Posted by Green
on September 29, 2009, 12:12 am, in reply to "Re: Gutter-jobs"
95.209.167.202
I did use daft.ie when looking for the proper price ranges and it's good to know they are trustworthy figures.
What I have been wondering though is if Dublin is a good place to be in, I don't mind the thugs or the bad parts of town but I do mind the price of the letting. I'm going to Dublin but from there I could easily take a train to most anywhere else in Ireland and I have been gandering at Cork City, I am aware that it is a student town and that might prove a problem in these peculiar months but letting is quite a fare share cheaper over there. Though I must say I am a wee bit weirded out by these inspections, suppose it's because I can't find any information that tells me what that entails.
Mind you one good thing is that I am going with my brother so rent will be easier to pay, of course I do not know if two people living in a bedsit is frowned upon. Living with students will of course prove more expensive in the end what with here being two of us, but the more pleasing difference about Cork City is that you can get a pretty decent sized apartment for a cheaper price than you could get a bedsit in Dublin.
--Previous Message--
: To get a sense of the prices for renting a
: room only, go to the largest rental/letting
: site in Ireland - http://www.daft.ie
:
: Figure in Dublin something in the vicinity
: of 500 euro per month for a room in a house
: that you share with others. Stay away from
: the student section of town if you want
: adult company and probably slightly lower
: prices. There are lots and lots of rentals
: available right now, though you still have
: to go through the inspection process.
:
: All the apartments that were built to be
: sold are now being dumped on the rental
: market and that process should speed up as
: the banks clamp down and government taxes
: bite. Rents have fallen 12 pc this past
: year.
:
: My thieving days ended when I was 11 and
: nearly got caught trying to steal a 10 cent
: comic. I guess I just didn't have it in me
: to be a derivatives trader and go at it big
: time.
:
: The gangs in Dublin are vicious and the
: daily news usually contains a reminder that
: they don't hesitate to hit their own.
: Because there are plenty of local scruffs
: looking to burglarize places, the locals
: with anything worth stealing are alarmed and
: on police-call networks and everyone has
: good locks.
:
: All in all, a dead-end way to go. And I do
: mean dead.
:
: Scott
:
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: --Previous Message--
: Well I was never much for construction jobs,
: did a few under the table when I was younger
: and my physique doesn't lend well to it,
: never had much meat on these bones. I made
: for a pretty decent thief though.
:
: Lockpicking and thieving are the only real
: skills I have and I don't much fancy getting
: into organized crime which means that my
: career options are limited. I suppose I'm a
: decent thief but stealing from the rich and
: giving to yourself is not as interesting at
: the movies make it out to be. Crime is a
: droll affair.
:
: So to answer your question I do not like
: children and I only attend funerals if they
: are in the open so that I have the
: protection of Wotan. I'm also a shady
: looking character without the sleaze to
: match the face, so I'm afraid I wouldn't
: make for a good Tanaiste.
:
: Enlighten me here Scott, you seem like a hep
: cat after all. I'm going to Dublin, that
: much is certain, low-end jobs are scarce and
: so is any other type of job apparently, of
: course these are general lines and gaps,
: chaos and luck always play a mighty part in
: the great spinning of the wheel.
:
: So what about apartments to let then? A
: bedsit would work, I have lived in squats
: most of my life so a bedsit would be like be
: like a manor. Dublin's lets do seem a bit
: more expensive, somewhere between 400-500
: seem common for even the cheapest of places,
: but if less residential units are being
: built does this mean that no more are needed
: or that perhaps there are too many?
:
: I am getting there during the period when
: students move in, whatever that's about, and
: although that is worrying my lack of
: fastidiousness in the matter could perhaps
: give me a peculiar edge? Is it possible to
: get an apartment within days? And what are
: the odd bits of getting a let? I mean in
: Sweden getting an apartment is a bloody
: nightmare; you need to have a job, no loans,
: no debts, no criminal record, can't smoke
: inside, and if you grew up in Sweden then
: you may have the first but the rest are
: given to you at birth. Harsh stuff it is.
:
: I might be showering you with words and
: questions here, and it does make me feel
: rather impolite but you seem like a good man
: Scott and I have read all I could yet feel
: like I don't know from nothing and you seem
: to be in the know.
:
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:
: --Previous Message--
: Construction jobs? You must be mad. There
: are
: tens of thousands of unemployed fellows
: looking for these jobs.
:
: We went from building 93,000 residential
: units to 8,000 per year. This is improving
: again a wee bit, but still way, way, way
: down.
:
: Construction jobs are like gold right now.
: You have a better chance of becoming
: Tanaiste - the second in command of the
: Irish state. She's in a lot of trouble and
: might well be forced to vacate her job soon.
: How are you at kissing babies and attending
: funerals?
:
: Scott
:
: --Previous Message--
: If even the gutter-jobs, hell if even
: construction jobs are tight then what is
: there? Is the Irish job market that
: satiated? Going to Ireland and not finding a
: job or trade would feel like adding to a
: problem. Still, gotta go somewhere,
: Ireland's as good as any other British isle
: but I can't help but feel like a two-bit
: bastard.
:
: --Previous Message--
: I know plenty of people who have been
: looking
: for bottom-feeding jobs and NOT finding
: them. There are some, and things are
: loosening up a wee, wee bit. But, no, you
: won't find many of these jobs available.
:
: For instance, there was the national news
: story of a few months ago when thousands
: applied for jobs at a new McDonald's. And
: the Eastern European immigrant community is
: travelling back home as many of the
: transient construction and lower end jobs
: dry up.
:
: For some idea, check out the government
: employment agency site which lists such jobs
: by locality.
:
: http://www.fas.ie
:
: Scott
:
: --Previous Message--
: ...ah, go on and try a 'gutter-job'. Amazing
: how working on a type of job you find
: beneath your dignity (or ability) will
: actually teach you a bit of humility.
:
: --Previous Message--
: Now I'm looking of moving to Ireland,
: because
: I'm from Sweden and leaving Sweden is what
: you do if you're Swedish. My brother is
: coming along and that cat easily landed a
: decent call-centre job in Dublin.
:
: I'm a proud drop-out of course and high-end
: jobs are not for me, wouldn't even want them
: if I could have them. I know the good parts
: of Ireland and I know the bad parts,
: especially the bad parts of Dublin. Jobs are
: scarce I hear, but the only figures I hear
: of are educated jobs such as engineering or
: health service. But what about the meagre
: jobs, the dishwashers and pub-scrubbers and
: down-trodden clerks, or even the jobs under
: the table. These figures are hard to find if
: ridiculous to even capture but it would be
: pleasant to at least have a scope, though
: general, of the concern my situation is in
: when it comes to the gutter-jobs.
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