"Node Living"

blue note

https://www.independent.ie/life/home-garden/homes/meet-the-21stcentury-bean-an-t-looking-after-50-house-mates-36608483.html

Am I misunderstanding this, or is this just a fancy way of renting the rooms in the apartments separately so that they can charge higher rents? I'm not even sure if the rooms all have their own kitchens - I think they do. But it might very well be a couple of kitchens in the complex for all the residents. I'm guessing they don't bother sticking washing machines or the likes into the apartments so they can save on space.

Are people going to go for these? Would you not be far better off going onto daft and finding a shared apartment for half the cost? Will it just be weirdos who can't find people to live with who end up here?

Your Face

Every marketing cliche was present in that article.

Ajsoprano

We as a race are slowly becoming cattle and some are enjoying it because “it’s the future!”.

Pang

1350 euro per person per month! It sounds like hipster central living.

Del2005

The place sounds like a cult.

Roger Hassenforder

"Gin tasting"

Mollyb60

This belongs in the Funny/Horrifying Houses/Flats to rent thread.
Reading the article it sounds like the kitchen will be shared with all 50 residents. It's a fancy hostel. Sounds hideous.

flas

Its a hostel,nothing more and nothing less, and when fiachra in accounting tells you its what everyone in london and san fran are doing and tries to look down on you for being so behind the times, remind him he is living in a hostel

Mr. Incognito

No parties

No riding

No way

stimpson

Pang wrote: »

1350 euro per person per month! It sounds like hipster central living.

The typical Nodeie would have a salary of €35,000 per annum. So they are paying half of their gross salary on rent. Right so.

SEPT 23 1989

dont think you could roll home after a feed of pints and a three in one under your arm

Cushie Butterfield

Mollyb60 wrote: »

This belongs in the Funny/Horrifying Houses/Flats to rent thread.
Reading the article it sounds like the kitchen will be shared with all 50 residents. It's a fancy hostel. Sounds hideous.

Too many cooks...

They’re be murders.

kimokanto

"Tech-savvies & creatives" ask the back of me ball hooks

whiskeyman

Crying futons galore

pleas advice

i'm a bit of a naturalist myself...

the_syco

Mr. Incognito wrote: »

No riding

Take another look at the hostess :pac:

Noveight

The whole thing sounds like a massive pain in the arse from start to finish.

tabby aspreme

Fluffed up bedsits

tigger123

Are tenements back now?

Mick ah

Good God!

This sh!t has gone too far.

You should be paying €1350 for an apartment, not a room in one.

I reckon if the plebs were better organised we'd have adequate housing in Dublin. But till then our land lord TDs and their mates will continue raking it in, at the nation's expense!

Mollyb60

Sad thing is it'll probably be full as soon as it's properly released cos the housing situation in the city is so dire.

silverharp

not sure about the bedrooms myself :pac:

irishguitarlad

Vacuous, vacuous, vacuous.

Samuel T. Cogley

Better than a lot of the ****holes you'd get for €1350 a month in fairness.

Fr_Dougal

Sounds like they’ve made a safe space for snowflakes.

But to be fair, the quality of the accommodation looks decent. On the downside, if there’s ever any trouble in one of these apartments they’ll do serious damage to the brand name.

Capt'n Midnight

flas wrote: »

Its a hostel,nothing more and nothing less, and when fiachra in accounting tells you its what everyone in london and san fran are doing and tries to look down on you for being so behind the times, remind him he is living in a hostel

Read the article.

It's digs.

A hostel at least would be non-judgemental. Digs means surrendering a lot more control over your personal freedoms.

It's for grown ups who don't want to grow up any more.

donegaLroad

Its just short of €50 a day to live here.
A guest house would be cheaper if you negotiated long term rates, Im sure you could get a rate of €250 per week if you were to stay for 6 months+

tabby aspreme

silverharp wrote: »

not sure about the bedrooms myself :pac:

Do people still have smelly feet

conorhal

I love how that 'current year' government shill of a paper, the 'Independent' is constantly trying to sell you a positive spin on scenarios that should by all rights have an angry mob of people burning down the Dail.

I lived with housemates long enough, if I had to continue to do so with 50 people, mass shootings would become a thing in Ireland

andekwarhola

I couldn't read the article, apologies.

Whenever I see the word 'curate' in a lifestyle or cultural context, my blood pressure begins to rise alarmingly.

It's simply not worth ploughing on.

Samuel T. Cogley

andekwarhola wrote: »

I couldn't read the article, apologies.

Whenever I see the word 'curate' in a lifestyle or cultural context, my blood pressure begins to rise alarmingly.

It's simply not worth ploughing on.

On the radio this afternoon 'you get to curate the last 15 minutes of the show' fcuk off - you mean you'll do some requests you ponsey cnut.

tigger123

Can't believe it's come to this. 1350 per month for that set up is scandalous!

Good ****ing luck to them.

Ajsoprano

In phase 6 of plumbing school we paid 50 quid a week for digs and got food with that. It was during the height of the Celtic tiger. We were on a decent wage.

