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After the Boom. Where are you living ?

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  • #32
    marshbaboon
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,184 ✭✭✭marshbaboon


    Moved home to save for college. College not happening as too expensive.

    If I had the money I'd be in Canada right now.


  • #33
    o1s1n
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 37,924 ✭✭✭✭o1s1n
    Master of the Universe


    Lollers wrote: »
    Your avatar looks like a rodent, a charming rodent, but a rodent non the less.

    WTF?? It's a tank! A charming tank!


  • #34
    Ellis Dee
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,510 ✭✭✭Ellis Dee


    In my own house in rural Laois, mortgage-free and glad that there seem to be so many bargains going in the shops now that the boom has burst - as I knew years beforehand that it would. For me the Celtic Tiger was déjà vu all over again. I experienced and helped pay for the Nordic banks' big bust twenty years ago.:D:D

    But few would listen to me when I said it would all end in tears if people didn't get a hold of themselves.:rolleyes:


  • #35
    NegativeCreep
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,351 ✭✭✭NegativeCreep


    Livin' it up at home with Mammy and Daddy dearest! Going to college in September (depending on how Wednesday goes.)
    If I don't get into college, I'm gonna get a job (hopefully) and rent a scabby apartment with my friend. I need some sort of independence at this stage or I'm gonna crack up!


  • #36
    1ZRed
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,293 ✭✭✭1ZRed


    marshbaboon wrote: »
    Moved home to save for college. College not happening as too expensive.

    If I had the money I'd be in Canada right now.

    In the same shit boat with you. France or Australia if I could swing things right.


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  • #37
    Lollers
    Closed Accounts Posts: 502 ✭✭✭Lollers


    o1s1n wrote: »
    WTF?? It's a tank! A charming tank!

    A mouser with ears, smoke for a tail. Optician tomorrow.


  • #38
    Chucken
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,459 ✭✭✭Chucken


    o1s1n wrote: »
    WTF?? It's a tank! A charming tank!

    I thought it was a rat on a motorbike :confused:


  • #39
    marshbaboon
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,184 ✭✭✭marshbaboon


    1ZRed wrote: »
    In the same shit boat with you. France or Australia if I could swing things right.

    Very few of my friends are in Dublin too anymore. It makes me sad :(


  • #40
    TeddyTedson
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,758 ✭✭✭✭TeddyTedson


    My brothers house is worth about €150,000 less than what he paid for it. That would get to me. Luckily I don't own any property.


  • #41
    desertcircus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,648 ✭✭✭desertcircus


    Moved home when my mother lost her job so that she wouldn't lose the house as well. Things sorted now, so looking for a place to rent with my partner.


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  • #42
    TeddyTedson
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,758 ✭✭✭✭TeddyTedson


    1ZRed wrote: »
    In the same shit boat with you. France or Australia if I could swing things right.
    Why do you mention France out of interest?


  • #43
    RachaelVO
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,108 ✭✭✭RachaelVO


    Living in the Netherlands, thanking my lucky stars I never bought a blade of grass at home!

    Would love to go home though, be a long time before that happens!


  • #44
    Pottler
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,073 ✭✭✭Pottler


    On paper, I lost millions(several) in the property crash. I still own it all, it's just not worth as much. I also built and sold a fair few houses on sites I owned. Surely it can't all be "students living with their mams" on AH? I'm feeling a bit out of place. Nothing new there really though. As consolation, I drove a pile of sh1te before, during and after the boom so nothing much changed there either. Funnily enough, it's just as hard to get lads who actually want to work, still. But there's an awful lot of whinging about the lack of work going on. Ain't no lack of work here, just a lack of people really willing to work. If your eyes are open, a recession is a chance for the smaller guy to get ahead-there are opportunities everywhere, literally everywhere, you just have to look.


  • #45
    1ZRed
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,293 ✭✭✭1ZRed


    TeddyTedson wrote: »
    Why do you mention France out of interest?

    All my college course choices require I learn French to a fluent level so I thought if I could go abroad if only for a year, it would good to develop so my French further.



