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Dublin House Prices 2015
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mariaalice wrote: »Huge private estates were built in all the areas I mentioned including Tallaght. in the 1970's and 1980's
I am not saying the recession wasn't bad in the 1980's, however they way some posters go on you would think no one had a job and everyone was living on the edge of starvation.
The vast majority of housing built was social housing. This was true throughout the history of the State. Up til the 1990s where it almost shuddered to a halt, and instead reliance was placed on RA and placing pressure on existing stock.0 -
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mariaalice wrote: »I am not saying the recession wasn't bad in the 1980's, however they way some posters go on you would think no one had a job and everyone was living on the edge of starvation.
Well food was way different back in the 70s/80s from what I remember.
There were no fancy restaurants, actually scrub that they were shag all restuarants of any sort, especially once you left the likes of Dublin.
Michellin only did tyres back then.
There were none of this fancy food like all these versions of pastas, humuses, quinoa, all these exotic fruits like passion fruit, physalis, lychees, etc.
Good old bacon and cabbage, blackpudding, rashers, spuds, rice was usually eaten after dinner as a desert, and the only pasta known to most Irish was spaghetti.
Fruit consisted of apples, oranges, pears, bananas, strawberries and the ones you picked.
Wine to many back then was blue, not red, white, Bordeuax, Chilean, shiraz, or merlot.
Coffee for most was either Maxwell house or Nescafe.
Oh and it came form a jar.
How did we ever manage some of the younger folk are probably wondering?
Well you see what you never had, you never miss.
And when you have shag all to spend your money on, what little you have, it is is easier to save.
BTW does anyone know if you can still get Blue nun.
Ok nostagia is kicking in.
The Spider wrote: »Yes but the key here is social housing, while true that not everyone was on the dole, there also wasn't a huge financial, IT and Pharma industry in Dublin. Most jobs were as you said earlier, civil service or trades, the professional classes were doctors, accountants, and solicitors.
Nowadays social housing seems to equate to long term unemployed, the lazy having never worked and the gurriers.
Years ago a lot of the people in state owned housing were actually low income working class who were actually working.I am not allowed discuss …
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Well food was way different back in the 70s/80s from what I remember.
There were no fancy restaurants, actually scrub that they were shag all restuarants of any sort, especially once you left the likes of Dublin.
Michellin only did tyres back then.
There were none of this fancy food like all these versions of pastas, humuses, quinoa, all these exotic fruits like passion fruit, physalis, lychees, etc.
Good old bacon and cabbage, blackpudding, rashers, spuds, rice was usually eaten after dinner as a desert, and the only pasta known to most Irish was spaghetti.
Fruit consisted of apples, oranges, pears, bananas, strawberries and the ones you picked.
Wine to many back then was blue, not red, white, Bordeuax, Chilean, shiraz, or merlot.
Coffee for most was either Maxwell house or Nescafe.
Oh and it came form a jar.
How did we ever manage some of the younger folk are probably wondering?
Well you see what you never had, you never miss.
And when you have shag all to spend your money on, what little you have, it is is easier to save.
BTW does anyone know if you can still get Blue nun.
Ok nostagia is kicking in.
Nowadays social housing seems to equate to long term unemployed, the lazy having never worked and the gurriers.
Years ago a lot of the people in state owned housing were actually low income working class who were actually working.
Blue nun, and baby cham at christmas
While we are on it
I remember we grew up in a council estate in the 80s. Maybe one person in the estate had a phone. The rest had to use the public phone box at the end of the street.
We used to wait at the phone box in the freezing cold at 8pm on a Friday night for my dad to ring and speak to us for about a minute, which probably cost about half a days wages. And sometimes that would clash with another familys dad calling them and the phone would be engaged when my dad tried to call, so we would miss talking to him til 8pm the next friday.
He was in germany because there were no jobs here and would spend 9 months there and three at home. None of this flying home whenever you feel like it. It was a world away.
Then back to our house with no central heating, just a super ser in one room.
