Catherine Prasifka: I giovani non dovrebbero diventare eremiti e smettere di comprare il caffè per potersi permettere un posto tutto loro
https://www.independent.ie/opinion/comment/catherine-prasifka-young-people-shouldnt-become-hermits-and-stop-buying-coffee-in-order-to-afford-a-place-of-their-own/a2065409455.html
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>Buying a coffee a day can cost you about €1,500 over the course of a year. That is no small amount of money. But when a deposit for a house is €50,000, it starts to feel like it’s not worth cutting out coffee for 25 years.
That coffee might be the only money you spend on yourself – the only thing that gives you half-an-hour of peace and quiet.
Your Ryanair trip abroad might cost you €400 and be what you have been working towards all year. That brunch might be €20 and your only chance to see your friends that month.
There is a point at which luxuries stop being luxuries and become the cost of living in the world
Bang on.
I don’t think anyone needs an article to tell them what to prioritise spending their money on.
Misread the headline and was about to go a rant about people conflating coffee with being unable to afford a mortgage. Clearly I need one of those coffees
Can’t turn around but there’s a coffee outlet. When did that happen? Don’t know how folk survived from their home to work.
>Buying a coffee a day can cost you about €1,500 over the course of a year
Who is paying €4.10 for a coffee?
Its a bit of strawman argument. Not sure I see anyone saying cut out coffee to buy a house. I also think its meaning wasnt the literal one coffee a day. It was used as example of how a seemingly small cost a day can add up over a year so watch those small expenses. But if you love your daily coffee then absolutely I agree just buy it and its no big deal in scheme of things
This will undoubtedly be a popular take for many who read it because it enables some preferred discretionary spending.
But it’s an all or nothing approach that misses the wider point of saving.
I have never even had avocado toast
I managed to save hard for many years and avoid takeaways, coffee, nights out and eventually with a small €50k loan from mummy and daddy managed to get my first starter home. Don’t give up
In fairness, our parents generation never bought coffees. Thats not why it was easier to buy a house for them, but they lived without it. There werent even coffee shops back then
Dublin airport is full of young people going vacation. Things arent that tough.
I get the hate for this headline and somewhat agree. I actually can’t afford a coffee a day ATM, dispute have a decent enough job.
I’d rather go for lunch once a paycheck with the missus to a local cafe… But if people started really looking hard at there expenses they’d find the coffee a day, the subscriptions and the phone bills are draining there money big time…
Life is for living, there is something messed up in the world, where houseownership is a dream and you have people with lots of excess cash buying up additional houses in the countryside or where-ever and then putting it on air b and b. Airbandb should be banned entirely, and if people want to buy additional homes they should be given a tax break for renting it out – and heavily taxed if it lies idle – a sub-department should be focused entirely on this.
I work in a university and you’d be amazed by the number of holidays students go on – ‘sorry I can’t hand in my assessment on time as I’m in Berlin the weekend before,’ ‘when are the January exams? Im going skiing’, ‘I missed the in-class test because I took my girlfriend to Budapest for her 21st, can you design a new test for me??’
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Oh and also a lot of very expensive clothes etc.
The logic that people should stop spending money on anything but the most austere necessities are basically asking for a recession. What else do they think will happen if shops, cafés, and restaurants lost all their customers?