How much is your Rent? (2002)

Victor

How much rent do you pay (per person, per month, excluding utility bills)?

Meh

€533.29

Kolodny

€340 per calendar month. Which is a great deal considering the size of the gaff and my room and the area.

Scruff

€495.30 and its a single room

BuffyBot

€180 - this is what you get when you flee Dublin ;o]

ToxicPaddy

€405 a month for a single room... tis absolutely crazy...

A mate of mine has a 2 bed apartment for €600 down the country... no fair..

seamus

€190 p/m with free heating/tv/washing machine/dryer etc etc.

OK, It is my brother's house, but still....:p

(No phone line )

Acidflash

€220 a month.

Kix

€825 pm. A single bedded apartment for my girlfriend and I.

It's a nice apartment if rather expensive, but what can you do...

K

jd

My Gf and i pay €1120 a month-its a two bedroomed apt 1000 sq feet and we use the spare bedroom for visitors/a study.
My Gf also uses it if I've gone on the beer and start snoring

Victor

Oh, forgot. €445.

Mountjoy Mugger

Does €900 p.m. mortgage count?

Victor

Originally posted by Mountjoy Mugger
Does €900 p.m. mortgage count?

Second last option.

BuffyBot

I presume these are all Dublin rents?

If so I don't think I'm moving back there in a hurry!

Wook

1015 Euros a month

Saruman

I still live at home so only €250 a month!

Victor

Originally posted by Wook
1015 Euros a month

For one person :eek:

azezil

€177.77 per month, weird figure i know but cheap none the less

6 bedroomed house, sharing, Thurles.

Free connection to chorus !!

neuro-praxis

I live in a 4 bed house with two other guys (the fourth is our spare for guests). One of the guys owns the place and then me and Scatz pay €250 each per month plus bills. It's out in Leixlip so 45 mins on the bus and you're in town, plus close to college in Maynooth. Plus, the house is beautiful. All wooden floors, deep rich colours everywhere, beanbags, foutons, sculptures, Cuban paintings...it rocks.

All the same, am I the only person who just absolutely longs to live alone? Apart from my bf, I don't think there's anyone that wouldn't get under my skin just a smidge.

Or maybe, if I owned the place it would be better. I think renting just makes me feel like I have no real home. Why are houses so damn expensive?

*me sobs

mise

hmm... well living in bilbao at the moment and i pay €210 per month. its a bit expensive for here but its a really nice place if a bit small. think the average for here is round €180-200 for a decent place.
but aahhhh was kind of thinking of moving out when i go back to dublin this summer... not any more:(

bobsmith833

That's the thing about the € - it allows you to directly compare prices between different parts of Europe and you may not like what you see!

Victor

Originally posted by neuro-praxis
All the same, am I the only person who just absolutely longs to live alone?

On an anthropological level, human nature is to be alone, the problem is we then get bored, we then crave company.

On a societal level, it is essential for us to live in communities to provide mutual support - eg the mechanic repairs the doctor's car who heals the hairdresser's broken arm who styles the teacher's hair .... and so on.

On a household level, sharing a household means that bills and chores can be shared (well thats the idea), thereby reducing the cost of living, e.g. a two person household only costs 50% more to run than a one person household (taking unpaid work into account also).

Lei Xiejiang

I pay 160 Euro per month, I share the house with one guy and one girl. We all have a room to ourselves.

No electricity, no heating bills , the land lord pays the rest.


I wish we could have more people in the house

Lei Xiejiang

the mechanic repairs the doctor's car who heals the hairdresser's .....

Hmmm
I was a mechanic and I cut my own hair!!

Boycott hairdressers unless your a woman, buy an electric shaver and shave your head but I look like an ugly Triad!!!

Irish_Ranger_IR

I almost pay 400 pm, not a bad for a good area in Dublin..

androphobic

I pay 254 a month for a single room in a 4 bedroomed house in Glasnevin

r0sc0

sheesh - I pay 380 euro plus bills and I live out in the Tallaght boondocks. A real crap area at that. I have my own room and adjoining bathroom, but the house is a little under-furnished. I dont have a mirror in my bathroom or a towel rack. Makes for great shaving misses. I need to get closer to town which brings up another issue.. transportation (purchase price, insurance, and license oh my) - ugg.

@boy

1,140 EUR for a 2 bed apartment in Monkstown on the coast road (close to DART station).

This apparently is a red hot bargain as avg 2 bed apt. rent anywhere in the same area is approx 1,500 EUR

.....We're emigrating to Australia in August, and the cost of renting in this city has a lot to do with that decision ;-)

neuro-praxis

Victor, I actually study anthropology and apparently, it is not within our nature to want to be alone. Although, we've probably simply read conflicting ideas on the subject.

I don't have an opinion one way or the other (for once!:)) I think anthropology is a pile of horse's crap anyway.

