17 November 2010
13:3580469Apparently there's 300,000 homes lying empty in Eire.
Allegedly there's a shortage of housing in the UK.
I believe that our flame haired neighbours are eligible for Social Security payments in the UK so there is presumably some form of reciprocity?
Why can't our unemployed/homeless decamp from inner city deprivation to the bracing peaty vistas of Southern Ireland?
Their Social Security payments would be paid in Euros (which have appreciated against the pound) although I would advise them to keep the money in a UK bank.
Guest 640- Registered: 21 Apr 2007
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17 November 2010
13:4280472lol!
Indeed there are great dollops of wilderness where once housing schemes were planned and indeed many with breathtaking views of peaty heathered hills. Thousands of homes were built but lie abandoned and thousands of others were partly built, before all the money ran out.
Could now be the time to buy, risky but there are bargains Im sure...
17 November 2010
13:4680474PaulB. So I take it that's a yes?
If we can afford to give handouts to illegal immigrants leaving the UK surely we could hand out a modest bounty to those willing to take the ferry from Holyhead?
Guest 671- Registered: 4 May 2008
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17 November 2010
14:4680485It's a yes from me, I would move there tomorrow, leave phone, tv and pc behind and replace with rod in one hand (fishing that is) and pint of Guinness in the other, Bliss.
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17 November 2010
16:2980500Me too. But it's the same old work situation!
17 November 2010
16:5780506Well that's three of us who are hanging around doing things other than we'd actually enjoy?
I suspect that very few people pass away thinking things that they have done stuff that they regret and loads pass away regretting not doing stuff?
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17 November 2010
16:5980507In the name of many pixies! Why should Ireland take on London's masses of unemployed?
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17 November 2010
20:1880550Don't pick on the Pixies, Alexander, they will hit you with their shamrock till your face looks like a four leaf clover.
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howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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17 November 2010
20:4180570all sounds very nice, house prices have dropped 50%,some are set in stunning countryside and the friendly welcoming irish people( i exclude the new member for louth), the charming leprechauns.
the downside is that it is always raining and one is obliged to drink guinness.
Jan Higgins
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17 November 2010
21:2080584You could always add a drop of port to the guinness Howard, then you wouldn't mind the rain.
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17 November 2010
21:3680587pixies gary are they iirsh???
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Guest 671- Registered: 4 May 2008
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17 November 2010
22:0580597Irish Pixies are
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18 November 2010
10:3780665Guiness with milk chocolate dipped in it, preferably a Flake. Lovely. Don't knock it until you have tried it!! Incidentally, my Mother would like to sell her lovely 5 bedroomed rural house with double garage, large garden, local trout lake, tiny orchard and huge kitchen in Wexford. Any takers? The prices are rock bottom right now..........
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18 November 2010
15:2580684It was on todays news over here that house prices have risen 5% in the last quarter in Jersey making the average price of a house at £750,000.....how the other half lives..Eire here I come.
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Brian Dixon
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18 November 2010
16:0980689marek,a good idea shame about the banking system being near to colapse.