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Why are house prices in the capital so high ?

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    #2
    BoJack Horseman
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    http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-TtfeDls2wuM/TwHbuVzgODI/AAAAAAAAAbE/ANGKz8NHsLA/s1600/rimshot.jpeg


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    Mr. Incognito
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    Because Irish people are obsessed with owning land and paying Banks outrageous interest for that obsession


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    _Kaiser_
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    Mr. Incognito wrote: »
    Because Irish people are obsessed with owning land and paying Banks outrageous interest for that obsession

    .. and as a result the rental market is treated as a joke by all sides - something you have to do on the road to ownership, or the option for the poor - rather than the long-term viable alternative it should be to saddling yourself with a mountain of debt.


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    VinLieger
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    The other problem with renting is there is no viable option for larger families looking to rent apartments instead of a house. We continue to incentivise construction of small 1-2 bedroom apartments and ignore the fact that large families exist.


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    cloud493
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    I'm sorry?


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    folan
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    because more people want to live there


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    anncoates
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    To keep the outrage tanks of AH topped up.


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    The One Doctor
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    Mr. Incognito wrote: »
    Because Irish people are obsessed with owning land and paying Banks outrageous interest for that obsession

    Outrageous interest? Mortgages rates were 5 times higher in the 80s. And mortgage interest is going to start going back up.


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    CramCycle
    Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 24,651 Mod ✭✭✭✭CramCycle


    Guess which 7 of the above 8 posts did not read the OP properly.


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    SEPT 23 1989
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    Snobbery


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    diograis
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    Love how people are trying to give out about the topic of what was a brilliant joke thread


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    P_1
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    1 - People actually want to live there. It's where quite a lot of jobs are located and it is also the cultural hub of the country.

    2 - There is a massive undersupply. During the boom plenty of houses were built, unfortunately quite a lot of them were built in the wrong locations. Also when things went tits up, all building stopped. This was lunacy in places like Dublin, Cork et al where you're still going to have a continued demand.

    3 - The rental sector is treated like a joke.

    Nice pun to start off with mind.


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    AtomicHorror
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    SEPT 23 1989 wrote: »
    Snobbery

    OPs punchline was better.


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    Citroen2cv
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    Everyone wants to live beside dundrum shopping centre, and pretend to be sophisticated.


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    AtomicHorror
    Registered Users Posts: 5,888 ✭✭✭AtomicHorror


    Citroen2cv wrote: »
    Everyone wants to live beside dundrum shopping centre, and pretend to be sophisticated.

    These punchlines are all terrible.


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    biko
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    cloud493 wrote: »
    I'm sorry?
    Yes, joke doesn't make much sense except the similarity between the word Dublin and the word doubling.

    Heres another similar one.
    Why did South Park lose at GAA?
    Because they couldn't Kill-kenny.


    geddit? geddit?


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    Fuzzytrooper
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    Because it's a capital. They'd be smaller in lowercase regions...













    I apologize unequivocally and unreservedly to humanity as a whole for that and beg your collective forgiveness.


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