I’d class myself as middle income but with each passing year just paying the essentials like mortgage , clothing & educating children and putting food on the table , paying energy bills I have less and less left for anything else .
7 years I gave up smoking because I couldn’t afford it any more , during covid I gave up my twice a week visit to pub and haven’t drank since , myself and my wife used go out for a meal once a fortnight up to last year when we could back to once a month and now this year we have decided to give up going out altogether due to lack of funds , both of us work .
Passing pubs and restaurants I feel we’re not alone in having no disposable income , in Dublin there is a share of high earners and tourists which camouflage the Irish middle class disappearing due to lack of funds but many towns are an awful lot quieter than they were in the past ???
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