Sorry students, you just gotta suck it up. We have 40k refugees now and they take preference. And maybe think about giving your college place to a Ukrainian too while you’re at it?
Tuam is the Tallaght of Galway. Go literally anywhere else.
Funny, they were all cool about driving rents up while riding the hell out the ultra wealthy foreign student market.
This wouldn’t be the worst advice in the world if there was decent public transport, or even parking on campus, but if this is long term advice would NUIG consider moving campus to Tuam instead?
NUIG has really outgrown Galway.
For context, does anyone know if this is the first year NUIG have suggested to students about moving to those satellite towns?
Or is this part of a usual communication made by the college but highlighted now for emphasis.
Moycullen is a good shout if you have a car. The others would be a nightmare.
Surely we can look to Apache Pizza to cure the student housing problem, nation wide.
The best advice right now is check eunicas.ie for university courses taught through English throughout the EU. Many have free fees and some even have bursaries. Overall it may work out a lot cheaper than studying in Ireland.
NUIG would be in a ace to give advice if they had built any on campus accommodation between the opening of corrib village and a few years ago with the new(more expensive) one opening next to it.
They grew student numbers constantly and didn’t add any more on campus space.
Athenry / Oranmore would be pretty decent to move to with the train. You have zero night life though unless you can stay at a friend’s house. Last train is 7.30pm and 10.15pm most nights. Tuam would be a trek because your only option is the bus.
I remember last year I had to get an early bus from Galway to Cork. The number of students traveling from Galway who got off at Limerick was insane. It’s a rotten time to go to college from a social pov though, covid and now nowhere to live.
Oh no. How could we have known this was going to happen?
A friend of mine who was in college in Galway literally spent a whole entire year leaving out of a hostel in Galway city centre just for a second think about what it is like to go to college and come back to your accommodation that is a hostel and every single day there are new people in your room
“Right across the nation, people are struggling with soaring rents and chasing rooms in gaffs further and further away from where they work..”
Jesus Christ. I can’t believe they used the word “gaffs” in a serious article.
They must be selling a complete myth to foreign students. So many of them are coming here, every reply to housing advertisements on Facebook etc are foreign surnames. I bet they don’t tell them about the housing crisis when they are getting them to come here and pay non EU fees. They must leave here with a very bad view of Ireland. Not a good look for us to bleed them dry and they don’t even get a decent place to sleep.
NUIG are more of a business than an educational institution now.
Spiddal? And rent a holiday home?
Keep ignoring public transport on top of the housing catastrophe and see how people stop coming to the city; this is going to have a significant negative impact on the city in the years to come if not already.
This implies there are properties out there to rent as well. Moycullen currently has 0 properties available for rent on Daft, Oughterard has 1 for 2,750 per month. Looking at ones listed to share, there are 0 in Oughterard and 2 in Moycullen, at 520-620 per month
I guess we just have to wait for the Vintners Association to give the government permission to do anything about it.
I’d love to know if there’s a specific name for this kind of stupid, uncaring, advice. It seems to be really common lately, especially from the government: Things like:
* *Take shorter showers to save on electricity*
* *Drive slower to reduce fuel costs*
* *Turn your heating down one degree*
* *If you’re homeless, just buy a house*
* *If you’re anorexic, just eat some food*
* *etc..*
Is there a name for this, like the nirvana fallacy, wishful thinking, etc?
When you have rich Yanks, Canadians, Chinese and Indians coming in and paying top money for housing is it any wonder? They’ll pay anything for anything
I actually was considering that because thought there might be more options and not so overpriced. But there really is not any there either and let alone not even any cheaper.
They probably wont do anything until they get a bad enough reputation for facilities and accommodation that they lose more students than they gain and are forced to act.
Not like they have a shortage of funds anyway and it’s pretty much guaranteed return on investment
In fairness, places like Spiddal and Tuam have pretty decent bus services that would take max 40 minutes and weekly tickets wouldn’t cost that much more than if you were travelling in the city …
Christ, I lived in some shitholes in my time at NUIG but they were always in Galway city. I really do feel sorry for the Students and their parents tbh.
They should give every institution a chance to express their surprise and despair at the problem that’s been present for at least a decade.
