Should I Buy A Property For Kids Going To 3rd Level?

JohnnyChimpo · 17-01-2023 11:40am

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120118002#Comment_120118002

This is one of the most hilariously stereotypical Boardsie posts I've seen in a while. You should tell the lads living in €1.5m redbrick mansions on Iona Rd. that they're trapped in the crustiest part of Dublin and are gonna get the heads taken off them if they venture outside of their porch vestibules without a helmet on.

The classist drivel of the rest of your post isn't really worth addressing, except to acknowledge that you probably never went to a single college session in your life

Count Dracula · 17-01-2023 11:46am

Iona Road is kind of a cheapskates Ranelagh is it not ?

Just saying.

Northsiders can get very tetchy over the brass tacks sometimes. Note to self.

o1s1n · 17-01-2023 11:52am

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120119096#Comment_120119096

Indeed, Phibsborough is an absolutely great place for students to live - really thriving young community, plenty of hipster spots, overall just has that up and coming vibe that goes well with student life. Some gorgeous red brick houses too. Sure you even have the DCU campus up the road in Drumcondra which is lovely.

Sounds like The Count wants to keep their kids wrapped in cotton wool.

Nermal · 17-01-2023 11:57am

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The only foolproof way to ensure your children don't live in 'that gaff' is to live in it yourself with them.

SwimClub · 17-01-2023 12:08pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120119124#Comment_120119124

Is it on the Dorsh?

Manion · 17-01-2023 12:11pm

Lots of recommendations here but you've not given much in the way of what you're looking to optimize for so people are coming in with their own view points based on what they would like as an idle place to live, however the alternative to you purchasing a property is that all your children have to compete for student accommodation which could easily see them living in much worse areas of Dublin then have been mentioned.

All things being equal you should look at North Dublin given that you don't know where your kids will go to college and you have Trinity, DCU, TUD as well as Maynooth are all serviced well from the North of the city. I'd hedge for good transport links over any anecdotal advice around niceness of the X,Y,Z area. The closer to the city center you get the better the options, but with obvious trade offs.

Your plan makes sense, I went to college with someone whose parents did this.

Donald Trump · 17-01-2023 12:17pm

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Donald Trump · 17-01-2023 12:20pm

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Exempt if it is towards their maintenance and they are in full time education below the age of 25

herbalplants · 17-01-2023 12:51pm

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I agree 1000%.

There is no difference between northside and Southside. Plenty of dodgy and dirty spots on Southside.

I was in Stella cinema a week ago and couldn't get over how dirty and run do Ranelagh looked.

herbalplants · 17-01-2023 12:53pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120119167#Comment_120119167

Seems the Count is acting like a Count in a country who nobody is too many generations from the Bog 🤔

Donald Trump · 17-01-2023 1:01pm

Whatever about Drac's Northside/Southside debate, one would need to question the investment return on spending money to send a child to UCD.

Is there any point in flushing money down the toilet on a child that wasn't able to get the points to go to a better institution in the first place? The potential upside is limited to a job as a teacher, or at a stretch as a pen-pusher in the civil service.

At least in the OP's case, the first has already gotten into a decent place

JohnnyChimpo · 17-01-2023 1:07pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120119230#Comment_120119230

It is as it happens!

o1s1n · 17-01-2023 1:12pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120119496#Comment_120119496

And if someone wants to study Veterinary Medicine in Ireland?

2022 CAO points range of 601-625 in UCD, clearly an underachiever not worth investing in.

Donald Trump · 17-01-2023 1:17pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120119550#Comment_120119550

Don't get me wrong. I am sure it is fine for some people. The likes of UCD or Athlone IT are perfectly fine for people who live within walking distance or easy commuting distance. They serve a function to overall society. It would be better for the child to go to UCD than take up the smack etc. If these places can keep them off the streets and out of trouble that has some value in and of itself.

Education should be inclusive. I would see those types of places as being like the Special Olympics of education. Everyone gets a medal (degree) and is a winner. So they do indeed have some indirect value in society.

