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View submission: Why is city centre such a dump?
I lived in a student house up the Ormeau Road from 2004- 2015 and when I’m back in the area now it’s completely different. Restaurants, coffee shops and bars all packed. We had a Chinese and an offy if we were lucky back then haha
There’s definitely a bigger shift in people staying closer to home for nights out so I think you’ve made a really good point there. I’m guilty of this too preferring to go to my local rather than bus it into town and struggle to get a taxi home again…
Comment by travelgirlie9955 at 02/02/2025 at 10:03 UTC
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And the taxi situation as well - absolutely dire. I think this is one of the main reasons people are staying closer to home lol
Comment by travelgirlie9955 at 02/02/2025 at 10:02 UTC
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Ormeau is such a good example! Even from 2021 to now, the amount of new places to go to on Ormeau now is crazy. But again I think this comes as a result of the problems that city centre has had for a long time, it hasn’t improved or modernised much in the past 20 years and now people are just turning away unfortunately.