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Are irish families similar to british ones?

  • 10-10-2012 1:22pm
    #1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,760 ✭✭✭


    http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/4578518/Average-family-earns-39k-Modern-Family-season-3-dvd-study.html

    Sorry I can't post any quotes from the article, computer/firewall troubles.

    £39k a year(€47k approx, 2 cars, 2 kids, 3 laptops, in bed by 10.30pm.

    That's the supposed average UK family. Is the average irish one much different, in your opinion?

    Lots of it rings true for me and my family, though the income seems low to me, although reading the comments it would appear there are couples where both are working and still don't make £39k between them, which baffles me somewhat.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 794 ✭✭✭bluecode


    There are plenty of couples in Ireland where both work and don't earn more than €47k between. I doubt they have two cars though.

    I imagine they would be slightly worse off than the British family. They have the NHS and lower prices for cars etc.

    Ireland is still an expensive place to live.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26 jlacey


    in current climate, not surprised!!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 27,351 ✭✭✭✭super_furry


    I think in Ireland you'd need a fair bit more than €47k to be running a household with two kids and two cars.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,533 ✭✭✭the keen edge


    More or less the same; we're better at laying tarmac though.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 43,037 ✭✭✭✭SEPT 23 1989


    Irish family would have more gargle


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 10,325 ✭✭✭✭Dozen Wicked Words


    Irish families tend to have less British people in them.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 193 ✭✭seantorious


    Irish families tend not to read the sun.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,455 ✭✭✭Where To


    Irish people watch more British TV than British people watch Irish TV


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,760 ✭✭✭summerskin


    I just find it hard to believe that a family with two earners would bring in less than 39k, as many obviously do in order to make this the average.

    I must be really out of touch...


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,215 ✭✭✭harney


    dooferoaks wrote: »
    Irish families tend to have less British people in them.

    The BNP might have something to say about that ;)


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 639 ✭✭✭Shivers26


    Gross income would be considerably higher and I stress gross. Husbag is a civil servant so the amount of levies on his wages are sickening. Both of us work full time.
    We only have 1 car between us (it's all we need). Other than that, we are about the same as what is detailed in the OP.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,760 ✭✭✭summerskin


    Shivers26 wrote: »
    Gross income would be considerably higher and I stress gross. Husbag is a civil servant so the amount of levies on his wages are sickening. Both of us work full time.
    We only have 1 car between us (it's all we need). Other than that, we are about the same as what is detailed in the OP.

    The figure in the OP is the gross figure though, so you'd be way better off.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 17,661 ✭✭✭✭Helix


    5 hours of TV??? ON AVERAGE??? wtf


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,663 ✭✭✭Immaculate Pasta


    I fucking hate that term "quality time". Sounds so generic and fake.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,390 ✭✭✭IM0


    the average family are tucked up in bed by..

    I actually thought it said something else there for a sec


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,753 ✭✭✭davet82


    Irish families tend not to read the sun.

    80,000 copies on average a day would say otherwise :rolleyes:


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 17,661 ✭✭✭✭Helix


    I fucking hate that term "quality time". Sounds so generic and fake.

    plus based on those numbers, quality time includes watching tv. because otherwise the figures don't add up if they're in bed before 10.30


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,390 ✭✭✭IM0


    davet82 wrote: »
    80,000 copies on average a day would say otherwise :rolleyes:

    no prizes for guessin where you work so


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,257 ✭✭✭✭ejmaztec


    Where To wrote: »
    Irish people watch more British TV than British people watch Irish TV

    That's mainly because RTE is encrypted and also sh1t, whereas all of the UK channels are freely available on satellite.

    I think RTE is restricted to Ireland because even RTE is so embarrassed with it's offerings, they don't want anyone outside Ireland to know how bad it is.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,881 ✭✭✭JohnMarston


    The average family:

    * Eats a meal together 5 times a week
    * Has two takeaways a month
    * Has two hours and 55 minutes of quality time together each day
    * Goes on one day trip a month
    * Goes on two family walks a month
    * Plays sports twice a month
    * Go to the cinema once a month
    * Goes on one bike ride together a month

    :confused: Yeah, no. Not in Ireland as far as i know. Or i missed a lot of stuff.
    * Owns two cars - one of which is a blue Ford

    Anyone?




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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,760 ✭✭✭summerskin


    :confused: Yeah, no. Not in Ireland as far as i know. Or i missed a lot of stuff.



    Anyone?

