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10th Jul 2015

PICTURE: What Trying to Rent a Room in Dublin is Really Like

This is your life.

Rebecca McKnight

 

Let’s be honest; renting a room/home in any part of Ireland isn’t exactly cheap. 

But for those who try to live and work in the capital, it’s a trial akin to something from The Hunger Games.

Any woman or man who has shown up to see a depressing box room in Blanchardstown or a bleak “studio” in Stepaside, only to join a queue of 45 others clamouring at the bit, will recognise the frustration summed up in this perfect Facebook post.

Shared on Reddit, the language of an estate agent or landlord is employed in a way that will be heart-breakingly familiar to most of us…

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