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Encouraging rural people to the cities

  • 09-08-2016 09:53PM
    #1
    Kermit.de.frog
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,376 ✭✭✭✭


    Isn't it about time we have a strategy to depopulate rural areas and villages and "encourage" the locals to move to Dublin?

    We are wasting vast sums of money trying to bring infrastructure to these desolate areas like broadband, roads, rail and stuff. This makes no economic or practical sense.

    In return we get the country parochialism and gombeen politics foisted on us in Leinster House.

    The theory is if they move to the Dublin area there is the critical mass of infrastructure and supports there. It could make people more sophisticated and open up new opportunities for their children (instead of emigration) and help nurture more progressive, liberal attitudes among them.

    We should stop trying to bring Dublin standards of living to farms and one off housing in Mayo and Donegal. Instead lets encourage the locals to leave these areas and save a sh!t load of time and money.

    They should move to Dublin. (Don't bother with Cork)


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  • #2
    tomwaterford
    Closed Accounts Posts: 16,768 ✭✭✭✭tomwaterford


    Deos dublin not have a massive housing crisis??


  • #3
    Junkyard Tom
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,115 ✭✭✭✭Junkyard Tom


    2/10


  • #4
    Wigglepuppy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 397 ✭✭Wigglepuppy


    The bait will get took, that's the most irritating thing about these wind-up threads, I find.


  • #5
    Barry Badrinath
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,460 ✭✭✭Barry Badrinath


    Fcuking no!


  • #6
    Arsemageddon
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,129 ✭✭✭Arsemageddon


    If I move to the big smoke do I get to stab smug, condescending townies with my pitchfork?

    That's the kind of incentive I'd need.


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  • #7
    Sam Kade
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,297 ✭✭✭✭Sam Kade


    Kermit.de.frog wrote: »
    Isn't it about time we have a strategy to depopulate rural areas and villages and "encourage" the locals to move to Dublin?

    We are wasting vast sums of money trying to bring infrastructure to these desolate areas like broadband, roads, rail and stuff. This makes no economic or practical sense.

    In return we get the country parochialism and gombeen politics foisted on us in Leinster House.

    The theory is if they move to the Dublin area there is the critical mass of infrastructure and supports there. It could make people more sophisticated and open up new opportunities for their children (instead of emigration) and help nurture more progressive, liberal attitudes among them.

    We should stop trying to bring Dublin standards of living to farms and one off housing in Mayo and Donegal. Instead lets encourage the locals to leave these areas and save a sh!t load of time and money.

    They should move to Dublin. (Don't bother with Cork)
    Only someone with a hand stuck up their arse could come up with such drivel.


  • #8
    The Backwards Man
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18,299 ✭✭✭✭The Backwards Man


    It's my right as an Irish citizen to milk you big city fatcats for every cent I get off ye, and by the hokey I'll exercise that right until my dying breath. Just think about this Mr Frog, I'm sitting in my recliner at the fireside in a crime free, pollution free, open sky mortgageless utopia, and you're paying for my roads and my 50mb wireless internet, and life is good.


  • #9
    maudgonner
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,455 ✭✭✭maudgonner


    Junkyard Tom wrote: »
    2/10


    Jeez you're in a generous mood tonight Tom! Two out of ten?


  • #10
    Kermit.de.frog
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,376 ✭✭✭✭Kermit.de.frog


    The country people are out in force tonight! A nerve has been hit because the truth has been spoken. We can't afford rural Ireland as it is. We can't afford the facilities they constantly demand, a hospital in every village, broadband to every home, flood protection for houses built on flood plains on the Shannon, 24 hr pizza delivery etc. Everything should be centralised in urban areas.


  • #11
    tomwaterford
    Closed Accounts Posts: 16,768 ✭✭✭✭tomwaterford


    Kermit.de.frog wrote: »
    The country people are out in force tonight! A nerve has been hit because the truth has been spoken. We can't afford rural Ireland as it is. We can't afford the facilities they constantly demand, a hospital in every village, broadband to every home, flood protection for houses built on flood plains on the Shannon, 24 hr pizza delivery etc. Everything should be centralised in urban areas.

