Why is Dublin such a shιtty city?

I think this may be the first time this topic has been broached on Boards, bravo OP

Get it all off your chest, caller.

Dublin is great. End of story.

Large cities have problems.

What's the difference between Greta Thunberg and the OP ?

One is a climate activist , the other is an annoying fcuk.

Ask for directions in most European cities and the locals will gladly help. Ask in Dublin and have your head bitten off by some wannabe hard man with no manners, looking at ya disgusted, like you caused them such an inconvenience by asking.

That’s just not true though is it ? Dublin people by and large are very polite and willing to help. You’d have to be pretty unlucky to meet someone with the attitude you describe.

Dublin lacks cultural finesse. Yeah everyone going out and getting gee eyed. But beyond that there's not much.

Ah yes, the one homogeneous accent that is of Dublin.

Not a fan of it myself. But when you don't like some place, you'll only see the negatives. Tbh, I dread ever having to go there. The traffic is the worst, by and far, and if you're not completely alert and ever so slightly aggressive, you'll be bullied around the place. The public transport is shocking at best, so luckily any time I ever need to go there there's a Luas stop nearby where I'm going and I park in Cheeverstown. I'll have to echo the unhelpful Dub element, I reckon about half my interactions were with a stuck up/proud Dub who looked down on everything and everyone not Dublin. And yeah, the accents do my head in.

But, thankfully, I don't live there. I did for like, 2 months at one point but left very quickly. Country living is where it's at. Quietness, darkness, stars in the sky... bliss.

Most of Dublin and I mean the vast majority, is excellent.

Clean, safe, pleasant surroundings, good community activity, good air quality and lots of light.

Of course I would agree with the OP that some areas are shabby and have skobie characters knocking around and petty crime is an issue. And, that stuff does annoy me, but then I travel to some other cities and I realise how good we actually have it.

Ever been to Washington DC? Or Marseille? Or Liverpool? Ever scratched beneath the surface of Barcelona or Lisbon or Budapest or Milan?

Naples, Beijing, Mexico, Chicago, Los Angeles, Kuala Lumpur, Glasgow, Bratislava, Riga, Birmingham, Cardiff, Bangkok, Antwerp...all big working cities I've spent time in and all places I would chose to live in far less than Dublin, for all the reasons at the beginning.

Not that I think we should accept Dublin as it is, there is much to be done, as you'd expect in any growing city, but to write it off as entirely a dump, is bull.

I blame Ryanair. They give fools the chance to fly off for a short weekend to European cities and they come back after a day and a half thinking they are cultured and know it all. The fact is the OP hasn't a scooby doo about anywhere except Dublin. He wouldn't have a notion of the problems in all the cities where he spent 36 hours.

Dublin is very popular with similar thinking foreign knobheads who come for a stag weekend and think it's the bees knees.

I get what you're saying in a way.I know the exact people you're talking about.

I lived more of my adult life outside of Ireland than in it but even if I hadn't I'd see that Dublin is a kip.

It has some good points but overall its an embarrassment of a capital city.Any time I've had friends from abroad and had to meet them in Dublin I'd bring them out to get p1ssed and hope for the best.This worked in most cases and they'd think its a good party city.

Any time I had friends travelling to Ireland and I wasn't there I'd tell them get out of Dublin as soon as you land and hit for proper parts of Ireland.Cork or Galway if they're looking for a bit of buzz,Mayo,Clare or Donegal if they want the traditional experience.

I realise that if I was from Dublin I'd feel a need to defend it/emphasise the positives etc but most irish people whether they admit it or not know on balance its a sh1tehole that's not representative of the country of Ireland.The fact is was a bigger kip in the 80s doesn't really come into it.

I will agree on one item. Anyone wearing cotton tracksuit bottoms and white socks stuck into trainers should be automatically banned from the city centre. :)

Yes,I think that's a better idea than watching junkies fighting on o connell Street and on the river walk.Its just one aspect that can't really be solved but other cities do a better job of hiding it and making their main thoroughfares safer/nicer/more attractive.

The fact that they can't even begin to deal with this basic and common issue adds to the consensus that its a kip.

Evidently you know nothing of the location's you are talking about. I'd go as far to say you are doing your friends a disservice by bull shiting them about ireland. They'll leave with a half experience from someone who is clueless. I get them pissed and hope for the best..

Boy genius stuff right there.

There's no junkies fighting in Cork or Galway?

"We don't see things the way they are, we see them the way we are."

I would like to see a scenario where a well funded and properly trained and equipped city police force have a zero tolerance approach to scrotes, junkies and general vagabonds in the city. That alone would make an enormous difference.

How higher of a %?

Have you done extensive research? Because you've said you don't live in Dublin.

Where do you live?

OP is a climate activist?