People who immigrate to Dublin from other countries, “have I travelled back in time to a farm in the 1800s”
I once met a guy who had never left Dublin his whole life.
He’d gone on holidays to Spain and Italy and the like. But never gone outside of Dublin as far as he could remember in his 20 something year existence.
This was why he truly believed that Kildare (the county) was entirely within the phoenix park.
He’d met people from Kildare, gotten to know a few. But because he’d never been outside of his local area he failed to understand that Kildare was its own county, outside of Dublin, and was a larger landmass than county Dublin altogether.
His mind was blown again when he met someone from Cork in our office. And found out that Cork is several hours drive away.
Part of me believes he was putting it on a bit. But part of me believes he really was that much of a goon.
In recent years I’m seeing more and more Dublin people refer to Maynooth as being out in the country. I have some snooty relatives from there that I take a little bit of pleasure in knowing they’re the culchies now.
Anything outside the M50 is beyond the Pale, as those culchies in Tallaght can no doubt attest.
Swords is a weird place tho. Very inbred.
I was the same when I moved to donabate from finglas, went down the hearse Rd and thought I was in the middle of rural Ireland 😂 “the stars” fucking idiot.
Brendan Behan’s mother when offered a house in Crumlin said “sure don’t they eat their babies out there”.
Sure anything past the five lamps is the country to some people.
I hear Rough Guide and Lonely Planet are releasing books just for Dubs called “Ireland outside the M50”.
A few years back someone who I worked with couldn’t understand that I commuted by car from…..Maynooth
Dublin is a town in Dublin that doesn’t consist of large buildings.
Don’t see a whole lot of these in the city either tbf
The people most likely to conflate towns with the countryside are the politicians from those very areas. The way some of them go on, you’d swear every single one of their constituents lives in the middle of nowhere, and any urbanist policy is an attack on their very existence.
I guess this mean’s Dublin city is also the countryside.
I grew up in Co. Dublin and now live within walking distance of town, and where I grew up feels like the countryside tbh.
If you drive down the feltrim road, it does start to feel very country.
swords would have been a small village for most of its history.
grew into a large town in the 80s, massive town 90 , now its a little city basically. Lots of people moved out there.
like a lot of places its fun looking at older videos of it in the 80s, some parts almost the same
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People who immigrate to Dublin from other countries, “have I travelled back in time to a farm in the 1800s”
I once met a guy who had never left Dublin his whole life.
He’d gone on holidays to Spain and Italy and the like. But never gone outside of Dublin as far as he could remember in his 20 something year existence.
This was why he truly believed that Kildare (the county) was entirely within the phoenix park.
He’d met people from Kildare, gotten to know a few. But because he’d never been outside of his local area he failed to understand that Kildare was its own county, outside of Dublin, and was a larger landmass than county Dublin altogether.
His mind was blown again when he met someone from Cork in our office. And found out that Cork is several hours drive away.
Part of me believes he was putting it on a bit. But part of me believes he really was that much of a goon.
In recent years I’m seeing more and more Dublin people refer to Maynooth as being out in the country. I have some snooty relatives from there that I take a little bit of pleasure in knowing they’re the culchies now.
Anything outside the M50 is beyond the Pale, as those culchies in Tallaght can no doubt attest.
Swords is a weird place tho. Very inbred.
I was the same when I moved to donabate from finglas, went down the hearse Rd and thought I was in the middle of rural Ireland 😂 “the stars” fucking idiot.
Brendan Behan’s mother when offered a house in Crumlin said “sure don’t they eat their babies out there”.
Sure anything past the five lamps is the country to some people.
I hear Rough Guide and Lonely Planet are releasing books just for Dubs called “Ireland outside the M50”.
A few years back someone who I worked with couldn’t understand that I commuted by car from…..Maynooth
Dublin is a town in Dublin that doesn’t consist of large buildings.
Hey look, if there’s farms, it’s countryside.
Swords is a town, but the region around it is [clearly rural](https://www.google.com/maps/@53.4725887,-6.3097945,3593m/data=!3m1!1e3).
>large buildings
Don’t see a whole lot of these in the city either tbf
The people most likely to conflate towns with the countryside are the politicians from those very areas. The way some of them go on, you’d swear every single one of their constituents lives in the middle of nowhere, and any urbanist policy is an attack on their very existence.
I guess this mean’s Dublin city is also the countryside.
I grew up in Co. Dublin and now live within walking distance of town, and where I grew up feels like the countryside tbh.
If you drive down the feltrim road, it does start to feel very country.
swords would have been a small village for most of its history.
grew into a large town in the 80s, massive town 90 , now its a little city basically. Lots of people moved out there.
like a lot of places its fun looking at older videos of it in the 80s, some parts almost the same
[swords in the 80s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N0Tg5VVyfYM)
[Modern video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XrBrZawYiI)
Dubs are stupid. This is known.
All of Ireland is a country side and Dublin is not a city.
I used to be slagged when I was young being called a culchie and saying I wasn’t actually from Dublin.
I grew up in donabate
Us Dublin folk rarely venture outside the M50
Technically there is a small bit of countryside between Swords and the Northern Suburbs. But no more than Bray, or Greystones.
Swords is country Dublin and is therefore in the sticks.