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Up side of the housing crisis

  • 19-08-2018 2:24am
    #1
    6541
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,953 ✭✭✭


    We are in a period of mass population movement to Europe. One could argue that it is fortuitous that Ireland is an island with crap weather and a serious housing crisis.


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  • #2
    Pac1Man
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,394 ✭✭✭Pac1Man


    6541 wrote: »
    an island with crap weather and a serious housing crisis.

    Fáilte Ireland's new tagline?


  • #3
    Badly Drunk Boy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,710 ✭✭✭Badly Drunk Boy


    6541 wrote: »
    We are in a period of mass population movement to Europe. One could argue that it is fortuitous that Ireland is an island with crap weather and a serious housing crisis.
    That makes no sense. Do you ever...?


  • #4
    kneemos
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,464 ✭✭✭✭kneemos


    Ah but we need the genetically superior Europe types to build more houses.
    Your theory is shoite.


  • #5
    whisky_galore
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,532 ✭✭✭✭whisky_galore


    And our health service is great for the health insurance industry.


  • #6
    coastwatch
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 908 ✭✭✭coastwatch


    6541 wrote: »
    We are in a period of mass population movement to Europe. One could argue that it is fortuitous that Ireland is an island with crap weather and a serious housing crisis.

    A shortage of housing hasn't stopped the illegal migrant population of a suburb of Paris increasing to 400,000.
    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/07/05/illegal-migrants-paris-suburb-soar-400000-hundreds-migrant-children/


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  • #7
    NIMAN
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 34,046 ✭✭✭✭NIMAN


    coastwatch wrote: »
    A shortage of housing hasn't stopped the illegal migrant population of a suburb of Paris increasing to 400,000.
    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/07/05/illegal-migrants-paris-suburb-soar-400000-hundreds-migrant-children/

    Once again proof that its not only Ireland that has housing issues, but to listen to some you'd think we were the worst in the world for housing people.

    In fact, we aren't even the worst on the island.


  • #8
    Annasopra
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 41,104 ✭✭✭✭Annasopra


    Dey cant take ur houses or de jobs or de wimminz

    It was so much easier to blame it on Them. It was bleakly depressing to think that They were Us. If it was Them, then nothing was anyone's fault. If it was us, what did that make Me? After all, I'm one of Us. I must be. I've certainly never thought of myself as one of Them. No one ever thinks of themselves as one of Them. We're always one of Us. It's Them that do the bad things.

    Terry Pratchet



  • #9
    Are Am Eye
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,166 ✭✭✭Are Am Eye


    In the spirit of this policy shouldn't we start knocking down some
    houses. Take a wrecking ball to a few housing estates. Make this country
    really inhospitable.


  • #10
    Harry Palmr
    Closed Accounts Posts: 40,061 ✭✭✭✭Harry Palmr


    The best thing we could do now is instigate a police state, that'll keep 'em away.


  • #11
    Olsky
    Registered Users Posts: 199 ✭✭Olsky


    Upside of the housing crisis is that it is making hotel owners and institutional landlords very rich.
    Some would postulate that this is even the reason for the housing crisis.


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  • #12
    JohnMc1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,987 ✭✭✭JohnMc1


    Harry Palmr wrote: »
    The best thing we could do now is instigate a police state, that'll keep 'em away.

    Wouldn't we need an actual Police force first?


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