The Country is full of Money

zom

"Soon enough people will see..."

Young generations can't see further than screens of their mobiles. They live and believe only things they are fed by mobile corporations, and corporations have a big appetite for all money you were talking about. It is like modern colonialism with phones instead of chains and copo-moguls instead of cotton plantation owners.

farmingquestion

Can someone explain or try to give reasoning as to why it's so hard to get a tradesman now?

Like, I don't remember it being as bad back in 2018.

Strumms

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119923574#Comment_119923574

There a less tradespeople and a bigger population. In millions…

4.70 - April 2018

5.06 - November 2022

306,000 growth in 4 and a half years.

my folks were waiting from getting a price, to getting the work done 8 months to get garden redesigned and workmen on site… brilliant job, some wait though.

folks needed a new boiler for the central heating, no heating, meant to be there in August, October, no sign of them…. Turns up start of this month.. we are ‘out the door’…they were told.

more demand = more wait

same in the US, same in Australia….tradespeople shortages described as chronic.

drivingmissdaisy

I'm a bus driver

I see the public every day

They have bags of shopping, from Pennys to Brown Thomas

Many, many have a €5 Starbucks in hand as they board the bus

The weekends are full of drunks on board

Not only drunk but visibly WIRED to the MOON on drugs. Cocaine?

The recession IS coming but it has not hit yet.

StevenToast

Queues of cars out the gate of shoppers every weekend in limerick shopping centres, smyths is a nightmare....

Cost of living crisis?.....Where?

Tow

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119923769#Comment_119923769

Where... On the radio, compliments of RTE who are talking the country into a recession.

AndrewJRenko

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119333129#Comment_119333129

Have you heard about housing waiting lists at all?

StevenToast

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119923870#Comment_119923870

They dont have covid, ukraine war is dragging on....they need something to fill the gap....

walterking

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118620715#Comment_118620715

You've nailed it to the tee.

Ask anyone who bought a house in the 90's or before and they will tell you the sacrifices they made and most of them are mortgage free now and can appreciate finer things.

I'm one of those that experienced 13% mortgage rates (for about a year), and it was hard.

I do see some people I work with cutting way back and getting the house they want, but others live month to month and spend everything

L1011

This thread never made sense in this forum and has now turned in to an AH thread, if even.