Town best place to live in Louth
GREAT COMMENTS DESPITE 'CALCUTTA' JIBE
DROGHEDA has been described as the 'Calcutta of Louth' in a recent ratings survey - but is still the best place to live in the county!
While County Donegal was voted the best place to live in Ireland with a rating of 4.1 out of 5 in the likeplace. ratings. Drogheda scored 3.3 out of 5 in a survey on the best and worst places to live in Ireland.
Overall, Drogheda was voted the number one place to live in Louth and number 45 overall in Ireland.
The worst town in Ireland to live in according to the website is Bray in County Wicklow which scored 3.1 out of 5.
In 2010 LikePlace.ie collected over 3,500 ratings about life in Ireland.
Despite the economic freefall Ireland is currently experiencing, the results from the website show that overall Irish people are quite happy with life in the Emerald Isle.
Overall, Ireland as a country scored 3.8 out of a possible five as a place to live.
Drogheda received plenty of favourable comments overall, however the strangest was from someone called 'Balls' who labelled Drogheda as ' The Calcutta of County Louth'!
More complementary comments included someone not from the town who said: 'I find this a very good town. Friendly people and very close to Dublin' while ' Ted', who also doesn't live in Drogheda, said he loved 'the sense of pride for the town.'
'John K', meanwhile, advised people to get to know the great things about living in Drogheda, 'close to the sea, great shopping streets and centres, great fishing, swimming pool etc, it has everything. All you have to do is look'.
However, many others are unimpressed with their surroundings, with 'Mr Blobby' who has lived in town for four years, claiming: 'I am a blow-in from Dublin and maybe that is why I have found it difficult to integrate, but it just isn't the most welcoming of places.
'I'd like to move back closer to Dublin but I just can't afford it and am locked into a rapidly depreciating home.'
LikePlace was launched in April 2009 by brothers Ronan and Shane Diffily.
The site aims to help people find a great community in which to live by collecting ratings and opinions from real people all over Ireland.
- Fiona MAGENNIS
