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Worst area/place you ever lived?

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  • #32
    denlaw
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 406 ✭✭denlaw


    denlaw wrote: »
    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 !
    haha the 1950s ..get me
    I ment the early 1970's


  • #33
    anncoates
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,925 ✭✭✭✭anncoates


    You just know this thread will be full of students boasting about their 1-3 years on tame ghetto holiday.


  • #34
    HansHolzel
    Closed Accounts Posts: 996 ✭✭✭HansHolzel


    18, Parson's Street, Maynooth


  • #35
    The Big Smoke
    Closed Accounts Posts: 402 ✭✭The Big Smoke


    Dungannon, Co.Tyrone. Awful kip, lived in a mice infested bedsit for about a year at 17. Good times.


  • #36
    Mena
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,178 ✭✭✭Mena


    I lived in Hillbrow (Joburg) for 18 months in the late 80's. I still struggle to sleep due to the lack of constant gunfire in the background at night. It's got a lot worse since apparently.


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  • #37
    For Forks Sake
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,484 ✭✭✭✭For Forks Sake


    keeponhurling wrote: »
    Microcosm for the whole country so?

    Think thejournal.ie comments section multiplied to infinity


  • #38
    HansHolzel
    Closed Accounts Posts: 996 ✭✭✭HansHolzel


    HansHolzel wrote: »
    18, Parson's Street, Maynooth

    last man out tried to torch it but his lighter wouldn't light the damp blankets


  • #39
    PhlegmyMoses
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,906 ✭✭✭✭PhlegmyMoses


    ElvisChrist6 wrote: »
    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.

    Lived near here, just off Infirmary Road, for a while when I was in college. Grim place all round and the house I was living in was grim as well. Used to play football with a gang of lads from there, though, and they were grand lads.


  • #40
    Seaneh
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 18,300 ✭✭✭✭Seaneh


    "Worst" as in sketchiest, Portoviejo, Ecuador or La Paz, Bolivia, if I had to pick between the two I think Portoviejo despite being a fraction the size of La Paz was probably a more dangerous place, that said, I loved the place and the people and the food was unfeckingreal. The best, freshest, fish and fruit I've ever had and just fantastic cuisine.

    I think Dublin's a bit of a ****ing ****hole though, it's not unsafe but it's as rough as a bears arse and the amount of ****ing junkies and general scobes in the city centre is ridiculous.


  • #41
    For Forks Sake
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,484 ✭✭✭✭For Forks Sake


    HansHolzel wrote: »
    last man out tried to torch it but his lighter wouldn't light the damp blankets

    Looks like someone finished the job http://goo.gl/maps/QMtLc


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  • #42
    LETHAL LADY
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,145 ✭✭✭LETHAL LADY


    Henrietta Street in Waterford.


  • #43
    HansHolzel
    Closed Accounts Posts: 996 ✭✭✭HansHolzel


    For Forks Sake wrote: »
    Looks like someone finished the job http://goo.gl/maps/QMtLc

    looks like the haunting has spread to next door


  • #44
    Starscream25
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,100 ✭✭✭Starscream25


    Templars hall Waterford when I was there in 2004/05, it's cleaned up a bit lately tho.


  • #45
    Sir Osis of Liver.
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,820 ✭✭✭Sir Osis of Liver.


    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.
    Meaux and Noisy le Grand,both suburbs of Paris.
    Used to head into the city centre on weekends drinking but found the place to be full of knife wielding scummy sand naggers.


  • #46
    bohsboy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,754 ✭✭✭bohsboy


    North circular road for 3 months. Truly depressing.


  • #47
    arybvtcw0eolkf
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    Beirut in 1988 was pretty rough... But we'd a bit of a civil war on our hands at the time :/


  • #48
    Endless Nameless
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 138 ✭✭Endless Nameless


    bohsboy wrote: »
    North circular road for 3 months. Truly depressing.


    I lived on the North Circular and I thought it was great

    What Bohs fan hates the north circular road?


  • #49
    Talib Fiasco
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    The streets/rough.


  • #50
    Sir Osis of Liver.
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,820 ✭✭✭Sir Osis of Liver.


    Talib Fiasco wrote: »
    The streets/rough.
    What streets?


  • #51
    Endless Nameless
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 138 ✭✭Endless Nameless


    Oh, and the worst place I ever lived was a small town in rural Kildare

    still hate that place


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  • #52
    anncoates
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    Sir Osis of Liver. wrote: »
    What streets?


    The mean ones.


  • #53
    Talib Fiasco
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,428 ✭✭✭Talib Fiasco


    Sir Osis of Liver. wrote: »
    What streets?

    Cork City and local.


  • #54
    hfallada
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    A small Germany city of 100,000 people near cologne. Although there was 100k people, there was nothing to do in the city. You had to drive to Duisburg to do anything. Duisburg is the poorest and ****test city in west Germany. Unemployment is ridiculously high and there is massive poverty. It was like east Germany before the fall of the Berlin Wall.

    I can't wait to get back to Dublin. Dublin although is quite rough in parts, it also has character.


  • #55
    Grayson
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,442 ✭✭✭✭Grayson


    HansHolzel wrote: »
    looks like the haunting has spread to next door

    That's what you get when you build houses over a river/stream.

    I once got a taxi to work and the driver had to stop to let a donkey wander past on parsons st. that was about 8am on a sunday morning.


  • #56
    cloudatlas
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,713 ✭✭✭cloudatlas


    I'd rather live in a ****ty apartment in a safe area than a lovely apartment in an unsafe area.


  • #57
    Spring Onion
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    Lapin wrote: »

    What Part of Paris?
    .

    The Texan part.

    Overrated city alright.


  • #58
    dd972
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,563 ✭✭✭dd972


    Johnny Electricity wrote: »
    Brussels. Longest 6 weeks of my life. Couldn't wait to get home.

    F**king hell ! I love Brussels, but respect your opinion nonetheless , worst place I've lived is Finglas.


  • #59
    dd972
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,563 ✭✭✭dd972


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

    I'm with you on that one, they're also Homophobic to a ridiculous level, not in the banter sense like we are, i.e; in the sense of light heartedly slagging our mates in that way, but in a seriously hostile way, like they've serious issues with the whole thing.

    I used to shop over the border in Belgium and Germany as I couldn't hack being stood in the checkout line being some priggish Dutch twat with a handful of bonnetjes ( vouchers ) so they could save €3.50 on their shopping.


  • #60
    Eeden
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    I reckon if you'd rather be someplace else, even a really nice place can be pretty miserable.


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  • #61
    we'llallhavetea
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,031 ✭✭✭we'llallhavetea


    navan *shudder*
    one of the most depressing holes in the country IMO


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