Rich Middle aged response to the housing crisis live on TV , an alternate reality..
"it's a lifestyle choice" says the wealthy middle aged man to our kids who can no longer afford to live or work here. #TonightVMTV pic.twitter.com/49MWaXlJ9x
— Dáithí K (@tvcritics) September 13, 2022
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Blood pressure warning: ‘ commuting to Australia’ is a new lifestyle
Outside of the ‘commuting’ he’s kind of not wrong though. Australia is just as bad as here for salary to rent ratios. It’s definitely a grass is always greener situation. I can see people leaving for sun/escape from monotony ect but I don’t think people are moving to Canada/aus/USA due to rent prices here or if they are they are sadly very miss informed about the current situations abroad.
If wanting a home and the ability to be able to afford to do stuff in your free in time is considered a lifestyle choice, then the youth of ireland are truly fucked.
Also, labeling stuff as a “lifestyle choice” makes it sound like there are other choices. So is not being able to afford a home and not being able to afford to do stuff in your free in time also a lifestyle choice?
r/facepalm
“*emmm, ahhhh, eemmm life style choice.”*
Felt like some mental gymnastics I just watched there.
There are a handful of places where the rental situation is worse than in Dublin – I don’t think he appreciates [how much of an outlier we are.](https://i.imgur.com/JBZt5sP.png).
Ya, if you’re going to New York, Tokyo, Geneva, or London you’ll pay more. Fact is though that you’ll also be likely to earn more. And the sad fact for Ireland is that the more likely you are to be successful the more likely you are to earn more in those places, and so we lose some of our most talented people.
To take the area I know about, you can expect as a newly qualified solicitor to earn about €80k in the big firms in Dublin. Most of those people can swing a magic circle job in London and immediately get into the six figures (and the American firms pay more again). Sure the rent is marginally more expensive but the pay bump makes up for it, and you get to live in a proper global city – Dublin doesn’t have anything like the West End, etc.
It’s seldom a good sign when you have politicians and commentators increasingly sitting around saying “actually, things are great and you just think too much of yourself”. It’s symptomatic of an increasing disjuncture between the comfortable classes and those who experiencing relative hardship.