#22

In Dublin, however, rents are now 34 per cent, or almost €500 a month, higher than the previous high point a decade ago. The capital also has the highest average rents in the country of €1,936 with rental growth running at 13.4 per cent in the year to June.

:astonished:

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#23

Must be awful having amazing transport links, easy access to major gigs and events, and tonnes of varied facilities at your disposal :frowning:

(YEAH I’M GONNA BE THAT PERSON)

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#24

Not really little enough.

#25

If anyone talks to me on the Tube the fucking weirdo will be ignored. How dare they speak to me? I’m reading a fucking book! I’m not looking for a conversation.

#26

endless oppressive sprawl.

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#27

Offset by the number of good sized parks.

#28

And then you get pedestrian rage trying to get to any of those things because EVERYONE’S IN THE WAY GET OUT OF THE WAY THERE ARE PEOPLE BEHIND YOU AS WELL AS IN FRONT YOU KNOW JESUS CHRIST

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#29

Students

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#30

Reckon Leeds might have the worst students tbh.

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#31

Grim, innit. Total blind spot for loads of otherwise woke people as well.

There’s some good stuff on Edinburgh here:

#32

Motor traffic.

Pollution.

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#33

Better to have stuff that you’re slightly inconvenienced getting to than to have nothing to go to in the first place because shops are closing down at frightening rates, or your town has more churches or charity shops or estate agents than pubs :upside_down_face:

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#34

It’s the charity shops I’m trying to get to!

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#35

Move to my hometown then.

2 pubs (one fully shit, one brilliantly shit), about 5 or 6 charity shops (on one road) :grimacing:

#36

Yeah, in our first week here we stayed in an Airbnb while house-hunting.

It was very clear that the guy’s neighbours really hated the fact that they had random people in their small apartment block all the time.

Then over Pride weekend one of our neighbours Airbnb’d their flat and the fuckers left all their rubbish out on the street 2 days early, during a heatwave. Was never a huge fan of airbnb before but now I’m pretty anti.

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#37

No thanks, I’ve (briefly) lived in Kent. I’ve served my time.

#38

I lived next to a full-time AirBnb. It was a fucking living hell.

#39

Had two days off for the first time in ages and there were roadworks outside my house at 7am both days.

#40

Leeds might have the worst students, but whole neighbourhoods in Brighton have been taken over by student housing. There’s a transient student population obviously, so communities are being eroded. They don’t have children, so the local schools are closing which means that the people left in those communities who do have children have to travel further, there’s inevitably a proportion of students who’ll behave in an anti social manner, and those areas turn into ghost towns over the summer months. The local council don’t seem to have any solutions to the problem, or even seem to acknowledge it.

#41

We live two streets away from an Airbnb which sleeps 26 (!!!). Over the summer every weekend there would be a hen or stag do in there. Even though they were streets away there would be loud music blaring out that always seemed to be timed just as we were trying to get Jimbo to bed :confused: