Most Overrated Place to live in Ireland

[Tim_Riggins]

Sandycove and Glasthule (and underrated vs. Dalkey) are better because of the ease of getting around. Dalkey is still objectively an excellent place to live.

[cowpat]

Adare. Cratloe.

[Juhniallio]

Foxrock. Nothing but traffic really

[tallback]

@Juhniallio

Foxrock. Nothing but traffic really

Yeah - never really got the attraction vs a Dalkey (sea/village/pubs/restaurants/transport etc) or the likes of Ranelagh/Rathgar etc which have good pubs/restaurants etc and very close to town

[TheUlteriorMotive]

Apocryphally the only town in Ireland with no pub.

[Horsebox]

Same could be said for Stillorgan. If you work or socialise a lot in town it’d be a pain in the hole to live there.

[artfoley]

thomastown, ranelagh on the nore
Shopping for a Georgian on Ranelagh-sur-Nore – The Irish Times

[TheUlteriorMotive]

It’s about twenty minutes from town. Easier live there than anywhere on west side for town.

Traffic on west side of Dublin is a whole other level of shite.

[artfoley]

@count_of_monte_crist

After @Cheasty 's comment in another thread, i began to ponder this matter.

My submission would be Dalkey.

Overpriced and full of cunts.

i like dalkey. theres a real community spirit there and they shop local to keep the local businesses afloat. they also told those purveyors of coffee flavoured water, starbucks, to GTFO

[Horsebox]

The west side of Dublin is a hellhole so not overrated though. It’s hardly 20 minutes from Stillorgan to town at peak times is it? It would take me 20 minutes from Ringsend at that time.

[artfoley]

@Horsebox

It would take me 20 minutes from Ringsend at that time.

i hope youre walking

[Horsebox]

I cycle everywhere apart from the supermarket bro.

[farmerinthecity]

Underrated part of Dublin is Clondalkin village.

Rest of it - not so much.

[Batigol]

South side of Dublin City

[Fagan_ODowd]

@TheUlteriorMotive

Apocryphally the only town in Ireland with no pub.

No pub in Annestown, County Waterford. Never has been. Old school Protestant village. No pub in Sutton, Dublin originally a Scots Presbyterian settlement. There is a hotel though.

[Fagan_ODowd]

@Cheasty

If you have the money to live there Dalkey is not overrated. You’re on the DART, it’s a proper village and there are great walks and a great GAA club, and Des Cahill.

Killiney Hill and Howth Hill are overrated in that beyond the status attached to them they’re objectively shit places to live, they’re up a hill miles away from town and away from public transport and shops. The neighbours are likely to be obnoxious. Even if you have a good view, who wants to live on a hill overlooking the sea? The whole point of great views is that you have to make an effort to go and see them. If you get out of the scratcher needing a shite and see Bray Head and the Sugar Loaf over the jacuzzi through the window of your ostentatiously wrong facing jacks, where do you go to see some scenery? Cherry Orchard?

Often thought about buying on the Hill of Howth but eventually concluded that the premium for a view wasn’t worth it. Especially when I can walk 15 minutes for the same view if I wanted it.

[farmerinthecity]

@TheUlteriorMotive

Apocryphally the only town in Ireland with no pub.

But big into flying model airplanes.

[TheUlteriorMotive]

You’d get to Stephens Green on Luas in about 20 I’d say

[Horsebox]

I was thinking driving but yeah fair enough.

[Cheasty]

The beautiful Liffey Valley (I don’t mean the shopping centre, that’s a hellhole) in West Dublin boasts the finest bus corridor in the city. Seven minutes to Heuston Station, 15 to Bachelor’s Walk.

In 30 years’ time when they finally put a pedestrian/cycle corridor over the derelict Guinness bridge to Farmleigh and the Strawberry Hall pub it will be the number one place to live in the entire city.