Life in Ireland during the recession...

FreudianSlippers · 11-10-2010 07:07PM

CamperMan wrote: »

and most people still thing that the boom will be back next week, that the government will wipe out their debts and all will be well.

you havn't seen anything yet, this is the start

Someone sounds bitter. Things aren't bad for some people, so get over it.

I am none of the above on your previously posted list and most of the people out in town and going to the top restaurants are not either.
Bookings are hard to get in Dublin at the moment and I'm saying that from experience.

Under A Funeral Moon · 11-10-2010 07:08PM

It's well for all of those folk out shopping on Grafton Street today. Some of us had to enjoy the "beautiful sunny day" from our workplaces. I'm glad you had a nice day though, OP.

SamSamSammy · 11-10-2010 07:20PM

When I was in there, it was lunch time, everyone with a smile and having the craic, normal life goes on....

Conor108 · 11-10-2010 07:21PM

Rabble Rabble wrote: »

All sold and packed off to China. Shocking.

The Chinese though, a great bunch of lads

Superbus · 11-10-2010 07:25PM

"Splash some cold water on your face and go outside. You'll see things are just the way you left them."

- Mad Men screenwriter

Timistry · 11-10-2010 07:28PM

Superbus wrote: »

"Splash some cold water on your face and go outside. You'll see things are just the way you left them."

- Mad Men screenwriter

but he is now a multi-millionaire legend

CamperMan · 11-10-2010 07:45PM

OisinT wrote: »

Someone sounds bitter. Things aren't bad for some people, so get over it.

I am none of the above on your previously posted list and most of the people out in town and going to the top restaurants are not either.
Bookings are hard to get in Dublin at the moment and I'm saying that from experience.

balls to it!

readyletsgo · 11-10-2010 07:47PM

JE5US CHR!ST! You are all a big bunch of begrudgers on here!

Everyones in the **** at the end of the day, get over it and sort your own gaff out!

Christ on a stick!

fonecrusher1 · 11-10-2010 07:49PM

CamperMan wrote: »

chances are that the people you saw were

public sector workers
:mad:

Howzat?:pac:

Oranage2 · 11-10-2010 07:51PM

Still about 88% of the country are employed and town is full of happy ripped off tourists - If you want to see doom and gloom , walk around a council estate after Jeremy Kyle finishes when they decide to get up and go to the pub in their Pyjamas

CamperMan · 11-10-2010 07:54PM

If I could get dole, I would.

money for me, money for the mrs, rent paid for.. not just some crappy 2 up 2 down, no, I could afford a nice big house on the dole because the state will pay for it.. the government should slash welfare by 75%

nxbyveromdwjpg · 11-10-2010 07:56PM

Couldnt agree with the OP more, I wish people would just shut the **** up about it cos for most of them life is exactly the same.

In fact, for anyone on a salary, which again is MOST people in the country (not all, but the majority) they could even be better off financially now in day to day life.

Wage same, everything else cheaper. Grand.

K-9 · 11-10-2010 08:03PM

It really is the same as the people who talked up the bubble, except in reverse.

Things will never stop going down, things will get far worse, IMF etc. etc.

As during the bubble, people will just muddle on, best they can.

RoadKillTs · 11-10-2010 08:23PM

Thats the spirit OP! F*ck the merchants of fear

rossie1977 · 11-10-2010 08:26PM

i was in dublin on saturday night at the oktoberfest and there was a queue all the way back to georges dock luas stop to get in at 6pm

SamSamSammy · 12-10-2010 07:21AM

isn't it gas how this thread gets so little, yet a thread on leaving Ireland has nearly 200 posters.

Moan, moan, moan. Look on the bright side of life ffs!

Raze_them_all · 12-10-2010 07:35AM

CamperMan wrote: »

If I could get dole, I would.

money for me, money for the mrs, rent paid for.. not just some crappy 2 up 2 down, no, I could afford a nice big house on the dole because the state will pay for it.. the government should slash welfare by 75%

Ah yes, so what if I used to work between 80-90 hours a week doing two jobs, used to come home with about a grand after taxes, I'm clearly a lazy git who hasn't had to spend the bones of 5k on courses since none of them are financed, clealy i deserve 50e a week after working since I was 17-21. But I'm a young male, I don't count right?

whatswhat · 12-10-2010 08:10AM

Never a truer word spoken.

gbee · 12-10-2010 08:22AM

whatswhat wrote: »

Never a truer word spoken.

