Do You Actually Like Where You Live?? (1 Viewer)

[Alan Remorse]

Just wondering whether you folks are actually happy where you are right now.

its weird, cos so many of my friends hate Cork and cant wait to get outta here, but i fucking love this town. there's so much here, everytime i walk through the city i see something new. cork people are fucking brilliant, it really is an entire culture unto itself.

the music scene in cork is amazing too. i reckon we've more good bands than anywhere else in ireland.

so hurrah for cork!!

 

[jane]

I've grown to really like Dublin. Sure, it fucking drives me mental a lot of the time, and it's filthy and expensive, but I like it. It's a big enough city, but it's small enough that you still don't feel engulfed by it. I like walking around and running into people I know. Kinda reminds you that you're connected to other humans, and it's not just at some pre-arranged, alloted time slot. I'm also very attached to living by the sea. If I don't live within walking distance of Big Water, I feel trapped.

That said, I really loved living in Cork. I think it might have started to annoy me after a while, so I'm glad I left before I felt I was tired of it. It's a great place, and the people are indeed brilliant fun. Lots of creative folks there, too. Again, I realised that it was a good move for me to come to Dublin, but I do kinda miss Cork. It really does get under your skin. Even hearing a Cork accent makes me smile sometimes. I've never liked a small city as much as I like Cork.

I found that it was a little harder to settle in to Dublin. Maybe it can be partly explained by where I am in my life now compared to where I was then, but I think it was easier to make friends in Cork. It's not that there aren't excellent people in Dublin, but I think there's so much going on that people kind of get settled with their friends, and so don't really make a lot of new ones. It's easier, of course, when you're involved in stuff, but it's still harder than it was in Cork.

Hooray for both capitals, I say!

 

[Unicron]

But you didn't even mention Belfast.

Anyway; no, Clane is an awful shithole. But I like my home.

 

[BC]

i really like dublin. i wish i lived just a little closer to the sea... but i can be at the coast within a twenty minute walk, so its not too bad. ideally, i would like to have a house right on the coast overlooking the sea. dublin has a great spirit, out of all the places i have lived in ireland, scotland, belgium and greece, this is my favorite. that said, i do tire of the non-descript and monotonous nature of suburbia, the horror that is dublin bus, and the casual violence and excessive expense that plagues the city centre. but being somewhere like killiney hill on a warm summers evening with a bottle of wine is just blissful.

 

[jane]

Who, me? But I've never lived in Belfast. I like visiting, and I always have a good time there. I cannot, however, comment on what it's like to live there.

 

[mackle]

Honestly I totally despise where I live. Everything about living here tears me apart. I live in a small town outside of Belfast called Lurgan. It is full of arrogant bastards and thugs who make life hell for me. Sure I know I am gonna get dickheads everywhere but I cant stand small town mentality. Its so sickening. I hate being like the village freak everytime I have to endure a walk into town. I hate going to school here and having nobody I feel like I have something in common with. I hate hanging round with people I have nothing in common with only cause they're the best alternative to the spides. I hate the way people here love to pick on minority groups such as people from other countries and gay people.

I swear the only thing that keeps me going is knowing that in two years I'll be 18 and can do whatever the fuck I want. Dublin here I come

 

[Unicron]

Hooray for both capitals, I say!

The Cork is the "real" capital thing is just a pet peeve of mine.

 

[brianoak]

I live in Dunshaughlin.Its fucking shit.The only thing it has going for it is you can walk around any time of night and not risk getting the living shit kicked out of you.But there is nothing to do here at night so I dont even avail of that perk and because of college and the governments ridiculous grant policy I cant afford to move outUsed to live in Knocklyon in Dublin for about 18 years which was nice though

 

[oh shit]

Who, me? But I've never lived in Belfast. I like visiting, and I always have a good time there. I cannot, however, comment on what it's like to live there.

IT'S FUCKIN AMAZIN

 

[billygannon]

I've only ever lived in Dublin (or thereabouts) and I'm very tired of it.
So I'm moving on this Summer.

It's not like it's shit or anything. Just need a change.

Dalkey - where I live - is a very nice place. Right beside the sea, has a great big park and it has the wonder that is McDonagh's.

Dublin would be a lot better if it had a proper art museum at the centre of the city. It should take a leaf from Bilbao's book and build a massive art gallery where the City Arts Centre is.

 

[mackle]

IT'S FUCKIN AMAZIN

Aul Paisley looks more like a goat everyday.

 

[oh shit]

Aul Paisley looks more like a goat everyday.

SHUDDUP!

 

[jane]

The Cork is the "real" capital thing is just a pet peeve of mine.

I was being tongue-in-cheek. Embracing, for the sake of a quip, the usually (though not always) benign provincialism of Corkonians. That is all.

Although, Cork was the butter capital of the world until the end of the Napoleonic wars, and that's gotta count for something, right? Everyone loved the salty butter of a Corkman.

 

[mackle]

SHUDDUP!

I'll get the 'RA de do yer knees in big laud

 

[jane]

I think a funny thing to say to Ian Paisley would be that his name rhymes with 'papacy'. He'd totally love that, and then he'd laugh and give you a new hole.

 

[mackle]

Paisley has a church right outside my town. Was just thinking about how when I was younger my mum and dad used to tell me that Satan lived in there .|..|

 

[oh shit]

Paisley has a church right outside my town. Was just thinking about how when I was younger my mum and dad used to tell me that Satan lived in there .|..|

PAPISTS! REBELS!

 

[jane]

Not to drag this thread off-topic already, but have you read the chapter on Paisley in Jon Ronson's Them? Scary and amazing.

 

[Unicron]

Although, Cork was the butter capital of the world until the end of the Napoleonic wars, and that's gotta count for something, right? Everyone loved the salty butter of a Corkman.

Bah, they can keep their butter, I'm more of a spreadable straight from the fridge type of guy. Dairygold being the obvious best.

 

[oh shit]

Not to drag this thread off-topic already, but have you read the chapter on Paisley in Jon Ronson's Them? Scary and amazing.

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