Cork, Ireland...?

Question

What's it like? How expensive? I dont want a link to some website, I wanna hear what people have to say. What about crime? Is it multicultural? How far is it from dublin & how long does it take to get there by train?

Is it okay for a 17 year old college girl to go there? And now... What about shopping? :D Does it have decent shops? Are they the same kind of shops u find in the UK, like topshop, debenhams and stuff?

Anything else I should know? :D

Answer 1

Cork is very friendly, not a big crime rate compared to other cities, and yes, Cork city has Topshop, and Debenhams and stuff, Monsoon, River Island, Brown Thomas.... train takes about an hour and a half from Dublin and leaves every hour or so.  Very multicultural.

Answer 2

Cork is about 160 miles from Dublin and it takes 2.5-3 hours to get there by train.  Train is expensive though, so you might be better off getting the bus which is much cheaper but takes about 4 hours.  Cork does have those shops, though the only topshop we have is a tiny corner of debenhams, and there's no H&M.  Living here costs probably about the same as in the UK.  It's become much more multicultural in the past few years, with lots of Polish and other Eastern European people living here.  There's not too much crime, not more than you'd find in your average city.  If you're going to go to college here, you'll really enjoy it.

Answer 3

It's a nice city, small enough that you'd often see people you know if you spend a day in town, but big enough you have plenty of choice for shopping, food, going out etc.

It's fine for a 17 year old to go to, crime is fairly minimal, apart from usual drunken fights and such on the weekends when it's probably not best to wander alone at 1am. But otherwise it's fine, and there's plenty of things to do, you just have to go find them. (whazon.com can show you the gigs, theatre shows etc currently showing in the city)

It's not as multicultural as the UK, but we're getting there.

Murnip already answered the Dublin trip thing :)

We've lots of UK high street shops, or equivalents. We've a New Look and Claire's Accessories in nearly every shopping centre, two Debenhams (though our Topshop and Miss Selfridge are only concessions within the Debenhams in the city) Clarks, Waterstones, HMV, Virgin Megastores, Primark (though it's labelled as Penny's here) Boots... Patrick's Street (the main shopping street) is pretty similar to a UK street in a city the same size.

Answer 4

Cork's nice. Pricey alright, esp. for food. Crime isn't that much of a problem, you probably wouldn't want to walk alone at night in some areas but I've done it and I've never had problems. Quite multicultural but it's not blatant. 3 hours by train to Dublin, about 50 euro return. The aircoach is 14 euro or less (return) and takes 4 hours each way.

  Shopping has been answered. If you want to get out of the city too, go to Kinsale, there are buses there, and it's nice, quite touristy but by the sea, so loads of yachts, which is nice to look at. On a sunny day it's a feel good town.

  Cork people are friendly, just smile and they'll smile back.