Advice on where in Dublin to live

AiB123

Any help appreciated!
Moving to Dublin next month and will be working in the city centre/store street and trying to figure out what parts of the city will be practical for commuting/traffic etc and what parts are too far out! Shift work too so commuting at different hours!
Would love some advive!

OldMrBrennan83

Wherever you can get, if you can even get somewhere. Seriously.

Sheeps

Outside of Dublin.

Loughc

AiB123 wrote: »

Any help appreciated!
Moving to Dublin next month and will be working in the city centre/store street and trying to figure out what parts of the city will be practical for commuting/traffic etc and what parts are too far out! Shift work too so commuting at different hours!
Would love some advive!

North Dublin, Baldoyle, Sutton, Portmarnock, Howth and Malahide all nice areas but like most places in Dublin quite pricey.

downtheroad

Tallaght Garda station

HappyAsLarE

What is your monthly budget for rent?

babi-hrse

Islandbridge

freshpopcorn

Hi OP!
i moved your thread here where you might get more serious responses. These mods may decide to move it as well.

AiB123

freshpopcorn wrote: »

Hi OP!
i moved your thread here where you might get more serious responses. These mods may decide to move it as well.

Thank you! Might lower the sarcastic replies!

AiB123

HappyAsLarE wrote: »

What is your monthly budget for rent?

600-700 mark.

Loughc

AiB123 wrote: »

600-700 mark.

You looking for a room share is it?

Sheeps

Lambs to the slaughter. You may want to double that budget.

AiB123

Yeah, house share!

odyssey06

East Wall would be close for Store Street.

If it's shift work you may not be able to rely on public transport as they shut down 11ish so that really limits your options.

Sheeps

AiB123 wrote: »

Yeah, house share!

He said room share. You'd be very lucky to get a whole room at that price, unless you know someone. My advice is to go word of mouth amongst your friends and people you know.

You really need to look at living quite a bit outside of Dublin city and commuting in, places like Kildare, Maynooth etc.

Are Am Eye

AiB123 wrote: »

Yeah, house share!

There's probably lot's of staff in the Dept Soc, Bus Aras and Garda Station who might have a house share spot available.

If your charms are up to it you may get someone to put a sign up in respective canteens with your name, number and requirements.

KaneToad

If you're starting to work in store street Garda station and are working the guards shift pattern then your best bet is to live somewhere outside Dublin and travel in. You'll get a lot more bang for your buck. Store Street is very accessible - Commuter Rail, DART and Bus Aras are right on the doorstep.

AiB123

KaneToad wrote: »

If you're starting to work in store street Garda station and are working the guards shift pattern then your best bet is to live somewhere outside Dublin and travel in. You'll get a lot more bang for your buck. Store Street is very accessible - Commuter Rail, DART and Bus Aras are right on the doorstep.

Thanks for that. Would the likes of North suit like swords etc?

Loughc

AiB123 wrote: »

Thanks for that. Would the likes of North suit like swords etc?

Swords Express is very handy as well. Swords is a good spot too.

ShadyAcres

AiB123 wrote:

Any help appreciated! Moving to Dublin next month and will be working in the city centre/store street and trying to figure out what parts of the city will be practical for commuting/traffic etc and what parts are too far out! Shift work too so commuting at different hours! Would love some advive!

AiB123 wrote:

Yeah, house share!

I'm living in Dublin the last 2 years. I'm in Artane north Dublin near Beaumont hospital in a nice owner occupied houseshare, quiet street. I'm paying 500 a month for a boxroom. The other renters in the house are paying 6 or 700 a month for bigger rooms and one is ensuite with own shower etc. The 27b gets me into town in about 30 mins to 40 mins in rush hour, less in the evening The 42, 15 and 27 also go from close by to Connolly.
Killester dart station is about 25 mins walk. Great area.

