Worst area/place you ever lived?

Aint Eazy Being Cheezy · 11-11-2013 01:50AM

Eeden wrote: »

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

That's deep, man

OldRio · 11-11-2013 01:59AM

Middlesbrough in the north east of England.

This would be the 1980's and early 90's.

House broken into three times, Car broken into twice and vandalised on numerous occasions. Fighting strangers seemed a rite of package for the youth.

My eldest, who was about 9 years old at the time. brought in a needle and syringe and asked mammy 'Whats this for?' He found it in the back street.
Fireworks pushed through letterboxes was the normal at certain times of the year. Anyway enough of the private houses. The council estates were a step into Dantes Inferno.

In my work (Fire Service) we were routinely firebombed. Shot at and ambushed by the natives. Oh the joy.

I got out before things got worse and from what I have been told they most certainly have.
Shudders at the memories.

Aint Eazy Being Cheezy · 11-11-2013 02:09AM

aya startin wha wrote: »

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

Hi five! Flower hill. Think I've blocked it outta my head at this stage..

Lapin · 11-11-2013 02:13AM

JJJJNR wrote: »

Belgravia.

:eek::eek::eek:

If there was a thread about the nicest place we ever lived in, Belgravia would be top of my list.

I lived in Eaton Square for a year and loved the place.

NYC2013 · 11-11-2013 02:27AM

Staten Island, New York. Was staying on Jersey Street which is basically the hood and Staten Island in generally is boring as.

aidan24326 · 11-11-2013 02:30AM

Worst area/place you ever lived?

Dundalk.

I am pie · 11-11-2013 02:38AM

Hackney in London before the hipsters arrived.

BillyMitchel · 11-11-2013 02:43AM

Used to live in South Carolina and the top of my road was called cocaine hill.

Brazzers, open drug dealing, gangs of red necks and blacks. Drunks, bums you name it, we had it..

Never ever bothered us, if anything the toothless sterotypical red necks were pretty scary all the rest were cool.

Night, security around the place was as tight as a nuns fanny.

Good times

The Backwards Man · 11-11-2013 02:44AM

OldRio wrote: »

Middlesbrough in the north east of England.

This would be the 1980's and early 90's.

House broken into three times, Car broken into twice and vandalised on numerous occasions. Fighting strangers seemed a rite of package for the youth.

My eldest, who was about 9 years old at the time. brought in a needle and syringe and asked mammy 'Whats this for?' He found it in the back street.
Fireworks pushed through letterboxes was the normal at certain times of the year. Anyway enough of the private houses. The council estates were a step into Dantes Inferno.

In my work (Fire Service) we were routinely firebombed. Shot at and ambushed by the natives. Oh the joy.

I got out before things got worse and from what I have been told they most certainly have.
Shudders at the memories.

They are missing a trick as a location for post-apocalyptic movies around that part of the world. Bleak isn't the word.

PeteEd · 11-11-2013 02:51AM

Girvan in Ayrshire

Failing town with a desperately ageing population, only 8000 residents but there was a need for 2 mobility scooter shops in the town

The poster who often reports his GILF loving exploits would go down a storm here

Jesus Wept · 11-11-2013 02:57AM

Miss Lockhart wrote: »

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

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What was it like in the residences?

jandm · 11-11-2013 03:02AM

Did not like living in Athlone, Ballina (Mayo), West Drayton (Middlesex) and Maynooth.
Galway and Dun Laoghaire were good even if the rented places I lived in were shared with occasionally interesting characters!

smileyj1987 · 11-11-2013 03:26AM

aidan24326 wrote: »

Worst area/place you ever lived?

Dundalk.

I couldn't agree more the place is a pure dump .

tosspot15 · 11-11-2013 03:45AM

You just know that before long (its already started tbh) this threads just gonna descend into a massive circlejerk about X county is a shíthole, Dublins a shíthole, the countrysides a shíthole etc.

So try and be more specific if you're just gonna spew out crap like that. All cities and towns have their bad areas and good areas.

Student estates are a poor representation of a town. They just tend to be full of arsehole students and its merely them that run the place down.

Also, to be fair, Waterford city isn't THAT bad of a place. Not like its a rampant lawless hell-hole. Student area's and houses near bars are always going to get a horrible saying about them. It has a fine city centre and the majority of the suburbs you wouldnt feel unsafe in during the day, or even the city centre day or night.

kimjongillest · 11-11-2013 03:52AM

East Hastings Street

WilyCoyote · 11-11-2013 03:53AM

Sir Osis of Liver. wrote: »

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.

Lived in Rozay-en-Brie about 30 mins south of Meaux for a good few years in the late 80s, early 90s. Meaux then was getting a bit on the rough side and I saw many an alcohol-induced fight between children of pied-noirs and some of the new arrivals. But overall I enjoyed France, the French cuisine but not really the culture ......... which I think is vastly overdone.

