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by anotherhue 799 days ago
Half of Ireland's young people have had their entire future stolen from them before their very eyes.
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I am curious. Please give us more information on what you are referring to and your specific point of view.
https://archive.ph/raUZk

(originally https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/15/world/europe/ireland-hous...)

Allow me to further point out that 'just live with your parents' requires that your parents be close to your job. However the lion's share of jobs (worth having) are in Dublin. Therefore if you're not from Dublin you don't get the free parents rent, you pay the same $3k that you would rather pay as a mortgage or save as as downpayment, and are then outcompeted by those who were able to avail of the benefit.

Therefore what we're seeing is a total destruction of wealth for anyone outside of Dublin.

Nevermind the oft maligned truth that your ability to pay €X in monthly rent is insufficent evidence of your ability to pay €0.8X in a mortgage thanks to the new rules brought in after the previous generation a) got their houses and b) ruined everything with bailout debt.

Article is paywalled but seems to just be a hyperbolic headline in the style of US papers talking about foreign countries.

The social contract has not been completely ruptured. I checked last week.

There is no longer a path to having a family. Whatever you want to call that then.
Are they walling up vaginas? Because that’s the path to having a family.
If you're not going to be charitable and try to adress what the comment you're replying to is actually talking about, why talk at all?