JohnnyChimpo · 17-01-2023 1:19pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120119577#Comment_120119577

You'd want to be some confused OAP to get riled up by this quality of bait, at least put some effort into it, man

Donald Trump · 17-01-2023 1:40pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120119592#Comment_120119592

You are free to argue that the child would be better taking up smack than going to UCD if you want. I am free to disagree with you. I think it still has some value, along with, as I said, the likes of Athlone IT.

It's a bit off topic anyway. But no harm for the OP to take into consideration nonetheless.

monseiur · 17-01-2023 1:44pm

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Keep it going Mr. Trump, I had a good LOL, needed after Blue Monday😁

Red Silurian · 17-01-2023 1:46pm

Buying a house of any type for the purposes of your kids going to college makes complete sense. Even if you only charge the other students a minimal amount, just to maintain the upkeep, you could buy now for 500k and sell again in 10 years time for that same 500k.

Better idea is if you club in with 1-4 other parents and everybody contributes 20-50% get all of your kids through college effectively for free

o1s1n · 17-01-2023 1:47pm

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My point re Veterinary Medicine being that if you want to study it, you have to go to UCD. It's Ireland's leading Vet school and to my knowledge, the only place in the country which offers it as a course at that level. You can't study it anywhere else.

UCD also has a school of Medicine, which covers everything from graduate entry medicine through to masters in immediate care, sports medicines, midwifery and many other avenues in healthcare, which have lead to thousands of people becoming doctors, paramedics, nurses, professors of medicine, the list goes on.

I'm not sure what you seem to think UCD does? It's not just handing out arts degrees for being the right level of woke.

o1s1n · 17-01-2023 1:48pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120119592#Comment_120119592

Apparently I am a confused OAP 😂

Donald Trump · 17-01-2023 1:50pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120119710#Comment_120119710

I heard they relaxed the strictness of their criteria on the required level of woke. So I applaud them for that. They realised that it was discriminating against the poor students who didn't, or couldn't, understand the concept.

Woke "inception" if you will. There is nothing more woke than going full woke and realising that you now have to accept the non-woke as being woke or else you are not really woke yourself.

🤯

Count Dracula · 17-01-2023 2:57pm

The Lewar

And it is not my fault that half the city has standards and the other half has chosen to ignore them?

Who the phuck spends 1.5 Mill on a gaff on the nortside, that must be some sort of a joke ?

o1s1n · 17-01-2023 3:08pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120120092#Comment_120120092

Indeed, the utterly depraved poverty, I don't know how they live.

https://www.myhome.ie/residential/brochure/house-1-150-howth-road-clontarf-dublin-3/4658767

Count Dracula · 17-01-2023 3:12pm

The Stella is in Rathmines.

The village of the Damned.

o1s1n · 17-01-2023 3:20pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120120194#Comment_120120194

Isn't that... on the southside?

Count Dracula · 17-01-2023 3:28pm

It's just a nickname.

You would need to be from around the area to get it though?

Hey, Oishers, I respect you are probably a rich nortsider, but you are taking this a bit too far?

Am I cutting too close to the bone? I mean there is a reason why you seem to think that owning a redbrick is a thing? Everyone knows that prices are higher on the southside, why argue on the fact?

SwimClub · 17-01-2023 3:30pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120120272#Comment_120120272

Owned by Southsiders but houses a lot of Northsider refugees

John_Rambo · 17-01-2023 4:26pm

Drumcondra/Phibsborough areas are perfect for students. Ignore the whole "Northside Southside" stuff, it's irrelevant and harks back to the 70's. The degree of separation is East West now. Drumcondra & Phibsborough are both close to the city, well serviced by bus and importantly everything is walkable, shops, food, cheap restaurants etc…

Students don't want to be in wealthy, car dependent suburbs with expensive cafes and food shops.

Donald Trump · 17-01-2023 4:33pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120120604#Comment_120120604

You need to consider that not everyone has your experience of training in the special forces.

John_Rambo · 17-01-2023 5:19pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120120645#Comment_120120645

Don't push it or I'll give you a way you won't believe.

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