Is Dublin really safe?

I used to live in ireland for my job from 2017 to 2023. Dublin is a terrible, horrible place to live.

No affordable appartments so you have to live with flatmates. Thank god most of them weren't ethnic Irish, most of mine were from eastern europe so it was at least ever so slightly tolerable but still not great. Landlords were usually horrible Irish scammers with rotten teeth who'd rob you blind.

The city is so full of crime, they attempted to rob me a few times. The robbers were invariable ethnic Irish scum, never a foreigner. One time the guy just wouldn't go away, so I punched him in the face and a fight ensued. Managed to get out without being robbed but had a black eye for a week after due to the Irish scumbag with rotten teeth who was just a junkie after his next fix.

Public transportation is horrible, the Irish are not smart enough to build a metro. They are also too lazy to walk the buses stop at every corner. Sometimes you can see the next bus stop from the one you're getting off at. If you have fewer bus stops maybe the public transport wouldn't be as terrible, and maybe call the Brits to build you a metro because you don't know how to do it.

Food is terrible, greasy chips, most of it is just British food and artificial American food, you have to cook at home to eat anything edible.

Roads are in bits too full of potholes.

While we also suffer from Anglicization in the Netherlands every ethnic Dutch person can at least speak fluent Dutch, unlike the unintelligent Irish who can hardly say anything in the Irish language other than ' can I go to the toilet please?' , the only phrase they learnt at school.

Now I am back in the Netherlands for over a year, I can easily afford a large apartment here and because we actually have functioning fast trains and other public transportation from my village I can still be in Amsterdam city centre in about 40 minutes. And I live about the same distance from the city centre as say Maynooth to Dublin city centre. There's no crime here apart from some occasional petty theft. In Amsterdam sure you have a bit of crime but it's only foreigners who steal, ethnic Dutch hardly ever steal. Accidents with drunk Irish who fall into the canals happen but we wouldn't even fish them out of the canal if we saw them drowning.

Wish you all the best over there in Ireland but just know that especially Dublin really sucks and there's better places, no wonder all your ethnic Irish youth is moving to Australia.

I used to live 10 mins walk from there top of blessington street and fights always happen there around dominick. Also a prime location for drug deals etc.

The moderator told me to continue the discussion here, so I did.

I would rather be nuked by Putin than ever come back to horrible Ireland to live. For a road trip or something it's okay but definitely not Dublin.

You can follow your advice to close your account.

Also maybe you should go and learn your own language (Irish or gaeilge) because you're probably one of those not very smart irish who only know how to say 'can I go to the toilet' in the Irish language.

I've visited various places in Ireland including Galway (multiple times), Aran Islands (the last place where people can still speak your language actually, been there multiple times), Belfast (multiple times), Kilkenny (multiple times), and day trips to Cork, Waterford, Cliffs of Moher, also did a road trip in Connemara.

Ireland is suitable for a short get-away vacation destination but it's not a good place to live, very low quality of life there.

Why bother replying to my comments if you don't like them?

Used to live there for work and compared to continental western europe it's absolutely terrible in terms of quality of life.

I don't know any Dutch person who was mugged by an ethnic Dutch person here in the Netherlands. If anything it'd be a foreigner but crime is still way rarer than in Dublin or even in secondary Irish cities. And we have way way way more people than in Ireland.