As a capital city is Dublin one of the biggest kips in any 1st world country?

redblaze · 20-07-2018 09:47PM #1

Junkies everywhere and so many beggers it makes New York before Giuliani look mild. Plus a health service that genuinely makes me ashamed to be Irish, but I suppose that's a nationwide thing and not just Dublin.

I'm back in it and in shock after 15 months living in London, a city known for been quite rough in parts too. But it looks like a Summer's day in Florence compared to Dublin.

"Fair City" my arse.

Atlantic Dawn · 20-07-2018 09:50PM

The Dublin Bikes are the only thing safe in the city, why I do not know, perhaps scangers need stabilizers.

n!ghtmancometh · 20-07-2018 09:52PM

Yes, it's why we have such a hard time attracting tourists and multinational corporations to the city. Bloody hell, even as a trolling attempt OP's post is pathetic.

mikemac2 · 20-07-2018 09:53PM

You came from the city of stabbings, acid attacks and yuff's on mopeds and say Dublin is worse?

Niles Crane · 20-07-2018 09:54PM

It's not as nice as it should be, when you come in along the quays it looks very grotty and this shouldn't be the case.

Harry Palmr · 20-07-2018 09:56PM

Well it's been at least 6 months since the last Dublerlin towen is a kip thread so I suppose we are due this

redblaze · 20-07-2018 09:58PM

mikemac2 wrote: »

You came from the city of stabbings, acid attacks and yuff's on mopeds and say Dublin is worse?

London population: 8 million
Dublin city population: 500,000

So of course, statistically, London will have more incidents.

MadDog76 · 20-07-2018 09:58PM

Nope, any more questions?

By the way, you really should travel more...... just saying.

Jim Bob Scratcher · 20-07-2018 09:59PM

At least Dublin isn't rife with acid attack's, and other ****e unlike merely old perfect London.

listermint · 20-07-2018 09:59PM

Your not even Irish are you. Zzzzz

redblaze · 20-07-2018 10:00PM

MadDog76 wrote: »

By the way, you really should travel more...... just saying.

37 countries and counting.

And you?

Yer Da sells Avon · 20-07-2018 10:02PM

I know everyone on here likes to sneer at 'skangers', because it's always nice to have someone to look down upon, but Dublin has far bigger problems than anti-social behaviour. Too many cars, too many car parks in the city centre, too dangerous for cyclists, a serious lack of places to sit down. And then you've got an organisation like 'Dublin Town' - essentially a cabal of car park owners - constantly being cited in the media as an authority on civic spaces and transport infrastructure. Tourists seem to like it - it's not a 'kip', but it could be so much better.

Bob24 · 20-07-2018 10:06PM

Atlantic Dawn wrote: »

The Dublin Bikes are the only thing safe in the city, why I do not know, perhaps scangers need stabilizers.

To them any bike they see is part of a free sharing scheme and up for grab. Why bother with a basic and heavy Dublin bike which requires a fee?

mg1982 · 20-07-2018 10:07PM

In fairness its improved a lot, in the 80s it looked like Sarejevo after the Serb army shelled it.

redblaze · 20-07-2018 10:10PM

mg1982 wrote: »

In fairness its improved a lot, in the 80s it looked like Sarejevo after the Serb army shelled it.

I didn't see it in the 80s, but are you honestly saying there were more junkies and scum in the city centre compared to now? I find that hard to believe

Bob24 · 20-07-2018 10:11PM

Hapax Legomenon wrote: »

I know everyone on here likes to sneer at 'skangers', because it's always nice to have someone to look down upon, but Dublin has far bigger problems than anti-social behaviour. Too many cars, too many car parks in the city centre, too dangerous for cyclists, a serious lack of places to sit down.

I wouldn’t call Dublin a kip, but any of the issues you are listing here would be way lower on my priority list compared to fixing problems with anti-social behaviour in the city (I am not a motorist and walk around the city centre a lot).

mg1982 · 20-07-2018 10:14PM

redblaze wrote: »

I didn't see it in the 80s, but are you honestly saying there were more junkies and scum in the city centre compared to now? I find that hard to believe

I was talking more about the architecture lots of decaying buildings.

