The boom is back!

Panthro wrote: »

I seen a Crane the other day too!
Except mine was a Dr Frazier Crane.
And he looked like he had a pret-teee penny to his name if his Seattle apartment is anything to go by!

I "seen" a crane too. I also saw a crane.

Do you know warra meurn Anto? Jayziz giv us some more heroin der ya bleedin geebag, roight?

These things tend to come near enough in 10 year cycles.

Recent signs I've seen....
The new section at liffey valley
SuperValu Lucan revamp makes it look like Harrods food hall...plus it's always packed!
Car sales massively up and returning to pre recession numbers...
Houses for sale and rents up
people who "brunch"
Kildare outlet recent expansion
Good rental properties impossible to get
Tradesmen not turning up
Normal people (two income households) employing cleaners and gardeners

The Celtic tiger was good to me and even though I bought my home at crash point(2008) it's creeping back up price wise..

I hope people don't get carried away like they did last time, but unfortunately people have short memories.

When we crashed in 2008 the govt should have given every man women and child in the country 250000 each , that would have cleared all debts more money to spend and we would have had no recession, all it would have cost is a few billion which in the grand scheme of our national debt is peanuts.
Did we all forget we owe 200 billion plus, great recovery.

anto9 wrote: »

You have an 06 Citroen ? .thats kind of extravagant .mine is a 1996 Nissan.

I once had a 1998 Nissan primera . cracking car, I reakon if I'd kept it it still be going . loved that car

Lisha wrote: »

I hate when my husband does this!!
So wasteful

Husband? Well la dee da, no recession here!

The boom is making an appearance in cork also. People buying new cars and S.U.V's when they can't really afford them but are getting finance direct from the manufacturers, people putting deposits on houses that are still green field sites, no houses to rent anywhere and if there are then the rents are colossal, oh and everyone's going on expensive holidays again.

Another sign is its taking a lot longer to sell items on adverts/done deal than a few years ago when you are doing a clear out

Considering the banks aren't exactly throwing money at people, I think some of the purchases we see like new cars, houses, holidays, decking, whatever you're having yourself, a lot of that is money that people had stashed away and now that things are improving they're feeling confident in spending it. Don't forget there was 90 billion in savings in this country back when the downturn hit.

Confidence in an economy is paramount to recovery. I personally think its a good thing to see people spending money. One thing I would do myself if I could manage to get back my pre-crash wages(which probably won't happen) is that I'd put away some rainy day money. That's a big regret I have to this day.

I live close to Kildare Town and there's definitely signs of recovery there. Local garage(Chapmans) that reopened about 18 months ago had a Bentley for sale recently and it didn't spend too long in the show room. As someone else said the Kildare Retail Outlet extended in the last year. A load of houses also being built on Melitta Road. I play bit of music and local bar recently started back up weekend music which it pulled 5/6 years ago.

TL,DR Celtic Tiger 2.0 is coming to a town near you soon!

Every second car on the road is 161, so that points towards a definite recovery of sorts..