Sick of this country

And still some are claiming Ireland is a rich country now. Well, rich countries look different to me.

I've posted this on another thread. We live on a small nice private estate, built in 1999/2000. The council bought around 8 houses here over the years. 3 of the houses (3 bed semi).are occupied by single women, who moved in when their kids were young, around 2005 to 2010. Presume they were on the housing list as single parents. Kids have grown up and fled the nest. So 3 council owned houses, each with a single person living in them. I presume they each have this house now for life ? This is just one example, must be thosands like this across the country.

The council dont have 3x single bed apartments to move them into, and if they had, I dont know if the local.councils are monitoring and managing their housing stock to rotate / move tenents around to match housing needs.

Maybe we could pay our doctors what Australia does if we also left them 300k in debt before they can start working.

What you are proposing is tenement accomodation dressed up for the 21st century.

Making middle aged people share sitting room, kitchen and toilets with strangers not to mention their co-livers guests is a total non starter.

Any accomodation provided should be "own door".

That's not to say that if two members of a family or two friends want to share a tenancy that it would be ruled out.

Ah come on now. Our political system in absolutely corrupt. That is proven by FF and FG every single month. Don't be so naive.

FG brought out their New Politics document in 2011 and promised to put a stop to cronyism and corruption.

Since 2011 we had;

Dara Murphy FG (Expense Fraud)

Alan Farrell FG (Insurance Fraud and Expense Fraud - Fine Gael TDs Maria Bailey and Alan Farrell had to refund Oireachtas expenses – The Irish Times)

Maria Bailey (Attempted Insurance Fraud and Expense Fraud)

Josepha Madigan FG (see above)

Michelle Mulherins FG (Expense fraud)

Simon Coveney FG (Crony appointment to reward Zappone)

Leo Varadkar FG (Leaking confidential documents)

Hugh McElvaney FG (Planning corruption - show me the money! RTE Investigates found plenty of councillors like him! - Reform promised, yeah right)

Helen McEntee FG (Tayto donations)

Robert Troy FF (Corruption)

Damien English FG (Corruption)

Joe Queenan FF (Planning corruption)

RTÉ Investigates - Standards in Public Office (rte.ie)

This is what we know about. SIPO has no power (deliberately so) which means many TDs are getting away with it.

Where is the reform?? It will never happen while FFG power swap continues.

In some places in Switzerland you have that. But the standard of housing is way higher as well. Also different infrastructure in the country, motorways, trains, etc.... Big train station at Kloten airport, something one can only wish for in Dublin.

Some things in Ireland are simply broken, possibly not beyond repair, but repair would take a very long time.

One issue is the mentality dealing with all the shortcomings. It's always "it's happening in other countries or other cities as well", with the undertone "we're not alone with this" and in the end, "we're a rich country now".

All of these statements are lied, or attitudes underpinning these lies.

This scenario that middle aged people are sharing sitting room, kitchen and toilets with strangers is the reality for various EU citizens working in one of the American multinationals in Dublin.

They earn a bit of money, improve their English and move on, due to the housing issue. This makes Dublin a bit of a transient place. The American multinationals don't care much, as long as they benefit from the low corporation tax it's fine with them.

People moving to Australia is not a new thing.

There was a mass exodus 15 years ago too.

Most of my family and friend went there at some stage.

Australia is ridiculously expensive these days.

Well?

Hey, I love Ireland and i love Australia.

But Ireland will always be home.

I am just saying the grass isn’t always greener on the other side.

Not going to work.

Nobody would be foolish enough to give up their tenancy and move into a house share.

Build it and they will come is a well known phrase.

In this instance offer people properly designed and sited options and they will move in.

I lived abroad for 6 years.

It was in Boston, which for the most part is not disimilar to the Dublin I had left.

The city is about the same size, and the state itself even though with a bigger population and population density was not unlike Ireland, it had argicultural areas, tourist areas, regional big towns and cities etc.

And as American goes it's not a million miles off Ireland politics wise, centre right, with more social support than some states and a large capital and current subsides for things like transport infrastructure.

But I noticed when I came back that all the things people complained about in Massachusetts were the same things as people in Ireland complained about.

The traffic, the quality of the roads, tolls, the cost of commuting by train or bus, tax, how tax was spent, who deserved what supports, who didn't deserve what supports, the performance of government, the cost of housing etc

I feel that if the OP moves to Australia, after a number of years they will find themselves complaining about the very same things they complain about in Ireland.