That sounds quite pleasant to be honest, sitting on a terrace is great.
How dare you threaten me with a good time.
Exactly. If mainland Europeans are so cool then explain the Franco Prussian War
We are a nation of people who commute 2-3 hours a day by car to a job and look forward to cutting the grass and getting very drunk on Saturday and washing the car on Sunday before we watch the match on our 65″ TV.
The ‘pheiq’ really puts a little bow on the gobshitery here
Sounds like a dream tbh……
No, we are a country of greedy landlords who would rather have their tenants live like sardines than allow them to have decent lives in a supposedly “well-off country.”
I agree with it completely. Only because we have enough space to be a house dwelling society who cycle ……….
Young people should be able to afford more than dog box apartments. Sorry rant over.
The journal comments are fucking horrendous.
I had to serve many years in prison after the last time someone offered me a nice coffee on a terrace, I hope I did Quiet Goer proud.
Apartment dwelling is not a good experience. Lived in apartments all my life before moving here – and I’m not going back to living in an apartment building.
They’re fine for students and young single people – raising a family in one though is a depressing thought, compared to a house.
If you think we will ever be a nation of apartment dwellers you aint seen nothing yet
We have as much in common with them mainland Europeans as I have with people from Westmeath.
That sounds like my idea of the good life. Oh well.
Not a fan of living in a box well into my retirement
Of course it’s just the middle aged Irish men
THEY ARE TRYING TO TURN US INTO PEOPLE WHO GOES TO TERRACES, CYCLES AND ENJOYS COFFEE!!
WOULD YOU THINK OF THE CHILDREN????
I’d love to live in an apartment and have the infrastructure to cycle to do everything I want to tbh, fuckin dream we are being robbed of. Down the line I’d love to be able to get the kids to school in those cargo type bikes in the morning too.
I go home to sleep and to shower, I don’t see a need for 3 bed gaff with huge front and back garden.
They’ve obviously never been unemployed in galway
Yeah those eejits, with their low liability housing solutions and feckin’ BICYCLES. You can imagine the author of that post’s big aul head glowing crimson as he composed it.
As an immigrant from the mainland Europe I confirm that sounds amazing to me lol.
MAYBE
I
LIKE
THE
MISERY
This attitude is also very common on r/ireland. It basically boils down to “I don’t want to live a certain way, therefore no one should”.
As someone who does this on a weekly basis in maastricht, i have to tell you try it some time
I am an Irish apartment dweller so I’m paying out my hole for a badly designed apartment. I don’t have anywhere to store a bike but it’s grand because the bike lane only goes about half way to the local cafe before abruptly ending on a busy road with a lot car traffic. That’s also ok because the local cafe is a costa coffee and the terrace is a footpath with a few plastics tables at the side of the busy road. But all that is grand because I’m only a 15 minute bus ride from the city centre, except 3 busses get cancelled and now we have 3 busses worth of people trying to get on one bus, all paying with an outdated bus card system or paying cash which means getting on the bus takes ages and also the lack of bus lanes (or respect for the few bus lanes that do exist) means we get stuck in traffic and what should have taken zero thought and 15 minutes has taken an hour and a lot strategic planning and trying to anticipate when a bus will actually come based on the TFI app which is liable to change is mind in the last minute.
I think I’ll make coffee at home
I live in an apartment and it’s kinda shit tbh
You’ve no privacy and you’ve no living space either.
One of my neighbours is a paedophile another one has random fits of rage and screams the place down at 2 in the morning and another one is on a power trip because he has the only access to the roof where all the heat pumps are.
On top of that we are right on the street where drunk people constantly sit outside and talk/shout/fight.
Kids around here are a nightmare as well. At least in an estate they can go out and play in the green and keep themselves busy. But all they can do here is play on the street and they’re constantly getting up to no good.
Some people think living in an apartment is great but after being here for 10 years I’d love to live in a nice quiet estate.
I disagree with the comment but why do you think it was a middle-aged man who wrote that?
My first thought upon reading this little sunbeam’s comment …
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That sounds quite pleasant to be honest, sitting on a terrace is great.
