DUBLIN IS TOTALLY UNLIVABLE Mod Warning In Post #671

Alicano · 10-08-2021 2:43pm

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80 mins is dreadful sorry. Airport is about 22-25 mins for me. 9 mins if I take port tunnel. Dublin has the greatest choice of whatever you may be into. For example I love music and running. Dublin has the best venues and the best gigs. That's just a plain fact. I walk home from the Point, Croke Park, Bord Gais etc and feel terrible for folk who have to get into their car and drive to Kerry at midnight. It also has the best, biggest choice of running races. And that's just me. Whatever you like doing. Dublin has it for you. Kilkenny is very small. Nightlife and restaurant options wouldn't be anywhere near the level of Dublin. Shopping the same. Yeah you get more space for your money house wise. But there's a reason that show is called 'location location location'. Most people hating on Dublin possibly either aren't from here or can't afford to live here. There are loads of areas to improve on. But give me any county in ireland and I'm sure we can do a top 10 crap things about it list. Once you're happy where you are that's what matters. I wouldn't live anywhere else.

corner of hells · 10-08-2021 4:42pm

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You almost seem pleased you found something to show your disdain for Dublin , almost gloating at residents or people from Dublin .

That's a truly awful event and you use it as some form of measure to show how bad Dublin is.

Liam32123 · 10-08-2021 4:49pm

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How do you dare going personal and offensive just because you want to defend the undefendable? In my OP some weeks ago I raised an awareness warning that "Women certainly risk walking alone" in the city centre and I was even bullied by locals. I live in Jervis and I have a vulnerable wife and children, and it is extremely frustrating thinking that they can't even freely go for a walk on their own. Apparently I was wrong... also men risk as it appears.

11-08-2021 1:40am

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The accused in this case aren't Irish and are from a European country, the same accused are as likely to have done or tried the same thing in their home country, given the information that is currently known about the case.

I did security for 10 years in Dublin and still have friends who work in the industry, as well as relations who are serving Garda. The day to day stuff in terms of crime hasn't changed in years from what they tell me. Dealing with addicts even at the level of shop security was relatevly safe and still is given the city centre is more like a small town and the addicts know that where they and their families actually live is common knowledge.

Compared to other European countries where I've lived or worked short term Dublin is as safe or safer than some cities I've been in, and safer than any U.S. city.

I haven't seen any signs at pub doors in Dublin or any other Irish city warning tourists not to take a taxi waiting outside the pub but to go to the ranks or have the bar call one for them like you will in one specific Irish pub in Prague, because the taxi drivers are known to massively overcharge at best or worse take unwitting foreign passengers to the outskirts of the city to actually physically rob them.

Or the equivalent of a warning given by the barman in a pub in Lille to a group of English lads about certain local French girls who always had the bad luck of picking up foreign lads and them both running into their skin head ex boyfriend and his mates after closing time and the lad having the **** kicked out of them and relieved of their valuables.

Amsterdam or at least the areas I visit to see my cousin and her Dutch partner aren't bad apart from having some of the locals trying to pick my pocket five times a night and being approached by street dealers every couple of meters travelling between my hotel and their apartment.

Frankfurt has a bigger drug problem than Dublin and the associated crime issues or at least it did in the early 2000s when I lived there. Could be different now but I doubt it.

riclad · 11-08-2021 2:21am

I saw a fight in temple bar in July there was a group of 4 Russian men 2 of them fighting it lasted about 2 minutes I was 10 yards away around 5 pm 3 Gardai arrived and arrested them all after 2 minutes they happened to be close by on patrol I say Russian going by their accents

Someone must have rang the Gardai instantly once it started

I hear in some city's there are pickpockets who follow tourists and rob them I don't think this happens in dublin

All taxi drivers have to go through a complex exam and have a background info checked by Gardai before they get a licence they have to show their plate no I'd no when they are on duty eg Theres no evidence of taxi drivers ripping off customers in dublin

Google rising crime chigago usa new York City it makes dublin look like a haven of peace and quiet

Maybe once a month I get asked do I want to buy drugs

And you can live in the suburbs and have a quiet boring life and stay away from the city centre

I'm not in a hurry to visit Texas usa anyone over 18 can buy a handgun there's no need to apply for a licence you have to be 21 to buy a beer

olestoepoke · 11-08-2021 4:30am

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Anyone else read this in a Russian accent or was it just me lol.

