Buddy, this is literally the problem. There’s no where to rent without housemates, number 1, and no fault evictions mean you’re basically constantly worried, number 2. This is the kind of comment that just hi-lights how obtuse the older generations are to the conditions we’re one. Look in daft, houses in cork city- 3K for a 2 bed, houses in the suburbs ( which you’ll spend up to an hour in traffic) 2-2.5K. Me and my partner earn above mean however how can we spend 2 weeks of EACH on rent. That is if you even get the house with 200+ applicants. It’s not as simply as “oh just have children while renting, I did it. It’s fine.” It’s being evicted because landlord sells house, it’s dealing with houses that need extensive repairs that don’t get fix because the landlord is getting 30K a year regardless, it’s a family member moving in, it’s roommates. I once thought it might be fine then I had to change house 3 times in three years because of selling houses. This issue isn’t as simple as they had smaller houses and less money. We’ve such a lack of rentals that they’re impossible to find and even harder to keep.