Dublin, Ireland

Dublin, Ireland is not the city that I thought it was going to be. I have been here for 2 months and the first month I thought it was the greatest city ever because of the culture. I found out a pretty interesting fact that there are about 1.5 million people in Dublin and the average beer sales each day is around 1 million. That is craaazzzy.  How can the citizens accomplish anything productive if most of the people have been drinking or are drunk all day. I walk into any given pub at noon for lunch and there are ten or more people inside having multiple beers or betting on horse races. The idea of this sounds amazing, but with a closer look its kind of depressing. After being here longer I have gotten a closer and more detailed look and I have found it to be just a decent city. A good way to describe the city of Dublin is that one of the tallest buildings in the city is the Guinness Storehouse. Priorities right there. The city is very dirty with the sidewalks lined with dog droppings. I still do not understand what kind of person lets their dog shit on the sidewalk and leaves it for other people to walk over. I have had multiple taxi drivers from the city ask me how I like it and I say good which they reply with why? its a shithole. At first I wondered why they responded with that, but after being here longer I can actually understand what they mean. Since I have only been here a short while I still enjoy the city, but I can understand how you would hate it after a long period. Everything in the city is overpriced compared to other cities. There is not many great or exciting attractions to be proud of and the country is not very good at sports besides rugby. Overall, I give Dublin a 6/10 because any night of the week you can go to a pub and there will be enough people there to forget about your troubles.