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Ireland: One of the top 5 places to live according to the UN

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  • #62
    Ekancone
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    DublinWriter wrote: »


    You will be crying in ten years' time when you turn around to find that the grocery multiple in your super-dooper mall now has the monopoly in your area and that you have to drive to a pay-carpark anytime you might need to pop out for a loaf of bread or a litre of milk.

    How come this hasn't happened in the UK? There are **** loads of shopping malls there and right round the corner there is a high street full of local shops. There is always room once the small shops can provide something the big one can't.

    i.e. The facility to get a carton of milk in a few seconds.


  • #63
    SlinkyToo
    Closed Accounts Posts: 226 ✭✭SlinkyToo


    Exactly! the only shops that die off are those that don't provide a service.

    Merc drivers are careful and courteous, I doubt you will find anyone on this forum with much good to say about BMW drivers.


  • #64
    Ekancone
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,553 ✭✭✭Ekancone


    Ok this debate is descending into stupidity. BTW, GDP is a fairly poor measure of the standard of living in a country. In Ireland during WW2, GNP per capita was stable throughout the war while the standard of living, gauged as access to basic food/goods/services, plummeted.


  • #65
    SlinkyToo
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    When I was a boy we lived in a shoebox in the middle of the road and had to scrap the moisture of passing cars to survive. Don't you talk to me about GDP!


  • #66
    DublinWriter
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    daithifleming wrote: »
    How come this hasn't happened in the UK? There are **** loads of shopping malls there and right round the corner there is a high street full of local shops.

    Oh but is has happened:

    http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/4565065.stm

    ...plus we now have Tescos opening up convienience-shops in smaller high street outlets.

    You walk down any high-street in any sizable UK town and you could be anywhere in the UK. It's cookie-cutter stuff.


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  • #67
    Ekancone
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,553 ✭✭✭Ekancone


    DublinWriter wrote: »
    Oh but is has happened:

    http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/4565065.stm

    ...plus we now have Tescos opening up convienience-shops in smaller high street outlets.

    You walk down any high-street in any sizable UK town and you could be anywhere in the UK. It's cookie-cutter stuff.

    A 7% decline... you think that there isn't going to be some adjustment as some of the bigger stores try to muscle in? That doesnt mean that ALL independent shops are going to shut down, most likely the inefficient ones will.


  • #68
    SlinkyToo
    Closed Accounts Posts: 226 ✭✭SlinkyToo


    The cookie cutter town plan is excellant. At least you have everything you want in each town and you dont have to travel to the next big town to get something every few days.

    I was at a Business Conference a few months back and one of the presenters described Ireland as being made up of '2 horse, 1 horse and no horse towns'.

    I couldn't agree more.


  • #69
    DublinWriter
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    SlinkyToo wrote: »
    The cookie cutter town plan is excellant. At least you have everything you want in each town and you dont have to travel to the next big town to get something every few days.
    Yes, it's excellent if you like bland, corporate sameness.
    SlinkyToo wrote: »
    I was at a Business Conference a few months back and one of the presenters described Ireland as being made up of '2 horse, 1 horse and no horse towns'.
    ...and the problem is?

    Obviously you'd prefer to live in a shoebox in Dublin where you've no idea who your neighbours are, but you know they enjoy a fry-up on a Sunday morning because you can hear the sound of their frying pan through your wall.

    Range of consumer choice does not equate to quality of life.


  • #70
    SlinkyToo
    Closed Accounts Posts: 226 ✭✭SlinkyToo


    What has a cookie cutter town got to do with box apartments?? Nothing.

    I guess you prefer to have to drive to kildare to buy sausages and only between 9-5


  • #71
    thebman
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    DublinWriter wrote: »
    Yes, it's excellent if you like bland, corporate sameness.


    ...and the problem is?

    Obviously you'd prefer to live in a shoebox in Dublin where you've no idea who your neighbours are, but you know they enjoy a fry-up on a Sunday morning because you can hear the sound of their frying pan through your wall.

    Range of consumer choice does not equate to quality of life.

    Exactly, what shops are in your area does not decide how good an area in. That's probably the saddest most pathethic way of measuring how good an area is. That and how much grey concrete is around.

    You want a place with character and a couple of good sport clubs in the area and good services by public transport to get to the boring shopping centres IMO.


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