How could this be true? r/ireland has told me that Ireland has been in a housing crisis for 10 years so how could someone give out such a deal in the midst of a housing crisis…..? /s
Who took what from us??
Mass immigration =
For those down voting. Its just mathematics
More people = higher demand. Our birth rate isn’t pushing our population up as fast as people are immigrating.
When I moved out at 20 in 2009 it was no big deal, you just went to a house that was for rent and kinda just….. got it? Like you’d be the only one there, the price would be €350-€400 absoulte max or less. I moved 3 times within 2 years because one place was cheaper (€240 a month) and the next place was nicer, it was like switching your car insurance or something just shop around for whatever you wanted.
If you wanted to move house you rang a friend or your da or something and said ya hear any houses for rent no? They would be back to you within 5 minutes with 4 or 5 choices. It seems like I’m talking of a fantasy land compares to today, 100 people lineing up at 9am for a room that cost a grand fucking hell.
I remember way back in the early 2010’s I managed to get a place for€52 per week, or €208 a month in Galway.
Granted it was a shite place but at least you got what you paid for. Nowadays I’d say that same place is easily going €600 at an absolute minimum and it probably hasn’t seen a lick of work done in the meantime.
I rented a house in Drimnagh in 2013 for €1000/pm. I’m having a hard time believing that this is true, unless it was next to a drug dealer or something.
That’s for a room, not the whole house.
Was this for the whole place?
I’m in a state of shock
I rented a nice 1 bed apartment in the docklands for €750 a month from 2010 -2014. Landlord had asked for €790 in the original Daft ad but I bargained him down to €750. Rent never went up and I only moved out when I decided to buy my own place.
Yes, this is cheap, but rentals for less than a year were always more affordable as people were less likely to rent them.
People can’t remember how fucked the country was when Fine Gael and Labour took over in 2011.
The reason accommodation was cheap was because the economy was on its last legs and young people were abandoning ship.
The economic recovery under those two and continued by Fine Gael was close to a miracle tbh. Unemployment was nearly 10% around then if memory serves.
I was looking for a room to rent in D15 back then, and it was a nightmare. I can’t recall the rents, but it was hard to find anything.
When I moved to Ireland many a year ago I rented an amazing house in Sandymount for peanuts (compared to home in Switzerland anyway), now I would imagine it’s cheaper to do so here.
I moved to Dublin in 2015 and got a shared 2 bed in the city with my friend for €1200 total. The rent on that has literally almost trebled since then. It’s unsustainable.
It’s going to kill the city long term.
Who is ‘they’ ?
Jesus Christ we had it good
As far as I see you gave that yourselves.
I have been here only for 1.5 years and what I saw is even hallucinating anti vaccine people who thinks 5g will cause cancer were more fierce about their case when it comes to protesting.
You marched for indoor dining but when it comes to housing or increase in cost of life I don’t see any real actions.
The harsh truth I see is , I don’t think anybody actually cares about housing. Everybody just loves to bitch about it.
Also I believe everybody waits somebody else to do something. Whenever I advice to protest about housing all I get is downvotes and answers like “protests does not change anything “.
And in the long run I believe this situation will hurt your country more than you think. What will happen when top tech companies could not hire anymore? Even tho they offer good money most tech experts like me skips Ireland offers because everybody know it is a lot harder to settle around here. And when that system blocks I believe either that big tech companies will downsize or leave. It won’t be tomorrow but I believe it might happen.
I know you don’t like to hear the truth and you just wanna complain to vent which is understandable but that is the facts.
You keep refuse to change stuff, refuse to work for the change, refuse to protest and expecting everything get better magically.
P.S: To clarify I am not anti irish/racist or anything I actually think Irish people are very nice and usually very kind. At least in where I live. Even tho I have darker skin and obviously I am a “gaijin” I never had racial issues or discrimination. I am talking about a specific situation on my post and I am talking about what I observe people do against that situation. Tbh on the overall I love people around here. But I really believe they should start acting if they wanna change anything. Or stop complaining.
Now you can downvote me altogether.
Thanks Leo.
When I moved up to college in 2011 I remember thinking I’d never get a place because I tried calling 4 different spots and none of them wanted students. Eventually got one and I remember my dad explaining to me the absolute daylight robbery of having to pay €400pm to rent a room in Clonskeagh. At the time you could probably get a place in the countryside for free if you just kept it in decent shape.
Same room would cost at least 3x that now, and you’d better start lining up 3 hrs before the viewing if you want a shot. And if you’re a student you better look old and be a good liar.
€750 to share an apartment with an alcoholic sex pest in Blanch last year
“Thankfully” i was the wrong gender for him so i “only” had to hear about his sexploits (sucking taxi drivers off for free rides home…but clearly he was no good at it since they charged him anyway loool)
relax, soonly all the good willed workers will notice it is not worth to live here working for minimum wage and living in a tuna can for the price of a castle.
I can’t wait for the market to go to shit.
I feel like we can’t leave it up to the powers that be to fix this but at the same time have no fucking idea what to do about it. I’ve feel let down and also letting myself down. It is actually ridiculous that this has happened in such a prosperous country.
While I was in college in 2015, I rented a house for 400 euro a month. It had to be a house, because I have kids.
I’m currently looking for a new place to rent and an almost identical house on the same street is now 2400 euro a month.
Just emigrate.
No way that’s for a whole house, probably the tiniest room, 2015 was already expensive
Mmm, it wasn’t ever that cheap when I rented in Cork way back 😂. I used to pay 80 a week for a room in a five bed house with one toilet and no central heating.
I went to college in 1998 and I paid 30 pounds a week for my rent. Fucking crazy the prices that people are paying now.
