Shurimgreat wrote: » Another one of those misleading statistics which I for one am tiring of. No-one disputes that most well paying jobs are in Dublin. No-one should dispute either that most young people are forced to live and work and pay their taxes in Dublin, despite the fact a large percentage come from a rural/non Dublin background. Dublin is like a black hole sucking people in from outside of Dublin. They have no choice but to become part of the chaos. The choice of jobs outside Dublin is poor to say the least. Encouraging more people into Dublin is not the answer. Most people apart from a few hold outs know this. Brave policies need to be implemented by our politicians in taking the focus away from Dublin including putting on hold major new jobs announcements for Dublin. Its never ideal turning away new jobs. But for the sanity of Dubliners and to ease the accommodation crisis it needs to be done. There are only so many sardines you can squeeze into the tin.
Shurimgreat wrote: » I think the University thing is a big factor in the success of an urban area. Galway relies heavily on the university for employment but also from the economic gains of thousands of students staying there. There probably is a case for a university in Waterford and to grow it in the long run. Certainly the focus needs to be taken off Dublin.
blanch152 wrote: » How are you going to persuade anyone to live in Carrick-on-Shannon instead of Dublin, for example?
Shurimgreat wrote: » including putting on hold major new jobs announcements for Dublin.
blanch152 wrote: » Could you produce some hard evidence to back up your statements about the benefit of the university to Galway (other than Donegal Tuesday)?
onedmc wrote: » Thats where your wrong, they don't pay their taxes just like everyone else. Dublin accounts for over 80% of the tax take in Ireland.
defrule wrote: » I think mentality is something that needs to really change on top of the all the tangible developments that should happen. As an example, where in Dublin do we have underground tunnels to cross roads? I never noticed we were missing these until I saw them in other cities. Instead of putting traffic lights everywhere, tunnels like these mean cars and pedestrians don't come into conflict. This mindset of really thinking about how to gain maximum utility from land including the vertical aspects is something we really need.
Shurimgreat wrote: » I for one am sick and tired of the whinging about the Dublin property crisis. Its a crisis entirely manufactured by the Dublin centric brigade. You'd wonder how many of them are landlords behind it all.
cgcsb wrote: » What year are you posting from? Milton is all roundabouts and car centric development.
snotboogie wrote: » ACCOUNTING & FINANCE SALARIES IN COMMERCE & INDUSTRY (LARGE COMPANIES 500+ EMPLOYEES)Financial Controller Dublin- 85k - 90k Cork 75k - 85k Limerick 70k - 80k Galway 70k - 80k
Luka Lemon Town wrote: » I wont link as it would not be overly difficult to get identifiable info.
Luka Lemon Town wrote: » I was including the NBP in saying this. In my area anyway what's happening is eir is laying fibre along all main roads and going in maybe 300m in by roads and stopping there and not finishing in to the ends of these roads or serving the houses further in. They are then expecting the NBP to complete the work instead of just finishing the job themselves while at the same time covering enough area with their fibre roll out to make it far too messy and uneconomical for another operator to start laying fibre. In our case the fibre will stop about 500m from my home house (which is next to where I plan to build my own house also), in fact there are more houses not being connected on the road than are being connected which makes no sense from an economic point of view.
MayoSalmon wrote: » The Dutch should of been underwater 100 years ago...human ingenuity eh!
bk wrote: » I'm all of that, family and kid in a lovely apartment in Dublin. ... A 2 bed apartment is perfectly fine if you have one child. Even fine with two kids if they aren't teenagers. All over Europe kids being brought up in apartments, it is perfectly fine, we just aren't use to it. Or we even look done on it thinking of it like council flats. ..
cgcsb wrote: » In Dublin City Centre we can provide more trams, buses and trains as demand grows. We cannot do that in rural areas or small towns where there is insufficient density of employment and population to support such services.
cgcsb wrote: » Dublin's infrastructure is limited because we've blown the infrastructure budget on MEGA motorways to Tuam and New Ross. ,maintenance of an impossibly large road L road network and lets not forget an impossible to implement broadband scheme. Altogether billions wasted on that rubbish.
Harry Palmr wrote: » Stanley still exists but lost 30 jobs last year, the place has about 25 employees. had 600 in the mid 60s, the Glass had 3000 up until 1990. Which illustrates the way forward. The future of Waterford has to be on 21st century technology not harking back to fashioning lumps of metal into something you fire a light in to. Hence the need for a tech biased University.
Electric Sheep wrote: » Staring into screens and writing the code that runs the applications on your pc, tablet and smartphone. Creating a great deal of value.
abitofacomedian wrote: » You will see subways like that in cities that had a lot of car centric development in the 1960s and 1970s. All current design advice is against segregation like that. For anti-social reasons, and for treating pedestrians like second class citizens. When I worked in the UK we were bricking pedestrian subways up. By the way I pass a bricked up subway in Coolock on my daily commute. I don't mean this to come across as being hard on you, apologies if it does I am not good with words sometimes, but your post is indicative of an attitude I encounter a lot. Dublin is described as being a "small city" or "low density" or unimportant because it doesn't have something that London or New York has. We shouldn't compare Dublin to a mega city like the aforementioned, there are only about 10 of them in the planet and they operate in a different orbit. But Dublin stands up well as a mid sized city, and should be compared to the likes of Manchester, Munich, Oslo, Stockholm etc. We are behind those cities in some ways and ahead of them in others, due to when in time development booms occurred and what was the prevailing wisdom at the time.