Its a fair point it needs better policing.

SEPT 23 1989 · 20-07-2018 10:18PM

No money to be made from sending a man down for a long stretch

Drag it out

Court appearance after court appearance

Pockets are lined

Allinall · 20-07-2018 10:19PM

redblaze wrote: »

London population: 8 million
Dublin city population: 500,000

So of course, statistically, London will have more incidents.

Did you travel to any countries that could count?

shakeitoff · 20-07-2018 10:19PM

It's the dirty old town, I don't want my city becoming some hipster nerd paradise. Stay out! Gentrification will ruin this city.

redblaze · 20-07-2018 10:22PM

Allinall wrote: »

Did you travel to any countries that could count?

Google "population of ......" with both cities and they are the figures you get that pop up first.

The 1.9 million population for Dublin you might be thinking of covers *Greater* Dublin, as in parts of the counties surrounding it.

rossie1977 · 20-07-2018 10:28PM

Can you be more specific?

Do we only include capital cities and what do you define as first world countries?

Spudmonkey · 20-07-2018 10:29PM

One thing I've noticed particularly of late is the amount of trash on the side of the roads close to where I live. Certainly does make the place look like kip. Can't understand how people can just throw their rubbish out the window.

20-07-2018 10:29PM

Dublin is fine. After reading recently about how all of Paris was knocked down and rebuilt from scratch in the 19th century, I'd be genuinely indifferent if they decided to knock most of Dublin city down in the next year and rebuild the city from scratch so that pedestrians and cyclists are prioritised. I'd also welcome the transfer of everybody on the housing list and on drugs to Ballymahon, Port Laoise or Spike Island, but other than that Dublin is grand - even quaint in some cobblestoned, cafè-filled areas.

Bob24 · 20-07-2018 10:30PM

shakeitoff wrote: »

It's the dirty old town, I don't want my city becoming some hipster nerd paradise. Stay out! Gentrification will ruin this city.

Me neither. But I’m hoping* being a safe environment with no anti-social behaviour doesn’t require to be a hipster city!

* I am sure

20-07-2018 10:31PM

Compared to somewhere like Vienna it's a shíthole, a shíthole with a certain charm but a shíthole none the less. Too expensive, too gray and drab, too many junkies, too many anti-social kids, too much dog shít.. let's be honest if it didn't have a great pub life and friendly people it would be terrible

Yer Da sells Avon · 20-07-2018 10:37PM

redblaze wrote: »

I didn't see it in the 80s, but are you honestly saying there were more junkies and scum in the city centre compared to now? I find that hard to believe

The real 'scum' (if we absolutely have to use that kind of dehumanising language) are the smooth-talking, influential business lobbyists like Richard Guiney, who treat the city centre not as a pedestrian/cyclist-friendly living space, like other cities, but as a great big money-spinner for hotels and car park owners.

mick malones mauser · 20-07-2018 10:39PM

Was this thread started by a bitter and twisted Culchie.
Dublin isnt bad. Its a relatively friendly city, jobs are plentiful, tourists seem to love it ,people chat to each other.
Every city has its ups and downs.

WoollyRedHat · 20-07-2018 10:40PM

Problem with these threads are they are always so reductionist in nature..

Gaspode · 20-07-2018 10:42PM

redblaze wrote: »

Junkies everywhere and so many beggers it makes New York before Giuliani look mild. Plus a health service that genuinely makes me ashamed to be Irish, but I suppose that's a nationwide thing and not just Dublin.

I'm back in it and in shock after 15 months living in London, a city known for been quite rough in parts too. But it looks like a Summer's day in Florence compared to Dublin.

"Fair City" my arse.

In answer to your question: no, not even close.

Of course if you dont like it here, you know what to do!

Sycamore Tree · 20-07-2018 10:42PM

Having lived in Dublin for 4 long years, I can safely say I will never go back there except for the odd match.
It's a dirty, dreary and frustrating city with serious issues.

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