The average Irish home has 2.3 rooms per person, the highest in the EU.

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1. But housing crisis????

2. We need some space from those losers.

3. This is a really dumb metric.

   Like.,. If I live in a 1 bed apartment by myself that’s just the bedroom, bathroom and a cooking / living space that’s 3 rooms per person

4. Gummint says everyone has to take in a lodger in the new year.

5. Are they only counting everyone over 40? The average person under 40 owns zero rooms.

6. Which is nicer, a tiny boxy living room, a minute kitchen, and a very small dining room or one great big open-plan room?

7. Because they won’t fucking build actual proper high rise

8. I mean under occupation is a well known issue. A lot of people buy a house as a young couple and never move again until they die. So you have lots of older people, possibly on their own, living in 4 bed semi Ds. Happens even in council homes, which is nuts. There’s not so much of a culture of downsizing here as there is in another countries.

   Also obviously room per person isn’t a great metric, it depends on the size of the room and how it is setup. Does an open space living area count as one room but a separate kitchen, dining and living room as three?

9. Very misleading, do it for sq footage and then let’s see.

10. Western European gaffs and apartments (generally) have larger rooms though.

11. This probably doesn’t take house share rentals into account.
    Also, we don’t have a great apartment culture (it’s slowly starting to show now) so this isn’t surprising.

12. Makes it even more pathetic considering how many people pay to rent one room

13. wait you guys have rooms?

14. It’s because the vast majority of the housing stock is semi-Ds. Young professional? Room in a semi-D. Student? Box room in a semi-D. Family? Semi-D. Old person living alone? You guessed it…

15. Can we please use square meters to compare houses across Europe instead of “number of rooms”?