Del Griffith · 11-08-2021 5:09am

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No junkies in Paris, Madrid or Rome alright..

11-08-2021 5:47am

I wouldn't say unlivable, its just an utter kip compared to other great towns and cities around Ireland.

I lived there for five years unfortunately, its an absolutely horrendous looking place.

I'll never understand why people pay over the odds to live in the dump.

Pawwed Rig · 11-08-2021 6:44am

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Well the point is that there are no comparible towns or cities in Ireland. Dublin dwarfs all of them by some distance. Dublin has all the benefits and problems of a big city.

The best thing I find about living in Dublin (and we have the British to thank for this) is the amount of public open spaces. There are so many large parks and beaches that are only minutes away.

Thelonious Monk · 11-08-2021 7:02am

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Lovely looking place in many parts though, I think it's hard for country people to appreciate the good things because of their spite. Most towns have the same problems Dublin has but on a smaller scale. Galway is so poorly planned for e.g. and so badly traffic choked. Most towns are absolutely horrible looking in Ireland let's be real.

namloc1980 · 11-08-2021 7:21am

Always laugh at the Dubs who think they live in some large sophisticated metropolis and not in a backwater on the edge of Europe with crappy public transport and poor local governance.

Dublin is grand but I try to avoid going there as much as possible. The city centre is largely an unpleasant place to go. Junkie central with fast food joints abounding. There's always a weird menacing atmosphere or vibe that you just don't experience in other cities. I'm sure it's great if you live in a nice leafy suburb though.

Dublin had a great chance to reinvigorate the place with the docklands renewal, but that just turned into a massive spread of low rise glass boxes with zero imagination shown. Such a missed opportunity.

Thelonious Monk · 11-08-2021 7:36am

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I think this menacing atmosphere is all in your head! Parts of the city centre could be improved but most of the South Inner City is very nice. Crappy public transport and poor local governance is an Irish thing, not a Dublin thing, but it's actually quite good where I live.

11-08-2021 8:17am

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The exact same things could be said about Cork or Limerick. Galway as much as I like it is just an over grown large town with even worse traffic, public transport and no where to legally get a pint after 1..30.

Doesn't matter what city, especially capital cities for the majority across the world, you have issues with crime and the local version of some rural boards members complaining about it and the times they have to live or visit there.

saabsaab · 11-08-2021 8:32am

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'The city centre is largely an unpleasant place to go. Junkie central with fast food joints abounding. There's always a weird menacing atmosphere'

You could hardly say the same about Cork or Galway!

The_Kew_Tour · 11-08-2021 8:46am

Dublin City Centre was always a bit rough around the edges, I lived there during end of Celtic Tiger and even then it was little edgy, but overall I loved Dublin. It’s not too big and it was not too small. Has so much going for it.

the only real downfall is cost of housing and traffic jams. But you get that in every big city sadly. Cork was just as bad if not worse depending where you work and live.

I have friends who work and live there and they tell me it’s changed. I walked through there last time around 2019 and it did not feel any different to decade back bar maybe a little more people around.

Liam32123 · 11-08-2021 9:03am

absurd to see how everything turned out to xenophobic comments against Russians .... what cowardice, instead of admitting their troubles

11-08-2021 3:05pm

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Yep have you ever been in supermacs or the other fast food places around Eyre Square on a weekend night, no different than O'Connell St in Dublin just less people.

Was well out of security by the time I was living in the county not the city, but from chatting to a garda in the local, heroin was the second most common drug they were finding during street level arrests.

I did the door on a couple of pubs in Cork for a couple of months when I was 18, and apart from the usual day to day hassle that you might get and perhaps a bit more due to having a Dublin accent, I started to see the start of the heroin trade that has increased to comparable levels to Dublin and the usual calls for more Gardaí on the streets

https://www.irishexaminer.com/news/arid-30960306.html

11-08-2021 3:10pm

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How do you know that the accused in the case you highlighted aren't Russian the reports of the case simply states that they are eastern European.

machaseh · 11-08-2021 3:12pm

Completely agree.