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Sorry students, you just gotta suck it up. We have 40k refugees now and they take preference. And maybe think about giving your college place to a Ukrainian too while you’re at it?
Tuam is the Tallaght of Galway. Go literally anywhere else.
Funny, they were all cool about driving rents up while riding the hell out the ultra wealthy foreign student market.
This wouldn’t be the worst advice in the world if there was decent public transport, or even parking on campus, but if this is long term advice would NUIG consider moving campus to Tuam instead?
NUIG has really outgrown Galway.
For context, does anyone know if this is the first year NUIG have suggested to students about moving to those satellite towns?
Or is this part of a usual communication made by the college but highlighted now for emphasis.
Moycullen is a good shout if you have a car. The others would be a nightmare.
Surely we can look to Apache Pizza to cure the student housing problem, nation wide.
The best advice right now is check eunicas.ie for university courses taught through English throughout the EU. Many have free fees and some even have bursaries. Overall it may work out a lot cheaper than studying in Ireland.
NUIG would be in a ace to give advice if they had built any on campus accommodation between the opening of corrib village and a few years ago with the new(more expensive) one opening next to it.
They grew student numbers constantly and didn’t add any more on campus space.
Athenry / Oranmore would be pretty decent to move to with the train. You have zero night life though unless you can stay at a friend’s house. Last train is 7.30pm and 10.15pm most nights. Tuam would be a trek because your only option is the bus.
I remember last year I had to get an early bus from Galway to Cork. The number of students traveling from Galway who got off at Limerick was insane. It’s a rotten time to go to college from a social pov though, covid and now nowhere to live.
Oh no. How could we have known this was going to happen?
A friend of mine who was in college in Galway literally spent a whole entire year leaving out of a hostel in Galway city centre just for a second think about what it is like to go to college and come back to your accommodation that is a hostel and every single day there are new people in your room
“Right across the nation, people are struggling with soaring rents and chasing rooms in gaffs further and further away from where they work..”
Jesus Christ. I can’t believe they used the word “gaffs” in a serious article.
They must be selling a complete myth to foreign students. So many of them are coming here, every reply to housing advertisements on Facebook etc are foreign surnames. I bet they don’t tell them about the housing crisis when they are getting them to come here and pay non EU fees. They must leave here with a very bad view of Ireland. Not a good look for us to bleed them dry and they don’t even get a decent place to sleep.
NUIG are more of a business than an educational institution now.
Spiddal? And rent a holiday home?
Keep ignoring public transport on top of the housing catastrophe and see how people stop coming to the city; this is going to have a significant negative impact on the city in the years to come if not already.
This implies there are properties out there to rent as well. Moycullen currently has 0 properties available for rent on Daft, Oughterard has 1 for 2,750 per month. Looking at ones listed to share, there are 0 in Oughterard and 2 in Moycullen, at 520-620 per month
I guess we just have to wait for the Vintners Association to give the government permission to do anything about it.
I’d love to know if there’s a specific name for this kind of stupid, uncaring, advice. It seems to be really common lately, especially from the government: Things like:
* *Take shorter showers to save on electricity*
* *Drive slower to reduce fuel costs*
* *Turn your heating down one degree*
* *If you’re homeless, just buy a house*
* *If you’re anorexic, just eat some food*
* *etc..*
Is there a name for this, like the nirvana fallacy, wishful thinking, etc?
When you have rich Yanks, Canadians, Chinese and Indians coming in and paying top money for housing is it any wonder? They’ll pay anything for anything
I actually was considering that because thought there might be more options and not so overpriced. But there really is not any there either and let alone not even any cheaper.
They probably wont do anything until they get a bad enough reputation for facilities and accommodation that they lose more students than they gain and are forced to act.
Not like they have a shortage of funds anyway and it’s pretty much guaranteed return on investment
In fairness, places like Spiddal and Tuam have pretty decent bus services that would take max 40 minutes and weekly tickets wouldn’t cost that much more than if you were travelling in the city …
Christ, I lived in some shitholes in my time at NUIG but they were always in Galway city. I really do feel sorry for the Students and their parents tbh.
They should give every institution a chance to express their surprise and despair at the problem that’s been present for at least a decade.