DUBLIN IS TOTALLY UNLIVABLE **Mod Warning In Post #671**

So you never saw any Roma Gypsies? There are a ton of homeless people who are not from Dublin. The city centre main streets have the locals but the rest of the city and suburbs have beggars from the countryside and foreign countries.

^ Re Garda at GPO, that is a static post afaik, so the Garda is not actually 'on patrol'.

Remember when those pesky rebels took over the GPO? There wasn't an RIC constable on duty then and look what happened...

Yeah, I should have stopped before adding the second paragraph... ☺️

The vast vast majority of Dubliners couldn't afford to live there or anywhere along that coast, but lots of other less expensive areas are great for bringing up kids too.

C'mon folks the Junkies have had a hard year, not much pickings to be had as people work remotely. Give them a break.

Dublin is a great place if you happened to have inherited your granny's house in Ranelagh.

Dublin is what it is, regardless of a random house in Ranelagh.

Yeah, some of the attitudes and fear is hysterical on this thread, but in fairness, some of the anecdotes are from residents of the city centre. They see it all and they're the ones that bear the brunt.

I truly believe (as others obviously do) that the city needs a huge monitory injection. Stop sending money out to build motorways around the country and deal with the problem in the capital to make it a city for people. A properly trained transport police unit and a metro police force needs to be established to encourage the good people back in to the city.

Local Property Tax needs to be what it says. Local. Not flowing out of the city to improve areas that are totally "Liveable" and don't have the social and economic problems the city suffers from.

The city centre is **** filthy, between the litter and the endemic stickering, it's actually an awful place to be.

I haven't had the need to go into the city much since the C19 crisis but the cities problems appear much worse now.

As I've posted before, when the tide goes out you find out who's been swimming with no pants, and Dublin is starkers.

I find that bizarre. I've often had visitors from abroad and they've had a great time here. There are many lovely parts of Dublin including in the city centre, I think a lot of Irish people, especially those not from Dublin, look at it with a glass half full approach, and view it with contempt. If the homeless people and addicts and lack of policing put you off Dublin, I would say that's a failure at a national level, as in progressive Governments aren't doing enough to help the most populous part of the country. As others have said in this thread, perhaps lots more needs to be spent on the city centre and its people, but I don't think the rest of Ireland would be happy with that either!

It can be a great place though if you want it to be.

Street furniture that isn't vandalised... off the top of my head the seating areas on Chatham St, the benches in Merrion Square, the benches along the canal at Baggot St bridge that I have lunch on regularly are fully functioning too. They've done some good work during covid, the streets around South William St have restricted cars to a certain extent, new paving and seating on Drury St, Dawson St has had a few buildings redeveloped and it's looking well.

Do you think the civic pride thing is a Dublin thing or a national thing, because I regularly see instances of dumping and litter and pollution all over Ireland?

They haven't done anywhere near enough for cycling infra in my opinion but that's another thread, it's still getting better though.

Well that's pretty normal in all cities, but no I hadn't noticed this on what I mentioned, I guess I don't go looking for these things or worry about them. Ever been to Berlin or London? Does that actually bother you?

I'm afraid you are just getting old.

It happens to us all at some stage 😁

You think Dublin is always improving? Aside from cycling infrastructure, what exactly has improved in the last 18 months? The city is visibly more littered, and now has gangs of youths roaming the streets attacking people.

I had to go into the city in the early hours last week and ended up traversing down south William St. To say the atmosphere was hostile would be the nicest way if putting it.

The fingers in the ears ignoring the cities problems, whilst telling ourselves the city is great has gone on long enough. Perhaps you should tell the pregnant woman that lost her baby after being assaulted in the city how great the place is. Or the lad that was forced to perform a sex act on two other men or the family of the cleaner that was murdered outside CHQ.

Dublin is dis-improving.

when the Metro, was proposed to when the first passenger will avail of the service, 26 years will have passed. That could change because of covid.

one line 16 stops, 26 fûcking years. One third of a persons lifetime.

Copenhagen metro took just 10 years.

Also it was planned, designed and built for a population far less then it will be forced to try and accommodate...ie. It won’t be fit for purpose.

my parents were both still working when it was given the green light... they are unsure if they’ll still be around and living when the first train moves with passengers.

Dublin is overpopulated, difficult to transport oneself, unsafe, expensive. It’s getting worse, it’s dis-improving

I take it then that you've never walked the boardwalk?

of course I have, loads of times, addicts frequent there but I don't have any ill feelings towards them and they don't bother me, I just feel bad for them. If you are so appalled by them why do you ever go near the boardwalk yourself?