Know any people who went from the lap of luxury to homelessness

mr_fegelien

This is the opposite to the "gangland crime as a teen" thread.

My question is, do you know anyone who grew up in middle class/wealthy areas of Dublin, went to good schools, good parents but still ended up ****ing things up and homeless, in prison, drug addicted?

Yurt2

Saw a powerful American documentary on this very subject. Trading Places it's called, would recommend; 10/10.

Gannicus

mr_fegelien wrote: »

This is the opposite to the "gangland crime as a teen" thread.

My question is, do you know anyone who grew up in middle class/wealthy areas of Dublin, went to good schools, good parents but still ended up ****ing things up and homeless, in prison, drug addicted?

Katy French

Lyan

You weren't kiddin about feelin bitter

anewme

Maybe they didn’t **** things up.

Growing up in a middle class family does not mean you are exempt from depression, addiction, mental illness.

You hear people saying, “ sure what has he to be depressed about?”

Money, wealth and status won’t buy peace of mind.

SEPT 23 1989

no people prefer the suicide option

Johnny Sausage

There was this fella on boards who kept saying he was gonna get kicked out of his gaff by his parents as he is a dosser who failed the leaving twice

Even made a thread about saying goodbye as he was being evicted

Your Face

Yes, Steve Tyler from the band Aerosmith - he was living it up when he was going down.

Jonathan Corrie. https://www.rte.ie/news/special-reports/2014/1205/664793-jonathan-corrie/

mr_fegelien

Johnny Sausage wrote: »

There was this fella on boards who kept saying he was gonna get kicked out of his gaff by his parents as he is a dosser who failed the leaving twice

Even made a thread about saying goodbye as he was being evicted

Wow and what happened to this individual, is he okay now, is he sleeping on the streets?

Johnny Sausage

mr_fegelien wrote: »

Wow and what happened to this individual, is he okay now, is he sleeping on the streets?

No, we reckon he was lying for attention

Church on Tuesday

Johnny Sausage wrote: »

No, we reckon he was lying for attention[/QUOTE]

Wow, imagine someone starting a thread(s) looking for attention....

corner of hells

mr_fegelien wrote: »

This is the opposite to the "gangland crime as a teen" thread.

My question is, do you know anyone who grew up in middle class/wealthy areas of Dublin, went to good schools, good parents but still ended up ****ing things up and homeless, in prison, drug addicted?

Yes , yes I do.
All sorts with trades, third level education and so on.

Mr.burgess

corner of hells wrote: »

Yes , yes I do.
All sorts with trades, third level education and so on.

Eamon the don dunne came from a well off family with with good parents end up been one of the worst we seen

branie2

A guy who invented a way to hold your glasses in places, but unfortunately, it caused people to go cross-eyed, and he lost a lot of money as a result

JupiterKid

Yes, a couple of people who were in alcohol/drug rehab with me (at various times between 2014 and 2016) - such was the nature and consequences of their addictions and the damage it casused them and all those around them (inclusing spouses, children, families, friends) - that they lost literally almost everything.

One of these persons has, I am pleased to report, got their life bck on track. The other sadly has since passed away.

That's the horrible nature of addiction (inclusing alcoholism) - it will take literally everything good from your life.

trashcan

John Delaney. Oh no, sorry, that was just a dream I was having !!

FTA69

Yeah a very good friend of mine whom I travelled abroad with and stayed with when I split up with my missus. He was an electrical engineer on very good money and had his own place. His missus left him and he turned to drink and cocaine, eventually graduating on to crack and heroin. He borrowed money off me twice and I knew something was completely awry but felt obligated because he helped me when I was at a low place.

Later on I saw in the Evening Standard newspaper they were looking for a man for a knife-point robbery on a pensioner at an ATM; I was about to text this lad as a joke that the CCTV photo looked like him when I realised that he was wearing a GAA hoodie and that it *was* him. He was a chronic addict who had lost everything and sank to the lowest of the low. The police were appealing for people to come forward with details about him.

