That sounds quite pleasant to be honest, sitting on a terrace is great.
irish_guy on
How dare you threaten me with a good time.
JoyousDiversion2 on
Exactly. If mainland Europeans are so cool then explain the Franco Prussian War
Future-Object5762 on
We are a nation of people who commute 2-3 hours a day by car to a job and look forward to cutting the grass and getting very drunk on Saturday and washing the car on Sunday before we watch the match on our 65″ TV.
More-Tart1067 on
The ‘pheiq’ really puts a little bow on the gobshitery here
Bill_Badbody on
Sounds like a dream tbh……
Turbulent_Yard2120 on
No, we are a country of greedy landlords who would rather have their tenants live like sardines than allow them to have decent lives in a supposedly “well-off country.”
johnbonjovial on
The journal comments are fucking horrendous.
seeilaah on
If you think we will ever be a nation of apartment dwellers you aint seen nothing yet
nyepo on
THEY ARE TRYING TO TURN US INTO PEOPLE WHO GOES TO TERRACES, CYCLES AND ENJOYS COFFEE!!
WOULD YOU THINK OF THE CHILDREN????
hopefulatwhatido on
I’d love to live in an apartment and have the infrastructure to cycle to do everything I want to tbh, fuckin dream we are being robbed of. Down the line I’d love to be able to get the kids to school in those cargo type bikes in the morning too.
I go home to sleep and to shower, I don’t see a need for 3 bed gaff with huge front and back garden.
gokurotfl on
As an immigrant from the mainland Europe I confirm that sounds amazing to me lol.
YoIronFistBro on
This attitude is also very common on r/ireland. It basically boils down to “I don’t want to live a certain way, therefore no one should”.
Negative-Disk3048 on
As someone who does this on a weekly basis in maastricht, i have to tell you try it some time
Simply_a_nom on
I am an Irish apartment dweller so I’m paying out my hole for a badly designed apartment. I don’t have anywhere to store a bike but it’s grand because the bike lane only goes about half way to the local cafe before abruptly ending on a busy road with a lot car traffic. That’s also ok because the local cafe is a costa coffee and the terrace is a footpath with a few plastics tables at the side of the busy road. But all that is grand because I’m only a 15 minute bus ride from the city centre, except 3 busses get cancelled and now we have 3 busses worth of people trying to get on one bus, all paying with an outdated bus card system or paying cash which means getting on the bus takes ages and also the lack of bus lanes (or respect for the few bus lanes that do exist) means we get stuck in traffic and what should have taken zero thought and 15 minutes has taken an hour and a lot strategic planning and trying to anticipate when a bus will actually come based on the TFI app which is liable to change is mind in the last minute.
I think I’ll make coffee at home
Ok-Fly5271 on
I live in an apartment and it’s kinda shit tbh
You’ve no privacy and you’ve no living space either.
One of my neighbours is a paedophile another one has random fits of rage and screams the place down at 2 in the morning and another one is on a power trip because he has the only access to the roof where all the heat pumps are.
On top of that we are right on the street where drunk people constantly sit outside and talk/shout/fight.
Kids around here are a nightmare as well. At least in an estate they can go out and play in the green and keep themselves busy. But all they can do here is play on the street and they’re constantly getting up to no good.
Some people think living in an apartment is great but after being here for 10 years I’d love to live in a nice quiet estate.
ButtonEffective on
The comments section in the Journal should be avoided at all costs. Fecking weirdos.
Xamesito on
The most “Maybe I like the misery” comment I’ve ever seen
Tactical_Laser_Bream on
Some weirdly mid-Atlantic Irish people talk a big game about their rugged individuality, working hard, the nanny state etc.
If you pulled all the European model invisible state supports and hard earned workers’ rights we have they’d shit themselves.
WellWellWell2021 on
The problem we have in Ireland is that everyone with a keyboard thinks that everyone else in the country should do what they do, say what they say and think what they think.
It never dawns on them that every body is different.
kearkan on
Even better is we live in apartments out in the sticks so you have no back yard AND an hour to get into the city by bus or Luas.
kearkan on
Don’t forget that one of the proposed solutions to the housing crisis is for everyone with a yard to build a granny flat in there.
