Would you like to live in a place called "The Orphanage?"

Deebles McBeebles wrote: »

My ex had one of those.

until she dumped you is it?

My address is 12 E-Voting Machine Lane.

Fritzl Palace

Guaranteed to be haunted. :eek:

A friend of mine is about to lose her apartment in Dun Laoghaire for which she was paying €1,200 per month (owner needs it back for a family member) - that's a kitchen, living room, bathroom and double bedroom. This place is asking for the same price and you don't even get your own living space. This is exactly what's wrong with the idea that we should regard housing as a mere commodity and allow market forces to dictate it, without thinking about how much it's f*cking up peoples' lives.

beejee wrote: »

"co-living" aka the return of tenements.

A vomit flower by any other name would smell just as nice

Not such a terrible thing actually and suits people of a certain age and inclination. This one is aimed at business market.

Turquoise Hexagon Sun wrote: »

Would you like to live in a place called "The Orphanage?"

Yep, and id start adopting girls between the ages of 18 and 19

They've decided to rename it and apologised for the insensitivity - IMO it was a mistake to focus the outrage on the naming of it, because the real issue here is the price that's being asked for such a sh!te living experience. You're essentially renting a room in a shared house for €1,200 per month, this is not something we should be allowing to happen as a society. I have nothing against house sharing or co-living per se - if, as the people running this are saying, it's designed for a company to book all four rooms for four co-workers to live together I can imagine it being good craic with the right mix of people, just like a house or flat share during college can be - but €1,200 was, just one year ago, the average asking price to have a whole flat to yourself.

Asking four people to share a kitchen and living room and pay €1,200 each is monstrous, and the problem is that if we allow the precedent to be set that this is the standard of living one should expect for such a rent, it is guaranteed that once a few of these have been built in the area, the cost of renting an actual flat will skyrocket to even more unacceptable levels than it already has.

I obviously have a declared vested interest in being pissed off about this, as the woman I mentioned a few posts ago is being evicted from her €1,200 per month rental apartment which she only rented exactly one year ago, and is now faced with accepting a far, far lower quality of life for far, far more money than she was already paying. It's heartbreaking enough when it's happening to someone you know, but even beyond that, the wider and longer term societal implications of what we're allowing to happen are absolutely appalling.

Turquoise Hexagon Sun wrote: »

DublinGazette


Sounds delightful! O_o

Imagine coming home from a long day at work with a headache to The Orphanage?

It even has a nice nickname all ready "The Birds Nest" Why not name it that instead or something similarly homely, lol



https://dublingazette.com/news/former-dun-laoghaire-orphanage-turned-into-luxury-co-living-residence-41028/

At least it shows respect for what it formerly was though so people don't forget.

I wouldn't mind living there.

Muahahaha wrote: »

Some of the names of new developments are ridiculous, I passed an apartment development the other day in Rathgar which is being named St. Pancras, developers are now just lifting names directly from London.

That development is in Terenure, you don't want to be upsetting the humble people of Rathgar, by getting addresses mixed up.