Irish Property Market chat II - *read mod note post #1 before posting*

All of my family and friends are in Dublin, and my job. I’m happy to pay more to live in Dublin, in a smaller place, because it’s where I want to live.

I’m well aware that I could buy a decent sized house in a commuter county for the same money, but I don’t wish to live in Kildare/Meath/Laois/wherever.

Not making the same life choices as you is not a “mental block”.

another boards thread that descends into this nonsense.

It’s not the agents fault. It’s thanks to an overzealous solicitor insisting on having old documentation from the. 1960s that cannot be located

My son has apergers and the local schools out here in the sticks, were both fantastic. Good support is not exclusive to Dublin. He sailed through the LC and went to DCU and got a computer science degree. In my daughters case, the same HS were perfectly accommodating when she wanted to drop lcvp in favour of teaching herself Japanese, which she did. She also sailed through the LC.

I didn't for one second suggest that country schools weren't as good as Dublin schools - infact many Dublin schools are failing their neuro-diverse students. Luckily the school my son is in is fantastic which is why we want to stay.

Don't get me wrong, I enjoy and like dublin and see the appeal.i don't want to take away from anyone's lived experiences.

We all have our own race to run in life and our own hurdles to jump. Just saying I find it funny that some people I know who could consider life outside dublin don't.

We all have support networks in our home place but wouldn't it be a very boring world if we all stayed in the same place our whole lives.

It's amusing how people speak of moving out of Dublin as a choice, when in reality it is forced on most people through affordability

Ye quickly forget that there are more Dublin workers living outside Dublin than in Dublin

405k starting price for Prosperous is nuts. 2015 a similar house on that road sold for 250k.

Prosperous is in Kildare?

Correct, but this has been happening for decades at this point. The welfare states set up after WW2 were a devil's bargain. We now have entire swaths of the population that simply would not survive without the state, and generations have been raised to expect “the gobberment” to solve every problem that they have. 

In the last two years alone, the Irish state has let loose north of 40 billion euros of funny money into the economy, causing inflation and driving an already dodgy property market into overdrive. What’s the outcome of this? Likely there will be another crash years in the future, and another generation will be saddled with mountains of debt and dealing with an economic disaster. 

We can speculate as to what caused this, but in my opinion, the problem is that noone gives a damn about future generations. The demographics of Europe are broken, and the only way to keep the pension and welfare gravy train going is to turn younger generations and those not even born into wealth generating units for the state whilst importing a never-ending stream of immigrants to make sure that supply never meets demand. Anyone who criticises this is called vile names and ignored, but the immigrants themselves are abused by the state. I have friends from Romania who are living ten to a house and paying hundreds for the privilege. I don’t see anything wrong with calling that out!

The only way to fix this is to accept that things need to change drastically. Forget about nonsense like voting in Sinn Fein or any other group of neo-liberal puppet. Older generations cannot continue to retire at 60 and live for 30 plus years off the backs of younger generations, and the state can no longer be seen as the solver of every problem.  Is any of this likely to happen? Well history gives plenty of examples that make me feel nothing but a sense of doom.  

looks like prices of absolutely everything is going to significantly rise with major war in europe only starting.. any thoughts on how this will affect peoples ability to pay for nose bleed house prices here going forward or will the never ending upward house price madness trajectory continue?

serious inflation ahead - energy and fuel costs set to rise a lot, fertilizer may rise significantly too - all depends on what sanctions are put in place with Russia.

Shouldnt affect building materials too much, but general inflation will rise, wages will probably follow and house prices will follow that

Oil up 10, wheat and corn trading halted.

this is the end of the western fiat currency financed welfare nanny state.

Gold is up a fair bit in the last few days: https://goldprice.org/

Crypto took a hit today also.