Galtee_Gammon · 11-11-2013 04:16AM

My first post.

I have to say the worst place I lived in was either Redfern in Sydney (or) Castlebar for 2 entirely different reasons.

Redfern is akin to a regeneration area in Dublin/Limerick/Cork. They've done a lot to improve the area in recent times but when I lived there it was an absolute Kip.

Castlebar because there is sweet f'all to do. Pubs are fairly poor. Bit of a hole.

Blue Crystal · 11-11-2013 04:55AM

One of the worst was Corrib Village in Galway, the best was also Corrib Village :cool:

Unplastered walls and the management being bell ends about gate closing times and overnight guests, carpet and paint straight out of the 80s; but it was still great craic

MadsL · 11-11-2013 05:16AM

Mena wrote: »

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.

Winner.

Lived for a while on Saville Place (Five Lamps) in Dublin. First night in the kip (parts of the ceiling missing) someone stole the basement washing machine, the next night someone was stabbed in the front garden. We just moved from Prague where we steppe over passed out junkies and needles in the morning, and that was way more pleasant than living there.

Bray was also full of knuckledraggers.

Ciderswigger · 11-11-2013 05:28AM

Edenderry.

Pogmothone · 11-11-2013 05:32AM

Galtee_Gammon wrote: »

My first post.

I have to say the worst place I lived in was either Redfern in Sydney (or) Castlebar for 2 entirely different reasons.

Redfern is akin to a regeneration area in Dublin/Limerick/Cork. They've done a lot to improve the area in recent times but when I lived there it was an absolute Kip.

Castlebar because there is sweet f'all to do. Pubs are fairly poor. Bit of a hole.

Just back from Oz, I lived on collins street just up from Redfern, That area was nice, But my god Redfern was a kip, The amount of muggings in that area was crazy, A 92yr old man was mugged and beaten to a pulp in broad daylight one time. , Full of abbos and people that dont give a **** about anything.

Galwayguy35 · 11-11-2013 05:36AM

Tuam, complete dump.

Shanotheslayer · 11-11-2013 08:34AM

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.

I live around the corner from there. It's not as bad now a days, but I remember growing up, just felt like there was helicopters flying around every 2nd night!

pappyodaniel · 11-11-2013 08:50AM

Anchorage AK. When your local pub/nightclub has a metal detector inside the front door you know you're in a ****hole.

HansHolzel · 11-11-2013 11:21AM

aya startin wha wrote: »

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

Ah, is Solar still going?

In later years I was reminded by that Cillian Murphy film about flying into the sun.

Legs.Eleven · 11-11-2013 11:38AM

Wolverhampton in England for my final year of university. Very disadvantaged city and the students all lived in the roughest estate because it was the cheapest. Right was rght beside the Wolves stadium that attracted a lot of hooliganism and fights. My house was lovely but I'd walk by prostitutes on my way home during the day and night. Gunshots, crackheads, joy riding...

Very happy memories of it though and the area also had a massive Sikh population and people were lovely.

East End London wasn't great either but it was just starting to get trendified when I lived there. Never had much hassle except for street cordoned off occasionally after murders.

giles lynchwood · 11-11-2013 11:46AM

I lived in Nicaragua for 2 years and when people ask me what it's lik ,my answer is that the stanard issue firearm for the police is an AK47 which about sums it up.

DeltaWhite · 11-11-2013 11:49AM

I lived in Ballyfermot for most of my childhood... the day finally came when we upped and left after I saw a man being kicked to death outside my house at 11 years old.. Hated the place, absolute sh*thole and I've never looked back since we moved 16 years ago.

Good riddance!

Darkglasses · 11-11-2013 11:54AM

Foley street, Dublin. Car was torched outside my apartment the last week I stayed there, some kids tried to rob my groceries one day, and three of my friends got a smack waiting outside the apartment entrance. It was grand otherwise! Plenty of drunks and junkies but mostly they didn't bother me.

Helped that the apartment complex was very secure. Saw a few try and fail to break in.

Hoop66 · 11-11-2013 12:01PM

Where to start...

Bow, East London - the locals hated us more than they hated the black/asian immigrants, because we were squatters. And they hated the immigrants. So the two ostracised communities got together and got on grand. Fúck you, you inbred, racist, cockney cúnts.

Hackney, East London - never felt threatened myself, but nobody would visit because they were terrified they'd be killed. Presumably by "Yardies" or some other Daily Mail/ITV threat.

Leyton - 19th floor of a tower-block. A kid from the next flat was killed trying to climb between balconies to burgle us.

Hulme, Manchester - lived in a mostly squatted, partly abandoned, council estate. Taxi drivers wouldn't bring you back there at night.

Oh, and Ikeja, Lagos. I win.

Worst area/place you ever lived?

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