Friday was bath night. The immersion would be put on and the same water used to bath us all.
And for one week a year we would go on our holidays to Bray to my aunts house, and then they would come to our house for their holidays the week after. It use to take us 3 hours to get to Bray from Kimmage.
How anyone can say life is harder now or they have to work harder than people from years gone by is beyond me. Its insulting to those who did scrap hard just for a simple life.0 -
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Blue nun, and baby cham at christmas
While we are on it
I remember we grew up in a council estate in the 80s. Maybe one person in the estate had a phone. The rest had to use the public phone box at the end of the street.
We used to wait at the phone box in the freezing cold at 8pm on a Friday night for my dad to ring and speak to us for about a minute, which probably cost about half a days wages. And sometimes that would clash with another familys dad calling them and the phone would be engaged when my dad tried to call, so we would miss talking to him til 8pm the next friday.
He was in germany because there were no jobs here and would spend 9 months there and three at home. None of this flying home whenever you feel like it. It was a world away.
Then back to our house with no central heating, just a super ser in one room.
Friday was bath night. The immersion would be put on and the same water used to bath us all.
And for one week a year we would go on our holidays to Bray to my aunts house, and then they would come to our house for their holidays the week after. It use to take us 3 hours to get to Bray from Kimmage.
How anyone can say life is harder now or they have to work harder than people from years gone by is beyond me. Its insulting to those who did scrap hard just for a simple life.
It is harder now to afford a house in Clontarf, for example, than in the 1970's or 1980's. Even with all our 'modern opportunities', that is a fact.
Some people are living in mansions they bought while they had normal civil service jobs in the 1970's that even doctors can't afford now.
All the waffle about 'de rare aul times' is just noise to my point really.0 -
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Blue nun, and baby cham at christmas
While we are on it
I remember we grew up in a council estate in the 80s. Maybe one person in the estate had a phone. The rest had to use the public phone box at the end of the street.
We used to wait at the phone box in the freezing cold at 8pm on a Friday night for my dad to ring and speak to us for about a minute, which probably cost about half a days wages. And sometimes that would clash with another familys dad calling them and the phone would be engaged when my dad tried to call, so we would miss talking to him til 8pm the next friday.
He was in germany because there were no jobs here and would spend 9 months there and three at home. None of this flying home whenever you feel like it. It was a world away.
Then back to our house with no central heating, just a super ser in one room.
Friday was bath night. The immersion would be put on and the same water used to bath us all.
And for one week a year we would go on our holidays to Bray to my aunts house, and then they would come to our house for their holidays the week after. It use to take us 3 hours to get to Bray from Kimmage.
How anyone can say life is harder now or they have to work harder than people from years gone by is beyond me. Its insulting to those who did scrap hard just for a simple life.
That sounds massively exaggerated to me. I mean it might have been a very poor housing estate but I think most people had phones. I remember looking this up when someone else , or you, said the same before and if wasn't true.
Also house ownership has been high on Ireland for decades.0 -
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Actually the poster is right and you are wrong.
You can look it up all you like, but some of us actually lived through it.
Until the creation of Telecom Eireann out of the old P&T, which was actually civil service Dept of Posts and Telegraphs, the phone system in Ireland was archaic.
Telecom Eireann was founded in 1984.
Up until the early 80s (80/81/82), when new Alcatel and Ericsson digital exchanges were implemented, the old system was analogue and relied on some old dear putting your call through.
It took years, yes years, to actually get a phone line.
So the poster is not wrong when they state that the vast majority of people did not have a phone and people relied on public phone boxes.
I wonder does anyone of our older posters recall the phone box in Conemara that didn't accept money and everyone travelled for miles (I mean 20/30/40 miles) to ring their relatives in the states ?
Actually the more I look at what people had in the 70s and 80s, nevermind earlier still, the less fecking sympathy I have for some now grumbling and complaining about how people back then somehow didn't have to work as hard and were somehow on the pigs back on the way to massive property wealth. :mad:
AXE is that old? 0 -
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