    Course that's all bullshit! I'm going cause a guy said I could be a massive pornstar there! :pac:


  • #46
    hiram
    Closed Accounts Posts: 322 ✭✭hiram


    Living near Westport. Mortgage. Working thankfully.


  • #47
    shopaholic01
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,916 ✭✭✭shopaholic01


    keith16 wrote: »
    Don't worry, I don't think many really ever did benefit from the boom.

    We just thought we did at the time :(. I'm living in negative equity and paycut hell.


  • #48
    Teyla Emmagan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,638 ✭✭✭Teyla Emmagan


    At home with my (thank God for it) tracker mortgage. Bought just before the boom so still afloat.


  • #49
    SusieBlue
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,029 ✭✭✭SusieBlue


    Renting, hoping to either buy or emigrate within 5 years.


  • #50
    omahaid
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,497 ✭✭✭omahaid


    Bought well before boom, still in the same house + kids, it's nice to have a family home. Can't imagine we're in negative equity but it doesn't really matter.


  • #51
    Praetorian Saighdiuir
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,968 ✭✭✭✭Praetorian Saighdiuir


    Lived with parents at the weekend and weekdays lived in work. Couldnt afford a 1/2 bed apartment in a drug den in the boom....now i have a nice larger than average house in a nice area.


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  • #52
    ejmaztec
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,369 ✭✭✭✭ejmaztec


    Where To wrote: »
    People used to laugh at me during the boom.

    **** you ******!!

    :pac:

    Are you Tommy Tiernan?:confused:


  • #53
    El Guapo!
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,450 ✭✭✭✭El Guapo!


    Renting an apartment with the gf (well actually fiancee now since she said yes, Woohoo! :))

    Haven't got enough spare cash to save, so no mortgage for the near future. Currently in the process of looking for a decent house to rent for the next couple of years or so.


  • #54
    flash1080
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,017 ✭✭✭flash1080


    Renting a house abroad. Planning on returning to Ireland in 2013. Looking to buy a house in the meantime.


  • #55
    blacklilly
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,687 ✭✭✭blacklilly


    Snowie wrote: »
    living with my parents :(

    No morgage no gf no life/ saving


    Hoping to leave Ireland in november :) France or Austria :cool:

    I'm considering France too but my level of fluency is greatly exaggerated while under the influence of alcohol.
    Would absolutely love to live permanently there. Think my arrogant obnoxious personality would work wonders


  • #56
    boobar
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,226 ✭✭✭boobar


    Bought a nice but modest house about 6 years ago, could have spent a huge amount more than I did, took out a tracker when I eventually fugured out what they were, working with a reasonable wage and employment fairly stable, so all in all, could be an awful lot worse.


  • #57
    Voodoomelon
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,653 ✭✭✭Voodoomelon


    Got the keys to my new (ha, 200 years old) house a few weeks back, another 6 months before I can move in though.


  • #58
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 18,046 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Started working one month before Lehman, lasted 2 years before voluntary redundancy with future looking dim.. Live in Vietnam now.


  • #59
    Mint Sauce
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,293 ✭✭✭✭Mint Sauce


    Renting. Hopefully might try and join the housing ladder in the next year or so, but the 110% mortgage the bank tried to flog me about 7 years ago (so glad I didn't get involved in that), will be probably only 60% now if I'm lucky.


  • #60
    Jogathon
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 516 ✭✭✭Jogathon


    Back at home with parents after splitting with bf. My house (huge negative equity) is rented out and I'll move in when the lease is up. Will have to take on extra work to pay mortgage but that's doable. My job is great and is safe so that's a positive!!


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  • #61
    Kintarō Hattori
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,102 ✭✭✭✭Kintarō Hattori


    Bought a house last year after renting for about 9 years. Very lucky in that the mortgage is quite affordable (we bought what we could afford) and I was lucky enough to get a great new job recently.

    Have no plans to head anywhere. Both of us are lucky to have good enough jobs so we'll hopefully continue to stay here.


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