Styish City Living

Since my first (and to date, only) payday on October 20th, my number one goal has been to find a place to live. Currently, I am relying on the kindness of friends, but I need a place of my own to cover with my laundry and impressive shoe collection. To that end, I have been spending my evenings viewing rooms all over Dublin. I had thought that Italian landlords were leagues beyond their international counterparts in terms of wiliness and creative advertising, but I have to give proper recognition to the Irish landlords, who are making the most of mankind's need for shelter.

The vast majority of the rooms I have seen are approximately the size of a broom closet, or if they are advertised as "spacious," roughly 4 x 6 feet. These are typical decorated in the same (obviously popular) style that I like to call "bomb shelter:" peeling paint in some shade of formerly-white, a window too small for a cat to squeeze through in a frame constructed during the Famine, and a bed like a plank, suspended only 2 feet above the dirt floor. And all this, for 500 Euro a month! Somewhere along my search for the right place, I found a billboard that really conveys the Irish building style:


I wonder if they actually meant "stylish," or if these are the most honest landlords in Dublin.