Why is Dublin such a shιtty city?

Born in Dublin,lived there til I was 9,moved to west of Ireland,left Ireland early 20s,lived in lots of places around the world,returned mid 30s.Do you need any more details? Does it make my argument any less true?

Would you believe I personally haven't done any extensive research but more lived experience so its only an opinion,a fairly prevalent one I imagine.

Sorry,didn't mean to rile you up so much.

Recently returned to Ireland for a couple of months. Ive been really disappointed in some elements in Dublin city.

The 3 big gripes i have that really didn't bother me until i experienced better are:

1: Dog shite everywhere. Its all over residential streets. Almost nobody picks it up. The smell is very obvious some days. Im really surprised. I didnt notice it before because it was just always there. The lack of bins for people to put it in is terrible. Of course people wont pick it up if the facilities are not on hand to dispose of it. Though its largely a cultural apathy towards it that allows it. The difficulty it creates for blind people must be extreme. They cant see the stuff.. they only know they step in it when they get home and its dragged on the floor or on their hands, and it would be so difficult to clean up for them. Its really sad.

2: The terrible transportation links to airport. Its unbelievable how much we have normalized not having a decent rail connection to the airport. Its terrible that there is such poor rail throughout the city. We should have built an underground metro 15 years ago. Its the capital city! Even cork should have one.

3: The luas was sometimes bad before, but the anti social behavior on it has increased dramatically. Its from a certain cohort that we cant condemn their culture. Ive seen 2 racist attacks in the last 2 months on it near tallaght. This is really sad. I grew up in dublin city, and its the first time ive ever stopped using a infrastructure link due to anti social behavior. I think Tallaght luas is considered a no go for me after 8pm now.

Im leaving again in a couple of days for a new city (not related to my experiences in dublin, already planned). Im kinda sad that some of these problems with the city are so normalized. The people of Dublin deserve better, but the apathy and lack of accountability towards problems just persists them. There is far too much leniency given to perpetrators of poor behavior than to the victims who have to endure it. Respecting fellow citizens is something that should always be a priority. I think alot of it stems from a messed up legal/rehabilitation system, that very little can ever be enforced through force.. so everyone deep down knows nothing is going to change.

I don't think you can compare Chisinau and Dublin in fairness.

I lived in Dublin for 8 years and I have to say, I hated the place. I worked with a lot of country people (non-Dubs) and everyone of them moved back down the country eventually. I liked Dublin people, no nasty side to them. Not as friendly as Culchies though. It's just that the place had no soul. Hard to describe. A walk tru inner city Dublin would hardly inspire you. Most then in the well-off areas, look down their noses at the poorer areas.

It drove me nuts that nobody gave a damn about all these young drug addicts. They'd just literally walk over them in O'Connell street. I'm no socialist, far from it but a little help would go a long way there.

After I left Dublin by the way, I got a call from an ex-work colleague to say that A French guy I worked with was badly beaten up on Gratfon Street. He had some friends over from France for an international rugby match and was talking in French with them at the time. He was well settled in Ireland with an Irish wife at the time. Fierce nice guy.

I'm from Cork and love the place but there is no way I would put it above Dublin on any metric.

Dublin is a European city. IMO Cork is a provincial 'city'. With the greatest respect to Galway, but it is nothing more than a decent provincial town.

Been a few months since a good Dublin bashing thread, did we not have a big one during the summer...

Always love sequels... 🙄

Whole different argument but I don't think ireland could be called a conservative country in the the last 10-15 years.

To try to tie it back into the thread and focus on one aspect,a lot of the feral scum in Dublin would be dealt with differently in a conservative country.

Ps,impressive you've been there for 2000 years,I'd deffo have moved by now.

Maybe we should have invited Hitler to do some 'reconstruction'?

I get what the OPis saying about the inner city decay but it does have some hidden good points. You might need a 'tame Dub' to show you about. Have you tried Cork?

There have been 28 teenagers killed in London so far this year - and that's a capital city

I've lived in both, London is my favourite place in the world but the part of Camberwell I lived in was dodgy af sometimes. Stabbings and all sorts going on outside regularly, all kinds of loonies on the streets.

These things are part and parcel with most cities though, sometimes can get a bit hairy.

That's because some of the poorest areas are in the city centre that have intergenerational problems of all kind. All of this exists in London on an even worse scale (child poverty is an issue there, look at the stats for Tower Hamlets), but you don't see any of this when you're walking around Mayfair.

So basically all of these threads on how awful Dublin is are just about how awful a certain class of Irish people are, and how awful addicts are - things like traffic and public transport and poor planning are an Irish problem, not a Dublin problem.

That's a fair enough comment. They're not very visible in much of the south side of Dublin though.

Dublin didn't have a trend of throwing acid in people's faces either, or doesn't have a massive knife problem. We could go on about both places I guess