Life passing by people in their 30s

I think we need to stop looking down on people who still live with their parents. Intelligent people don't pay high rents if they don't have to - the sensible thing to do is stay at home and save to buy a home as soon as you can. This is what happened years ago and didn't stop anyone ' having a life'.

As regards young people leaving the country - it's not true in most cases that they are leaving because of the bad state of the country. Most I know left for the experience of living abroad or wanted to travel. Most will be back in a few years.

The bigger problem now is people seem to want it all. They have to have nice new cars, beauty treatments, designer everything, Weekend breaks one a month, a few hols a year, eat out a lot etc. Im early 40s and see this in my own friend group - they moan how they can't afford to buy yet never even try to save.

In fairness though government housing policy is a failure and trying to fix it by competing with tax payers in the market to buy homes is making things worse for the working person.

The housing options for single people in the bigger cities is pretty grim. Either rent indefinitely in house shares or stay at home with their parents.

I think everyone be they married and working poor, single, disabled etc deserve the chance to have an affordable property.

This country needs lots more housing and apartments. Built to a decent standard. Energy efficient and with good soundproofing. In particular we really need to up our game regarding apartment living. Too many horrendous unattractive apartments with terrible soundproofing out there.

Or they choose to live in a part of the country where renting and, in particular, buying a property is actually reasonably affordable. There are many such areas. Everyone seems to think they should be able to live it up in the most popular parts of the biggest cities. Life doesn't work like that.

Sure the gubbermunt have all the houses on the market bought so they can give them away for free to “single men of fighting age”.

Much of Ireland's housing stock is underutilised - lots of "empty nesters" in houses that are now far too big for them. There are many reasons including environmental, social and financial why it is better for adult children to live in the family home for as long as possible.

The pressure that people feel to move out of the family home by age x is part of a sheeple herd mentality. Vested interests (i.e. anyone involved in the property industry) take advantage of this. Men are particuarly affected by this due to misandry and average men being regarded as utilities whose role is to provide for women. - hence we get sneers about men who still live at home, what a loser, his mammy probably still does his washing etc.

Remember during the property boom years the ad for a mortgage provider where a lad is bringing a girl back to his (parents') house to ride her and is hoping that his parents are not up. Also, from around the same time, John McGuire's I'm An Adult, Get Ne Out Of Here programme. Vested interests.

Cool, what jobs are these?

Boards must have a fascinating demographic. I wonder what the average age of the users is. I get the feeling that most regular users, especially outside of the niche categories, are probably pushing mid 40's with the uptake of new, younger users in steady decline for years.

That’s an analysis but wrong imo. I don’t know where you get the notion they are FF/FG shills or extreme right wing. And selfishness being an Irish trait. Ridiculous