Why is Dublin such a shιtty city?

Ever get a Luas for free? Junkies do. Every time.

Gardai ever show up 20 minutes after you called in an emergency? No, they're too busy manhandling junkies out of your local shop.

Ever be a bit short on the bus and the driver tells you to **** off and walk in the rain because you're not a loud, hopped up crack addict who is happy to scream the bus down over missing 20c?

Ever get arrested for defending your property from said scumbag junkies because the Gardai are afraid of aforementioned junkie scumbags doing his house next weekend instead?

This list is not exhaustive.

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Did you get arrested for defending your property? And did the Gardai say they were afraid of their house getting robbed by the junkies so they didn't arrest them?

Beggers are just as bad, all over Heuston station and sitting on the bridge there so you have to avoid them or get smashed by a luas, i thought begging and harassing people for money was illegal, it's funny they have enough money for smack, and then they go down to merchants quay for free food and play pool all day, and the people running the show are all ex junkies who frankly dont look like they've given up at all. What is the point of their lives, we work and pay tax so they can get binned all day and play pool. Sick of them they've turned dublin into a cess pit.

We are in a housing crisis. Rents are going up every year. Homeless people have the option of going to a hostel after 11pm, many people prefer to live in a tent rather than go to a hostel in the midst of a pandemic.

Gentrification happens in every European city, Middle class people buy up all the houses in a certain area the area becomes Trendy those people tend to be snobbish or maybe not friendly to strangers that's human nature . It's common in upmarket areas in every city many people are leaving citys in the USA to buy a large house with a garden in a suburb or town . I lived in santry no one ever stopped me and asked for a euro it's a really boring place to live but it's not exactly in the midst of a crime wave.

Dublin doesn't look great right now with many shops closed for 2 years even grafton street has a few empty shops I think the pandemic has encouraged more people to shop online I think there, ll be great changes in the retail rental market , will company's be happy to pay high rents for large offices that are 90 per cent empty

I worked in Merchants Quay , I'm a social care worker , there's no pool table, a food service is provided, soup , sandwich and tea.

Amongst its services are primary health care (medical , dental , mental health, needle exchange etc) .

It's not run by ex addicts , it will employ ex addicts or people in recovery if they meet the criteria for employment. They don't discriminate.

I'm not an ex addict.

Better than the misinformed bollix that's usually posted in these threads.

Ex junkies and junkies in recovery?

Says it all .

I was wondering about this recently after a trip to Prague and Budapest. Both really are something else. But why is Dublin was so architecturally mundane?

Then it got me thinking about other capital cities. Lisbon, Madrid, Vienna, Edinburgh etc. All beautiful cities (although Lisbon has its social problems).

Tbh I've been to regional cities in Europe that are way nicer than Dublin. Barcelona, Valencia, San Sebastian, Montpellier, Bordeaux etc.

Then I thought about the spike in O'Connell street and it genuinely bummed me out.

I thought it may be a colonial thing, but I don't think that's the case. Lots of central European countries didn't get their wealth from colonialism, but their cities have a real wow factor to them. A lot of them are poorer today than Dublin. And you could probably argue that Dublin was within a colonial empire for a long period of time.

I think the only other capital city that is a bit meh in terms of architecture is Berlin. I'm not sure I agree with your point on Dublin going through wars though. A lot of European cities suffered in the WW2 but were restored in an amazing way (e.g. Budapest comes to mind)

Do you or anyone else have any info on why Dublin's architecture isn't great? Lack of money as you mentioned, but was it underfunded by Britain? Brain drain of good architects maybe?

Cracking little city too.

I'd be interested to see the stats that back up your claim obesity in Ireland is more common in rural areas.

Lol... "wonderful".. so much sneer in one post! Do you find the GAA "self serving and ineffective" or Scouting Ireland, one of the largest youth organisations in Ireland? The thousands of soccer coaches, rugby couches that volunteer & give their time over? Do you think the capuchin centre & soup kitchens are self serving and ineffective?

You honestly find it "hard to imagine" that without these efforts from people that things would be much worse? You need to step back from the keyboard and try and take a pulse of the nation because right now you're betraying yourself as part of a sniggering underclass that hasn't a notion what goes on.

PM me if you want to get involved, I'll send you in the right direction.

I say that most people would agree that Cork is better than Dublin.

There is even a book about it!

Expense, expense, expense.

It's actually the oldest city in Ireland, has it problems no doubt, could do with more tech,med device & pharma jobs, oh and a bit of recognition from central government that it actually exists but like it or not its recognised in Ireland as a city.