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Worst area/place you ever lived?

McIrish_

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 :-)

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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

anncoates

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

HansHolzel

18, Parson's Street, Maynooth

The Big Smoke

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

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.

For Forks Sake

keeponhurling wrote: »

Microcosm for the whole country so?

Think thejournal.ie comments section multiplied to infinity

HansHolzel

HansHolzel wrote: »

18, Parson's Street, Maynooth

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

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.

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.

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

LETHAL LADY

Henrietta Street in Waterford.

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

Starscream25

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

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.

bohsboy

North circular road for 3 months. Truly depressing.

arybvtcw0eolkf

Beirut in 1988 was pretty rough... But we'd a bit of a civil war on our hands at the time

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?

Talib Fiasco

The streets/rough.

Sir Osis of Liver.

Talib Fiasco wrote: »

The streets/rough.

What streets?

Endless Nameless

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

still hate that place

anncoates

Sir Osis of Liver. wrote: »

What streets?

The mean ones.

Talib Fiasco

Sir Osis of Liver. wrote: »

What streets?

Cork City and local.

hfallada

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.

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.

cloudatlas

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

Spring Onion

Lapin wrote: »

What Part of Paris?
.

The Texan part.

Overrated city alright.

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.

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.

Eeden

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

we'llallhavetea

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