    I don't any of those...


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  • #12
    Shint0
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,196 ✭✭✭Shint0


    Dubs and sophistication? LMAO. Best laugh of the night.


  • #13
    _Brian
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 20,084 ✭✭✭✭_Brian


    Kermit.de.frog wrote: »
    Isn't it about time we have a strategy to depopulate rural areas and villages and "encourage" the locals to move to Dublin?

    We are wasting vast sums of money trying to bring infrastructure to these desolate areas like broadband, roads, rail and stuff. This makes no economic or practical sense.

    In return we get the country parochialism and gombeen politics foisted on us in Leinster House.

    The theory is if they move to the Dublin area there is the critical mass of infrastructure and supports there. It could make people more sophisticated and open up new opportunities for their children (instead of emigration) and help nurture more progressive, liberal attitudes among them.

    We should stop trying to bring Dublin standards of living to farms and one off housing in Mayo and Donegal. Instead lets encourage the locals to leave these areas and save a sh!t load of time and money.

    They should move to Dublin. (Don't bother with Cork)

    Here's a deal.
    Over the last 10 years or so we're seeing a lot of the "howya" types, you know them the females can be seen wandering round half the day in pyjamas and the males wear dirty trackies with their hands surgically attached to their mickeys.

    Let's move these cnuts back first. Then the rest of us can just not bother and leave ye to it in yer built up areas.


  • #14
    Allinall
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 7,891 ✭✭✭Allinall


    Kermit.de.frog wrote: »
    The country people are out in force tonight! A nerve has been hit because the truth has been spoken. We can't afford rural Ireland as it is. We can't afford the facilities they constantly demand, a hospital in every village, broadband to every home, flood protection for houses built on flood plains on the Shannon, 24 hr pizza delivery etc. Everything should be centralised in urban areas.

    Where's your evidence that we can't afford rural Ireland?

    We're a wealthy country, and can well afford to subsidize ruralisation.


  • #15
    ThisRegard
    Closed Accounts Posts: 27,833 ✭✭✭✭ThisRegard


    tomwaterford wrote: »
    Deos dublin not have a massive housing crisis??

    Only because of all the rural people coming here and taking our housing.


  • #16
    eviltwin
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,495 ✭✭✭✭eviltwin


    It's bad enough having them here on match days, imagine having them here all the time.


  • #17
    511
    Closed Accounts Posts: 532 ✭✭✭511


    I'm all for depopulating rural Ireland because it's becoming too expensive to subsidize, but Dublin is large enough as it is. We don't want to end up with London and its massive urban sprawl. Better off invest in another city in the west to balance things out.


  • #18
    Sam Kade
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,297 ✭✭✭✭Sam Kade


    Kermit.de.frog wrote: »
    The country people are out in force tonight! A nerve has been hit because the truth has been spoken. We can't afford rural Ireland as it is. We can't afford the facilities they constantly demand, a hospital in every village, broadband to every home, flood protection for houses built on flood plains on the Shannon, 24 hr pizza delivery etc. Everything should be centralised in urban areas.

    A hospital in every village, did you ever venture outside the pale?


  • #19
    The Backwards Man
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18,299 ✭✭✭✭The Backwards Man


    Kermit.de.frog wrote: »
    The country people are out in force tonight! A nerve has been hit because the truth has been spoken. We can't afford rural Ireland as it is. We can't afford the facilities they constantly demand, a hospital in every village, broadband to every home, flood protection for houses built on flood plains on the Shannon, 24 hr pizza delivery etc. Everything should be centralised in urban areas.
    No nerves are hit here, you're the one getting all excited. Why would we lower our standard of living to a Dublin level? Have to walk to a bus stop rather than get in the car at the front door and drive to the door of wherever we're going? Have to visit relations we don't like in hospital because we haven't the excuse that it's too far away and the dog will eat the sofa if we leave her alone too long? Have to order all our shopping online because we're too scared to go down the town amidst the hordes of junkies, chuggers, and Sky salespeople?

