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It's striking that so many people who've built lives in Dublin are willing to abandon it at the drop of a hat if the opportunity arises to move somewhere with cheaper rents. https://twitter.com/CathalHigginsL1/status/1289959134591254529
Dublin shouldn't just be 'where the jobs are'. It should be a city people actively want to live in. However the destruction of public/social/creative/cultural spaces to make rooms for hotels undermines this.
The reliance on private developers to mould the public realm and lived environment (preferring gated communities to permeable/walkable neighborhoods and minimising non commodified public spaces and amenities) undermines this.
The astronomical cost of rent and constant threat of eviction undermines this. It atomised individuals, cuts them off from a sense of community, keeps them on the move, forces them to work every hour to survive and stretches the commute further and further into the suburbs.
A commodified city doesn't serve the people and will be abandoned by the people first chance they get. A commodified city destroys itself but somehow the owners of all that capital still get rich.