WidowVonDont on
Sorry I can’t get over the “pheiq”
TheBatmanIRL on
Id love to be able to cycle to work and sip coffee on the terrace or whatever, sounds class.
stevothepedo on
I can’t be alone thinking that sounds absolutely class?
MBMD13 on
Don’t threaten me with a good time.
Stampy1983 on
To paraphrase Michael D. Higgins: “No, but we can aspire to be.”
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That sounds quite pleasant to be honest, sitting on a terrace is great.
How dare you threaten me with a good time.
Exactly. If mainland Europeans are so cool then explain the Franco Prussian War
We are a nation of people who commute 2-3 hours a day by car to a job and look forward to cutting the grass and getting very drunk on Saturday and washing the car on Sunday before we watch the match on our 65″ TV.
The ‘pheiq’ really puts a little bow on the gobshitery here
Sounds like a dream tbh……
No, we are a country of greedy landlords who would rather have their tenants live like sardines than allow them to have decent lives in a supposedly “well-off country.”
The journal comments are fucking horrendous.
If you think we will ever be a nation of apartment dwellers you aint seen nothing yet
THEY ARE TRYING TO TURN US INTO PEOPLE WHO GOES TO TERRACES, CYCLES AND ENJOYS COFFEE!!
WOULD YOU THINK OF THE CHILDREN????
I’d love to live in an apartment and have the infrastructure to cycle to do everything I want to tbh, fuckin dream we are being robbed of. Down the line I’d love to be able to get the kids to school in those cargo type bikes in the morning too.
I go home to sleep and to shower, I don’t see a need for 3 bed gaff with huge front and back garden.
As an immigrant from the mainland Europe I confirm that sounds amazing to me lol.
This attitude is also very common on r/ireland. It basically boils down to “I don’t want to live a certain way, therefore no one should”.
As someone who does this on a weekly basis in maastricht, i have to tell you try it some time
I am an Irish apartment dweller so I’m paying out my hole for a badly designed apartment. I don’t have anywhere to store a bike but it’s grand because the bike lane only goes about half way to the local cafe before abruptly ending on a busy road with a lot car traffic. That’s also ok because the local cafe is a costa coffee and the terrace is a footpath with a few plastics tables at the side of the busy road. But all that is grand because I’m only a 15 minute bus ride from the city centre, except 3 busses get cancelled and now we have 3 busses worth of people trying to get on one bus, all paying with an outdated bus card system or paying cash which means getting on the bus takes ages and also the lack of bus lanes (or respect for the few bus lanes that do exist) means we get stuck in traffic and what should have taken zero thought and 15 minutes has taken an hour and a lot strategic planning and trying to anticipate when a bus will actually come based on the TFI app which is liable to change is mind in the last minute.
I think I’ll make coffee at home
I live in an apartment and it’s kinda shit tbh
You’ve no privacy and you’ve no living space either.
One of my neighbours is a paedophile another one has random fits of rage and screams the place down at 2 in the morning and another one is on a power trip because he has the only access to the roof where all the heat pumps are.
On top of that we are right on the street where drunk people constantly sit outside and talk/shout/fight.
Kids around here are a nightmare as well. At least in an estate they can go out and play in the green and keep themselves busy. But all they can do here is play on the street and they’re constantly getting up to no good.
Some people think living in an apartment is great but after being here for 10 years I’d love to live in a nice quiet estate.
The comments section in the Journal should be avoided at all costs. Fecking weirdos.
The most “Maybe I like the misery” comment I’ve ever seen
Some weirdly mid-Atlantic Irish people talk a big game about their rugged individuality, working hard, the nanny state etc.
If you pulled all the European model invisible state supports and hard earned workers’ rights we have they’d shit themselves.
The problem we have in Ireland is that everyone with a keyboard thinks that everyone else in the country should do what they do, say what they say and think what they think.
It never dawns on them that every body is different.
Even better is we live in apartments out in the sticks so you have no back yard AND an hour to get into the city by bus or Luas.
Don’t forget that one of the proposed solutions to the housing crisis is for everyone with a yard to build a granny flat in there.
Sorry I can’t get over the “pheiq”
Id love to be able to cycle to work and sip coffee on the terrace or whatever, sounds class.
I can’t be alone thinking that sounds absolutely class?
Don’t threaten me with a good time.
To paraphrase Michael D. Higgins: “No, but we can aspire to be.”
Stop trying to threaten me with a good time!