How dare you threaten me with a good time.
Exactly. If mainland Europeans are so cool then explain the Franco Prussian War
We are a nation of people who commute 2-3 hours a day by car to a job and look forward to cutting the grass and getting very drunk on Saturday and washing the car on Sunday before we watch the match on our 65″ TV.
The ‘pheiq’ really puts a little bow on the gobshitery here
Sounds like a dream tbh……
No, we are a country of greedy landlords who would rather have their tenants live like sardines than allow them to have decent lives in a supposedly “well-off country.”
I agree with it completely. Only because we have enough space to be a house dwelling society who cycle ……….
Young people should be able to afford more than dog box apartments. Sorry rant over.
The journal comments are fucking horrendous.
I had to serve many years in prison after the last time someone offered me a nice coffee on a terrace, I hope I did Quiet Goer proud.
Apartment dwelling is not a good experience. Lived in apartments all my life before moving here – and I’m not going back to living in an apartment building.
They’re fine for students and young single people – raising a family in one though is a depressing thought, compared to a house.
If you think we will ever be a nation of apartment dwellers you aint seen nothing yet
We have as much in common with them mainland Europeans as I have with people from Westmeath.
That sounds like my idea of the good life. Oh well.
Not a fan of living in a box well into my retirement
Of course it’s just the middle aged Irish men
THEY ARE TRYING TO TURN US INTO PEOPLE WHO GOES TO TERRACES, CYCLES AND ENJOYS COFFEE!!
WOULD YOU THINK OF THE CHILDREN????
I’d love to live in an apartment and have the infrastructure to cycle to do everything I want to tbh, fuckin dream we are being robbed of. Down the line I’d love to be able to get the kids to school in those cargo type bikes in the morning too.
I go home to sleep and to shower, I don’t see a need for 3 bed gaff with huge front and back garden.
They’ve obviously never been unemployed in galway
Yeah those eejits, with their low liability housing solutions and feckin’ BICYCLES. You can imagine the author of that post’s big aul head glowing crimson as he composed it.
As an immigrant from the mainland Europe I confirm that sounds amazing to me lol.
MAYBE
I
LIKE
THE
MISERY
This attitude is also very common on r/ireland. It basically boils down to “I don’t want to live a certain way, therefore no one should”.
As someone who does this on a weekly basis in maastricht, i have to tell you try it some time
I am an Irish apartment dweller so I’m paying out my hole for a badly designed apartment. I don’t have anywhere to store a bike but it’s grand because the bike lane only goes about half way to the local cafe before abruptly ending on a busy road with a lot car traffic. That’s also ok because the local cafe is a costa coffee and the terrace is a footpath with a few plastics tables at the side of the busy road. But all that is grand because I’m only a 15 minute bus ride from the city centre, except 3 busses get cancelled and now we have 3 busses worth of people trying to get on one bus, all paying with an outdated bus card system or paying cash which means getting on the bus takes ages and also the lack of bus lanes (or respect for the few bus lanes that do exist) means we get stuck in traffic and what should have taken zero thought and 15 minutes has taken an hour and a lot strategic planning and trying to anticipate when a bus will actually come based on the TFI app which is liable to change is mind in the last minute.
I think I’ll make coffee at home
I live in an apartment and it’s kinda shit tbh
You’ve no privacy and you’ve no living space either.
One of my neighbours is a paedophile another one has random fits of rage and screams the place down at 2 in the morning and another one is on a power trip because he has the only access to the roof where all the heat pumps are.
On top of that we are right on the street where drunk people constantly sit outside and talk/shout/fight.
Kids around here are a nightmare as well. At least in an estate they can go out and play in the green and keep themselves busy. But all they can do here is play on the street and they’re constantly getting up to no good.
Some people think living in an apartment is great but after being here for 10 years I’d love to live in a nice quiet estate.
I disagree with the comment but why do you think it was a middle-aged man who wrote that?
My first thought upon reading this little sunbeam’s comment …
https://i.redd.it/f2gn1zogmxpd1.gif
The comments section in the Journal should be avoided at all costs. Fecking weirdos.