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Do you like Dublin?

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  • #62
    DoozerT6
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,594 ✭✭✭DoozerT6


    I have lived in Dublin for the majority of the past 22 years, and if I had to up sticks and move to another part of the country tomorrow(somewhere decent, not a ****hole!) I think I could honestly say I wouldn't miss it one bit. I'm not bothered by the nightlife, the shops are handy but sure the same things are in all of them, nice coffee shops - yeah, might miss those but only because I'm greedy :) and anyway, there are cafes everywhere now. I haven't developed long-term close friendships that I couldn't bear to leave behind either. Part of me often idly thinks about selling my place, changing my boring job and moving away, but realistically that's just a pipedream. But if it suddenly became a possibility I don't think I would hesitate too much.


  • #63
    nc19
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,395 ✭✭✭nc19


    yawhat! wrote: »
    Dublin is a kip, there is no denying it especially around the city centre. Overpriced, junkies, grey ugly buildings, always busy.

    There's towns. cities and villages that are 1000 times nicer than Dublin to live in!

    Its an overpriced KIP!


    I think the biggest problem is all the country people see Dublin as just the city centre. I have lived in dublin all my live and will go months without going into town. Unlike the country towns we have more than one 'centre' if you like. Dublin may not be the biggest city but its got the biggest urban sprawl with the likes of Dundrum Town Centre, Stillorgan, Omni, Tallaght, Lucan, Blanc, Airside, Pavillions etc meaning most people are not reliant on the city centre unlike the farmers, and therefore dont veiw it in the same light


  • #64
    Hell Ram
    Closed Accounts Posts: 57 ✭✭Hell Ram


    BNMC wrote: »
    Nope. Overpriced, stinks of piss and the traffic would drive you insane.

    Full of beggars, skangers and junkies.

    The accent is painful to listen to.

    Awful shithole, I'd rather live in Leitrim.

    See ya on the 8th December.

    There is certainly a problem in some areas, especially parts of the city centre. I love where I live though. Right beside the beach. Nice area (and surrounding). Can't beat it.


  • #65
    SimonTemplar
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,815 ✭✭✭SimonTemplar


    The King of Moo wrote: »
    People can't be serious about not feeling safe in Dublin city centre, surely!

    A drug addict might ask you for change, that's the worst that could happen!

    Junkie punched me in the chest for no reason in broad daylight at 3:00 on O'Connell St


  • #66
    John_Rambo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 11,733 ✭✭✭✭John_Rambo


    Love my city, amazing coastline, beaches, islands, rivers, mountains and wildlife sanctuaries minutes from the centre. Cool architecture, the cultural centre of the country, endless stuff to do, lots of it free. Cheapest and best restaurants in the country. Amazing parks and markets, good shopping, decent weather... The list goes on...

    The people that call it a kip don't know the city.


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  • #67
    Seaneh
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 18,300 ✭✭✭✭Seaneh


    Kermit.de.frog wrote: »
    Overpriced? Check.

    Junkies? Check.

    Traffic? Check.

    Stinks of piss? :confused:

    Walking across O'Connell bridge last night around 11pm and the smell of the Liffy made me want to puke, stench of **** and piss. Was fecking horrific.


  • #68
    Wulfie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 161 ✭✭Wulfie


    Boombastic wrote: »
    the fasted growing city in Europe, what's not to like ?

    The insane urban sprawl.


  • #69
    John_Rambo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 11,733 ✭✭✭✭John_Rambo


    Seaneh wrote: »
    Walking across O'Connell bridge last night around 11pm and the smell of the Liffy made me want to puke, stench of **** and piss. Was fecking horrific.

    The Liffey is spotless. It's got spawning salmon and otters. They don't survive in dirty water, so you're talking ****e or the smell is your Ma!


  • #70
    trashcan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,520 ✭✭✭trashcan


    nc19 wrote: »
    . Ballyfermot is like a 3rd world country in places.

    What the hell are you talking about ? Ballyfermot is a working class housing estate, no better or worse than any other across the city, like Cabra, Crumlin, Drimnagh, etc etc etc. Sure, it has it's share of scumbags, but it's not friggin downtown Beiruit.


