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It’s such a bitter taste of defeat as I stare out my window each morning

tod123 · 2010-10-15 17:29:17

http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/property/2010/1014/1224281058402.html Must be awful for them

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dopester Posts: 4,890 Forumite

20 October 2010 at 6:14AM

Haha. Your posts about this are quite amusing mostly. So you're split about the predicament she finds herself in.

I'm just posting the thread (found on HPC) to more photoshopped Alison O'Riordan pics. Quite a few are pretty funny/good.

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2056064623

Mostly, this corner of MSE is not thugsville.. we have some difference of opinions on some sensitive economic matters; including the subject of house prices which is a major concern for those who own and those who do not. Anyway, she's a hack who got herself into this situation of her own making, and has reported on her own situation on at least 3 occasions in the public press. Just because some of us lack sympathy doesn't mean we're thugs.

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THE_GHOULS_PARADISE Posts: 107 Forumite

20 October 2010 at 8:13AM

Nothing funny about this ladys predicament. You ghouls are just scum laughing and celebrating the Ireland price crashes. Thank God you'll never get your vile wishes and see one here.

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Herbie_Hancock_I_wish Posts: 316 Forumite

20 October 2010 at 8:50PM

From my perspective, as someone who has been a wholesale rep on and off in Ireland for 35 years, their problems began with membership of the EU and all the cash that was poured into the country. 35 years ago I remember seeing donkey and carts as a way of transport in the country. Property was cheap. Even Dublin was pretty much affordable with North Dublin being very poor and run down.

We might have had a boom but imho, nothing like Eire. Just like England, there was little in the way of wage inflation. All of it cloud cuckoo land. Just before the crash I was amazed at the prices being asked for homes, plus they have had such an over supply they are looking into knocking down some the new builds. As a customer said to me, some of the fields are were the most expensive in the world, now full of new builds that no one wants.

I have read a story of a new build estate with one resident living there. Not surprising, and yes, BTL became an issue with land lords subsidising their tenants. It is a sad state of affairs as it was a country and its people that I used to love.

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PhylPho Posts: 1,443 Forumite

20 October 2010 at 10:51PM

Herbie_Hancock_I_wish wrote: »

From my perspective, as someone who has been a wholesale rep on and off in Ireland for 35 years . . .

Pretty much hits the nail on the head: you know what the Irish situation was like. Other posters here appear not to.

Ireland wasn't a country in recent times so much as an operation run by and for the Irish equivalent of the Soprano family. Builders, bankers and politicians worked closely together to conspire -- it's about the only word for it -- to feather their nests whilst promoting a self-serving image of Ireland as a tiger economy whose dawn had come and whose dusk would never fall.

Though the UK was victim to a kind of hysteria about the-house-price-always-rises, in Ireland that hysteria was systematically contrived by an elite and was all the more pervasive as a result.

Given that Ireland rapidly became a society that lost all sense of perspective, it's not surprising that people of all ages and backgrounds found themselves wrapped up in the delusion of eternal economic growth, the downside of which was that if you don't buy now, then the over-inflated prices you know you're seeing today will actually ber hyper-inflated prices tomorrow. . . Because -- yes! -- Ireland is the most booming boomy economy in the whole wide world!!

I'm sorry for anyone swept along in that kind of hysteria . . . whether she's a journalist or not. And I'm also deeply thankful that, though I have close ties with Ireland, I didn't have to live there in the past 10 years, and don't have to live there now.

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dopester Posts: 4,890 Forumite

21 October 2010 at 9:10AM

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ILW Posts: 18,333 Forumite

21 October 2010 at 9:27AM

Are there any pictures of her without that sour look on her face, i think she is probably quite atttactive.

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ihatecaptcha Posts: 123 Forumite

21 October 2010 at 9:33AM

Sibley wrote: »

I think she sounds like a bitter and twisted little spoilt brat...
...At the end of the day her mum and dad have money by the sounds of it.

According to the article, her parents helped her buy the place, yet now "My father reminds me on a daily basis that I ploughed in head first and listened to no one." Apparently he doesn't feel he has any responsibility for having put up money to enable his daughter to buy a flat she couldn't afford. And now, instead of trying to comfort her or help her, what does he do but keep telling her what a fool she is.

What this girl needs is relocation -- a long way away from Daddy. No allowance, no trust fund, and most especially, no daily telephone calls telling her how stupid and defeated she is. Good luck to her -- I hope she gets away but I doubt it.

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neverdespairgirl Posts: 16,501 Forumite

21 October 2010 at 9:37AM

ILW wrote: »

Are there any pictures of her without that sour look on her face, i think she is probably quite atttactive.

More so if she laid off the bleach, I think.

This wasn't the first whingy article she'd written about her pad:

http://www.independent.ie/opinion/analysis/i-signed-my-life-away-for-the-sake-of-city-centre-apartment-2106182.html

...much enquiry having been made concerning a gentleman, who had quitted a company where Johnson was, and no information being obtained; at last Johnson observed, that 'he did not care to speak ill of any man behind his back, but he believed the gentleman was an attorney'.
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doire_2 Posts: 2,280 Forumite

21 October 2010 at 9:38AM edited 21 October 2010 at 9:45AM

tod123 wrote: »

http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/property/2010/1014/1224281058402.html

Must be awful for them

Tough luck i say. No doubt she would have been telling all her friends to buy now or miss the boat blah blah blah.

She took a chance and lost out. Thats life.

Imagine paying that amount for an "apartment" anyway. Is she thick? Did she really think the "celtic tiger" would continue forever?

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doire_2 Posts: 2,280 Forumite

21 October 2010 at 9:43AM edited 21 October 2010 at 9:51AM

Sibley wrote: »

Shes had a better start than most people.

Yeah great start. Paying over the odds for an apartment which seems to look onto a depot of some sort while apartments next to her are going for a third of the price.

I wonder what time the depot opens at? 5am, 6am?

And you say she should rent it out? Where will she live? Back with mum and dad?

Yeah what a great start...."buy and overpriced flat with help from parents....live in it for a while....look out the window at a busy depot......look out the other window at those who bought their flat for a third of my place....get depressed...decide to rent it out and get even more depressed because i have paid 1/2 million euro for my own place yet i still live with my parents."

I wish i was her

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