Tazz T

€890 live alone in 1 bed apartment in Ringsend.

Need a gorgeous gf to share the rent;)

stevoslice

I'm payin €20 a week durin the summer, but durin college its about €45 a week.

BEAT

Originally posted by Tazz T
€890 live alone in 1 bed apartment in Ringsend.

Need a gorgeous gf to share the rent;)

HMM. that could be arranged hehehe
oh , and I pay right now 350 pm to rent a room in someone else's house. I have use of all the house but it still isnt like being at home, ya know. Ahhh, I miss living alone, those were the happiest 7 years...err...pull yourself together now, people are reading...ok, happy days are here again, but I am still looking for another place to live, It's only a temporary arrangment.
On the road again...:p

phoenix2181

altoghter we pay 1850 euro but its the ultimate bachalor pad... there 4 of us & we have a massive back garden, computer room, den, ultra cool stainless steel kitchen, tv /video in every room (bar the bathroom but I'm working on that) 4 dvd's 3 widescreens the list goes on... & the local is 250 yards away in a really exclusive area








my house rocks!

NeRb666

€900 per month for a 1 bedroom apartment

Tom Dunne

€420 mortgage. 5 Bedroom, detached and I get my own computer room!

Of course, I am miles from civilisation (Enfield).:D

Stephen

Myself and 3 others pay €200 per week between us for an apartment in carlow - 4 bedrooms (small ones ), 1 bathroom + 1 ensuite in the biggest bedroom. Kitchen adjoined to living room. Nice view of the river barrow and its only minutes from the centre of town on foot

For some reason, the bedrooms are downstairs and everything else is upstairs.

Sposs

€240 per month in three bed house sharing with two other guys in Maynooth,the house is a kip but with all the scubbers in Maynooth accomadation is scarce.

Helix

i pay £165 a month but thats sterling dunno how much that is in euros. its not bad, i share a 4 bedroom house with 2 people i know. oh and my bed is a double and me rooms massive! woooo

goose

600 yoyos for a room in a 2 bed appartment. not including the electricity bills (which have gone up... again...). eirrrcom bill for the phone line, NTL bill for the phone and tv.

i have to many phones come to think of it.
my O2 bill is around €100 a month on a good month.
damn txt's

hedgetrimmer

850 a month for a 1 bed, 1 living room cum kitchen thing. Nice size, nicely furnished and decorated. Alarm, security doors and stuff...

Thanx 4 The Fish

/meh in Castlebar, €520 a month for a three bedroomed house.

Keithaburke

€400 for a shoe box

Victor

Originally posted by Keithaburke
€400 for a shoe box

Deal, would you like one or two?

neuro-praxis

I've moved house again. The last house was indeed cheap and beautiful but unfortunately house owner turned into psycho cocaine snorting ratface.

Am currently paying €350.00 pcm for a large room in a two bedroom house in Maynooth with my two best friends (who share the other room which is ginormous). We're the happiest jelly babies in town. The house was bare but now is cosy and homey and lovely, and we did it all through the auctioneer and have direct debit rent, so we get no bother off any stinkin' low-down no-good landlords (who says I'm bitter eh?). So, moral of the story is: it matters not a jot what your house is like - it matters only whom you live with.

Beautiful house + anti-social nutcase = sad neuro
Plain house + supoib company = happy neuro

I think the facts speak for themselves.

pickarooney

2 of us pay €150 each per month, for a 3 bedroom house, gardens front and back, no landlord and an indefinite lease.
It's in the south of Holland though, which sucks a bit.

neuro-praxis

I'm off to Holland. Seeya.

Panda

HAHAaaahaaaaaaa

€110

HAHAaaahaaaaaaa

somethin like €28 a week!
theres six in the house.
i have my own room, plenty space.
all the channels.
big kitchen.
it is in casltebar, but i happen to like going to college here.
and the town isnt too bad either.

i do believe i win.

theciscokid

Originally posted by Scruff
€495.30 and its a single room

a month?

feckin' hell

me and my lady pay €500 a month for one bedroom flat

Big Chief

€335 per month , actually ok considering i stay about 3/4 km from city centre (5 mins from harolds cross)..

still expensive though considering what you could get out of dublin for that price

Big Chief

Originally posted by pickarooney
2 of us pay €150 each per month, for a 3 bedroom house, gardens front and back, no landlord and an indefinite lease.
It's in the south of Holland though, which sucks a bit.

you gotta spare room i could have ?

coco

hi im a student and ive to pay 230-300 euro each month its really bad and im in college in tip and i live with people that work and they keep on asking me for money for the bills! for things i dont even use like i dont use th washing machine i bring me clothes to my parents house! things like that and they think my parents give me money to pay these bills but they dont! and aswell as that one of the girls i live with robs my bog roll! ive a really small bedroom its nice a warm but theres no room! I work but the money i get is not great! wat do i do bout it ?