Luka Lemon Town wrote: » For me you can't put a high enough value on space, for me space is comfort. I hate living in small houses where everything is on top of everything else and you struggle to even put an new item on the worktop or put out a clothes horse without it being in the way. Having grown up in the country and being used to space I've found the time I've spent living in estates getting old very fast and this is without kids. I currently live in a 3 bed semi with just my oh, its average size for most estates and I personally find it extremely cramped, considering lots in the estate have 2 or 3 kids as well in the same house I just don't know how they tolerate it. I hate clutter and you can't but be cluttered in a house where you have no designated place for a clothes horse or where a normal sized kitchen table take so up a large percentage of the room, or where the counter top just isnt big enough or the bedrooms and wardrobes are too small, ensuite is too small, no storage etc. Then what about a second sitting room, home office, proper utility room for laundry equipment, chest freezer etc, games room, (pool, darts, bar etc) server room for all electronics, multiple ensuite bedrooms, walk in hot press etc these are the things I want in a house We currently have a master bedroom, second double room which is used as a walk in wardrobe by my oh and a box room which is used for storage and is full of stuff, can barely get in the door. I have no idea how you could live in a house this size with even a baby never mind older kids and that's also taking into account that I still have my bedroom at the home house which I keep stuff in and store lots of other stuff at home too. To put it in perspective I've stated the early stages of a plan for building my own place and the master bedroom, ensuite and walk in wardrobe (more of a room in its own right really) will be a similar size to the entire upstairs of the house I'm currently in (which has 3 bedrooms, a bathroom and a hot press upstairs). The kitchen would be a similar size to the entire downstairs of the house I currently live in. So just two room would be give or take as big as a 3 bed semi, this is the type of space I'm after along with all the types of rooms I described above and more possibly. That's before going outside and having a multiple car garage, gardens where if/when kids come along they can play unsupervised rather than having to stay with them in a park etc. Only neighbours close by would be my parents and relations so great relationship with them (and also a major reason for living there to be close to family), no worries about sound, can blast music as loud as possible and it won't be heard or watch a move late at night on surround sound and not worry about next door etc. There is a school 5 mins drive away, a town 10 mins drive away and a city 25 mins drive away where I can get any of the amenities you have while still have the what I see as essentials such as space, the house I want, privacy, surrounded by family, country side with nice views etc.
Tell me how wrote: » My objection to the way society in Ireland has developed is the portrayal that the Dublin model is the pinnacle and everything else should support this. .
Kye High Lacrosse wrote: The average individual tax payer living in a rural area pays the same or possibly more tax than the average urban dweller so yes people living in rural areas pay their taxes and deserve to benefit from these taxes.
Luka Lemon Town wrote: » The average individual tax payer living in a rural area pays the same or possibly more tax than the average urban dweller so yes people living in rural areas pay their taxes and deserve to benefit from these taxes.
markodaly wrote: » McMansion .
MayoSalmon wrote: » This average rural dweller earns less than the average urban dweller so immediately no they don't. The cost of living is also more expensive in cities there urban dwellers are paying more VAT.
LeinsterDub wrote: » Eh yeah I'm going to need to see a link for this outrageous claim.
markodaly wrote: I am sorry but who is saying that Dublin is the pinnacle? Stop making false arguments with no one, you will be take more seriously in the points you make.
Luka Lemon Town wrote: » A large proportion of rural dwellers commute to urban areas to work so their salaries are comparable in general. Rural homes tend to have more cars, newer and often more expensive cars. Vrt and vat on cars is a big expense. They spend more on fuel as they drive more which is a big cash cow for tax, they pay for water which had vat (urban dwellers refused to oay), they higher electricity thus more vat. I'm not saying the cost of living is higher overall as it's obviously not, the cost of housing is far far higher and yes that means a higher stamp duty but this is a once off.
ncounties wrote: » Awful idea from the decades where vast swathes of victorian, edwardian, and georgian architecture were demolished to make way for urban motorways. You may have noticed them, but did you use them? They are great if you like the smell of pi$$. Most cities that stupidly entertained them have been doing their utmost to undo their mistakes, in particular, Birmingham.
ncounties wrote: Awful idea from the decades where vast swathes of victorian, edwardian, and georgian architecture were demolished to make way for urban motorways. You may have noticed them, but did you use them? They are great if you like the smell of pi$$.
Luka Lemon Town wrote: » The use of this term means any opinions surrounding it can be immediately dismissed. The word should be wiped from existence and shows nothing but begrudgery.
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