which is pitch black as the blinds are pulled because the the people living there are asleep. There is two sets bunk beds in the room so when he said sharing with two he meant sharing the room. So 10 people living in a one bed apartment paying 190 dollars each a week. Absolute joke.

The other one is kinda funny and kinda scary. Me and my other half had gotten a job in Queensland doing regional work for our visa. An English guy (Josh) I lived with decided to come along with the hope of landing a job on the way. We'd a 5 day drive and we set off early in the morning. At the end of the first day Josh had found a job on gumtree which wasn't too far away from where we'd be finished for the night on the second day.

We got directions and he was about 8 miles from a town we'd be passing through. We pulled up and the house looked a little run down to say the least. Met the farmer who seemed ok but had lived alone for about 15 years just employing seasonal workers.

My mate thought it was grand so we left him there and went on to the next big town about 80 miles away to stay the night before setting off. Got a phone call at about 6am the next morning to come back, apparently when Josh got up for work the next morning the guy was sitting there in the nip playing with himself in the kitchen. The guy had refused to drop him into town and when we met him he'd walked about 6 miles towards town and was totally freaked out. Some of the pictures of that place were scary.

Cant police be alterted if somebody is making money from renting to a much larger group of people that the unit was built for? They are surely breaking many fire safety regulations

Graces7

PowerToWait wrote: »

This is OT but to see garda vetting as some sort of cure all, preventative measure is ridiculously naive.

Pretty much any of the high profile perpetrators in the past couple years wouldn't have been flagged by vetting.

Ireland's such a small country that there's basically no chance of a person being convicted of some form of child abuse and slipping in to anonymity and another job where they might abuse again.

ETA - a large proportion of abuse is committed by people well known to the victim, often a family member.

agree. I checked the rules re teachers etc and there are safeguards built in that were ignored in the posts.
regardless of what was said here . And I would never ever leave a child alone with any adult. I would never in my teaching career have been alone with a child in a school. And I wince at that idea now especially.

Graces7

wakka12 wrote: »

Cant police be alterted if somebody is making money from renting to a much larger group of people that the unit was built for? They are surely breaking many fire safety regulations

Health and Safety at the local council. Also RTB

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

Graces7 wrote: »

agree. I checked the rules re teachers etc and there are safeguards built in that were ignored in the posts.
regardless of what was said here . And I would never ever leave a child alone with any adult. I would never in my teaching career have been alone with a child in a school. And I wince at that idea now especially.

Graces I don't know where you checked but you are wrong. My family comprises three generations of teachers at primary, secondary and third level. There are one to one sessions every day of the week in almost every school in the country. I don't know where, when, or for how long you were a teacher but you are just plain wrong about this.
And wince all you like but the children benefit form the sessions, the parents request the additional assistance and that's all that matters.

Apologies for Off Topic, I know this has nothing to do with 'worse places...' but misinformation had got to be addressed.

wakka12

Jimmy Freezing Anger wrote: »

Graces I don't know where you checked but you are wrong. My family comprises three generations of teachers at primary, secondary and third level. There are one to one sessions every day of the week in almost every school in the country. I don't know where, when, or for how long you were a teacher but you are just plain wrong about this.
And wince all you like but the children benefit form the sessions, the parents request the additional assistance and that's all that matters.

Apologies for Off Topic, I know this has nothing to do with 'worse places...' but misinformation had go to be addressed.

And I think anyone whos been a pupil will know its also not true! I cant remember primary school that well but certainly all throughout secondary school we had personal one to one chats with teachers if we were having trouble, privately being told results, just needed a chat

deisedav

Cutie 3.14 wrote: »

Go f*ck myself? A bit harsh!

I just personally found it a very depressing place to live. Didn't enjoy my time there at all.

Wasn't tying to be funny with my original post, I just wrote it quickly and haven't been back on boards since, I half forgot I posted it.

I don't live there anymore , and I'm sure Waterford is a better place without my depressed head walking around it too.

Yes i would say so

Cutie 3.14

deisedav wrote: »

Yes i would say so

You'd say What?

Why so defensive!?

I wouldn't give a sh!t if people hated the place where I'm from/live. Everyone's experiences of a place are different.

Although you're making me half remember why I hated it there

Graces7

Having lived in many low rental places... There was the one where they had laid stone tiles direct on bare earth so when there was heavy rain it kind of seethed in through them and mould grew everywhere. Oh and the bedroom ceiling was slatted wood with nothing behind it and the wind came straight in.. I spent an hour standing on the bed with a roll of sticky tape trying to stem the gale and slept with a scarf and hat

ToddyDoody

Cutie 3.14 wrote: »

I wouldn't give a sh!t if people hated the place where I'm from/live.

I might refer you again to my (not too harsh) comments above.

Lorelli!

When I first started seeing my oh around 2004, he rented this basement flat in the midlands for a while. It was damp and heated only by an old superser! It had one of those old yuck green couches. It was just a kip and freezing. We didn't really care that much at the time. I use to go up to him every weekend. Money was a bit scarce because I was in college and he was in between jobs and only getting part time work as a hgv mechanic. I use to raid my mams fridge before going down and bring down a load of food so we could spend money on going out instead

I remember we'd a bit of cash to spare so we decided to buy paint. I dont know why but we chose red paint, probably to make it look warmer. Half way through doing the sitting room, we got bored so we just left it half done

:pac: He was only there for a couple of months thankfully and then moved up with me.