    You're having a laugh Kermie


  • #20
    Kermit.de.frog
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,376 ✭✭✭✭Kermit.de.frog


    eviltwin wrote: »
    It's bad enough having them here on match days, imagine having them here all the time.

    Yes, but only for a while. Soon enough they will all be speaking with thick Dublin accents.


  • #21
    Mint Sauce
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,293 ✭✭✭✭Mint Sauce


    Why would I want to live in Dublin? Its full of Dubs!


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  • #22
    newacc2015
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,375 ✭✭✭newacc2015


    tomwaterford wrote: »
    Deos dublin not have a massive housing crisis??

    So would rural Ireland if they didnt build so much ****ty housing in the boom. A growing population without a growing in housing will create a housing shortage anywhere

    It is far cheaper to provide services to tightly knit areas than vast one off housing which is the norm in rural Ireland


  • #23
    511
    Closed Accounts Posts: 532 ✭✭✭511


    Allinall wrote: »
    Where's your evidence that we can't afford rural Ireland?

    We're a wealthy country, and can well afford to subsidize ruralisation.

    Would the words of the former Department of Finance secretary general do?

    http://www.independent.ie/irish-news/election-2016/news/state-cant-afford-rural-ireland-moran-34694927.html

    Subsidizing rural Ireland is getting more and more expensive.


  • #24
    recylingbin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,001 ✭✭✭recylingbin


    Kermit de frog, sheriff street news, Dublin.
    Back to you in the studio flat.


  • #25
    The Backwards Man
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18,299 ✭✭✭✭The Backwards Man


    newacc2015 wrote: »
    So would rural Ireland if they didnt build so much ****ty housing in the boom. A growing population without a growing in housing will create a housing shortage anywhere

    It is far cheaper to provide services to tightly knit areas than vast one off housing which is the norm in rural Ireland
    It's far cheaper to fcuk a couple of hundred hens in a cage than let them run about as nature intended, but their eggs will taste like shit:)


  • #26
    Alf Stewart.
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,789 ✭✭✭Alf Stewart.


    newacc2015 wrote: »

    It is far cheaper to provide services to tightly knit areas than vast one off housing which is the norm in rural Ireland

    Which explains why Dublin local property tax, for local services is vastly more expensive than someone living in rural county Laois.


  • #27
    Kermit.de.frog
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,376 ✭✭✭✭Kermit.de.frog


    511 wrote: »
    Would the words of the former Department of Finance secretary general do?

    http://www.independent.ie/irish-news/election-2016/news/state-cant-afford-rural-ireland-moran-34694927.html

    Subsidizing rural Ireland is getting more and more expensive.


    ...
    the country can no longer afford to subsidise the personal choices that people make, when they elect to live in the countryside.


  • #28
    madmac187
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 695 ✭✭✭madmac187


    Kermit.de.frog wrote: »
    511 wrote: »
    Would the words of the former Department of Finance secretary general do?

    http://www.independent.ie/irish-news/election-2016/news/state-cant-afford-rural-ireland-moran-34694927.html

    Subsidizing rural Ireland is getting more and more expensive.


    ...
    the country can no longer afford to subsidise the personal choices that people make, when they elect to live in the countryside.

    No one wants to live in Dublin because it's ****e! As an educated culchie why would you want to be near the scum and filth of Dublin!


  • #29
    jimmy blevins
    Closed Accounts Posts: 475 ✭✭jimmy blevins


    Why not just depopulate the entire country and move the culchies to the colonies and the "sophisticated" Dubs can go back to the mainland.


  • #30
    Allinall
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 7,891 ✭✭✭Allinall


    Kermit.de.frog wrote: »
    ...

    Just because a failed civil servant says it doesn't make it true.

    I repeat- we can, and are affording ruralisation.

    Where's the evidence that we can't afford it?


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  • #31
    Your Face
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,275 ✭✭✭Your Face


    Muppet.


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