Posted by Scott on October 6, 2009, 7:04 pm, in reply to "Re: Gutter-jobs"
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Travelling in the US, so I've been long delayed in getting online and responding.
Cork is nice. I personally would prefer living in Cork or Galway, but they're definitely smaller places than Dublin. It's a personal thing.
When you come, make a visit around the island. Sightsee and see what you think. Bus travel is cheap enough.
Scott
--Previous Message--
: 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
:
:
:
: --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.
:
:
:
: --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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