Sure-Fire Signs That an area is Rough

Bambi wrote: »

I don't know or care what cork was like in the 80s but I can think of half a dozen black families from my road in the 1980s. A rake of black people live there now too, its a rough neighborhood. Same in other rough neighborhoods. You'll always see more black people in rough neighborhoods in Ireland.

That might make you uncomfortable because if you're referring to blacks as an underclass, well thats different in your book I guess

Victor wrote: »

My point is that one of the positive factors about immigration in Ireland is that it hasn't created ethnic ghettos - immigrant communities are mixed,

it is the lower working class / underclass Irish ghettos that lack ethnic diversity.

Johngoose wrote: »

House price of under €300,000 is the latest criteria.

Victor wrote: »

Bishopstown isn't what it used to be with all the middle class moved to Rochestown and Ballincollig to be replaced by young nurses and college students.

Scorched areas on the park green, rubbish thrown around broken fences/windows and stray dogs everywhere

When they put a green light on you as soon as look at you.

Lads going around in celtic tops.

Extra rough if there are even dogs with Celtic tops and im talking about the 4 legged kind.

Hardly a Dublin thing. The rest of the country constantly mocks Dublin for all its "scrotes" and addicts etc. and the walking dead and how much of a kip it is. So looks like the rest of Ireland inherited these UK traits too.

ok well go to Reddit Ireland, that's the only place I hear it really, I think the younger generation use it.

Are you seriously saying the rest of Ireland don't look down on "junkies" and the less well off in Dublin? You're having a laugh.

I don't think it is a uniquely UK or Irish thing for some people to look down on folk you think of as lesser value to society than yourself.

Where!? I'll bring the Dutch gold.

No google needed.

You see, you seem to be angry at something imaginary. A persona of a person you have just invented. A strawman if you will.

You then attack it, in anger, harvesting said emotion.

I also used the colloquial vernacular "bais" to represent a laid back, non urban dialect for the collective term "boys" as of course, you were quoting someone else.

So therefore, "You have made yourself angry by attacking an imaginary person / scenario, haven't you gentlemen?" would be the translation.

graffiti on walls, random old bikes lying around with flat tyres, groups of ypung people hanging around on street corners after 9pm.shop,,s ,house,s boarded up,,empty for years.kids collecting wood, anything that can be used to make bonfires at halloween.bags of rubbish ,old beds dumped in random places.

When Lifestyle Sports has an evening wear department.

A flat roofed pub.

People with endless random tattoos.

House numbers painted onto walls.

Having a dog who's surface area is 90% teeth.

Signs that an area is middle class:

EVs and/or SUVs in every drive.

There's a Gaelscoil nearby and the kids have obscure first names in Irish.

Estates have names like you'd see in the Home Counties.

Hum of lawnmowers and ride on lawnmowers in summer.

There's an obligatory Residents Association.

FF/FG with a dash of Green stronghold.

Double barrelled surnamed women stronghold.