AiB123

ShadyAcres wrote: »

I'm living in Dublin the last 2 years. I'm in Artane north Dublin near Beaumont hospital in a nice owner occupied houseshare, quiet street. I'm paying 500 a month for a boxroom. The other renters in the house are paying 6 or 700 a month for bigger rooms and one is ensuite with own shower etc. The 27b gets me into town in about 30 mins to 40 mins in rush hour, less in the evening The 42, 15 and 27 also go from close by to Connolly.
Killester dart station is about 25 mins walk. Great area.

Thank you very much. Appreciate the help.

Heebie

HappyAsLarE wrote:

What is your monthly budget for rent?

This is one of of the most important questions, as the answer can seriously limit your choices.

If money is object, D1 City centre or ifsc, East wall and North wall, docklands, Spencer dock, D2, or anywhere you can find a place on the red line luas.

More likely you'll have to look at every cheap dump you can find on daft, and put money down immediately on the first thing you get approved for.

Even if money isn't an issue, you'll still be likely to be in a bidding war, or a race to put down the security deposit and first months rent.

Heebie

AiB123 wrote:

600-700 mark.

That'll maybe get you a room in a shared house.

Good luck!

myshirt

6-7hundred will definitely get you a shared room. Move further out and you'll get your own room. Persevere, because it's a wild city out there.

ixoy

Killester - my home area - is also feasible. Here's a double bedroom for €520, which seems good value. You're only five minutes walk from the DART station, close to both the Malahide and Howth road for buses and have a good supermarket in Supervalu nearby.

AlmightyCushion

Sheeps wrote: »

He said room share. You'd be very lucky to get a whole room at that price, unless you know someone. My advice is to go word of mouth amongst your friends and people you know.

You really need to look at living quite a bit outside of Dublin city and commuting in, places like Kildare, Maynooth etc.

I've been living in Dublin for a few years now and I have never paid more than €600 for a room to myself so it can definitely be done on his budget. It's not easy and takes patience but definitely doable.

OP, set up an alert on daft for anything under 700 and reply to everything that looks suitable as soon as you can. A lot probably won't respond because they've received loads of replies but it's a numbers game. The more you email/call, the more replies you'll get back. The issue you may have is viewings. You'd need to be able to travel down to view places and most would be on in the early evening. If you live far enough away from Dublin and are working 9-5 it could be difficult.

As for location, if I were you I'd probably set up the Daft alert for every where in the city and when one comes in, check the travel time in google maps for 8am on a Monday. That should give you a worst case scenario. Seeing as you're working in the city centre, you should have a lot of options for locations open to you if you're using public transport which is good.

spurious

Get every network you have working on word of mouth re upcoming rooms etc..

mariaalice

Finglas and get the number 9 bus into O'Connell street a five minuit walk to Store-street.

An example.

https://www.daft.ie/dublin/apartment-share/finglas/9-melville-square-cityside-finglas-dublin-1031849/

Sheeps

AlmightyCushion wrote: »

I've been living in Dublin for a few years now and I have never paid more than €600 for a room to myself so it can definitely be done on his budget. It's not easy and takes patience but definitely doable.

OP, set up an alert on daft for anything under 700 and reply to everything that looks suitable as soon as you can. A lot probably won't respond because they've received loads of replies but it's a numbers game. The more you email/call, the more replies you'll get back. The issue you may have is viewings. You'd need to be able to travel down to view places and most would be on in the early evening. If you live far enough away from Dublin and are working 9-5 it could be difficult.

As for location, if I were you I'd probably set up the Daft alert for every where in the city and when one comes in, check the travel time in google maps for 8am on a Monday. That should give you a worst case scenario. Seeing as you're working in the city centre, you should have a lot of options for locations open to you if you're using public transport which is good.

I've been renting in Dublin also for years at €600, getting evicted in December and have been watching prices daily. There's very very little going at those prices, that aren't single beds in shared rooms.

Samuel T. Cogley

Killester, Raheny, Kilbarack near the DART for that budget. DART is excellent for commuting.

fleet_admiral

Have a look at Edenmore and Harmonstown, both are on the DART line (Raheny and Harmonstown stations) and would have you in Store street in ten minutes