Sure-Fire Signs That an area is Rough

teen girls going to the shop wearing pyjama,s .
down the lane ,theres old tv,s ,sofa,s ,chairs dumped .
x per cent of houses are boarded up.,
Some shop units may be empty.Teens sitting on a wall .
lots of litter all over the place .
gardens full of junk,old bikes, walls with tags, graffiti, decko was here .

Hey, I'm from Finglas and according to CSO stats as a public servant I'm earning more than all you stuck up, nice area. private sector b@stards.

Suck it up b1tches!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Car batteries out in the street
An old fridge or TV on the side of the road
White dog sh1t
Maybe an abandoned couch
Dogs walking alone on missions
Boarded up houses
Christmas decorations up all year
Shoes hanging from power lines
Pubs open all day with young lads in grey tracksuit bottoms keeping watch outside them
Houses with the front room turned into a shop
A shop called "the hut" or " the van" that's is actually a hut or a van
A chipper beside a Chinese, beside a bookies beside the other chipper beside a pub
Some sh1tty single issue politician's constituency office
Various back to work offices and partnerships seeming doing the same thing but all close by
A spar/Centra with an off licence, deli and post office
Also possibly a large looking building that may have been a theatre or cinema but is now a bingo hall but built from the same plans as about 20 others
Matching white statues of some sort of human in every window
Decorative gutters

I grew up in a working class area,
Knew all my neighbours
Everyone looked after each other and would help when ever needed
Always felt safe.
Great sense of community
We had the community centre but it was built by the locals after years of fund raising.


As an adult I moved to a middle class area
Barely know the people on either side and only talk to a couple of people

I know which I prefer.

People struggling to make sense of their financial situation and make ends meet while repeating the perpetual cycle that their parents spun before them.
Parents trying to make a better life for their children but failing to do so because they lack the life skills necessary because their own parents didn't possess these skills either.
A perpetuating culture of underachievement brought about by a fear of failure and a distrust of the markers of the social change ( education, career advancement etc) that would end the generational cycle of poverty and welfare dependency.
Short fat men with Jack Russels trying to look hard

Armchair Andy wrote: »

Two tradesmen vans pulling in for a small job. Both parked nose heavy for the estate exit. At 6 o clock in the morning.


Crowsh1t all over the roofs.

Merseyside and Old Trafford nameplates on the front door.

A blue hue from the 155' TV lighting up the path outside the house.

Did you mean to say the telly is 155 feet on the diagonal? Youre still probably right...

bilbot79 wrote: »

Why not move back then?

You have to trade in your rose tinted glasses when you move out of your middle class dwelling.

Tucking your tracksuit into your socks and walking with a pimp cane.

http://i179.photobucket.com/albums/w287/ericblsf/pimpcanesmedium.jpg

They made themselves very well known to the fire brigades the other night with all those bonfires.