  • #71
    donvito99
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,818 ✭✭✭donvito99


    BNMC wrote: »
    Nope. Overpriced
    Fair enough, it is noticeable, but not so much that I'd have to move to the country to afford things.
    stinks of piss
    I can tell you now that, at present, there is no detectable smell of urine in South Dublin. However, if there was a westerly breeze, a "smell of piss" and benji may well drift up from the shticks. (tl;dr - your's was a stupid comment that deserves an equally baseless reply)
    and the traffic would drive you insane.
    Depends where you live, I suppose. Live close enough and you can walk, cycle, get a reliable Luas (unique in this regard to Dublin on the island!) or an adequately reliable but far more extensive bus service. If however you bought a house in - ironically- the shticks then you brought a long commute fraught with delay upon yourself. I have noticed traffic abate in recent years.
    Full of beggars, skangers and junkies.
    While I agree that there are some, there are only enough to make headlines in papers but more so on boards that makes it seem like the city is riddled with them more so than any other city of comparable size and demographic in Europe (but especially the more comparable UK).
    The accent is painful to listen to.
    Agree totally. I much prefer all other accents, even Corkonian's. It's just too harsh.

    I'd live no where else in this country.


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  • #72
    4Dlolz
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 271 ✭✭4Dlolz


    The problem with Dublin, just like the rest of the country, is the government.

    There is a complete lack of any kind of vision for the city going forward. This has always been the case as no one within 100 miles of Leinster House with any influence whatsoever has the mental capacity and intellectual capability to run a bath - never mind a country.


  • #73
    Seaneh
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    John_Rambo wrote: »
    The Liffey is spotless. It's got spawning salmon and otters. They don't survive in dirty water, so you're talking ****e or the smell is your Ma!

    It has spawning salmon and otters once you get out of the city, in the city it's disgusting, if you can't acknowledge that you're either blind or ignorant.


  • #74
    Princess Consuela Bananahammock
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 33,779 ✭✭✭✭Princess Consuela Bananahammock


    orangesoda wrote: »
    very European i mean

    Well, itIS European, what would you expect...?

    Everything I don't like is either woke or fascist - possibly both - pick one.



  • #75
    SpaceTime
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,085 ✭✭✭SpaceTime


    I like it, but what's spoiling it at the moment is the wandering zombies.


  • #76
    Seaneh
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    I've lived in Dublin since september, I live in Dublin 5, work in Dublin 1 and go to college in south county Dublin. So in a regular week I'm pretty much all over the place.

    I really, really, really dislike Dublin. The cost of everything except food is ridiculously expensive (you can eat really well here for pretty cheap thanks to lots of decent fruit and veg shops, butchers and a few decent fishmongers and a lot of ethnic stores), the city is a mess planning wise, public transport is beyond ****e, there are junkies and scobes in a larger density in the city centre than I have ever seen anywhere in my life and practically no Garda presence at all to counteract it. The city itself is grey and ugly and litter is a massive problem. It must be one of the dirtiest capital cities in western Europe. I finish college and work at the end of May and to be honest I can't wait to get the hell out of here. I love where I work, I enjoyed my year in college and I have met some awesome people here and I'll be back to visit now and then and to go to gigs/nights out, but I will never live in this kipp again if I have any say in the matter.


  • #77
    johnnyvegas22
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 78 ✭✭johnnyvegas22


    The public transport system is a joke ,I cant believe that we have the green and red line luas line but never installed a line going from the airport to the cc,


  • #78
    John_Rambo
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    Seaneh wrote: »
    It has spawning salmon and otters once you get out of the city, in the city it's disgusting, if you can't acknowledge that you're either blind or ignorant.

    Ignorant? Sit down for the nature lesson boy.

    They have to swim through the city to get up the river to spawn and there is a resident otter in Dublin. The Liffey is actually cleaner than most rivers in the country, no septic tanks, no slurry spreading and less dumping.


  • #79
    cloud493
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    I like Dublin very much, I can't imagine living anywhere else in Ireland.


  • #80
    John_Rambo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 11,733 ✭✭✭✭John_Rambo


    Seaneh wrote: »
    I've lived in Dublin since september, I live in Dublin 5, work in Dublin 1 and go to college in south county Dublin. So in a regular week I'm pretty much all over the place

    Yet the more you post the more ignorance you show about where you live.


