Why is Dublin such a shιtty city?

So Malahide, Portmarnock, Blackrock, Dalkey, Dun Laoghaire, Howth as well as many other parts are also a kip? You'll actually find they are some of the nicest spots in Ireland. Your from Dublin and yet you seem like someone who has never stepped outside Dublin 1. Lots of people on this thread need to go back to school and learn what a kip actually is

Dublin is the county attracting the most overseas visitors and tourist spend, followed by Galway, Cork and Kerry, the figures show. Ireland welcomed nine million overseas tourists in 2017, with a combined spend of €4.9 billion, according to the Fáilte Ireland figures.

The administrative counties of Dublin City (91,876 persons), Fingal (46,909) and Cork County (42,002) had the highest numbers of non-Irish nationals in 2016.

I suspect some people have never left Ireland in their life... Compared to other major EU cities Dublin is nothing to look at. Spend a week in Berlin and come back to Dublin. The difference is shocking, it's day and night. Some of the coastal parts of Dublin are not so bad at best but that is all I will say about it.

Is it just Dublin that is horrible in comparison to European cities? I mean Cork and Limerick aren't great really, most of our towns and villages are horrible. Is it only Dublin you think is sh*t or all of Ireland?

I have lived in many different countries and now I work in the Baggot St area and the whole extensive around there is just lovely. There's more to Dublin than O'Connell st and its surrounds.

As a resident, can confirm Dublin to be a **** city. Source is the amount of **** I have to avoid on the streets walking to work (D1), and the worry is whether it is dog or human export.

Goes without saying the damage covid has done, but one massive positive is allowing remote workers to get away from the concrete kip.

Lol, who told you that? I can see junkies, business people, office workers, tourists, Gardai, Roma gypsies... the full gamut of the cities dwellers and visitors on google street view at the Spire!! So can you! You can also see the ground, the footpaths and roads and there's a significant lack of the fabled amounts of litter and rubbish. I'm in the city right now and it's clean.

Sorry to burst the hate bubbles boys.

What's that about lack of litter? 🤣

3 days? I'm just after checking there now. You asked for a google streetview. The images are from July 2021 and you saying there's no litter there now lol.

I don't know if it's that much worse than other European cities. People are comparing it to the likes of Paris and London but the populations of those cities individually are greater than that of our entire country. I think if you take cities that have a similar population to Dublin, you'll see that it is inline with some of them, such as Birmingham in the UK or maybe even Brussels to a certain extent.

I agree about it feeling like a dangerous place. I'm not from Dublin, granted, but I have been there for everything from work to trips away, sport events to a day out and honestly, even in the city centre, when it gets dark I feel very uneasy.

I think it's worth remembering that not too long ago we were still an English colony and Dublin was massively impoverished. Maybe it is fair to say that it is lacking behind other capitals but its circumstance and history is vastly different to most.

Trinity is about 1km from the Rotunda and south of Trinity is nice. I know it doesn't excuse it not being nice, but why does anyone hang around the north city centre. The south city centre is really nice with lots of bars and restaurants. It has a great buzz about it in the evenings.

Some other European cities look much nicer, given the history etc., but can often be boring. For example Brussels, Zurich, Manchester, Birmingham, all Dutch cities except for Amsterdam, most German cities apart from Berlin and Munich.

Dublin can't compare to Lisbon, Rome, Paris, London, Vienna - these were the centres of great empires that conquered the world.

France, Japan, Italy have a culture of beauty not matched everywhere else.

In a lot of Anglo culture griminess and dedication to money-making is usually a point of pride. Think of the big ugly Calvinist money machine that is the US. "Dear dirty Dublin". Manchester another good example.