At this point I am only here because of my job. I prefer not to job hop too much, I have only been working this job for 1 year and I want at least 2 or 3 on my CV, otherwise I'd already leave.

Compared to the Netherlands where I am from, Dublin is hell.

Thelonious Monk · 11-08-2021 3:17pm

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Pretty sure you've been bad mouthing Dublin for years now, I can never understand why you live in somewhere you perceive to be a hell hole, life is too short for that

saabsaab · 11-08-2021 3:37pm

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Some people have limited choice. I left Dublin when I got the chance, still visit but it seems to be getting worse everytime. Not saying that Cork or Galway don't have problems but they don't have it day and night at the same intensity. I was often out at night in all so can compare.

Feenix · 11-08-2021 3:38pm

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I honestly you're a bigger threat to your family than anyone in the street. It sounds like you're in bits.

Thelonious Monk · 11-08-2021 3:47pm

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I guess it's just not for you, I just could never understood what everyone thinks is so bad, some homeless people and addicts here and there but that's unfortunately part of life, and you get that everywhere. I think people from the rest of Ireland come to Dublin and already despise the place so they only see bad things and are unable to enjoy the good things. It's a shame because I like visiting any part of Ireland despite the flaws.

FileNotFound · 11-08-2021 3:48pm

Just following up here to say I still LIVING in Dublin..

Seems to be LIVABLE still... Or maybe I am living in some matrix style dream world..... 😮

saabsaab · 11-08-2021 3:50pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117738539#Comment_117738539

No it's noit for me to live in. I don't mind a visit and I was having a good time there once but I found other cities better. It needs to get it's act together now.

JimmyVik · 11-08-2021 3:55pm

In fairness ive lived in a few different cities around the world.

The only one where its like a scene from the Walking dead right in the city center is Dublin.

Lisbon has awful drug peddling issues in the city center, but its a nice city overall and the police are always around if anything does get out of hand.

Dublin is dreary, dangerous and all in all just a horrible place to be. You cant walk 10 feet in the city center without meeting the local wildlife.

FileNotFound · 11-08-2021 3:56pm

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Fully agree, only thing bad about Dublin is all the Dubs.... Only way to escape them is into coppers and covid stole that safe haven from the country folk 😁

All joking aside and having visited all the capitals in europe - ours is pretty nice to be fair.

machaseh · 11-08-2021 4:00pm

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It is really because of the job.

I made a career change last year, and it would just be very bad if I would pack up and leave that job right now. Really bad for my CV. It would give the impression that my career change didnt work out for a future employer. The career change meant a lot better pay for me.

Next year summer, I will have had 2 years in this job. That would be a good moment to look for employment elsewhere. Probably with the same company but in my own country the Netherlands.

Thelonious Monk · 11-08-2021 4:01pm

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It's a reflection of Ireland and Irish policies though, policing is an issue for the whole country. Lisbon is nice yes but it's completely overrun with tourists, I was talking to a local barman there before who used to live in Dublin and he said no Portuguese people live in the centre any more, Barrio Alto etc. All pushed out by tourists.

You can't walk literally 10 meters without being harrassed by drug peddlers (fake drugs mind), there are addicts there too. But you go there intending to have a good time and enjoy what it has to offer, and you don't have a chip on your shoulder against the place, so you just accept it has issues but keep a glass half full attitude towards the place.

I don't think it's possible for non Dub Irish people to do this when it comes to Dublin, they just want to find reasons to hate the place. It's a pity really.

JimmyVik · 11-08-2021 4:16pm

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The point i was making about Lisbon was that it is only saved becasue it is a lovely tourist city and there are plenty of police around.

It is second by a long way to Dublin in just horrible, junkie infested city center league.

Thelonious Monk · 11-08-2021 4:20pm

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Part of it has addicts visible yes, you really shouldn't look down on them though, I doubt they want to be where they are. I work near Baggot St usually, and walk around the area daily, from the canal to Christchurch or so is all lovely, lots of nice parts in there.

Wasting my time here I know.

Feenix · 11-08-2021 6:12pm

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Thats nonsense and narrow minded to think people not from Dublin hate the place. The people that hate the city are usually ones that have no interest in diversity, food, culture, arts etc. They would probably hate any City or any City with an edge at least. It depends on the person not where they're from. I live in the City Center and have met plenty of people from the suburbs who cant stand the City.

