There aren’t many of us lately that haven’t felt the cold clutches of the cost of living crisis taking hold of our lives.
Statistics show that 50% of young people aged between 18-24 have reported that the cost of living crisis has impacted their mental health, with almost the same numbers reporting that they struggle to make ends meet. Furthermore, 25% of young people say their experience with housing has declined in the past 6 months.
The comparison between these two surveys shows that as the cost of living goes up, so do the stress levels of Ireland’s young people, as they watch the prospects for their future decline. Travis Price echoed the same feeling, noting that “In the more recent years I definitely struggled with the increasing rent, I noticed every year I had to pay significantly more to rent in Dublin and I was being slowly pushed outwards from central Dublin.”
“For me, originally, I’m from Donegal, so very very rural Ireland, like we don’t really have much transport or anything like that, we’re kind of known as the county without a train” adding that transport is very difficult in Ireland. Living in a more connected country meant that Mandy didn’t have to worry about the running of a car, like many young people in Ireland. “I don’t need to think about the cost of fuel, or car insurance, or anything like that- truly everything is at your doorstep here- a car is more of a liability than anything because transport is so good!”
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