Worst area/place you ever lived?

McIrish_ · 10-11-2013 09:24PM #1

I guess I'd have to say Baltimore MD. I was stuck for a place to stay a few years ago and was let down by another landlord who promised me a house in another destination but then changed his mind....bit of a long story actually.

So (over the phone) a different landlord told me that he had a place in a safe area. So I believed him and met him the next morning only to be clearly mistaken....I had found myself in the middle of a ghetto. (Funny lookin back on it now actually)

So I spent about a week and a half there (being one of the few white people) until I had gotten my first pay check. My roommates were a hazard...they kept me up every night playing loud music and there were always guys in her room. Then they were constantly picking arguments over small stuff.

I remember hearing gun shots the odd night and I remember feeling uncomfortable and edgy walking around the streets. The houses on the other side of the road were mostly burnt down and abandoned. The shop across the road from me had bulled proof glass separating me from the cashier

Thankfully nothing bad actually happened to me but I'm almost certain if I would have stayed there I would have been targeted. For 75 dollars a week I guess I should have known better lol :-)

fasttalkerchat · 10-11-2013 09:51PM

Dublin.

Sir Osis of Liver. · 10-11-2013 09:55PM

Paris,
rude people,expensive,stink of piss everywhere.

10-11-2013 10:10PM

Sir Osis of Liver. wrote: »

Paris,
rude people,expensive,stink of piss everywhere.

I went into this thread to type pretty much what you just said. Paris is a kip

Hootanany · 10-11-2013 10:16PM

Black rock full of wannabes

10-11-2013 10:21PM

Sir Osis of Liver. wrote: »

Paris,
rude people,expensive,stink of piss everywhere.

That's a pity, I love Paris. Really really love it. I'd like to live there some day, when I'm older.

The Aussie · 10-11-2013 10:22PM

fasttalkerchat wrote: »

Dublin.

Beat me to it, full of pretentious wannabes, before when they had money and now when they pretend to have money, I dred having to go within the M50

DUMP

Lapin · 10-11-2013 10:23PM

St Priest, Lyon for me. Shíthole full of Algerian **** who would cut you in half for a cigarette.

Sir Osis of Liver. wrote: »

Paris,
rude people,expensive,stink of piss everywhere.

Snotaul Goodman wrote: »

I went into this thread to type pretty much what you just said. Paris is a kip

What Part of Paris?

I lived in the 5th and loved the place.

Red_Dwarf · 10-11-2013 10:23PM

Longford

byhookorbycrook · 10-11-2013 10:24PM

Portarlington in the late 80s.

Aint Eazy Being Cheezy · 10-11-2013 10:25PM

Brussels. Longest 6 weeks of my life. Couldn't wait to get home.

Savoir.Faire · 10-11-2013 10:26PM

I spent three extremely long months in Amsterdam as a younger man. I was working on a paper with some fellow researchers at the UvA. It was a wretched place, and I literally punched the air with joy when my tenure was up and I could return to the joys of London.

The food was almost routinely awful, the Dutch are loud, abrasive and crass; the streets smelt faintly of urine and the place was crawling with the worst type of stoner-zombie tourists if visiting the city centre.

Miss Lockhart · 10-11-2013 10:27PM

UCD is where I hated the most (residences - not the college in general).

Absolutely loved living in Paris.

theblaqueguy · 10-11-2013 10:29PM

The ghetto

I've worked my way out of there
Hopefully I'll never have to live there ever again

Sunnyisland · 10-11-2013 10:30PM

Mount joy, couldn't wait to get out :-)

10-11-2013 10:31PM

Lapin wrote: »

St Priest, Lyon for me. Shíthole full of Algerian **** who would cut you in half for a cigarette.

What Part of Paris?

I lived in the 5th and loved the place.