Liam32123 · 11-08-2021 8:41pm

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In summary, out of three/four Dubliners constantly here mumbling to be proud of their craic culture, etc., everybody is on the same page about this "walking dead" scenario

Thelonious Monk · 11-08-2021 8:55pm

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No one is denying there are addicts in the city centre, but why are you people so fascinated by this and go on about it so much? There's a big problem with very unhappy poor souls on heroin? Do you want to help these people or do you just want to go on about how awful they? You're looking down on them because you're a bunch of horrible snobs, well done.

Regardless of people's addiction troubles, many of us quite like living here, can you get your head around that?

agoodpunt · 11-08-2021 9:01pm

Northside side city centre has lots of charities housing people who should be in prison or institutionalized probably best option to save money but its turned it into a **** hole hundreds of derelict buildings no one will invest in the area local councilors allowing it to degrade for years.

Dont buy anything in DCC area they are buying up and shoving the worse antisocial pond life on the island

Liam32123 · 11-08-2021 9:02pm

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We are taxpayers in your country also for our children to be safe, no to help heroin poor souls or street fighters who endanger them

Thelonious Monk · 11-08-2021 9:06pm

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oh begorrah bejasus then don't let your children ever come to Dublin

saabsaab · 11-08-2021 9:17pm

Dublin city centre used to be a good place to be a few years ago if you had a few pounds. Its gone downhill and needs a shake up why can't Dubliners living there see that?

Thelonious Monk · 11-08-2021 9:19pm

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I think it's better than ever, some hard pressed people in the north inner city don't really affect my experience of the city - how was it better? Why do so many of you want us to just say how awful it is? Can you not understand we may experience it differently to others?

11-08-2021 9:34pm

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Jaysus. Holland? That’s a big step down. Ever think of somewhere nice like France, or Spain or Germany?

11-08-2021 9:42pm

because of covid I haven’t been in the centre for a while for any length of time. My part of Dublin is great though.

that said getting off a bus to go to Tara street a few weeks ago I had to walk the Rosie Hacket bridge. It was like a total cliche. There was a shirtless guy who was out of his head, another drunken guy lying on the seat who was gulping up a huge phlegm onto the road, and at the end a fight breaking out between junkies, mostly verbal. “Ah heyor, leave me alone”. Literally that’s what he said. That bridge is 100M

none of this affects me much, I was amused if anything. There’s no danger really. However I get that some people may worry.

The teenage gangs are more problematic but I’ve never really see that, myself.

Frank Bullitt · 11-08-2021 9:48pm

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...Have you been to any major North American city? Ever?

11-08-2021 10:20pm

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Where exactly are you from originally yourself as a comparison?

saabsaab · 11-08-2021 10:29pm

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Open dealing in the city centre. There was always begging and winos but it is getting worse. How can you not see this?

11-08-2021 10:31pm

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There's open dealing and winos in Cork too, don't go there either, same as most other cities and big towns

Thelonious Monk · 11-08-2021 10:33pm

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I've been going past people dealing drugs since the 90s, you could buy ecstacy on the streets in the 90s too. It doesn't phase me.

duffmann · 11-08-2021 10:48pm

I was out for dinner on Capel st last night. Really nice to be able to sit out on the footpath and nobody bothering us. I stopped for a pint on Dame lane tonight. Beggars in my face put me off ordering a second drink.

saabsaab · 11-08-2021 11:04pm

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And you're ok with that? Or Ok with your kids seeing this as normal? I don't recall seeing it openly it in the past.

Thelonious Monk · 11-08-2021 11:06pm

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Am I ok with it? I don't really care tbh, drugs have always been present in Dublin throughout my life and they're not going away any time soon. I do wish there were better services for addicts though. If it makes you feel any better I used to get business cards handed to me by drug dealers outside my flat in London, drugs are everywhere.

saabsaab · 11-08-2021 11:16pm

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Drugs can be found everywhere but Dublin inner city has become a home for it. As you say yourself you find it normal it shouldn't be that way.

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DUBLIN IS TOTALLY UNLIVABLE Mod Warning In Post #671