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? asked in TravelIrelandDublin · 3 months ago

Why does Dublin look like so run down? ?

Don't get me wrong, every city in the world has its good and bad but for a first world nation, Dublin is appauling.

I've been to London, New York, Paris, Berlin and they don't have the visible problems of homelessness and drug use that Dublin has in it's CBD. 

The police in these cities at least keep the tourist areas looking good. Meanwhile on O'Connell Street, you'll have people drunk out of their minds drinking Dutch Gold during the afternoon. You can see many homeless people sleeping on cardboard boxes or tents throughout. Even when going to Phoenix Park. Don't think I've seen so many rough sleepers in any other city.

Even my German and American friends who visit here claim that the countryside is beautiful but Dublin overall sucks.

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  • 3 weeks ago

    You must be joking. Parts of North London make the worst parts of Dublin look like Monaco. Worse than New York City? I take it you've never been to the South Bronx. And there are parts of Paris that even the police won't go. Yes, parts of Dublin are gritty, but they're nowhere near as dangerous as the rough areas in the other cities you listed. Dublin is also far smaller in area, so it's much more condensed, which makes it feel as though the grittier parts of the city are larger than they actually are. When I was growing up in Waterford - which was a rough enough place itself back in those days, everybody knew how bad North Dublin was. Then Limerick became the worst. Now the bad parts of each are probably about the same, perhaps Limerick is a tad more dangerous, but not by much. Practically every sizable city in Britain and Ireland is either largely shite or considerably shite - Belfast, Birmingham, Blackpool, Bradford, Bristol, Dublin, Glasgow, Leeds, Limerick, London, Luton, Manchester, Newcastle, Nottingham, Sunderland, Watford, I could go on.  

  • 1 month ago

    Living in Dublin, I agree with you. We have drug users and homeless people. We elected a coalition government largely because we felt this was something that needed to be dealt with. We want to see an increase in housing stock, an improvement in social services to help these people, and we care a great deal about the plight of others.

    What we don't do is hide it away so as not to offend you. Every city you mentioned has similar problems but police push people out to the dark recesses of the city ... out of sight, out of mind, nothing to see here, isn't it wonderful ...

    We're not going to hide the social inequity or drug problems that exist in our city because it forces us to deal with it, rather than sweep it under the carpet.

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    2 months ago

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  • ?
    Lv 7
    2 months ago

    The city was destroyed by rogue 'developers' in the 1970's, as were a number of British cities at the same time.

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