Choisy le roi. The tallaght of Paris. Didn't care for the city centre either. I'll probably never set foot there again

Kettleson · 10-11-2013 10:33PM

Forest Gate, East London...mind you there are plenty worse places. Seeing very young mothers walking around before noon, pushing babies in prams and slurping from cans of Carlsberg Special Brew was quite a sobering sight...

For Forks Sake · 10-11-2013 10:34PM

byhookorbycrook wrote: »

Portarlington in the late 80s. any decade.

Fixed that. A truly depressing excuse for a town.

ElvisChrist6 · 10-11-2013 10:35PM

O'Devaney Gardens, in Dublin for 16 years. Still keep my eyes on all sides of me from living there. It's like if Finglas and Ballyer were merged and concentrated into a few blocks of flats.

For Forks Sake · 10-11-2013 10:36PM

Kettleson wrote: »

Forest Gate, East London...mind you there are plenty worse places. Seeing very young mothers walking around before noon, pushing babies in prams and slurping from cans of Carlsberg Special Brew was quite a sobering sight...

Not for them, obviously

Dr Turk Turkelton · 10-11-2013 10:39PM

realies wrote: »

Mount joy, couldn't wait to get out :-)

What and give up your menus at feeding time and playstaion in your cell?

jjbrien · 10-11-2013 10:39PM

Waterford City could not wait to leave it

Big Nasty · 10-11-2013 10:40PM

Never lived in France but I found Paris extremely disappointing and a dirty, uncomfortable place to visit, bar the usual tourist attractions. Brussles can be a bit like that too but I really liked living in Belgium, although I was outside Brussels to be fair. The problem with both (IMO) is the shifty Algerians / Moroccans that come out of the woodwork at night and make everyone feel uncomfortable. I guess that's what you get for colonising a country.

xXxkorixXx · 10-11-2013 10:42PM

arklow. full of anti dublin inbreds

byhookorbycrook · 10-11-2013 10:48PM

For Forks Sake wrote: »

Fixed that. A truly depressing excuse for a town.

Didn't have a car and the feckers stole my bike! Stayed in a flat where you had to walk around the edge of the room ,since the middle of the floor was sagging and likely to fall in at any time.

pauliebdub · 10-11-2013 10:49PM

jjbrien wrote: »

Waterford City could not wait to leave it

Agreed, lived there whilst in college, a complete and utter ****hole.

For Forks Sake · 10-11-2013 10:50PM

jjbrien wrote: »

Waterford City could not wait to leave it

Not the worst place in the world, but the natives would drive you daft. Complaining is the primary pastime down there. Everything is someone elses fault.

JJJJNR · 10-11-2013 10:54PM

Belgravia.

keeponhurling · 10-11-2013 11:41PM

For Forks Sake wrote: »

Not the worst place in the world, but the natives would drive you daft. Complaining is the primary pastime down there. Everything is someone elses fault.

Microcosm for the whole country so?

LorMal · 10-11-2013 11:50PM

Savoir.Faire wrote: »

I spent three extremely long months in Amsterdam as a younger man. I was working on a paper with some fellow researchers at the UvA. It was a wretched place, and I literally punched the air with joy when my tenure was up and I could return to the joys of London.

The food was almost routinely awful, the Dutch are loud, abrasive and crass; the streets smelt faintly of urine and the place was crawling with the worst type of stoner-zombie tourists if visiting the city centre.

Hooray to you. Totally agree. Lived with those f--kers for 5 years. Loud, abrasive, crass...tight fisted, boorish, selfish, aggressive and arrogant.

denlaw · 10-11-2013 11:51PM

I lived in longsight in Manchester till I was 15 which is as tough a place as any council estate in Ireland, parents moved back here back in 1983 to a smallish town in Kildare which was like stepping back to the 1950's, people were still wearing platforms and flares while I was fred perry/fila tacchni tops skinny drain pipe jeans and Adidas trainers and a Flicky wedge haircut, it was only after being out of it for a few yrs you realise how ****ty the place was and I'd never go back ( only to see some mates who still live there ) ..and utd !

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