Ciara Geraghty: How could my parents buy a three-bed semi-D home in Dublin on a single wage in 1968 when my children never will? | Irish Independent

by WickerMan111

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  2. Does she need someone to draw it out with crayons 🤦‍♂️

  3. Because in 1968 there was still net emigration out of Ireland.

  4. 40 years of lazy ignorant voting for bad policy selfish policy. A stupid electorate led by stupid people.

  6. Ummmm try rampart capitalism and neoliberal economic policies maybe?

  7. Welcome to a two income family society. How may I help
    You ?

  8. The answer is that a small country with a consistently growing population cannot provide an infinite supply of 3 bed semi houses, at a low price point.

  9. I see this all the time and it’s such fuckin lazy leftist economics. I’m soooo bored of those woketards. Her parents are not merely average earners. Her father is a safety inspector for a nuclear power plant. Furthermore.. they COULDN’T afford the house. Abe had to provide the down payment by selling HIS house. A kindness they repayed by putting him in a home.

  10. we’re getting to a point where having a roof over your head you can call your own is a luxury. it’s a sign of someone being wealthy and not a sign they’re a person who’s alive on earth. housing should be a right.

  12. A workforce helped -bricklayers etc Lax regulation No need to lay on services

  13. In the 60s we had a large suppy of cheap disposable labourers. House building without any planning system and minimal building regulations.

  14. Because there were fuck all jobs back then. Houses will get cheaper if one in four of your mates are unemployed

  15. Because it was 1968, land was plentyful and cheap… construction was incredibly simple, materials cheap, labour cheap.

  16. Nobody is prepared to live in 1968 quality houses these days. 1 shared bathroom, hauling massive amounts of coal to light the open fire (or fires if you’re lucky) to keep the single glazed room above freezing, asbestos in everything, single latched lock on the front door, paper thin walls and internal doors.

    The quality and standards have vastly improved. That costs money. It is not the only reason, or even the major reason, but it is part of the reason.

  17. Because property then was for a home and not many outside Ireland buyers. Today it s a free for ll around the world as air travel took off and other thinhs.

  18. The answer to the question is in the title , it’s because her mother didn’t work, and nor would most women whose husbands would be the single earners applying for mortgages 

  19. Financialisation; China; Interest rates; Governments around the world dropping the ball on an epic scale.

  20. Because Dublin was an undesirable city on the edge of Europe with poor services and very little job prospects. No one outside ireland wanted to live in Dublin and our population was much smaller.

    Now people around the world see Dublin and Ireland as a desirable place to live with great services and great job prospects. Supply and demand, and our government have let supply fall too low for too long

  21. >on a single wage in 1968

    Back when a woman working in the civil service was forced to leave her job when she got married and male earners were the norm.

  23. Because two parents working become the norm, and they changed the tax allocation to encourage it. 

  24. My parents had a 12 year mortgage for 4 bed in Leixlip in the 90s, paid off with 1 wage. I can’t afford a 1 bed apartment in Leixlip.

  26. Because everyone was leaving Ireland in 1968.
    So houses weren’t in short supply.

  27. A house back then was considered just somewhere to live,now they are investments. but its going to end soon,the big crunch for big tech has begun. ai is replacing all these six figure jobs at an excellerated rate. this crunch can be a 50% drop off accross all big tech companies if not more.

  28. Was there a rapidly increasing population in 1968?

    What was Ireland’s economy like compared to other western ones – were people leaving or arriving?

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