Im an Adult get me out of here. (TV last night)

Isn't the premise of this programme (I'm an adult but I want somebody else to sort out my accommodation problems) slightly ironic or contradictory?
 
Didnt buy on my own, Bought with my BF
Bought in North County Dublin for 300k.
 
It's only a TV program - I cannot believe people are actually complaining becuase it wasnt serious enough!!!!

If anything it highlights the "spoilt brat" brigade who do scab off Mummy & Daddy (while the rest of us have to slave away)... but it does happen, lets face it!!!!
 
I think these 2 should have been refered to Mr.E.Hobbs! A financial reality check is what these 2 "characters" needed!

The mother was 100% behind investing that extra so they could get the 380k apartment because with there spending records id say the apartment will be on the market and those 2 would be back home with Mummy! Having of course netted a nice return on the mothers investment!

One good thing was that the 2 girls were v easy on the eye!
 
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I thought the program was highly entertaining for what it was ... and it slotted in perfectly before desperate housewives ... similarly disjointed from reality.
I think it is much harder for Dubliners to leave the nest ... most go to college in Dublin so there is no need to leave home ... when they get a job it will probably be in Dublin so again no real reason to leave home ... the only good reason for moving out is sex ... if parents really wanted to get rid of their off-spring they would ban boyfriends/girlfriends from the house ...
 
hilarious programme, makes you wonder how these 2 ended up on the show, probably some pull from someone in the production company as they had no idea whatsoever about anything let alone where they could
afford to buy. reckon they'll be home within a year. thought the presenter did a decent job though in trying to bring them back to reality with the visits to jobstown and kiltipper. next week's programme looks a lot more relevant for most people.
 
ClubMan said:
Isn't the premise of this programme (I'm an adult but I want somebody else to sort out my accommodation problems) slightly ironic or contradictory?
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The irony can sometimes be on the other foot...
(Warning: this video clip may be distressing to some adult viewers still living 'at home'!)
 
Just more property porn. This wasn't anywhere close to reality for most I found it really vulgar. First off considering the title neither girl was an adult.

BBC was originally very class orintated with TV shows only focusing on the upper classes RTE seems to be the same. All the shows they do are about high end prices especially in property and fashion shows. Maybe the will cop on in time. Mind you the nepatism is unbelievable in RTE.
 
I only saw the end of the program. But really, 22! No way was I even thinking about buying a house at 22. Then again, maybe I should have been, think of the profit I could have made over the past decade. But would I have been so quick to take time out to work abroad? Probably not.

A girl at work was complaining to me last week about how her mother is nagging her to “get on the property ladder”. She’s 24 and just finished college last year. I feel like such an irresponsible person at 33 and still renting!
 
Come on, folks, they weren't that bad. Certainly compared to some of the obnoxious, stuck-up brats you enounter from time to time -

"Bye Sarah… See you tomorrow… [To remaining friends]: Sarah's sotch a b*tch! How can she claim to have the biggest house of all of us. My house is as big as a focking hotel!"

(Actual conversation heard by my friend on the green Luas line the other day)

I thought the girls were quite grounded, given their millieu, and only bristled when Inchicore was being used as a byword for grotty "Eww… who could live there!?" unpleasantness.

Actually, I felt that the presenter belaboured the whole "You're living in la la land!" point. He repeatedly tried to impress on the girls that Jobstown / Kiltipper is the reality that a lot of ordinary people on their incomes have to live with. And the girls, with genuine charm, accorded this a respectful nanosecond of solemnity to his face before, later on, correctly dismissing it as completely irrelevant to them since they're not one of these ordinary people! They're good-looking south Dublin princesses with rich parents - 3 of them! - who would never allow them to move to an area considered even mildly unpalatable, let alone unsavoury. But they were game enough to go along with the charade for the sake of good tv.

So, Daddy and Mummy jump in to save the day, as you always knew they would. And the girls get an apartment they couldn't possibly afford under any other circumstances. And the rich continue to live in desirable areas of South County Dublin and people of more modest means continue to live in Kiltipper.

I don't think the show made a mockery of the efforts of "real people" to get on the property ladder. Thanks to the incredible appreciation in property values, an increasingly large number of people are in very fortunate situations. So why resent these girls for merely assuming their birthright?

For the majority of young people in the plusher suburbs of South Dublin, what was shown here was, if anything, an austere vision of what Mammy and Daddy will do for their cosseted progeny. Rockview wasn't exactly the 2 bed apartment in Monkstown they were looking for, after all. And how much was that huge detached house worth? Probably the guts of 1.5 million euro depending on the location.

("That goy is sotch a b*stard! How could he say our hoisse is only worth 1.5 million. It's worth at least 3 million! Bloody skobie! I bet he lives in Inchicore!")

/ Yes, I do.
// Bought house with no help from my parents but wouldn't have hesitated for a second if I'd needed their help.
 
i wouldn't consider 27 too young to buy...i was 23 and bought with a sister in dublin. especially when you consider 35/40year terms now have to be considered to allow purchaser keep repayments at a level wich allows them to have a bit of a life as well!!
 
While watching that programme last night and as a person trying to buy our first home, i couldnt help but think that its people like these two ladies that help to drive the prices of houses up. Maybe i'm wrong!
My wife and myself have saved €27k ourselves to try to get a deposit... Wouldn't it be great if we could all get €70k off our mothers and a help with the deposit! I think by saving and budgeting it helps to prepare yourself for the mortgage payments ahead. I hope RTE have picked better examples of firsttimebuyers than these two. Imagine what Eddie Hobbs would have said to them...
 
I missed where they were from. Anyone know exactly? Just curious.
 
I'm laughing reading this thread. The amount of people that seem to have a chip on their shoulder. So what if somebody is buying at 22? So what if parents help their kids buy property? So what if u don't want to live in D24? I don't think they are untypical of FTB. There are loads of people that have parents who help them onto the property ladder. Its just basically giving your children in advance what will probably be inheritance in years to come.
 
Excellent first post. I enjoyed every verb.
 
NorfBank said:
but to even entertain a house purchase at 22 is ludicrious IMHO.
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Totally agree with you I am 28 and thinking of buying maybe in a few months or so but I might well buy abroad as its so much cheaper in places close to home and there's plenty of time those girls were typical 'dort' users in my experience they hadn't a clue. I haven't even ruled out going travelling yet though either jaysus they are way too young too much money not enough sense
 
Henny Penny said:
no real reason to leave home ... the only good reason for moving out is sex ... if parents really wanted to get rid of their off-spring they would ban boyfriends/girlfriends from the house ...
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I think you summed it up well there thats getting can't argue with that
 

I agree, I don't have parents with that background either but good luck to them they were lucky enough to have that. I don't begrudge them that at all. If they are lucky enough to have people to help them afford to live wherever the want so be it. At the end of the day it's no different than lower income parents helping their kids buy houses in 'worse' areas.

It's hardly the girls fault they come from a wealthy background, it's unrealistic to say the least to expect that once someone turns 18 they'd ignore their background and move to wherever others think they should live and not take financial help from parents who can afford it.
 
FillSpectre said:
This wasn't anywhere close to reality for most I found it really vulgar. First off considering the title neither girl was an adult.

BBC was originally very class orintated with TV shows only focusing on the upper classes RTE seems to be the same.
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Eh hello? Ther women were 26 & 22 - both adults, both earning good money & well capable of buying a house if they actually bothered to save!

And if you looked at next weeks show reel, you'd see that the woman featured is not what anyone would deem "upper class" - give the program a chance!
 
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