Reply to: Republic of Ireland Should Follow Britain's Lead and Leave the EU Now

[WTFH]

These times are a bit theoretical. I am a 35 to 40 minute train journey from Dublin but door to door to client site is 75 minutes. Does depend where you work in town and finance and tech tend to be a bit better for the mainline commuter trains.

IFSC is just round the corner from Connolly, or take the tram if you're lazy. Also, when they finally finish the north side tram it will be better.

[northernladyuk]

1 hour out from Dublin isn't expensive housing. 2,000sq ft, 4 beds, 4 baths in 3/4 of an acre in Monasterboice will set you back €450k

These times are a bit theoretical. I am a 35 to 40 minute train journey from Dublin but door to door to client site is 75 minutes. Does depend where you work in town and finance and tech tend to be a bit better for the mainline commuter trains.

[WTFH]

Long commutes and expensive houses - it's a mini London!

1 hour out from Dublin isn't expensive housing. 2,000sq ft, 4 beds, 4 baths in 3/4 of an acre in Monasterboice will set you back €450k

[northernladyuk]

Long commutes and expensive houses - it's a mini London!

Getting a bit that way, but Drogheda is a long way out and house prices there are pretty reasonable. The problem I see is lack of investment and planning to support the booming Dublin economy. The trains are getting crowded. The roads are full. Not enough hoses being built. Ditto for schools etc. It won't end well.

[The_Equalizer]

Wouldn't fancy the bus. Pretty good train service - 1 hour.

Long commutes and expensive houses - it's a mini London!

[northernladyuk]

One chap (perm) in the office comes in via Bus Éireann from Drogheda.

Wintel though.....

Wouldn't fancy the bus. Pretty good train service - 1 hour.

[stek]

Counted 17 cranes this from a single spot this morning. All office space. No idea where everyone is going to live, send their kids to school etc.

One chap (perm) in the office comes in via Bus Éireann from Drogheda.

Wintel though.....

[northernladyuk]

London is a ghost town. No cranes. No building sites. Hardly anyone around.

And?

[BrilloPad]

Counted 17 cranes this from a single spot this morning. All office space. No idea where everyone is going to live, send their kids to school etc.

London is a ghost town. No cranes. No building sites. Hardly anyone around.

[northernladyuk]

Why should it? It's sucking up all the UK business that's leaving due to Brexit.

The IFSC in Dublin is booming.....

Counted 17 cranes this from a single spot this morning. All office space. No idea where everyone is going to live, send their kids to school etc.

[stek]

Why should it? It's sucking up all the UK business that's leaving due to Brexit.

The IFSC in Dublin is booming.....

[BrilloPad]

Thrashing around looking for evidence that other countries also want to leave in the hope of getting some solace of comfort just ain't happening.

They will see how the UK gets on first.

[motoukenin]

Makes perfect sense...

Leading UK think tank says Republic should follow Britain's lead and leave the EU now - Belfast Telegraph

Thrashing around looking for evidence that other countries also want to leave in the hope of getting some solace of comfort just ain't happening.

[WTFH]

Hmm. So we can the use our thriving economy to slowly pick off existing EU members one at a time, and force them to join our trade block instead. Ten years time, with the accelerating wealth that we have gained from Brexit, we'll have bought over 26 of the other EU nations, and the old EU will end up as Germany all by itself - we will have engineered a Deutscxit, which perhaps turns out to have been our secret masterplan after all.

Makes as much sense as anything I've seen from David Davis.

Italy would be the most expensive at £47billion a year, followed by France at £46billion.

This is just like playing Risk.

[Lambert Simnel]

Well, the ones in the North will, provided you pay them £1billion from the magic money tree
In the South you have the two houses, totalling 218 politicians, so that would be £21.8billion to buy them off, that is, of course, over 2 years. So we'll call that £10.9billion a year, or roughly £2.3billion a year more than the net EU payment.
Sounds like a bargain, a free trade deal with one country, instead of 27, and it costs the country over 2 billion a year more than we're currently paying.

Hmm. So we can the use our thriving economy to slowly pick off existing EU members one at a time, and force them to join our trade block instead. Ten years time, with the accelerating wealth that we have gained from Brexit, we'll have bought over 26 of the other EU nations, and the old EU will end up as Germany all by itself - we will have engineered a Deutscxit, which perhaps turns out to have been our secret masterplan after all.

Makes as much sense as anything I've seen from David Davis.