Without a reference, what word was never truer?

whatswhat · 12-10-2010 08:27AM

gbee wrote: »

Without a reference, what word was never truer?

Sorry,forgot to add quote.Was reading the guys comment about if you want to see true hardship,google The Great Famine.

Noffles · 12-10-2010 08:34AM

SamSamSammy wrote: »

isn't it gas how this thread gets so little, yet a thread on leaving Ireland has nearly 200 posters.

Moan, moan, moan. Look on the bright side of life ffs!

Bright side of life... while I get fleeced left right and centre for working hard every day.... Fair enough I'm fit and well and live in a nice house... but if I can't enjoy it as I'm busy trying to keep my head above water where is the bright side..?

Green tinted glasses are for holidays only.

SamSamSammy · 12-10-2010 08:44AM

is it an ego thing that you think you deserve more money? wages are massive in Ireland, during the recession you have to accept to work harder for less money.

You can be lazy, negative and moan.... but life goes on just the same when you're happy as when you're sad so why not just be happy?

you have a job and a house, you're doing very well.

Flygimp · 12-10-2010 08:48AM

SamSamSammy wrote: »

is it an ego thing that you think you deserve more money? wages are massive in Ireland, during the recession you have to accept to work harder for less money.

You can be lazy, negative and moan.... but life goes on just the same when you're happy as when you're sad so why not just be happy?

you have a job and a house, you're doing very well.

Sammy's obviously a troll... but a happy happy one.

topper75 · 12-10-2010 08:49AM

Acapella wrote: »

Take a trip to Limerick....Angelas Ashes has nothing on the Limerick City of 2010.

Limerick is still there friend! It just moved premises to an indoor location in Dooradoyle.

I'd agree with the OP. I had similar thoughts when I first visited the North in the early 90s. Such was the grip of the media's dark projection of the place on my mind, I was shocked to see men delivering in lorries, kids on their way to school, and women going around with shopping bags etc. Normality is the deep still water you don't see beneath the waves of boom, bust, or other media frenzy material. Time to get on with it.

Noffles · 12-10-2010 08:56AM

SamSamSammy wrote: »

is it an ego thing that you think you deserve more money? wages are massive in Ireland, during the recession you have to accept to work harder for less money.

You can be lazy, negative and moan.... but life goes on just the same when you're happy as when you're sad so why not just be happy?

you have a job and a house, you're doing very well.

Saying "life goes on" is a bollox argument... of course it does, that won't change unless you die and being happy or sad is a state of mind. Getting taken to the cleaners in as many ways as the **** heads who run this hole... now that's just ****e!

And I'm not lazy..

Flygimp · 12-10-2010 09:04AM

But as you know Noffles, Ireland is a culture of the down trodden, timid and subserviant. We skulk in the dark corners of pubs and behind the guise of public forums, anonymous and safe and procrastinate about adversity and hard times. We apologise for our own existence as has always been the way.

Mister men · 12-10-2010 09:18AM

SamSamSammy wrote: »

grafton street was buzzing today absolutely packed and the sun shining.. beautiful.

Yes there are bad bits, but theres no need to be all depressed about the future, life it what you make it.

Having a negative attitude will get you no where in life imo.

Tourists on Grafton street i presume. I don't know what planet your living on but it ain't the same planet as myself or most people i know. The country is falling apart.

SamSamSammy · 12-10-2010 09:19AM

ah ffs, go out and open your eyes, you will see the country is NOT falling apart. Go into dublin for a walk, you'll see plenty of happy faces.

bigbadbear · 12-10-2010 09:26AM

I'm not going back to ireland until everyone stops talking about the recession. Seriously. STOP MOANING!!!

Mister men · 12-10-2010 09:27AM

SamSamSammy wrote: »

ah ffs, go out and open your eyes, you will see the country is NOT falling apart. Go into dublin for a walk, you'll see plenty of happy faces.

I live and work in Dublin the country is falling apart. A few new buildings and a bridge down by the river does'nt mean squat to someone waiting 19 hours in emergency for someone to see them. Nor does it mean dick to my friend who got knocked down by a drunk driver 4 years ago and lives in a wheelchair pissing in a bag and has had his much needed home help cut to 5 hours a WEEK from 25 hours a week two years ago.

But hey once everyone down on Grafton street is smiling what.

Life in Ireland during the recession...

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