Galway City voted best place to live
Galway City was voted best place to live in Ireland in 2009, while Bray came out as the worst, according to LikePlace.ie. By staff reporter - 21/12/09
This year LikePlace.ie 1630 ratings about life in Ireland, and discovered that the best place to live was Galway City, with a score of 4.4-out-of-5.
Bray (Co Wicklow) was the worst, with a score of just 2.6-out-of-5.
The best county was Co Donegal, while the worst was Co Cork.
The LikePlace Zeitgeist highlights the best and worst aspects of living in Ireland from 2009. Overall, it reveals that the Irish people were a fairly satisfied bunch.
They were most happy with the quality of their 'Environment', but least happy with the 'Cost of Living' and the ‘Economy’ .
LikePlace also collected many unusual and strange comments about life in Ireland.
According to Willie, Ballyclare in Co.Antrim "Smells like a pigsty. Tastes like peach ice cream." !?
Jobstown in Co.Dublin was described as "A social experiment gone wrong." by Billo.
Reviewer Frank from Tallaght in Dublin 24 said “I’d prefer to live in Basra”.
LikePlace was launched in April 2009 by brothers Ronan and Shane Diffily. The aim of the site is to help people find a great community in which to live.
The website does this by collecting ratings and opinions from real people all over Ireland. In 9 months, 1700 individual entries have been gathered for over 600 places.
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