Why is Dublin such a shιtty city?

Try get a builder.

Spent most of the day, today on Henry st., Moore st., Wolfe Tone st., Capel st. & Liffey st. with the kids. Lots of uniformed Garda around, very visible presence on foot and on bikes (more than usual, Halloween?). All streets were clean (including Moore st.) DCC were active & visible cleaning too. Recommend the extremely affordable beef skirt on sale in Troys Butchers & the Special Spicy Hue in Aobaba.

The best thing is... we made it out alive!

Bought some sparklers off a street trader, she gave the kids a box of snappits each for free and told me to have a "happy halloween chicken"

The mean streets.

Walked the quays this morning at 5.45 on my way to work, gangs of youths huddled together, they were either plotting some sort of anarchy or trying to keep as warm as possible waiting for the first bus in last night's barely there costumes......

Definitely anarchy.

Those Cork chungsters taking our jobs and wimmins (and fire)!

@CaptainTeebs

By the sound of things they've really started to clean up the place since I left last summer.

The variance across Dublin is huge and I think it's really magnified due to the overall small size of the city.

I lived in D1 for 6-7 years and saw my fair share of scumbags. Generally never really had any hassle from them but it's not something you want to be dealing with every day.

Moved over to D7 last year and don't really see any at all anymore. A few around Smithfield while walking through to get home but that's about it. It's gas how much it changes your perception of a city. I was even thinking 'wow, Dublin is really cleaning up it's act' - had to wander over to O'Connell Street recently and got a nice reminder of what I used to have to deal with on a daily basis.

In short, just stay away from the dodgy areas. Like any major city really.

By 'dodgy' I'd just mean a high scumbag to regular person ratio, with an elevated chance of getting grief - mostly after hours.

The Abbey Street intersection on O'Connell Street would be one of those particular spots, I've had watch where I walk on quite a few occasions to try to avoid warring teenagers around there. Particularly on a Friday/Saturday night.

Still, I wouldn't find it 'dangerous' to the point where I'd be avoiding the street entirely because of it - just that it's not the most pleasant thing in the world to have to deal with and if you were to avoid it entirely, your 'vision' of Dublin would be a lot nicer.

A couple of my favourite streets were always Wicklow St and Duke St and walking through those locations even now bring you into contact with a significant number of scrotebags on a semi regular basis..

used to be quite gentrified urban thoroughfares with a nice relaxed pace to life… good music shops, bespoke independent clothing emporia, nice pubs, restaurants etc and nobody bothering you…. But now… fairly usual to have someone wearing a sleeping bag with customary hood up with a fag hanging out of its mouth and eyes popping out of its head and a metallic pong , popping right up into your face.. “ sorry bud, you couldn’t spare some …. “

You are indeed correct sir, I couldn’t… now my good man, allow me on my way…

What's your definition of hassle? Begging? I can't think of any city I've been to without beggars. Get over yourself.

Yes, I'm speaking from experience having lived there in the 90's and on hols in November 2019 just before COVID hit.

We stayed in a hotel not far from Union Square. There were homeless people in most doorways. And clearly many of the homeless there had serious mental health issues.

The first day we were there I told my wife we needed to be back in the hotel before it got dark as the place gets a bit dangerous. She ignored me. We got followed and hassled a good few times on the way back to the hotel. The second night we were there, the wife didn't need to be coaxed into going back to the hotel before dark, she practically legged it back before nightfall. She didn't want to stay a third night so we went back to Mountain View.

I got hassled loads of times during the day too. And I saw one homeless guy threaten to kill another person because he wouldn't buy him breakfast.

We got a taxi from our hotel to the train station. The driver drove through either the Tenderloin or Mission District, I wasn't paying much attention. I'm glad I was in the taxi as it was like a scene from the walking dead. An absolute kip with homeless everywhere.

Maybe I was just unlucky or you were extremely lucky or maybe SF has cleaned up it's act but that's my experience.