  • #81
    Red Pepper
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    I liked Dublin in the mid-1990s for about 2 years but it gets boring very fast. Now I hate going there because it just has become rough and characterless. I wish it weren't so.


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  • #82
    orangesoda
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    Princess Consuela Bananahammock wrote: »
    Well, itIS European, what would you expect...?

    not mainland European though


  • #83
    nc19
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,395 ✭✭✭nc19


    trashcan wrote: »
    What the hell are you talking about ? Ballyfermot is a working class housing estate, no better or worse than any other across the city, like Cabra, Crumlin, Drimnagh, etc etc etc. Sure, it has it's share of scumbags, but it's not friggin downtown Beiruit.

    I worked there for a yr. Had to deal with the locals daily for the job and saw a lot more due to location. Mothers pulling up to the shop with 5/6 kids in the car, no seatbelts, the mother smoking with all the windows closed and in the kids go to get their lunch for school while the mothers stays in the car in her PJs. Out the come with crisps and fizzy drinks and rolls as big as they are. Some people would just drop their rubbish where they stood. Had a fella take a dump behind a bin next to the job. Burnt out cars everyother day, joyriding everynight. Youngs ones walking around in the middle of the day in their PJs, kids 6/7 yrs of age trying to rob you. Yeh, lovely area


    As I said, its about how and where you were brought up and its far from that for me.


  • #84
    Seaneh
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 18,300 ✭✭✭✭Seaneh


    John_Rambo wrote: »
    Ignorant? Sit down for the nature lesson boy.

    They have to swim through the city to get up the river to spawn and there is a resident otter in Dublin. The Liffey is actually cleaner than most rivers in the country, no septic tanks, no slurry spreading and less dumping.

    If it's so clean, why does it smell like sh!te?

    Do you not realise how quickly adult salmon would pass through the tiny stretch of river between the port and island bridge before getting to the cleaner stretches of the river? Do you not realise that your resident otter probably lives a few km upstream near the parks?


  • #85
    Peregrine
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    johnnyvegas22 wrote: »
    The public transport system is a joke ,I cant believe that we have the green and red line luas line but never installed a line going from the airport to the cc,

    A on street tram to the airport? That would be silly. MN is the only viable option for a rapid high capacity rail link to the airport that also serves North inner city and Swords. But as it stands, we have no money for it and if we do get money soon for a big public transport investment(which we absolutely should - it's awful), Dart Underground is more important.


  • #86
    DoozerT6
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,594 ✭✭✭DoozerT6


    John_Rambo wrote: »
    Yet the more you post the more ignorance you show about where you live.

    Do you not think that as someone from outside Dublin, he has a fresher/different view of it? Anyway he is entitled to his opinion. Not everybody is in love with our capital city, despite what you may think of it.


  • #87
    Seaneh
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 18,300 ✭✭✭✭Seaneh


    orangesoda wrote: »
    not mainland European though

    Neither is Copenhagen, what's your point?


  • #88
    Red Pepper
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,567 ✭✭✭Red Pepper


    John_Rambo wrote: »
    The Liffey is spotless. It's got spawning salmon and otters. They don't survive in dirty water, so you're talking ****e or the smell is your Ma!

    :D they sure as hell are not spawning under O'Connell St bridge - it's filthy! There are some salmon upstream alright even though the stocks are precarious. But I imagine they close their gills in the last mile or two to/from the sea!


  • #89
    orangesoda
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,223 ✭✭✭orangesoda


    Seaneh wrote: »
    Neither is Copenhagen, what's your point?

    maybe it's just the euro currency that gives me that effect, unlike the pound which is native to the british isles


  • #90
    cloud493
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,835 ✭✭✭✭cloud493


    I disagree, I think Dublin city has a character (as someone who wasn't born here) and its almost entirely unique.


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  • #91
    Red Pepper
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,567 ✭✭✭Red Pepper


    Kermit.de.frog wrote: »
    Dublin's problems are not of that scale and are managable if the authorities actually cared. There is so much potential. It's being held back by stupid people.

    Mayor vote rejection a case in point. That gang out in Fingal denied me a vote on having a mayor for my own fcuking city. And if any of them read this - don't think we in Fingal have forgotten that - cnuts:mad:

    Absolutely spot on. And the sooner ordinary Dubs stop accepting the status quo, the sooner things will improve or at the very least stop declining.


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