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Ireland to demolish brand new ‘unwanted’ homes

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  • MrsE_2
    MrsE_2 Posts: 24,161 Forumite
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    treliac wrote: »
    Who do you reckon we could ship over from here to fill them up?

    5 bed executive luxury houses, throw in a job & I might go:)
  • treliac
    treliac Posts: 4,524 Forumite
    MrsE wrote: »
    5 bed executive luxury houses, throw in a job & I might go:)

    C'mon, haven't you already got one... in stockbroker belt Surrey? ;)
  • treliac
    treliac Posts: 4,524 Forumite
    sjaypink wrote: »
    ...do Ireland have chav scum

    No......... they send them over here. :p
  • MrsE_2
    MrsE_2 Posts: 24,161 Forumite
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    treliac wrote: »
    C'mon, haven't you already got one... in stockbroker belt Surrey? ;)

    Sorry yeah, everyones a millionaire in Surrey even humble council workers.
  • treliac
    treliac Posts: 4,524 Forumite
    MrsE wrote: »
    Sorry yeah, everyones a millionaire in Surrey even humble council workers.

    Gosh - I don't know much about them.
  • Really2
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    edited 30 April 2010 at 10:53PM
    DVardysShadow wrote: »
    I should imagine that there is actually a substantial number of flats which are unoccupied and un loved - I can see a number of blocks being razed to the ground over the next 25 years as people scramble out of flats into proper housing.

    Could be a bit hard around London unless someone has found a load of spare building land there.

    I take it then there is noting similar in the UK at moment so not sure how some are predicting it will be the same in the UK.

    You have to build them first, so unless we are in the middle of a building boom it looks very unlikely. UK builders dumped their stock Summer 2008.
  • [Deleted User]
    [Deleted User] Posts: 0 Newbie
    The problem's not the housing, or the price. It's the location. They're in the middle of nowhere, with nothing else there. No work, descent transport links, no public transport, no shops, miles from schools, parks, anything community orientated...etc etc...etc
  • sjaypink
    sjaypink Posts: 6,740 Forumite
    BTW, £185K apparantly.

    If I was looking for a holiday home Id buy one :D
    £185k would only get you a tiny one bed cottage in cornwall :) And probably quicker for your average Londoner to get to 50miles South of Dublin than to Cornwall. This is the answer, they just need to build a few beaches, an eden dome thing, and recruit some hostile yokels, market to second home buyers. job done :D
    We cannot change anything unless we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses. Carl Jung

  • MrsE_2
    MrsE_2 Posts: 24,161 Forumite
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    sjaypink wrote: »
    BTW, £185K apparantly.

    If I was looking for a holiday home Id buy one :D
    £185k would only get you a tiny one bed cottage in cornwall :) And probably quicker for your average Londoner to get to 50miles South of Dublin than to Cornwall. This is the answer, they just need to build a few beaches, an eden dome thing, and recruit some hostile yokels, market to second home buyers. job done :D

    If I was in the market for a holiday home in would be somewhere with nice weather that I could get cheap flights too. Eastern med area.
  • sjaypink
    sjaypink Posts: 6,740 Forumite
    MrsE wrote: »
    If I was in the market for a holiday home in would be somewhere with nice weather that I could get cheap flights too. Eastern med area.
    Phew, does that mean Newquays not 'cool' anymore?

    Good. Cos I'm after a 5 day tour mid-August :D
    We cannot change anything unless we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses. Carl Jung

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