Polite request for Dublin based posters

csirl said:
Dublin & Belfast are the only genuine cities on this island, the rest who claim to be cities are just large towns.
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Maybe, maybe not - but until there is a change in official status there is still more than one "city centre" in the Republic.

Anyway, doesn't explain the "in town" references or better still, those that make no reference at all to location:

e.g. posts like "where can I find a good plumber?"

As far as I can see, these usually turn out to be from Dublin posters.

Difficult to talk about this TBH without sounding petty and to be fair it's nearly always the newer posters that are the culprits.

Anyway, ClubMan I don't understand the term "headage" - is this a measurement of inner (Dublin) city gurriers per sq km or something?
 
To be honest, I always thought this was a sophisticated site so I am surprised to hear there are culchies involved at all!

Even though it might explain some of the posts I have seen!!
 
As a matter of interest - do Dubliners consider anyone outside Dublin City to be a "culchie"?

Is someone in Bray or Swords a culchie for example?

I know places like Tallaght and Clondalkin were still very much villages until the 1970s - so are they really culchies too? I doubt they would see it like that.
 

A friend of mine from Dublin city centre says that anyone from outside the two canals is a culchie

For me a Dubliner is anyone who lives in Dublin that doesn't "go home" for Christmas
 
The people originally from Dublin who got out and are living normally elsewhere, are referred to as "Dulchies"! The reasons for these people relocating are probably quite clear to most people;

Owning a house in Dublin is giving up half your salary(or more now) until you retire! And for one of those 'boxes' that are referred to as apartments.

The price of a night out is probably more than your house insurance for a year.

The main street in Dublin is unsafe after dark (and by day sometimes).

I know of a 5 year old girl who picked up a syringe from the liffey boardwalk. Lovely...!

The beaches are polluted

People in the rest of Ireland don't really care what people from Dublin think about them. I live on the west coast and can compare to the above list.

My mortgage is 500/month.

I can have a meal for two and a bottle of wine for around €60-70.

I can walk around anywhere on my own without the fear of being mugged/attacked.

I have never seen a syringe on my local street.

I am a 5 minute walk from one of the finest beaches in Ireland.

Before you all go on a rant about how central you are etc. I can get to Dublin Airport quicker than some of my relations that live in Dublin, but I use Belfast as it is easier to get to, friendlier and cheaper.

And finally, I'm sure lots of people will agree with me that the best things about Dublin are the roads out of it!

I personally wouldn't send my dog to Dublin.

Bring it on!
 

Don't hold back, tell us what you really think
 

To each their own.

I live in Dublin and have never had a problem in the city centre. I agree that the price of housing is higher but that's because demand is higher and that's because most of the people who were born over your way seem to want to live here

I have lived in Dublin and away from it and I can see the attraction of both but I find there is nothing like strolling around this city centre on your own for an hour in the early evening watching it change from a place of work into a place of entertainment and soaking up the changing vibe of the place as it happens. Then a nice meal with friends in any of the dozens of ethnic of classical restaurants within a square mile of college green and then one of the many different style of pubs (depending on what mood takes you) for a drink of two.
 

Stop beating about the bush give it to us straight!
 
Please nobody else quote his entire post!

For the record, in case anyone thought I had more dastardly motives for starting this thread, I like Dublin. I lived there for 6 years and enjoyed it and occasionally I still visit for a day/weekend. Now I live (very much) in a rural area - an area which I am not from either.

Cities have city attractions and problems and provincial or more rural areas have theirs too.

As it happens, I probably wouldn't ever live in Dublin again and I prefer where I am now but that's just the random nature of the evolution of relative satisfaction

...or something like that.
 
One of the main reasons I won't live in Dublin is because I find the big car park tricky, it's called the M50 I believe but being from West of the Phoenix Park sure what would I know.
 
Bronte said:
One of the main reasons I won't live in Dublin is because I find the big car park tricky, it's called the M50 I believe but being from West of the Phoenix Park sure what would I know.
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I go from the Blanchardstown interchange to the Knocklyon interchange every evening. Since the lane upgrade it takes no more than 15 minutes during rush hour.
 
One of the main reasons I won't live in Dublin is because I find the big car park tricky, it's called the M50 I believe but being from West of the Phoenix Park sure what would I know.
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One of the big advantages of living in Dublin City is that the M50 is not a factor in your day to day life as you already live inside it and so dont have to negotiate it. The M50 is for "culchies" and "carrot pickers" (the old nickname for people from County Dublin - outside the city boundary).
 

WHAT!!!!!!!!!!! Am I a Carrot Picker!!! No wonder Ive such good eyesight
 
I'm told it originates from the decades ago when a very large proportion of the population of county Dublin working in the labour intensive market gardening industry.
 
The people originally from Dublin who got out and are living normally elsewhere, are referred to as "Dulchies"! The reasons for these people relocating are probably quite clear to most people;
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Are country people living in Dublin are called Bogliners or Cubliners?
 
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