I've also met many, many middle class types who have ended up homeless - flopping from sofa to sofa and staying in hostels or sometimes on the streets. These people went to private schools and have rich parents. There's a lot of 'rich hippy' types out there whose kids begin experimenting with drugs and raves and festivals and all that kind of craic who just end up dossers, have no interest in work or education and end up full blown addicts on smack, ketamine, booze and whatever else. They carry on like they're free spirits but they're just strung out junkies at the end of the day.

poisonated

I knew someone who had wealthy parents, went to a good school but then got addicted to heroin and died of a heroin overdose.

poisonated

FTA69 wrote: »

Yeah a very good friend of mine whom I travelled abroad with and stayed with when I split up with my missus. He was an electrical engineer on very good money and had his own place. His missus left him and he turned to drink and cocaine, eventually graduating on to crack and heroin. He borrowed money off me twice and I knew something was completely awry but felt obligated because he helped me when I was at a low place.

Later on I saw in the Evening Standard newspaper they were looking for a man for a knife-point robbery on a pensioner at an ATM; I was about to text this lad as a joke that the CCTV photo looked like him when I realised that he was wearing a GAA hoodie and that it *was* him. He was a chronic addict who had lost everything and sank to the lowest of the low. The police were appealing for people to come forward with details about him.

Did you report him?

IAMAMORON

FTA69 wrote: »

Yeah a very good friend of mine whom I travelled abroad with and stayed with when I split up with my missus. He was an electrical engineer on very good money and had his own place. His missus left him and he turned to drink and cocaine, eventually graduating on to crack and heroin. He borrowed money off me twice and I knew something was completely awry but felt obligated because he helped me when I was at a low place.

Later on I saw in the Evening Standard newspaper they were looking for a man for a knife-point robbery on a pensioner at an ATM; I was about to text this lad as a joke that the CCTV photo looked like him when I realised that he was wearing a GAA hoodie and that it *was* him. He was a chronic addict who had lost everything and sank to the lowest of the low. The police were appealing for people to come forward with details about him.

I've also met many, many middle class types who have ended up homeless - flopping from sofa to sofa and staying in hostels or sometimes on the streets. These people went to private schools and have rich parents. There's a lot of 'rich hippy' types out there whose kids begin experimenting with drugs and raves and festivals and all that kind of craic who just end up dossers, have no interest in work or education and end up full blown addicts on smack, ketamine, booze and whatever else. They carry on like they're free spirits but they're just strung out junkies at the end of the day.

How many exactly?

FTA69

IAMAMORON wrote: »

How many exactly?

Haha a lot mate. I live in a communal warehouse that gets a lot of transient people coming and going; a lot of hippy types and many fit the description I gave. Also I’m familiar with a few people in Cork who went to good schools and the like and after flunking out of college ended up junkies with notions.

FTA69

poisonated wrote: »

Did you report him?

I’ve never called the police on someone in my life but I sent the Standard article to another fella I know and he did report him yeah. I couldn’t bring myself to do it at the time.

(Yes I know that’s wrong but people make mistakes and do stuff at times they shouldn’t be proud of)

IAMAMORON

FTA69 wrote: »

Haha a lot mate. I live in a communal warehouse that gets a lot of transient people coming and going; a lot of hippy types and many fit the description I gave. Also I’m familiar with a few people in Cork who went to good schools and the like and after flunking out of college ended up junkies with notions.

Are you a bit of a crustie yourself?

I mean where is this "communal Warehouse", do they have WiFi lad?

peddlelies

Here's a good documentary on a chap who is a fairly famous news reader, booze destroyed him. Somehow he managed to turn it around again despite being on the brink, well worth a watch.

anewme

peddlelies wrote: »

Here's a good documentary on a chap who is a fairly famous news reader, booze destroyed him. Somehow he managed to turn it around again despite being on the brink, well worth a watch.

I watched that documentary before.

Really good.

HBC08

mr_fegelien wrote: »

This is the opposite to the "gangland crime as a teen" thread.

My question is, do you know anyone who grew up in middle class/wealthy areas of Dublin, went to good schools, good parents but still ended up ****ing things up and homeless, in prison, drug addicted?

Should there be a limit to how many threads you can start on boards?
I think there should be.

Bobblehats

Sounds like something my mother used to threaten me with but not personally; no.

Bobblehats

HBC08 wrote: »

Should there be a limit to how many threads you can start on boards?
I think there should be.

Come on he’s the fedge! fedgelord, he takes you to the dark underbelly