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  Volker Boelsch    Premium Member   Group moderator

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  Re^2: Smithfield/Dublin - gute Gegend?

  Alice Peters-Burns schrieb:
  Volker, I think your comments on Kilbarrack, Tallaght and Ballymun are a bit unfair. Yes, these areas are not all that attractive but not entirely due to people's own fault. Plus no (compared to the people living there) affluent foreigner should go and live there and provoke envy, I think. Just like it is in any other country.
  One of my peers used to live in Tallaght, and she told me stories, that sometimes Taxi drivers refuse to drive you there, for whatever reason. I myself got stuck in Ballymun once and we (my family was in the car, too) came to a halt in front of an armor-plated bus with bullet-holes in it. That was quite a frightening sight and I'm sure it was not because they were shooting Mad Max IV on that location... And Kilbarrack I used to pass on foot regularly and - hey! - maybe it isn't such a bad place at all, but it sure doesn't look like that.
  
  Wherever you go, just have a good time!
  
  Volker
  
  • 27 Nov 2005, 03:58 am
  Volker Boelsch wrote: > Alice Peters-Burns schrieb: > > Volker, I think your comments on Kilbarrack, Tallaght and Ballymun > > are a bit unfair. Yes, these areas are not all that attractive but > > not entirely due to people's own fault. Plus no (compared to the > > people living there) affluent foreigner should go and live there and > > provoke envy, I think. Just like it is in any other country. > > One of my peers used to live in Tallaght, and she told me stories, > that sometimes Taxi drivers refuse to drive you there, for whatever > reason. I myself got stuck in Ballymun once and we (my family was in > the car, too) came to a halt in front of an armor-plated bus with > bullet-holes in it. That was quite a frightening sight and I'm sure > it was not because they were shooting Mad Max IV on that location... > And Kilbarrack I used to pass on foot regularly and - hey! - maybe it > isn't such a bad place at all, but it sure doesn't look like that. > > Wherever you go, just have a good time! > > Volker
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  Alice Peters-Burns

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  Re^3: Smithfield/Dublin - gute Gegend?

  Hi Volker,
  fair enough, I appreciate your bad experiences there, but that is partly what I said :) - these areas are not attractive and I think in Germany you would be hard fetched to find anything comparable.
  And you do find people there who are the worst of criminals engaged in drugs, prostitution, abuse, terrorism and so forth. Which is why tourists and foreign employees should not underestimate the danger of the places and also how tight-knit they are, you will always be found out as an intruder.
  However, at the same time, many people who live there are friendly, warm and welcoming people and suffer from the reputation of the place, they would like to make something of themselves but their origin holds them back. (Like when you come from Tallaght, you do not write your real address on your application however suited you are for the job).
  And it is sad for these people if their places are not given a chance - and I do not mean, people moving there because that will just drive prices up and people out into another ghetto. I mean forever connecting place names with bad things. Also the Irish Government should be investing a bit more in the not so fortunate in the Celtic Tiger era.
  To sum it up, no, don't move there, don't go there but give it a chance, don't as foreigner talk about these places with the same disdain as Dubliners who know them much better and still not enough.
  Same goes for travellers, should anyone come up with the subject.
  
  • 28 Nov 2005, 08:53 am
  Alice Peters-Burns wrote: > Hi Volker, > fair enough, I appreciate your bad experiences there, but that is > partly what I said :) - these areas are not attractive and I think > in Germany you would be hard fetched to find anything comparable. > And you do find people there who are the worst of criminals engaged > in drugs, prostitution, abuse, terrorism and so forth. Which is why > tourists and foreign employees should not underestimate the danger of > the places and also how tight-knit they are, you will always be found > out as an intruder. > However, at the same time, many people who live there are friendly, > warm and welcoming people and suffer from the reputation of the > place, they would like to make something of themselves but their > origin holds them back. (Like when you come from Tallaght, you do not > write your real address on your application however suited you are > for the job). > And it is sad for these people if their places are not given a chance > - and I do not mean, people moving there because that will just drive > prices up and people out into another ghetto. I mean forever > connecting place names with bad things. Also the Irish Government > should be investing a bit more in the not so fortunate in the Celtic > Tiger era. > To sum it up, no, don't move there, don't go there but give it a > chance, don't as foreigner talk about these places with the same > disdain as Dubliners who know them much better and still not enough. > Same goes for travellers, should anyone come up with the subject.
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  Alice Peters-Burns

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  Re^3: Smithfield/Dublin - gute Gegend?

  btw taxi drivers sometimes refuse to drive you to Ballinteer as well simply because they are afraid they don't get a customer back from that far away and simply because many of them are real tossers.
  
  • 28 Nov 2005, 08:55 am
  Alice Peters-Burns wrote: > btw taxi drivers sometimes refuse to drive you to Ballinteer as well > simply because they are afraid they don't get a customer back from > that far away and simply because many of them are real tossers.

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