Why has the price increased 5 fold for the same product without the food?

tigger123

Ajsoprano wrote: »

In phase 6 of plumbing school we paid 50 quid a week for digs and got food with that. It was during the height of the Celtic tiger. We were on a decent wage.

Why has the price increased 5 fold for the same product without the food?

Supply and demand. There's f*ck all to rent these days.

Ajsoprano

Would there be a lease or would these fall into the owner occupied no rights type setting?

previous user

Mick ah wrote: »

Good God!

This sh!t has gone too far.

You should be paying €1350 for an apartment, not a room in one.

I reckon if the plebs were better organised we'd have adequate housing in Dublin. But till then our land lord TDs and their mates will continue raking it in, at the nation's expense!

You should be paying €700 - €800 for an apartment you're being brainwashed.

JupiterKid

Sad and pathetic. An attempt to market sub-standard living conditions -basically a long term hostel - to the hipster generation.

I bet this started in California. I remember when San Francisco was actually quite affordable to live in. But that was 20 years ago....:(

Of course it will suit the Irish Landlord perfectly. Expext a slew of adverts for this style of "cool radical communal flexible" living on DAFT. That site has no moral principles whatsoever.

AustinLostin

This looks like its launching soon now.


I can't help but be very skeptical of this. Sounds like the community curator's job will be to upsell to you in your own home.
The art being for sale etc. and the opportunity to host events in your own home (imagining there will be a charge for it)

Also from the article:
“Anyone can apply,” says Node’s community curator Ava Kilmartin, who says Node complexes abroad have been home to everyone from tech professionals to bankers, lawyers and accountants."

Wow what a diverse range of professions..

Graces7

silverharp wrote: »

not sure about the bedrooms myself :pac:

"Little boxes..."

Ipso

That's friends style living to us sh1t munchers.
Could it be any more ridiciulous?

MrPudding

My sister live in one of these "co-living" places in London. There are parties and there is riding, lots of both.

I think it is actually pretty cool. She is living in a decent enough place in London, she has a room that is clean and practical (albeit small) in a building with excellent facilities and she is paying less than £900 per month in rent, and has not other bills (apart form food and TV licence if she wants to watch TV in her room, Sky is supplied).

To be fair, I think it is a little culty too, as do most of the people that live there, but it is a benign kind of cult, not the "quick, drink this, we have a spaceship to catch" kind of cult.

MrP

Birneybau

MrPudding wrote: »

My sister live in one of these "co-living" places in London. There are parties and there is riding, lots of both.

I think it is actually pretty cool. She is living in a decent enough place in London, she has a room that is clean and practical (albeit small) in a building with excellent facilities and she is paying less than £900 per month in rent, and has not other bills (apart form food and TV licence if she wants to watch TV in her room, Sky is supplied).

To be fair, I think it is a little culty too, as do most of the people that live there, but it is a benign kind of cult, not the "quick, drink this, we have a spaceship to catch" kind of cult.

MrP

Is it not a squat?

MrB

Ulysses Gaze

kimokanto wrote: »

"Tech-savvies & creatives" ask the back of me ball hooks

i.e,. Graduates that have been sold a pup that they are at the "cutting-edge" of technology innovation whilst they are really updating websites and preparing mundane electronic marketing circulars.

1350 euro a month for a bedroom in a 2 bed, it says
go away

corner of hells

Birneybau wrote: »

Is it not a squat?

MrB

No a squat is what you do in the jax of these nodes before you have dump in the hole on the floor.

Mr C of H.

ChikiChiki

So this is what its come to. What an utter joke. The way the world is going we will all be living in pods in a few decades and it will be marketed as acceptable and crazy rates.

As an introverted person who spends most of the working week meeting different people this would drive me nuts. When I get home from work all I want is my own space.

Manic Moran

JupiterKid wrote: »

I bet this started in California. I remember when San Francisco was actually quite affordable to live in. But that was 20 years ago....:(

Pretty much. Such communal living is pretty much a fact of life for those coming to the Bay Area, especially in towns with rent control. We have something f a revolving system here: Young folks come in, single and full of optimism, this communal living sort of thing is the cost of opportunity for the jobs and potential of very high salaries. However, it is also very non-conducive to family life, so these same folks get older, and they move out to a place, usually many miles from SF, where they can afford to have some reasonable square footage to themselves. They are replaced by more inbound young optimists. Rinse, repeat.

dr.fuzzenstein

bluewolf wrote: »

1350 euro a month for a bedroom in a 2 bed, it says
go away

Mrs OBumble

previous user wrote: »

You should be paying €700 - €800 for an apartment you're being brainwashed.

Plus a hundred a month for electricity / gas.
Plus whatever for bins.
And TV / wifi
And whever it costs to commute from your suburban apartment (would have to be at that price) to work and your social life.

Add in the convenience of not having to move just because a housemate moves out.


Put it all together, its not as bad as it sounds.

FTA69

Co-living is not unlike 'digs' of old in which single Irish professionals lived in the 1950s and 1960 in British cities; renting a room each, sharing common areas and being fed and minded by a 'Bean an Tí'.

Ha young professionals in the 1950s. That's one way to describe a load of Connemara navvies packed into a boarding house.