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Dublin 8, Ireland's new gay village?

  • 01-11-2012 5:08pm
    #1
    ongarboy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,201 ✭✭✭


    Interesting article in today's Irish Times advising that Dublin 8 has the largest amount of gay civil partnership residents and why that area appeals. My first apartment in Dublin was in D8...maybe my subconscious drew me there....!:)

    Also intriguing is that it is the "most read" online article on the Irish Times website today...

    http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/property/2012/1101/1224325963892.html?via=mr


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  • #2
    Annasopra
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 41,158 ✭✭✭✭Annasopra


    The comments are hilarious

    It was so much easier to blame it on Them. It was bleakly depressing to think that They were Us. If it was Them, then nothing was anyone's fault. If it was us, what did that make Me? After all, I'm one of Us. I must be. I've certainly never thought of myself as one of Them. No one ever thinks of themselves as one of Them. We're always one of Us. It's Them that do the bad things.

    Terry Pratchet



  • #3
    ongarboy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,201 ✭✭✭ongarboy


    mango salsa wrote: »
    The comments are hilarious

    I love the one about how handy that the 122 bus stops outside the George!!


  • #4
    Barna77
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,272 ✭✭✭Barna77


    Smithfield = gay central.

    You can't walk in Fresh wearing regular clothes, you have to be dressed to to the nines, ready to impress while picking up a box of Lyons tea

    :D

    :pac:


  • #5
    Donnaghm
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 299 ✭✭Donnaghm


    I live in Dublin 8 in a shabby little ancient house with one minuscule upstairs bathroom with 2 lesbians so maybe there's an element of truth in this article. However, I can't wait to leave. I'd prefer spacious and modern accommodation to shabby chic any day of the week.


  • #6
    jaffacakesyum
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,207 ✭✭✭jaffacakesyum


    I know where I'm moving to when I get the money :pac:


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  • #7
    L.Jenkins
    Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 19,242 Mod ✭✭✭✭L.Jenkins


    Don't think I could move into Dublin, not with those rent prices and I'm on over 2500 euro a month.


  • #8
    rainbow kirby
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,928 ✭✭✭✭rainbow kirby


    It's not that bad, I live alone in a 1 bedroom apartment in D8 and I manage just fine. 700/month rent plus bills on top of that.

    The article does a massive disservice though by focusing on the upper end of the market - very few can afford to hire architects and completely redevelop their spaces like that. Would have been interesting to look at the experiences of lower income or migrant queer people in the area too rather than what is pretty much the gentrification of an inner city area.


  • #9
    Annasopra
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 41,158 ✭✭✭✭Annasopra


    Itzy wrote: »
    Don't think I could move into Dublin, not with those rent prices and I'm on over 2500 euro a month.

    That article was talking about people who are probably earning double or triple your wages.

    As one commenter said

    I wouldn’t mind so much if they would just re-title the article “rich gay couples think poor people and immigrants are very charming additions to their cul-de-sac”‘.

    It was so much easier to blame it on Them. It was bleakly depressing to think that They were Us. If it was Them, then nothing was anyone's fault. If it was us, what did that make Me? After all, I'm one of Us. I must be. I've certainly never thought of myself as one of Them. No one ever thinks of themselves as one of Them. We're always one of Us. It's Them that do the bad things.

    Terry Pratchet



  • #10
    Annasopra
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 41,158 ✭✭✭✭Annasopra


    I love the broadsheet pisstakes

    http://www.broadsheet.ie/2012/11/01/the-only-straight-in-the-village/

    http://www.broadsheet.ie/2012/11/01/its-great-when-youre-dublin-8-yeah/

    It was so much easier to blame it on Them. It was bleakly depressing to think that They were Us. If it was Them, then nothing was anyone's fault. If it was us, what did that make Me? After all, I'm one of Us. I must be. I've certainly never thought of myself as one of Them. No one ever thinks of themselves as one of Them. We're always one of Us. It's Them that do the bad things.

    Terry Pratchet



  • #11
    L.Jenkins
    Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 19,242 Mod ✭✭✭✭L.Jenkins


    mango salsa wrote: »
    That article was talking about people who are probably earning double or triple your wages.

    I was thinking that. I'm currently renting a 3 bed house in Navan for 700 a month and it's a nice house.


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  • #12
    mikemac1
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    “There is something mono-cultural about middle-class Dublin,”

    Such a pretentious article, the locals who lived in D8 for generations are "colorful characters."
    “It’s gritty and it’s not manicured and I love that.”
    Run down areas are gritty as if that's a good thing


    Has the property market boomed again?
    It's like reading the Sunday Independent in 2006!


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