The Shame I feel about Dublin as my 🐐 capital (and other random cities in videos that Muldoons think is Dublin)

[Alphakrul1]

The Swedish governments started building allotments everywhere in the cities in the 60’s I think it was. A massive influx of rural occupiers to the cities were needed to work in the urban factories. They noticed a massive downturn in their mental health, so built them allotments so they could footer about growing a few parsnips. it worked. Now, there’s over a 20yr waiting list for those in the middle of the city. Hugely popular with the youngsters.

[Tim_Riggins]

@Bandage

Growing up in an urban & urbane environment in Wexford town before moving to a cosmopolitan melting pot like Dublin, I’m always bemused when we’re in my life partner’s neck of the woods in the rural townlands just outside CMX. Huge one-off dwellings dotted all around the backarse of nowhere, with 6 or 7 bedrooms as you mention. Bizarre muldoon carry on.

Don’t sleep on the role the Irish language lobby plays in some parts of the island. Incentivising these McMansions so they can house children from urban areas to go there during their summers to learn a language that the lobby don’t want to teach properly.

[Juhniallio]

Agreed. Nìl aon tinteàin mar do thinteàin ollmhòr maoinithe fèin.

[Tim_Riggins]

@cowpat

If the population is to increase, Ireland needs to stop building sprawling low density housing estates. It should build proper apartment living. Decent quality apartment complexes in towns and cities similar to e.g. Spain, Italy etc.

There’s huge apartment development going on in Dublin of all heights.

We have a few more years of building studios and one beds to go as we have a chronic shortage of those and loads of 3 and 4 bed houses.

[myboyblue]

@flattythehurdler

@myboyblue

Get a fucking taxi or pick a fella to drive. Jesus, it’s not that fucking hard. Why do you snowflake cunts need to make everything so hard?

I know you’re on a ballhop, but there aren’t even any pavements. It’s mental. It’s what happens when you do t invest in infrastructure. There should be walking paths off the roads radiating 5 miles out of every city (and Kilkenny town).

Ah here, see a car, step into the ditch. Are we fucking reduced to this???

[flattythehurdler]

Which was grand back in the day. The backroads in Galway are mental these days.

[myboyblue]

I still don’t buy that a fella can’t get a taxi either in the day of Ubers hackneys and ranks.

[flattythehurdler]

I’m more thinking of actually improving the quality of life for people by giving them the option of walking 3 or 4 miles safely to work or town.

[StoneCold]

@flattythehurdler

There should be walking paths off the roads radiating 5 miles out of every city (and Kilkenny town

Ah stop. Would there be many walking out from Dublin city centre to 5 miles outside the current footpath limits

[flattythehurdler]

Dunno, but I’m not talking about Dublin, and plenty might want to walk, or would walk to the pub or shop if there was anything for them to walk on.
Dublin is fine for pavements. Pavements radiate 5 miles from the city centre in all directions.

[peddlerscross]

There are no Taxi’s in Rural Ireland.

[habanerocat]

@Alphakrul1

The Swedish governments started building allotments everywhere in the cities in the 60’s I think it was. A massive influx of rural occupiers to the cities were needed to work in the urban factories. They noticed a massive downturn in their mental health, so built them allotments so they could footer about growing a few parsnips. it worked. Now, there’s over a 20yr waiting list for those in the middle of the city. Hugely popular with the youngsters.

Well, that’s the great thing about allotments, they can be passed on as people grow older or change interests. There’s some fine back gardens in my estate but with an ageing population most of the front gardens are paved and the back gardens lying waste and wild.

Of course good land is needed and that’s the problem.

[myboyblue]

@flattythehurdler

I’m more thinking of actually improving the quality of life for people by giving them the option of walking 3 or 4 miles safely to work or town.

Fair play, not exactly was on the agenda here but you’re dead right

[myboyblue]

@peddlerscross

There are no Taxi’s in Rural Ireland.

More lies

[cowpat]

That was ok with less traffic on the road 30 years ago

[myboyblue]

@cowpat

That was ok with less traffic on the road 30 years ago

At 3 o clock in the morning???

[Arthur]

I can’t understand why people with young kids choose to live in massive flip off mansions in the middle of nowhere when they could live in a nice estate where their children would have friends and walk to school, sports, socialising as they get older. Genuinely makes no sense to me but I know I’m a bit of an outlier on that one.

[backinatracksuit]

Like others I genuinely have no idea why anybody needs to build a 5 or 6 bedroom monstrosity or have bast areas of the house that will never be used
It’s mental carry on, where did we get it from?

[EstebanSexface]

Resale value

[mikehunt]

The answer to that is simple. I grew up in a town. Don’t want them having the freedom to get up to the stuff I did. There are drawbacks for them so I imagine they’ll do the opposite with their kids.