Why is Dublin such a shιtty city?

I'm on a job here in City Hall in Dame st. What a building (JimmyVik and co won't know about it). The interior is just stunning.... I'm back from an amazing lunch. City is looking amazing in the sun after a shower. You don't know what you're missing lads.

Not really,and it's a different topic anyway.

If you're comparing European capitals it's a very simple and direct comparison,there's only 27 of them or whatever.

Westport is 20km from me and is amongst the nicest places I've been in Europe,Tuam is half an hour from me and is a kip.We would be here all day.Lets take those 27 EU capitals for example,Dublin would be in the bottom 5 to 8 in my opinion.

I know you're a decent poster and respect your opinion., I know if you're from there you'll feel a need to play up the positives and defend the place but the consensus is fairly consistent.

Parts of D3 are lovely. S-mount is great, I go to the Westwood there so am there regularly. I could never afford to live there but these places are still easily accessible by bike or public transport, that's what's good about the city being relatively small.

yes Dublin is somehow supposed to compete with French and Austrian and Dutch cities built on the back of Imperial riches.

I mean it's quite obvious why Dublin is the way it is if you know anything about this country and its history.

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Its a kip compared other European cities, its great everyone is in agreement.

OP's post was asking a silly question when you consider the cost of property in Dublin. Poolbeg is a magnificent structure compared to most buildings in Ireland, for me it's Irelands best landmark mainly because we have a lack of decent landmarks. It's an important part of Dublins lovely coastline.

I never compared Poolbeg to the Eiffle tower. If your making fair criticisms then that's grand, Dublin is far from perfect. Its when people make ridiculous criticisms that's when people say to go away. If an American spends 2 hours in Dublin and goes home and calls Ireland a dump then that American is an eejit as you can't judge a country after a two hour walk. Lots on people on here don't seem to grasp the fact that a city having a few bad areas doesn't make a city a dump. The vast majority of Dublin is nice to anybody who has good eyesight and is not afraid of there own shadow.

Wouldn't go that far in saying everyone loves Galway, there was a thread about it a few years ago and the hate was every bit as bad as anything you would see on this one.

Having said that apart from a weekend piss up in the pubs which could be good there isn't much else to do in Galway city.

Anybody saying graffiti in Dublin is a huge issue has to be blind when visiting other European cities. Spanish cities are covered in graffiti and here is a minor issue in comparison. Traffic in Dublin is no where near as bad as other cities like Rome, Paris, London etc... Go to the main square in Lisbon city centre. Most of the shops are closed and/or falling down. Offered Drugs every 10 feet walking down the road.

Madrid on the main shopping streets have prostitutes all over it. The main part of the city has brothels all over.

Paris is absolutely filthy and very easy to bump into major tent villages of homeless people.

It always amazes me people don't notice things in places they visit and claim Dublin has some massive levels of anti social issues which are way less than where they have been. Most such people have never visited a single museum in Dublin or gone to a play here.

It has more amenities and better public transport than anywhere else in the country, by far. I'd hate to think what you think of the rest of Ireland.

Galway is a small town, and there's plenty of heroin there and in Athlone in Westmeath, Donegal is mostly rural with some little towns so you're hardly likely to see heroin addicts on public transport. It's like some of you can't even grasp the concept of a city, cities are different to rural Ireland.

what?

There are more buses, a lot more public transport and a lot more people in Dublin than Donegal, Westmeath and Galway so you'll see a lot more people do a lot more things in a more populous area. In rural areas you get more farms and agriculture which means vast areas of horticulture and animals bred for consumption with very few humans, that's there reasons you don't see as much human activity as you do in big cities. You may have touched on this in school.

Also, a lot of the drug users from different parts of the country end up in Dublin as they have an easier life in the city, there's more shelter, more drugs, more support, more food & more charity. I work for a few restaurants and frequently see serving staff leave plates of food in laneways for a few minutes before the giant wheelybin. This wouldn't happen in a field because there's no restaurant, no lane, no bin, no food.

This is all you see through your anti-Dublin glasses though. Ireland is below Spain, UK, Portugal, many other European countries when it comes to poverty levels.