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How could this be true? r/ireland has told me that Ireland has been in a housing crisis for 10 years so how could someone give out such a deal in the midst of a housing crisis…..? /s
Who took what from us??
Mass immigration =
For those down voting. Its just mathematics
More people = higher demand. Our birth rate isn’t pushing our population up as fast as people are immigrating.
When I moved out at 20 in 2009 it was no big deal, you just went to a house that was for rent and kinda just….. got it? Like you’d be the only one there, the price would be €350-€400 absoulte max or less. I moved 3 times within 2 years because one place was cheaper (€240 a month) and the next place was nicer, it was like switching your car insurance or something just shop around for whatever you wanted.
If you wanted to move house you rang a friend or your da or something and said ya hear any houses for rent no? They would be back to you within 5 minutes with 4 or 5 choices. It seems like I’m talking of a fantasy land compares to today, 100 people lineing up at 9am for a room that cost a grand fucking hell.
I remember way back in the early 2010’s I managed to get a place for€52 per week, or €208 a month in Galway.
Granted it was a shite place but at least you got what you paid for. Nowadays I’d say that same place is easily going €600 at an absolute minimum and it probably hasn’t seen a lick of work done in the meantime.
I rented a house in Drimnagh in 2013 for €1000/pm. I’m having a hard time believing that this is true, unless it was next to a drug dealer or something.
That’s for a room, not the whole house.
Was this for the whole place?
I’m in a state of shock
I rented a nice 1 bed apartment in the docklands for €750 a month from 2010 -2014. Landlord had asked for €790 in the original Daft ad but I bargained him down to €750. Rent never went up and I only moved out when I decided to buy my own place.
Yes, this is cheap, but rentals for less than a year were always more affordable as people were less likely to rent them.
People can’t remember how fucked the country was when Fine Gael and Labour took over in 2011.
The reason accommodation was cheap was because the economy was on its last legs and young people were abandoning ship.
The economic recovery under those two and continued by Fine Gael was close to a miracle tbh. Unemployment was nearly 10% around then if memory serves.
I was looking for a room to rent in D15 back then, and it was a nightmare. I can’t recall the rents, but it was hard to find anything.
When I moved to Ireland many a year ago I rented an amazing house in Sandymount for peanuts (compared to home in Switzerland anyway), now I would imagine it’s cheaper to do so here.
I moved to Dublin in 2015 and got a shared 2 bed in the city with my friend for €1200 total. The rent on that has literally almost trebled since then. It’s unsustainable.
It’s going to kill the city long term.
Who is ‘they’ ?
Jesus Christ we had it good
As far as I see you gave that yourselves.
I have been here only for 1.5 years and what I saw is even hallucinating anti vaccine people who thinks 5g will cause cancer were more fierce about their case when it comes to protesting.
You marched for indoor dining but when it comes to housing or increase in cost of life I don’t see any real actions.
The harsh truth I see is , I don’t think anybody actually cares about housing. Everybody just loves to bitch about it.
Also I believe everybody waits somebody else to do something. Whenever I advice to protest about housing all I get is downvotes and answers like “protests does not change anything “.
And in the long run I believe this situation will hurt your country more than you think. What will happen when top tech companies could not hire anymore? Even tho they offer good money most tech experts like me skips Ireland offers because everybody know it is a lot harder to settle around here. And when that system blocks I believe either that big tech companies will downsize or leave. It won’t be tomorrow but I believe it might happen.
I know you don’t like to hear the truth and you just wanna complain to vent which is understandable but that is the facts.
You keep refuse to change stuff, refuse to work for the change, refuse to protest and expecting everything get better magically.
P.S: To clarify I am not anti irish/racist or anything I actually think Irish people are very nice and usually very kind. At least in where I live. Even tho I have darker skin and obviously I am a “gaijin” I never had racial issues or discrimination. I am talking about a specific situation on my post and I am talking about what I observe people do against that situation. Tbh on the overall I love people around here. But I really believe they should start acting if they wanna change anything. Or stop complaining.
Now you can downvote me altogether.
Thanks Leo.
When I moved up to college in 2011 I remember thinking I’d never get a place because I tried calling 4 different spots and none of them wanted students. Eventually got one and I remember my dad explaining to me the absolute daylight robbery of having to pay €400pm to rent a room in Clonskeagh. At the time you could probably get a place in the countryside for free if you just kept it in decent shape.
Same room would cost at least 3x that now, and you’d better start lining up 3 hrs before the viewing if you want a shot. And if you’re a student you better look old and be a good liar.
€750 to share an apartment with an alcoholic sex pest in Blanch last year
“Thankfully” i was the wrong gender for him so i “only” had to hear about his sexploits (sucking taxi drivers off for free rides home…but clearly he was no good at it since they charged him anyway loool)
relax, soonly all the good willed workers will notice it is not worth to live here working for minimum wage and living in a tuna can for the price of a castle.
I can’t wait for the market to go to shit.
I feel like we can’t leave it up to the powers that be to fix this but at the same time have no fucking idea what to do about it. I’ve feel let down and also letting myself down. It is actually ridiculous that this has happened in such a prosperous country.
While I was in college in 2015, I rented a house for 400 euro a month. It had to be a house, because I have kids.
I’m currently looking for a new place to rent and an almost identical house on the same street is now 2400 euro a month.
Just emigrate.
No way that’s for a whole house, probably the tiniest room, 2015 was already expensive
Mmm, it wasn’t ever that cheap when I rented in Cork way back 😂. I used to pay 80 a week for a room in a five bed house with one toilet and no central heating.
I went to college in 1998 and I paid 30 pounds a week for my rent. Fucking crazy the prices that people are paying now.