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    All of the above, pretty much. except neither car is a ford and we do sports at least 8 times a month.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,910 ✭✭✭OneArt


    Who the f*ck wakes up at 7:44am on a weekend!?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,760 ✭✭✭summerskin


    people with kids. that's a lie in right there, pal.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 43,037 ✭✭✭✭SEPT 23 1989


    summerskin wrote: »
    people with kids. that's a lie in right there, pal.

    Middle of the day if you have young kids:D


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,753 ✭✭✭davet82


    IM0 wrote: »
    no prizes for guessin where you work so

    shut up or i'll hack your phone :cool:


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 639 ✭✭✭Shivers26


    On further inspection of the article......

    We definitely don't watch 5 hours of tv together each day. I don't get in from work til after 6 and then a dinner has to be organised before the tv goes on.

    We definitely don't argue about what to watch. I gave up on that one a long time ago.

    Our car is a grey Ford.... creepy

    I definitely don't get up at 7.44am on the weekends. The husbag often does. If he is awake, he is up.

    I wonder what is classed as 'quality time'. Last year my young lad who was just turning 13 asked for a laptop for Christmas and his reason for it was so 'we can spend more time together as a family' - sad sign of the times.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 27,944 ✭✭✭✭4zn76tysfajdxp


    IM0 wrote: »
    no prizes for guessin where you work so

    The world's biggest newsagents.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 353 ✭✭RADIUS


    Shivers26 wrote: »
    Gross income would be considerably higher and I stress gross. Husbag is a civil servant so the amount of levies on his wages are sickening. Both of us work full time.
    We only have 1 car between us (it's all we need). Other than that, we are about the same as what is detailed in the OP.

    You call him Husbag?

    Lucky guy.....


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,572 ✭✭✭✭brummytom


    I don't know many families like that at all. Particularly eating as a family. My family did before I moved, but we were in the minority.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,089 ✭✭✭marketty


    I was under the impression that the average british family was like the gallaghers on shameless and the average irish family was like the byrnes on glenroe. my mind has just been blown


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,789 ✭✭✭✭ScumLord


    So is this thread about which of us has the most stuff and money?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 353 ✭✭RADIUS


    ScumLord wrote: »
    So is this thread about which of us has the most stuff and money?

    Well clearly the Brits, since they took all our stuff.


    *Gets 'hand me down' coat


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,401 ✭✭✭Seanchai


    summerskin wrote: »
    Are irish families similar to british ones?

    Your British self certainly has an obsession with spending a lot of time on Boards.ie looking for those "similarities" in what you like to term your "British Isles". That's when you're not getting all defensive about criticisms of the British monarchy or of British colonial rule in Ireland, or just having a massive chip on your shoulder about the Irish people and living here. Perhaps if you're that disgruntled with the Irish you could move home again? Or else marry FrattonFred, your soul mate in most of those posts?

    Any chance of a thread about how the British are so European now with all those EU laws that they have to abide by? Or how, when they're not implementing EU laws, they ape US popular and media culture from morning to night? But such "similarities" wouldn't suit your British nationalist politics where Britain is so unique and so separate from the rest of Europe. Indeed.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,257 ✭✭✭✭ejmaztec


    RADIUS wrote: »
    Well clearly the Brits, since they took all our stuff.

    ...and we didn't even get a lousy t-shirt:(


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,785 ✭✭✭9959


    Seanchai wrote: »
    Your British self certainly has an obsession with spending a lot of time on Boards.ie looking for those "similarities" in what you like to term your "British Isles". That's when you're not getting all defensive about criticisms of the British monarchy or of British colonial rule in Ireland, or just having a massive chip on your shoulder about the Irish people and living here. Perhaps if you're that disgruntled with the Irish you could move home again? Or else marry FrattonFred, your soul mate in most of those posts?

    Any chance of a thread about how the British are so European now with all those EU laws that they have to abide by? Or how, when they're not implementing EU laws, they ape US popular and media culture from morning to night? But such "similarities" wouldn't suit your British nationalist politics where Britain is so unique and so separate from the rest of Europe. Indeed.

    I note you state your location as Beal Feirste, Eire.
    What next,
    Lisbon, Spain.
    Toronto, USA.
    Oslo, Sweden.

    No matter how tightly you close your eyes and concentrate, like Dorothy in 'The Wizard of Oz', Belfast or Beal Feirste as you so charmingly name it, is part of The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.
    Good luck to you, hands across the border, and all that jazz.
    I wish you well.


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