When you walk past a big house

Pity that the Harry Enfield considerably richer than you clips are such poor quality on Youtube, would be a prime opportunity to post one.

They may be very smart and have worked hard in well paying jobs, they may have their own successful business or may have inherited money or won money, they may be mortgaged to the hilt and be eating beans on toast 😆. Who knows.

In rural Ireland I see a lot of McMansions still being built, 3000 or 4000 sq foot houses. I do wonder why they need them. In this cold climate they will have to heat these houses. Environmentally speaking they aren’t great for the environment. To answer your question though my first thought wouldn’t be how did they afford it but why do they need such a big house in the first place?

I'd be thinking if I owned it how I'd do it up or I'd be thinking I'd redo the garden.

That's a bizarre post really, how could every big house in Ireland be owned by a dealer.

Tech and pharma companies gave very generous stock options in the 90's and 00's.

These share prices have soared

A low rank Facebook employee would have easily had 2,000+ options. Even after paying tax, they'd be worth 500k+

Middle rank would have had more.

Now think of all the other companies who gave share options and the value those shares rose to.

That's a lot of fine houses

IME the majority of Muck Mansions are not owned by drug dealers or surgeons but by people with average jobs who built a big house on Daddy's land. They'd have the attitude that if you're building one off house and have plenty of land, you might as well build a big one as a small one. I woudn't consider these people wealthy and would regard such a house as a millstone around my neck. I'd much rather an average house with lots of sheds and space around it for storing scrap cars and other junk.

I usually just ask myself why the f**k you'd want a house that big? Some of the enormous houses in the countryside make zero sense to me at all. Must cost a fortune to heat, it's just a waste of space to me.

If you have to ask how much it costs to heat, then you can't afford it...

I think a lot of people just don't grasp just how stupidly wealthy some people are. Just how enormous the wealth disparity is in this country.

People spend more on a piece of garden furniture than the average worker earns in a year, and they will still think they're paying too much in tax and are being unfairly treated...

A lot of these "McMansions" are built with delusions of grandeur and status - they probably are up to their tits in debt to pay for same.

Imagine the heating and maintenance costs of these places....

A few years in, suddenly people realise the cost of upkeep on these mansions far outweighs their income and the novelty of having a "big house" starts to wear off.

Have a look on daft.ie and you'll see any amount of these dream homes up for sale due to re-possession, marriage breakdowns, downsizing, etc.

it's not even about the money, why would you want to waste that much gas or oil or whatever to heat an enormous house and space you don't need? never made sense to me. if my partner and i were to sell our small dublin houses we could buy one of these behemoths outside of dublin easily but it just does not compute for me.

There's plenty of rich people in Ireland Also property was a lot cheaper in the 90s than it is now most drug dealers live in ordinary 3 bed houses .people also inherit old houses from their parents . There's plenty of rich business people who will buy a house for millions of euros .