Sky_Blue_Daz
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How is everyone in the funhouse today?
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Terry_dactyl
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Knackered. Just finished two days training. Squashed into a smallish room, with 16 other people and no air con.
Brighton Sky Blue
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Working in Dublin this week. A good city generally, but a really obvious drug problem.
RegTheDonk
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Been OK ta Daz. Got a job finished so spent the afternoon doing some CPD. Well ... watching Netflix to be honest (with good air con, sorry Terry 
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Terry_dactyl
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At least I know where the next training can be held…Been OK ta Daz. Got a job finished so spent the afternoon doing some CPD. Well ... watching Netflix to be honest (with good air con, sorry Terry
Terry_dactyl
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Is it as expensive as everyone says?
I dunno how bad it is but theye pretty openly being done in parts of Cardiff city centre too. Possibly the same all over?
Cov might be an anomaly given how empty the city centre is?
Brighton Sky Blue
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Prices don't seem that different to home, but there are some really obvious tourist traps. A place nearby is selling a pint of Guinness and a toastie for 10 euros (£8.50?) which to me looks a rip off but I think would be the going price most places in Britain.
Ireland apparently now has a can/bottle deposit scheme, so there's a good number of people around scavenging the bins for bottles and cans they can exchange for money. Not seen anyone doing drugs in public but there's lots of dealing for sure.
lordy_87
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Was there at the end of May. Had a brilliant time but they amount of crackheads you see knocking about by the river is astounding. People walking like zombies with blood all over them. Really sad to see.
Brighton Sky Blue
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Yep seen a fair bit of that. I'm working right near the centre but staying close to the Guinness storehouse, so on my journey in I'm seeing people rooting through bins, passed out on the pavement etc.
When we were here on holiday a few years ago, drug deals were being done almost right outside the Gardai station, they didn't seem to care.
Terry_dactyl
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A while back I hadn’t been to Cardiff city centre for a couple of years and I was taken aback at the homelessness. I used to work at a Homeless Hostel and think I’m fairly relaxed about such things but was still surprised by the openness of drug taking and volume of homelessness…which I guess tend to go together.
Im in the city centre all the time now so may have become accustomed to it.
Brighton Sky Blue
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Coventry's had a bad homelessness problem as long as I can remember.
Sky_Blue_Dreamer
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Everywhere has.
Financial assistance for shelters and hostels has been cut, as has funding for mental health and other services and it has a knock on effect. I imagine places such as those are heavily reliant on donations and charity and even those that do try and give are probably finding they can't help as much as their money doesn't stretch as far.
Sky_Blue_Daz
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I few years ago I was in Dublin for a weekend with my wife , my brother and his wife . We got charged. €45 for 4 portions of fish and chips
And our rounds of drinks never changed 2 pints of larger , I half and a half of Guinness prices ranged from €17 to €25
And our rounds of drinks never changed 2 pints of larger , I half and a half of Guinness prices ranged from €17 to €25
Terry_dactyl
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It’s been a while and my knowledge has likely faded but I seem to remember the introduction of Universal Credit was also a contributing factor in increased street homelessness.
Captain Dart
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I can remember to when you only saw the odd tramp dossing in the street in town and absolutely no one in the suburbs.
Chase Hostel in Willenhall existed to accommodate displaced men and that was usually fairly full. There was also a Sally Army hostel in town too but I can't recall ever noticing much about it other than it existed near the Cov Telegraph building.
I was probably too young back in the 1960's to have a realistic impression of the scale of the problem but it's definitely become much, much worse since the 1970's.
Sky_Blue_Daz
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Final couple of hours of a nightshift, then a couple of hours sleep and off to a graduation party.
Bit of good news after some tears and stress my house renovation is nearly done, everything is done apart from the kitchen, which is ordered and should be fitted in three weeks. Been a long process but really gonna be worth it.
Bit of good news after some tears and stress my house renovation is nearly done, everything is done apart from the kitchen, which is ordered and should be fitted in three weeks. Been a long process but really gonna be worth it.