Cutie 3.14

ToddyDoody wrote: »

I might refer you again to my (not too harsh) comments above.

Am i missing something here..you seem to give a **** though, why? What's the big deal?

Graces7

At one house, there was a simple old straight wooden chair in the kitchen.. The landlord touched it with great reverence . Told me that old Mr ****** died on that chair.. "And the amazing thing was, HE NEVER FELL OFF."

They apparently found him there, sitting on the chair quite some while later..

deisedav

Cutie 3.14 wrote: »

You'd say What?

Why so defensive!?

I wouldn't give a sh!t if people hated the place where I'm from/live. Everyone's experiences of a place are different.

Although you're making me half remember why I hated it there

That Waterford would be a better place without your depressed head walking around.

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I find myself overcome with the sudden urge to never ever go to Waterford anyways :eek:

Worst place I ever almost lived was not a very terrible house but the landlord was one of the most horrible people I've ever met. The outside matched the inside too, he was a great big obese greasy ugly man. I saw the ad on daft or whatever, rang him and he said he'd meet me when he finished work and drive me to the house (pretty stupid thing to agree to in hindsight). Grand says I, I'll be there at that time, I've long brown hair, green t-shirt. After I got in the car the first thing he said was "that's not a fcuking green t-shirt" (arguably it was more blue I suppose).

It was a summer rental in between college years, one of those houses that's had bits added on and bits falling off and things breaking and being kind of fixed and three rooms that obviously used to be one room etc. When he found out I was doing the viewing on behalf of myself and my boyfriend he said "I don't want to hear any complaints about riding now, do you hear me? Keep it down". Most of the tenants there were foreign students, one of them, a young Asian guy, was cooking in the kitchen as yer man showed me around and he said "This is one of the tenants here now. How're ya Ching Chong? Ha? Ding dong won ton..it's grand he can't understand a fcuking word and he's scared of me anyway". There were a few more things as well, I can't really remember, and then as I was leaving (refused the kind offer of another lift) I said I'd talk it over with my boyfriend and get back to him (would I ****) he says "I knew it! I knew the second I saw you you'd be a timewaster".

I'd love to have like a Butterfly Effect dealio where I could put my current consciousness back into that day and tear into him, I had no idea how to react at the time, I was only 20 or 21 and pretty sheltered.

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

deisedav wrote: »

That Waterford would be a better place without your depressed head walking around.

That's settled my staycation for this year. I used like Waterford but you've put me off.

The worst place I lived was a three month stint in a tent on permafrost rocky island ,with just two colleagues for company.

retalivity

I lived in a car on the costa del sol for a week. In August, so was unbearably hot for 16 hrs a day.
Was horrific.

Apart from that, smalltown Ontario, canada. A desolate wasteland with zero craic ppl

[Deleted User]

growing up in the family home:p

Cutie 3.14

deisedav wrote: »

That Waterford would be a better place without your depressed head walking around.

Ok, fook the niceties... Get over it will you, boo hoo a random person on the internet doesn't like Waterford!
Go blow your nose and wipe your tears with a blaa

Billy86

Cutie 3.14 wrote: »

Ok, fook the niceties... Get over it will you, boo hoo a random person on the internet doesn't like Waterford!
Go blow your nose and wipe your tears with a blaa

I sometimes wonder how many nanoseconds it would some country folk to completely crack up if they had to put up with the jabs from every other county that Dubliners do. :pac:

Cutie 3.14

Billy86 wrote: »

I sometimes wonder how many nanoseconds it would some country folk to completely crack up if they had to put up with the jabs from every other county that Dubliners do. :pac:

I know, the butthurt!
I'm from a county that isn't highly rated in terms of GAA or tourism...or anything else really, and I get stick for it all the time!

Do I care?? Not in the slightest.

Graces7

wakka12 wrote: »

And I think anyone whos been a pupil will know its also not true! I cant remember primary school that well but certainly all throughout secondary school we had personal one to one chats with teachers if we were having trouble, privately being told results, just needed a chat

Actually the child protection rules were brought in no t just for the priests etc but for teachers, scout leaders, youth workers. Check online. The fact they are being ignored is worrying. The fact that they are not even known about is even more... I was a teacher too as was my father but those were different times. Too many damaged chlldren.

Fine to be one on one when clearly visible to others, but closed doors?

It was explained as protecting us from false accusations.

This is my last word on this; not the right thread; but please look it up ,

Graces7

Skedaddle wrote: »

There's something seriously verywrong with accommodation standards both in Ireland and in the UK in my experience.

Ads online; "old wardrobe,suitable for rental.." When you ask?"Well you never know who you are going to get.."

deisedav

Cutie 3.14 wrote: »

Ok, fook the niceties... Get over it will you, boo hoo a random person on the internet doesn't like Waterford!
Go blow your nose and wipe your tears with a blaa

Ah jesus..........im over it. Sorry you didn't get on well when you lived there . I liked the blaa gag, very good in fairness.